Keep Android Open

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F-Droid users were misled into thinking Google canceled plans to lock down Android, but the plans are still scheduled. F-Droid is raising awareness about the issue with a banner in their app and website.

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

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Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

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WikiLeaks' Vault7 revealed a CIA developer tip to clean stale git branches using git branch --merged, grep, and xargs. This command helps keep local branches organized by deleting merged branches except the current one.

Lil' Fun Langs

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The user discusses various small programming languages, including Iota, tinylisp, milliForth, and Fractran, and highlights notable examples of ML-style languages such as Haskell, Elm, and OCaml. They also mention several implementations of functional languages, including Write You a Haskell, Implementing Functional Languages, and The ZINC experiment, showcasing their capability-to-size ratio ...

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's ability to impose tariffs, citing Congress's power to do so. This decision represents a rare check on Trump's executive authority.

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

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Claude Code Security scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review. It uses AI to detect novel vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of attacks by allowing teams to find and fix issues before they are exploited.

Blue light filters don't work

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Using blue light filters at night may not be effective in improving sleep due to their limited ability to reduce light intake, and other methods such as using dark mode, dimming screen brightness, and increasing daytime light exposure can be more beneficial. Controlling light intake and exposure can help regulate the body's circadian rhythm, and taking the right dose of melatonin supplements ...

Facebook is absolutely cooked

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User logged into Facebook after 8 years and found their feed filled with AI-generated thirst traps and spam, but also some genuine content and memes. They were shocked by the extent of the algorithmic feed's focus on engagement bait and decided to leave the platform.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

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Taalas developed a platform to transform AI models into custom silicon, resulting in faster, cheaper, and lower power hardware. Their first product, a hard-wired Llama 3.1 8B, achieves 10X faster performance, 20X lower cost, and 10X lower power consumption than current state-of-the-art solutions.

Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health

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Legion is hiring a Founding Engineer to design and build the backend infrastructure for its psychiatric practice, including AI agents and workflows. The ideal candidate is a strong systems engineer who can learn fast, make decisions, and grow into owning backend/agent systems.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

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The author visits San Francisco and notices a city where people are obsessed with AI and startups, with ads everywhere promoting B2B services for entrepreneurs. The author meets Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, a startup that uses AI to assist people in their work, but whose true intentions and personality are more complex and disturbing.

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

The author learns an unfamiliar codebase by starting with a bug report, reducing it to a minimal case, and understanding the code involved in the bug. They use visualization to see how the code flows through the system.

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

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PayPal notified customers of a data breach after a software error exposed sensitive info for nearly 6 months. The breach affected small business loan app users, with exposed info including Social Security numbers.

Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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A federal judge has rejected Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida. Tesla will appeal the verdict to a higher court, facing a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology.

The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)

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Hokusai's 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything were rediscovered in 2019 after being lost for over a century. The British Museum acquired the sketches, which showcase Hokusai's wide range of subjects, including mythical beings, historical figures, and landscapes.

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge

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Major restaurant chains, including KFC, have ditched a commitment to improve chicken sourcing standards in the UK as poultry demand soars. Eight restaurant groups, which also include the owners of Burger King and Nando's, have left the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), in which they pledged to stop using fast-growing chickens, for an industry-led plan without that commitment. Animal ...

No Skill. No Taste

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The author argues that the illusion of a lower barrier to entry in tech, fueled by LLMs, has led to a surge in poorly crafted and derivative applications. This noise is a perversion of years of skill and taste accumulated by professionals.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

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The RP2350 chip in the Pico 2 can be overclocked to 873.5MHz with a 3.05V core voltage. Diminishing returns are seen above 700MHz, and the chip remains hardy despite extreme temperatures and high voltages.

The Popper Principle

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Karl Popper's theory of fallibilism revolutionized science by focusing on disproving theories rather than proving them. Popper's critique of Plato's totalitarian ideology in "The Open Society and Its Enemies" exposed the dangers of a closed society that arrests all change.

Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance

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Modern browsers support web components, custom elements, and native event systems, allowing developers to build sophisticated interfaces without frameworks like React or Angular. Web components offer stability, reduced complexity, and smaller bundle sizes, making them a viable alternative for new projects, especially for smaller teams or solo developers.

Visible Spectra of the Elements

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The user maintains a website called atomic-spectra.net that provides information on atomic spectra and is currently undergoing server maintenance on October 1st. The user is looking for a full-time job and has a resume available upon request, proficient in various programming languages including C++/PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS.

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

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Natalia sold clips to 48 of her friends in April, and then she sold half as many clips in May. To find the total number of clips Natalia sold in April and May, we need to calculate the number of clips she sold in May first. Since she sold half as many clips in May as in April, we can find the number of clips she sold in May by dividing the number of clips she sold in April by 2.

Lessons learned from `oapi-codegen`'s time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund

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As noted in GitHub's post, oapi-codegen was one of the projects taking part in the third GitHub Secure Open Source Fund session. I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the program, and some learnings I've taken from it. One of the quotes I shared at the end of the program summed up my time: oapi-codegen is a project that takes an OpenAPI specification and generates Go code for ...

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Companies that treat AI as an extension of their workforce, amplifying human capability, see transformative results. The AI exoskeleton model, where AI handles scale and humans interpret meaning, is a more effective approach than autonomous agents.

Do you want to build a community where users search or hang? (2021)

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A community helps your customers and users succeed, creates content that your team doesn’t have the time to do, and builds a competitive moat. But what type of community are you building, or looking to build? Every community is different. Which should be no surprise. After all, offline communities aren’t identical. Neighbors are one type of offline community characterized by certain ...

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

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The user shares their 4-year experience leading infrastructure at a startup, highlighting key decisions made and lessons learned, including choosing AWS over GCP, using EKS over ECS, and leveraging tools like Terraform, Notion, and PagerDuty. They emphasize the importance of simplicity, flexibility, and automation in infrastructure management, and provide recommendations for tools and ...

Photopea-Online Photo Editor

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There are no uploads. Photopea runs on your device, using your CPU and your GPU. All files open instantly, and never leave your device. No need to install heavy software on your device. Just open your browser and start editing. Our photo editor runs on any device. The better hardware you have, the better it runs. Photopea offers a full suite of editing tools, from basic features like cropping ...

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

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Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit

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This project reads raw 3-axis acceleration data from Apple Silicon's M1/M2/M3/M4 chips via IOKit HID callbacks. It uses ballistocardiography to estimate heart rate via mechanical vibrations transmitted through the laptop chassis.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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