Etsy's shift to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking success, as it focused on delivering value through human-technology hybrids rather than code quality. The cost of producing code is plummeting, requiring a ton of change and rethinking of social contracts and team work.
The user trained their 9-pound cavapoo Momo to create games using Claude Code by routing her keyboard input through a Raspberry Pi and providing automated feedback tools. With a well-crafted prompt and strong guardrails, Momo's keyboard mashing produced playable games, demonstrating that the bottleneck in AI-assisted development is the quality of feedback loops, not the quality of ideas.
Moonshine Voice is a speech-to-text framework that offers fast, private, and accurate live voice interfaces with low latency, supporting multiple languages and platforms. It provides a high-level API for developers to build voice applications with features like transcription, speaker identification, and command recognition, making it easy to integrate voice interfaces into applications.
Apple is expanding its Houston factory operations, creating thousands of jobs and producing Mac mini in the US for the first time. The company will also expand AI server manufacturing and open an Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.
Safari implemented text-wrap: pretty in 2025, improving paragraph formatting. However, it still has issues with text-align: justify, causing uneven whitespace.
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness with powerful defaults and extensibility. It adapts to workflows with TypeScript extensions, skills, and themes, and can be extended or installed with third-party packages.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging a widespread price-fixing scheme where Amazon forces vendors to raise prices and cooperate with other retailers. Bonta is seeking a temporary injunction to stop Amazon's alleged behavior until the trial concludes.
Mercury 2 is a fast reasoning language model that generates responses through parallel refinement, producing multiple tokens simultaneously and converging over a few steps. It achieves >5x faster generation with a fundamentally different speed curve, making it suitable for real-time applications.
The user turned an old Kindle into a live bus feed display by jailbreaking it, installing custom apps, and setting up a server to generate and serve bus data as an image. They created a custom KUAL app to control when the dashboard is displayed and added a feature to exit dashboard mode by pressing the menu button.
The Nearby Glasses app warns you when smart glasses are nearby by detecting Bluetooth signals from specific manufacturers. It uses company ID codes to identify devices, but may produce false positives due to similar devices.
The author, a 10-year-old boy, invented a roller coaster model called the Quadrupuler with four loops and sent it to Disneyland, receiving a positive response from Disney Imagineering. This early validation gave him a resilient spirit that has guided him through various inventions and a career in acting.
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Corgi Labs seeks a Founder's Associate to bring structure to chaos and execute operational details. The role involves supporting founders, tracking priorities, and coordinating teams to ensure project completion.
Hugging Face Skills are self-contained folders for AI/ML tasks like dataset creation and model training. They are interoperable with major coding agent tools like OpenAI Codex and Google DeepMind's Gemini CLI.
The optophone is a device invented in 1913 that scans text and generates tones to identify letters for the blind. It improved from one word per minute to 60 words per minute with later models.
Emdash is a tool for parallel development and testing with multiple agents, supporting 21+ CLI providers. It securely connects to remote machines and stores app state locally, with optional GitHub features.
The author argues that multitasking is a myth, as the human brain can't handle multiple tasks simultaneously like a multi-core processor, but rather switches between tasks quickly, wasting energy and causing burnout. The author longs for a simpler, more focused approach, like a single-threaded program, where one task is handled at a time.
Anthropic is dropping its central safety pledge, allowing it to train AI models without guaranteeing proper risk mitigations. The company is instead committing to transparency and matching or surpassing competitors' safety efforts.
User speculates about AI-generated papers flooding hep-th submissions, citing rising numbers on arXiv. User asks someone to analyze AI-generated papers and their impact on hep-th submissions.
Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume, up 34% from 2024, and powers 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80% of the Nasdaq 100. Stripe's Revenue suite is on track to hit $1 billion and the company is investing in product development and acquisitions.
A large company acquired our company and prioritized security, installing key card readers and turnstiles. However, the implementation caused chaos and inefficiency, highlighting the importance of real security through proper engineering and authentication.
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Researchers studied AI's impact on developer productivity, but their experiment had selection effects due to lower pay and AI adoption. They found a likely speedup from AI tools, but their data is weak evidence due to biased developer selection.
The challenge is to build a Forth-like interpreter that can run a subset of the Forth language, including generating the Fibonacci sequence and FizzBuzz, and can be built as a CLI tool or in-browser interpreter. The interpreter should support various features such as stack manipulation, word definition, conditionals, loops, and running code from a script file.
Israeli soldiers fired nearly 1,000 bullets at 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025, killing them in a massacre. The investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found that the soldiers executed some aid workers at point blank range and that the Israeli military's internal inquiry did not recommend any criminal action.
The authors of this document conducted a passive reconnaissance investigation into OpenAI's identity verification platform, Persona, and found that it serves facial recognition, watchlists, and SAR filings on a government endpoint with the door wide open. The platform's source code, which was publicly served without authentication, reveals a KYC/AML compliance platform that handles sensitive ...
KeePass's KDBX file format has limitations, including incompatibility with modern security features and large database sizes, which can be addressed by switching to an SQLite-based format. This change would allow for better scalability, security, and user experience, and would facilitate the addition of new features and backward compatibility.
SBCL is a high-performance, open-source Common Lisp compiler with a permissive license. It provides an interactive environment with debugging tools and runs on various platforms including Linux and Windows.
US defense officials are pushing for unfettered access to Anthropic's AI model Claude, while the company resists its use for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Anthropic's CEO has been given until Friday to agree to the government's terms or face penalties.
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