Tony Hoare, a renowned Computer Science expert, passed away at 92. He made significant contributions to the field, including the quicksort algorithm, and was known for his humility and sharp mind.
Moyogo solved the mystery of the symbol ⍼ by finding it in H Berthold AG's 1950 symbol catalogue as "azimuth" or "direction angle". The symbol resembles a light ray passing through a sextant to measure an azimuth.
The Zig compiler has undergone significant changes including improved type resolution logic, better dependency loop error messages, and faster incremental compilation. Additionally, the Zig standard library has made progress in preferring the Native API over Win32 and has started to delete redundant code by providing libc functions as Zig standard library wrappers.
A new API endpoint allows crawling entire websites with a single call, returning content in HTML, Markdown, and JSON formats. The endpoint supports asynchronous crawling, incremental updates, and static mode for faster crawling.
The user discusses the challenges of trusting AI-generated code and proposes a solution where acceptance criteria are written before code is generated, allowing for verification and review of failures rather than diffs. A Claude Skill called "verify" is built to automate this process using Playwright and Opus, making it easier to ensure the correctness of AI-generated code.
Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup AMI raised over $1 billion to develop AI world models, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. AMI aims to build AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, and can reason and plan, unlike large language models.
The user created their own text editor, Howl, after being dissatisfied with existing options, and through a process of iterative development and learning, they achieved a high level of customization and performance. The experience of building their own editor reignited their passion for programming and led to a deeper understanding of various technologies, including regex, ANSI, and TUI design.
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Snail is a Julia development environment and REPL interaction package for Emacs. It enables convenient and dynamic REPL-driven development on Unix-like systems and Windows using WSL.
RCLI is a voice AI for macOS running natively on Apple Silicon with 43 voice actions and local document search. It uses MetalRT for fast on-device inference and supports various models for LLM, STT, and TTS.
Debian developers are discussing whether to accept AI-assisted contributions, with some arguing for clear boundaries and others seeing it as an opportunity to onboard new contributors. The debate is ongoing due to differing opinions on terminology, implications, and long-term impacts.
Stanford Medicine researchers developed a universal vaccine that protects against various respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens. The vaccine, delivered through a nasal spray, provides broad protection in the lungs for several months.
Columba is a native Android messaging app using Reticulum network for offline messaging and voice calls. It supports multiple connection methods and allows users to share identities via QR code.
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Use a Docker container or remote machine with a GPU without complex setup. Run the ffmpeg-over-ip server on the host and point your app at the client binary for GPU-accelerated transcoding.
The commandForElement and command properties allow declarative control of interactive elements with buttons, enabling faster interaction without JavaScript. This is achieved by specifying the element ID and action via HTML attributes.
New US laws require age verification for online content, sparking backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates. The laws aim to protect minors but may compromise internet freedom and create security risks.
Bippy is a tool that gives access to React internals by pretending to be React DevTools. It simplifies accessing React fibers, which contain app information, by providing utility functions.
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and its creators will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal brings new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses, according to Meta.
Intel's Heracles chip accelerates fully homomorphic encryption by 5,000-fold compared to a top-of-the-line CPU. It uses 64 compute cores and 48 GB of high-bandwidth memory to achieve massive speedups in encrypted computing tasks.
MDM Team uses Raspberry Pi to build low-cost autonomous marine robots for underwater exploration and research. These robots can perform tasks like hydrographic surveys and infrastructure inspections without human operators.
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The user discovered a new way to scale large language models (LLMs) by duplicating specific layers of a pre-trained model, resulting in a +17.72% improvement on the MuSR benchmark and a +8.16% improvement on the MATH benchmark. This method, called Repeat Your Self (RYS), involves duplicating a block of layers in the model's architecture, allowing the model to perform more complex reasoning ...
Alberto and his twin brother Alejandro co-founded Didit to create a unified identity layer that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, and fraud prevention globally. Their platform aims to provide a transparent, accessible, and secure identity verification solution for the internet, with a focus on data minimization and zero-knowledge verification.
The user shares their experience with Magit, a git interface, focusing on rebasing. They demonstrate how Magit's interactive log view helps understand the structure of a repository and facilitates rebasing.
Amazon is holding a meeting to discuss recent outages tied to AI coding tools, citing a "trend of incidents" with high blast radius and unestablished Gen-AI usage best practices. The company aims to limit future outages by requiring senior engineers to sign off AI-assisted changes.
Apple's internal certificates are causing issues with app installation and verification due to an unrecognized critical extension. This is affecting developers who pay $99 a year for Apple's ecosystem and preventing them from running development versions of iPhone, iPad, or MacOS apps.
User worked on Fedora RISC-V port, triaging issues and submitting 86 pull requests, mostly merged and built for Fedora 43. Slow RISC-V hardware and long build times hinder progress, but new builders and LTO plans aim to improve speed.
The Office is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of business section books, based on the Gervais Principle, which supersedes the Peter Principle and Dilbert Principle, and is consistent with The Organization Man and Images of Organization. The Gervais Principle states that Sociopaths promote over-performing Losers to middle management, groom under-performing Losers ...
The user attempted to post-train an open-source model, Kimi-K2-Thinking, but encountered several issues, including a slow compression step and out-of-memory errors, which were eventually resolved by enabling CUDA virtual memory and modifying the model's architecture. The user ultimately successfully trained the model, but found the process to be time-consuming and expensive, leading them to ...