How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

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Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley, advocates for widespread surveillance to combat crime, but critics argue this comes at the cost of individual privacy. The company's cameras have been linked to police abuse and mass surveillance.

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

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Lotus Notes was a pioneering collaboration tool that introduced features like encryption, rich text formatting, and attachments before MIME standards. It allowed users to build custom applications and share knowledge in synced databases.

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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A mathematician collaborated with a Large Language Model (LLM) to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but OpenAI claims to have solved it first. The LLM was used to push the collaboration's work from rough forcing to smooth forcing and incompressible Euler equations.

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

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Mr. Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company for damages due to personal injuries and loss of business income caused by defective products, including a rocket sled, rocket skates, explosives, and spring-powered shoes.

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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A graduate student used AI to streamline her experiments on quantum chips, freeing her time for data analysis and design. The AI successfully ran routine measurements autonomously, saving significant time and allowing researchers to focus on higher-level work.

How to build a printer

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The author built a custom firmware for the Xteink e-ink display to enable wireless printing from their MacBook using the Internet Printing Protocol. They successfully implemented this feature, allowing them to print documents directly onto the device's screen.

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed a method to determine if pottery is ancient or not by analyzing its magnetic signatures, which can help weed out forged artifacts. The technique involves heating samples and measuring when their weak signals disappear, leaving only the stronger thermal remanent magnetization signal.

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

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Scientists have developed the AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting effects of single nucleotide variants in the human genome. The Atlas helps researchers quickly prioritize promising research areas by providing an easy-to-use score for coding and non-coding regions.

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

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A top safety researcher at Anthropic warns AI could kill humans within the next decade due to rapid advancements. The risk is considered high, with some experts calling for international efforts to slow down AI development.

Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme

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A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

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Lee Holloway, a co-founder of Cloudflare, was a brilliant engineer who created several key technologies before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) at age 36. He left the company in 2016 due to his illness and has since become an advocate for FTD research and awareness.

Mercury 2.5

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Mercury 2.5 is the latest production model from Inception, offering a 40% increase in intelligence and comparable cost to GPT-5.6 Luna, with prices starting at $0.04 per million input and output requests.

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

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“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

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A court ruled that X Corp, formerly Twitter, has not abandoned its TWITTER trademark due to evidence of ongoing use in the Apple App Store listing. The TWEET and Bird Logo trademarks are likely abandoned as they were not found on X's website or app store listing.

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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User wants to update jsonwebtoken API in auth.ts and run tests, also reviews claude plugin versions.

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

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Somehow, I spent 8 months of my free time designing and building a wall lamp from scratch. I didn’t have prior experience in woodworking or LED strips. Read on for how it came to be (and how it turned out). Having moved recently, I still had a gap to fill on the wall. Indirect lighting is the best kind of lighting (this needs no debate), so why not build a wall lamp that illuminates the whole ...

On Really Trying (2009)

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A person's motivation and ability to tackle complex problems can be influenced by their upbringing, including parental loss or absence. Many famous individuals have credited their drive for success to overcoming adversity, such as Bill Murray and Norbert Wiener.

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

Mathematicians are collecting open problems in a non-renewable way, potentially leading to scarcity. Most generated problems are trivial or unproductive, while few hold the potential for breakthroughs and connections.

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Researchers at OpenAI have developed a proof that the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite time, resolving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The solution involves an internal model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra and demonstrates the potential for AI to advance research and technology benefiting humanity.

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

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The author tested various GPU RAM requirements for running Qwen3.8 27B without sacrificing quality, finding that a 24 GB card like RTX 4090 can handle the full BF16 model with some context reduction.

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

gpu-lexer is a language-agnostic code highlighting tool that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label parts of source code, combining local and whole-file context. It achieves 87.43% agreement with Shiki on held-out token labels across various languages and file types.

An Accidental Blackboard

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Thoughtworks engineers explored using gen AI for software development by building an airline IROps system in 4 days, discovering a "blackboard" pattern where agents coordinated through shared plans and progress updates. This accidental discovery led to the creation of Talwrn, a tool aiming to provide a simple communication channel for agentic engineering projects.

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Kenton Varda and Jade Wang, a married couple with two kids, designed and built their house from scratch in Austin, Texas. The house features custom-built gaming stations with 22 game machines that cost around $75,000.

Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

This text discusses various techniques for creating non-photorealistic renderings of 3D models, including contour drawing, hatching, and line rendering. Researchers have developed methods to stylize silhouettes and outlines using algorithms such as chaining, visibility, and principal curvature directions.

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)