A utility company's website had a big problem with a lengthy application process. The solution was to build a new version using Astro, an HTML-first approach, which doubled the company's users overnight.
Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.
PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.
Burr is a Python framework for building AI applications with state management and debugging tools. It provides a robust framework for designing complex behaviors and is easier to use than other platforms like LangChain.
Mercedes-Benz starts large-scale production of its electric axial flux motor at its Berlin-Marienfelde plant. The motor is used in the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe and marks a technological innovation in electromobility.
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Container machine provides a seamless Linux environment on Mac, offering fast, lightweight, and persistent integration. It allows users to access their Linux environment from any terminal, edit on Mac, build inside, and test applications across various distributions.
Japan's railway network expanded from a single line in 1872 to over 9,000 stations by the 21st century. The map shows stations opening over time, revealing Japan's geography through railway development.
Claude Fable 5 is a state-of-the-art AI model with exceptional performance in various areas, but it comes with risks and requires safeguards to prevent misuse. The model is released with conservative safeguards that trigger in less than 5% of sessions, and a trusted access program will be expanded to allow more users to access its capabilities.
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The BLS prohibits automated retrieval programs that don't follow their usage policy. This is to ensure timely access to information for all customers.
The user discusses the importance of understanding async programming in Rust, particularly the Future, poll, and Waker concepts, and how they can be used to build a one-shot channel for sending and receiving values between threads. The user provides a step-by-step implementation of a one-shot channel using the standard library and the three pieces of the async puzzle: the Future, its poll, ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Last Evolution, by John Wood Campbell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Last Evolution Author: John Wood Campbell Illustrator: Leo ...
Diego Garate Maidagan, a professor of prehistory and Palaeolithic art, is studying the cave paintings at Altamira in northern Spain, which date back 34,000 years. He believes the paintings were made by early Homo sapiens who used sophisticated techniques to create vivid images.
Speedrunner SHiFT shares a dirty tactic to beat SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in record time by smudging the game disc. This method involves strategically placing smudges to cause lag clipping, but risks damaging the game or console.
Anthropic requires 30-day data retention for Mythos-class models on Bedrock for misuse detection. Data is deleted after 30 days, except in safety investigations or legal cases.
Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on various benchmarks but lack economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains due to evaluation problems. Researchers have proposed several solutions, including Agents' Last Exam (ALE), RLinf-VLA, SkillOpt, Harness-1, SCAIL-2, WhisperKit, Mirage, SearchSwarm-30B-A3B, Docling, Agent Lightning, MinerU2.5, GLM-4.5, and Cosmos 3, ...
Large companies often prioritize performative actions over actual progress, creating a demoralizing work environment. This can be seen in excessive 1:1 meetings and focus on superficial tasks rather than meaningful contributions.
Hacking for Defense, a class at Stanford, teaches students to solve national security problems using Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps methodology, with 70 universities participating worldwide. This year's teams used AI tools to build minimal viable products and interviewed 1132 beneficiaries, stakeholders, and industry partners to understand and help solve complex national security problems.
A developer encountered a blank page issue with their p2claw app on an iPad, but not on other devices. The issue was caused by a combination of a hardcoded constant in webrtc-rs and a design decision in Tailscale that dropped IPv6 fragments.
npm v12 introduces security changes to npm install, requiring explicit opt-in for scripts and Git dependencies. Upgrade to npm 11.16.0, review warnings, and use npm approve-scripts to allow trusted packages.
The user has an ageing Windows media centre PC with a wireless keyboard that repurposes F-keys for extra functions, causing frustration when the function-lock gets switched off. They wish keyboards would implement Fn keys correctly, allowing users to easily switch between standard and special function modes without losing settings.
I bought a server this week. Not cloud credits, not a managed platform, not a serverless function bobbing in someone else's abstraction. A single rented box at Hetzner with four cores, eight gigs of RAM, and a name: mercury. By the end of the night it was running every site I care about, including this one. I did it partly to keep costs down. Mostly, if I'm honest, I needed a hobby. I ...
Researchers at the University of Florida developed BlueME, a new underwater communication system that lets AUVs exchange data reliably at distances of up to 730m using 10 watts of power. BlueME uses magnetoelectric antennas that improve in performance when submerged, allowing for real-time autonomy and potential applications in fleet navigation and seafloor mapping.
Google Chrome is ending support for Manifest V2 extensions, citing technical difficulties and security concerns. Users will need to update to Manifest V3 or switch to alternative browsers like Mozilla Firefox.
We visited DeepSeek's HQ in Hangzhou, China, a 12-story unmarked building with a low profile. The company has 300 employees, is smaller than Anthropic, and prioritizes a lower profile over scaling.
A German court ruled Google directly liable for its AI search overviews, not just a list of search results. The court found Google's AI made false claims about two publishers, which Google couldn't verify or correct.
The user participated in a hackathon in Vilnius where they created a project that integrated an old rotary phone with a Raspberry Pi and AI agent to play niche music via the Spotify API. They believe hackathons should focus on hardware and innovative projects rather than just coding, and predict a shift towards hardware hackathons in the coming months.
The speaker discusses AI's limitations in creativity and discovery, stating that Generative AI can mimic but not truly create.
The user tried Blacksmith, a cheaper alternative to GitHub Actions, but was surprised to receive an invoice for overage despite being on a free trial with no credit card. The user decided to continue using Blacksmith due to its benefits, but advises SaaS services to be aware of user expectations regarding free account limits and overage billing.