A blind man received a letter from the government asking for updated medical evidence to prove his blindness. He outsmarted the system by faxing a massive, automated document that jammed the office's fax machine, forcing them to accept his evidence.
The hardware industry is shifting towards data centers and away from consumers, leading to rising prices and vanishing consumer choice. This structural shift is driven by high demand from data centers and AI technology, causing a shortage of specific components like RAM and storage.
jsongrep is a fast JSON search tool that compiles queries into deterministic finite automata (DFAs) for single-pass search. This approach allows jsongrep to outperform other JSON query tools like jq and jmespath in benchmarking tests.
Claude Code offers three ways to schedule recurring work: cloud tasks, desktop tasks, and /loop for quick polling. Tasks can be created from the Desktop app, CLI, or web interface.
Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro, removing it from their website and confirming no future hardware plans. The Mac Studio is now set to be the 'pro' desktop Mac of the future in Apple's lineup.
A Graphic Designer shares their discovery of a specific seafoam green color used in 1940s industrial design, particularly in the Manhattan Project's control rooms. This color was chosen for its non-distracting and restful properties, as advocated by color theorist Faber Birren.
The AllSky7 network uses seven highly sensitive cameras to record meteors and fireballs 24/7, covering the full sky with a limiting magnitude of 4 mag. The network's software allows for automatic analysis and sorting of false detections, and data is shared with the public under certain conditions.
The author uploaded a paper on local Bernstein theory and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants, motivated by a problem of Erdős on Lagrange interpolation. The paper modifies classical Bernstein-type inequalities to obtain localized versions.
A native C++ version of a script to parse and count words in a text file uses significantly less memory than a Python version, with a 98.4% reduction in memory usage. This is achieved by avoiding string objects and using string views, as well as disabling exception support in the C++ runtime.
The user created a custom AI chatbot, nullclaw, using IRC protocol and Haiku model, which can clone repos, read code, and provide specific answers to questions about their projects. The system has a minimal attack surface, with a public-facing doorman and a private agent, and uses tiered inference to keep costs under $2/day.
A developer ported the QNX Neutrino operating system to RISC-V, achieving a working shell prompt after 5 years of work. The project, called QRV, is a ground-up reworking of the 32-bit codebase into a 64-bit system, with deliberate simplifications and a focus on preserving the core architecture.
ATLAS achieves 74.6% LiveCodeBench pass rate with a frozen 14B model on a single GPU, up from 36-41% in V2. It uses constraint-driven generation and self-verified iterative refinement for self-hosted AI.
This open access book examines the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces in various situations and populations, with implications for education and publishing. It explores the psychology of reading and differences in readers' preferences among typefaces for printed and digital materials.
Reco's Principal Data Engineer Nir Barak used AI to reimplement JSONata 2.x in pure Go, resulting in a 1,000x speedup and saving $500K/year. The new implementation, called gnata, eliminated the need for an RPC fleet and allowed for end-to-end batching in the rule engine, saving another $200K/year.
A PowerShell script uses Cloudflare's DNS TXT records to serve the entire DOOM game, compressed into 1964 records across a single zone. This allows users to play DOOM without storing the WAD file on disk, using a .NET game engine and public DNS queries.
A supply chain attack was discovered on the litellm package on PyPI, which steals credentials and attempts to exfiltrate them to a malicious domain. The attack was reported to PyPI and the litellm maintainers via email, and a tracking issue was created to monitor the situation.
Whistler is a Common Lisp-based DSL for eBPF that generates highly-optimized eBPF output and allows for direct inlining of code in Lisp programs. It simplifies the eBPF workflow by allowing developers to write Lisp code for both the BPF and userspace sides, eliminating the need for separate build steps and languages.
The user successfully set up a Tesla Model 3 car computer on their desk by purchasing parts on eBay and using Tesla's electrical reference to connect the components. After several challenges, including a burned power controller chip, the user was able to get the system running and is now exploring the car's operating system and network interfaces.
To install and set up the Hyperagents repository, run installation commands and create a virtual environment. This involves executing potentially untrusted code with associated safety risks.
Py library to generate SVG visualizations of scientific data - alefore/mini_svg
The author discusses the design of generators in Lone Lisp, a programming language, and how they are built on top of coroutines to simplify iteration and loops. The author then refines the design to create semicoroutines, which are generators that yield control back to their callers, to reduce cognitive load and improve performance.
A retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) approach using a large language model (LLM) and search systems enables language models to access data beyond their training corpus, but traditional single-stage retrieval pipelines are limited and can't handle multi-hop retrieval queries. A purpose-trained 20B model, Chroma Context-1, achieves retrieval performance comparable to frontier LLMs at a ...
Researchers created a multi-agent workflow with Claude and Codex, mimicking human collaboration. They built a CLI called loop to enable agents to interact and provide faster, more natural feedback.
Anthropic updated subprocessors list is available in the Trust Center dashboard, and web search is now available in Claude for Government with admin control.
User is looking for alternatives to FireWire due to Apple's macOS 26 Tahoe removal of support. They found a Linux solution using dvgrab and a Raspberry Pi with a FireWire adapter, allowing them to transfer digital video footage from an old Canon GL1 camera.
Online sports betting and prediction markets have led to cheating, distrust, and cynicism, with the potential to extend to politics and other institutions. The normalization of betting on future events, including wars and famines, raises concerns about morality and the erosion of shared values in society.
Liminal 3D World editor and game engine - inspired by Radiant and Hammer - ViciousSquid/Fio
OpenTelemetry Profiles has entered public Alpha, introducing a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling. The Profiles signal allows capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production, improving troubleshooting, user experience, and reducing computation costs.
A rogue golden oyster mushroom is spreading rapidly across North America and Europe, threatening native fungi. Efforts to clone native species, like the grey oyster mushroom, aim to preserve vulnerable fungi and combat the invasive species.