CrankGPT prioritizes user data privacy and allows token production on device. It offers a decentralized alternative to ChatGPT, promoting self-sufficiency and saving money.
Salesforce acquires Fin for $3.6 billion to enhance customer support with AI Agent technology. The acquisition will improve autonomous resolution, reduce costs, and accelerate AI adoption for service organizations.
The tech industry's leadership has shifted from being humble and focused on work to being egocentric and attention-seeking, damaging the industry's reputation and trust with the public. To regain trust, founders should focus on projecting core nerd values such as enthusiasm for niche interests, humility, and a love of learning rather than seeking wealth and power.
The author's new book passed epubcheck but was reported as "corrupted" by a Kobo user due to Adobe's RMSDK rendering engine not supporting modern CSS. The issue was resolved by disabling the stylesheet and updating the CSS to be compatible with RMSDK.
Claude for Foundation Models is a Swift package that makes Claude available as a server-side language model in Apple's Foundation Models framework. It targets the Foundation Models server-side language model API introduced in OS 27 betas.
The writer feels frustrated that their hard work in software development is being made easier by AI, leading to a loss of meaning and purpose. They fear this will cause a sociopolitical issue as people struggle to adapt to a world where their efforts are no longer valued.
Budget models can handle 80-90% of daily developer tasks with no quality difference if prompted correctly, using structured prompts and minimizing social niceties. Mastering precision, context, and structure in prompts can bridge the gap between budget and premium models for most daily work.
Luz supports Monte Carlo path tracing, global illumination, and various rendering features. It uses a CLI with customizable settings and supports exporting scenes from Blender.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
The article discusses various lesser-known features in Emacs, including wildcard support in find-file and Dired, ffap-menu for finding file paths, compare-windows for comparing text, and other features like vc-diff for inspecting backups and apropos for searching commands. The article also covers features like keyboard macros, subword-mode, image manipulation, visible-mode, and other ...
Students at a Rome high school discovered an ancient Roman villa beneath their school in 2021. Excavations in 2025 uncovered the villa, dating back to the mid-second century C.E., with well-preserved rooms and artifacts.
Porting a custom C game engine to web via Emscripten required addressing issues with 32-bit address space, pointer sizes, and cross-platform compatibility. The user overcame challenges with bgfx, SDL2, miniaudio, and Cimgui, and successfully deployed the game on Itchio, achieving a smooth and fast web experience.
kage clones websites into offline folders with scripts removed, preserving the site's appearance. It offers a binary or container image for use with Chrome or Chromium.
Anthropic's model release and data retention policies have raised concerns about safety and control. The company's actions seem to prioritize its own interests and goals over others.
The Google Maps flight simulator is experimental with simplified physics and dynamic loading, offering an immersive experience with limitations. It has features like terrain anomalies and overlapping controls, and users can exit safely by clicking the back arrow.
ASCILINE is a high-performance, cross-platform real-time ASCII video rendering engine that transforms the web into a dynamic typographic canvas. It unlocks new possibilities for web media delivery with ultra-low bandwidth and IoT compatibility.
Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience
You're creating a language for generating procedural clocks for "Impossible Day" with a visual editor and p5.js rendering. The editor has a wordless interface with hand-drawn icons and a debug mode for scrubbing through the day.
The curl project will be closed to vulnerability reports in July 2026, known as the "curl summer of bliss." Reports can be submitted again on August 3 through Hackerone.
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Dalus is hiring a senior frontend software engineer to build a modern AI-powered platform for systems engineers. The role involves designing an intuitive interface for complex engineering data.
~ a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories ~
An octogenarian woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease showed transient multidomain functional improvement after receiving a high dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. The patient's improvements included restored urinary continence, improved mobility, and increased emotional responsiveness, but the effects were not sustained.
The eight fallacies of distributed computing highlight common misconceptions about network behavior, including assuming reliable data delivery, infinite bandwidth, and secure networks, which can lead to design flaws in network protocols and applications. Understanding these fallacies is crucial for network operators and developers to design robust and efficient network systems that can handle ...
The user built a small filesystem called magicfs with a real backing store, metadata, and a few deliberate omissions to make the code readable, and it uses FUSE to run in userspace. The filesystem handles file operations like open, read, write, flush, and fsync, and it uses a simple copy-on-write data path, but it lacks features like journaling, locking, and caching.
Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merged model of Nex and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, with no evidence of its own training. Its weights are a 0.6 Nex to 0.4 Qwen blend.
Paper's foldability is due to its unique structure, which is created during the papermaking process involving chemistry. Different paper types fold differently due to variations in their structure.
Italian climber Cesare Maestri claimed Cerro Torre's first ascent in 1959, but his claim is disputed. American climbers Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk removed 125 bolts from the mountain's Compressor Route, sparking debate over climbing purity and fair means.
User discussed various projects including a CRM with agent baked in, an ActivityPub server, and an open-source search engine called Uruky, as well as other projects such as a 3D optics simulator, a video lie detector, and a Peak Flow Meter Diary app for asthma patients. They also mentioned other projects like Totem, a collaborative knowledge management system, and HN Alerts, a site for ...
Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.
Microsoft is trying to rebuild trust with users through Windows K2, but one unresolved issue is the mandatory Microsoft account requirement during setup. Users want a choice between local and online accounts, and a clearer explanation of how features like encryption affect their computers.