Making RAM at Home [video]

ChatGPT Images 2.0

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

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Researchers developed a smart contact lens that tracks glaucoma in real time and delivers medicine in response to eye pressure. The electronics-free lens uses microfluidics to sense pressure and release drugs, offering a more comfortable and user-friendly option for glaucoma treatment.

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

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Acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people, but both have risks, especially if taken incorrectly. Official sources don't clearly state this due to complexity and fear of giving medical advice, prioritizing safety labels over comparative safety information.

Laws of Software Engineering

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Complex systems evolve from simple ones and have inherent irreducible complexity. Understanding technology and managing it are often mutually exclusive, and quantifiable things can be measured for better outcomes.

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment

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NASA's Curiosity rover found over 20 organic compounds on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule linked to DNA, suggesting Mars can preserve life's building blocks. The discovery supports the idea that Mars may have had conditions suitable for life 3.5 billion years ago.

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

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A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

The safe-gc crate is a garbage collection library for Rust that uses zero unsafe code, providing a safe API for users to consume and manage garbage collected objects. It implements simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection and avoids common garbage collection footguns, such as use-after-free bugs and memory leaks, by using Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline.

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.

Rock carving facts – Tanum Sweden

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The rock carvings in Tanum are images that were chiselled into the rock during the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, from 1,700 to 300 BCE. The term “carving” is actually misleading. The images were hammered into the rock using pounding stones, and the tools are sometimes found during archaeological excavations near the sites. The carvings rarely depict everyday life; instead, the ...

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM

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The author compared Windows Server 2025 on Intel and ARM systems, finding ARM to be faster due to consistent performance and lower latency. ARM's steady execution timing benefits virtualized environments, but Intel's peak performance is still ideal for workloads requiring high throughput.

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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GitHub Copilot's Individual plans are changing to protect existing customers by pausing new sign-ups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. These changes aim to ensure a predictable experience for existing users while a more sustainable solution is developed.

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games

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Stephen's Sausage Roll, a sokoban game, released 10 years ago, has influenced modern puzzle games with its meticulous design and tough difficulty. It has inspired many developers, including Alan Hazelden, Patrick Traynor, Gwen Frey, Corey Martin, and Joseph Mansfield, to create their own puzzle games.

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

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Interactive Sankey diagram showing energy flows in a fusion power plant. Adjust Q, conversion efficiency, and heating system efficiency to see how plasma gain translates to net electricity.

Framework Laptop 13 Pro

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro features Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 64GB of memory, and 8TB of storage. It's designed for Linux compatibility with a haptic touchpad and customizable ports.

Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

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Cal.diy is a self-hosted, open-source scheduling platform that allows users to manage their own scheduling infrastructure without commercial dependencies. It requires advanced knowledge of server administration and database management, and users must carefully review installation and configuration steps.

Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

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A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

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TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app for infrared ESL protocol study and controlled experiments on authorized hardware. It's licensed under GPL-3.0 and intended for educational research only.

CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

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CrabTrap is an HTTP proxy that secures AI agents by blocking or approving requests in real time. It allows for editing and adding rules to intercept and log decisions made by the proxy.

A printing press for biological data

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Sterling Hooten, founder of Iku Bio, is developing a microfluidic bioreactor that uses printed circuit boards to culture, sense, and stream biological data in real-time, increasing experimental throughput by 10,000x at a 100x lower cost. Media optimization, a crucial step in biologics manufacturing, involves adjusting the composition and timing of cell culture media to optimize cell growth ...

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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US authorities are investigating the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 scientists with ties to NASA, nuclear research, and classified defense programs. The cases span multiple agencies and companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, and have raised concerns about a potential national security threat.

Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative

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Kuri is a lightweight browser automation tool with a single 464 KB binary, optimized for agent integration and token economy. It offers a standalone fetcher, interactive terminal browser, and scriptable CLI for Chrome automation.

Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing

Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip

The user was debugging a bug in the EtherSLIP packet driver that caused data corruption when simulating an ARP response, and they found the issue to be a bug in the code that mixed and matched segment and offset registers. The bug was fixed by removing the incorrect move of DS into ES and continuing to use the ARP request buffer as the source of data for the simulated ARP response.

What Async Promised and What It Delivered

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The evolution of concurrency abstractions, from threads to callbacks to promises to async/await, has improved the local experience of writing async code but introduced new costs and complexities at the global level, such as function coloring and ecosystem fragmentation. Each solution solved a problem but introduced new structural costs, and language designers are now reevaluating the approach ...

Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy

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Larger organizations use centralized secrets management services to mitigate issues, but smaller ones face pain with agents. A simpler approach is using an HTTP proxy to manage secrets, which can be automated by cloud integrations.

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

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Matt Godbolt wrote an article on why x86 compilers use xor eax, eax to zero a register, citing its compactness. However, sub eax, eax is a viable alternative with similar execution time and better flag behavior, but xor won due to swarming and special CPU detection.

Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer

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The user successfully ran a Minecraft server on a 1960s UNIVAC 1219B computer with only 90kb RAM, achieving their goal of running real, complex programs on the ancient machine. They accomplished this by writing a RISC-V emulator in UNIVAC assembly, optimizing it for speed, and using a combination of fuzz testing, LLMs, and manual debugging to overcome technical limitations and hardware issues.