A satirical graph shows 170 days of GitHub outages, with the darkest square representing the longest downtime. The worst day was November 20, 2025, with 1.1 days of downtime.
Coding agents have reduced the cost of software development, but increased the importance of context and collaboration. Effective use of agents requires externalizing context and maintaining organizational coherence, which is a harder challenge than individual productivity gains.
Children can easily bypass online age checks, using methods like drawing facial hair or making funny faces. Age verification laws are being implemented worldwide, but critics say they create security risks and threaten internet openness.
The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.
Cloudflare and Stripe partnered to allow coding agents to provision Cloudflare accounts, subscriptions, and domains without human intervention. Agents can now deploy apps to production with zero friction for the end user.
The user set up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 by following a specific VM configuration and installing the Sun Ray Server Software package, which required a period-accurate Java Runtime Environment and Apache Tomcat. The user then configured the Sun Ray server to use ISC DHCP, installed the needed libraries for hotdesking, and set up the TFTP root for the DTUs to pull their ...
This laptop features a true matte display, haptic trackpad, and open firmware options for customization. It also includes a removable webcam, wireless switch, and durable ceramic coating for a secure and long-lasting experience.
The user built CARA 2.0, an upgraded version of their quadrupedal robot CARA 1.0, with a goal of making it low-cost and durable, and achieved a significant reduction in cost while retaining dynamic functionality. The user rewound the motors to increase torque, modified the motor controller firmware, and redesigned the robot's leg and frame to improve its performance and aesthetics, ultimately ...
Jagadish Chandra Bose demonstrated plant sensitivity and nervous system in 1926, showing electrical signals in plants. His work was initially met with skepticism and controversy, but recent research supports his findings, establishing plant neurobiology as a new field.
You've released a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server, translating 5,000 functions from MSVC x86 to portable C99. The result is an almost perfect replica of a 1998 Ultima Online server with some differences and new features.
Researchers created metal tags with unique frequencies for smart home sensing and activity recognition. The tags can be attached to various objects to track activities, monitor usage, or trigger timers.
The user discusses "knitting bullshit" as a type of discourse that lacks connection to truth and reality, exemplified by AI-generated podcast episodes and animated films that celebrate knitting without providing accurate information or engaging with the craft's history and practices. The user argues that this type of content degrades the knitting community and industry by parasitizing and ...
Micron Technology announced the 245TB Micron 6600 ION SSD, the world's highest capacity commercially available SSD. It reduces rack space by 82% and power consumption by half compared to HDD-based deployments.
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The company is hiring for an organic growth engineer role, excluding applicants from 11 US states. The job involves designing AI tools and implementing in-person canvassing efforts to grow the company's AI-native insurance broker.
Ted Turner, a media mogul and philanthropist, died at 87 after a life of revolutionizing television news and building a media empire. He founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour news network, and was a devoted philanthropist, conservationist, and activist.
The user designed and built a Gameboy cartridge for Wolfenstein 3D using a custom PCB and a KE04 processor, implementing features such as ROM bank switching, RAM banks, and a password system. The project was completed with the addition of music, sound playback, and a HUD, and the user is now focusing on software development and testing the cartridge.
User tried replicating a retro multi-stroke text effect using CSS text-stroke property, but achieved desired result by varying text-stroke-width for stacked elements. Browsers automatically draw outlines of characters with different stroke widths, but performance is poor, especially with large font sizes.
DENIC eG is experiencing a DNS service disruption for .de domains causing DNSSEC-signed domains to be unreachable. DENIC's technical teams are working to restore stable operations as quickly as possible.
Users are frustrated with YouTube's unreliable feeds in feed readers and lack of effort to surface links to these feeds. They want to follow their favorite creators without relying on the platform's algorithms and homepage feeds.
We introduced Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for Gemma 4, delivering up to 3x speedup without quality degradation. MTP decouples token generation from verification, utilizing idle compute to predict future tokens and verify them in parallel.
MIT engineers developed a "computational violin" that simulates the physics of a violin's sound. The tool can help luthiers design and tweak a violin's sound before it's built.
Hello, MkDocs community! You may know me as the previous (last active) maintainer of MkDocs. I welcome everyone to our continuation from where MkDocs was left off, named ProperDocs. You can already...
The author of Nonograph website opposes monetizing software development, as it turns passion into a job and leads to user-hostile features. They believe software development should be treated as a hobby, focusing on experience and discovery over financial gain.
We compared two AI agent approaches for operating an admin panel: vision agents and API agents. Vision agents are more expensive and less reliable due to the need for explicit UI walkthroughs and high input token counts.
Residents in B.C. and Alberta reported seeing a large white shape moving across the horizon Tuesday night. Suggestions range from a weather balloon to a SpaceX rocket, with experts noting increased unidentified phenomenon sightings due to crowded night skies.
The author proposes the Inverse Laws of Robotics to prevent humans from blindly trusting AI systems, which can lead to societal dangers, and emphasizes the need for humans to remain responsible and accountable for AI use. The three laws are: humans must remain responsible for AI consequences, not anthropomorphise AI, and verify AI output before accepting it as authoritative.
Adam is a cross-platform AI agent library that works with cloud and local models, supporting various APIs and interfaces. It provides a unified interface for text, voice, and vision tasks, with memory management and SQL extension capabilities.
The author built Deptool, a deployment tool for managing personal infrastructure, to solve their specific needs for speed, safety, and simplicity. Deptool uses a Git repository to track configuration files, materializes them on hosts, and restarts systemd units for automatic rollback.