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AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
A few weeks back, in a former bank building that's now a music venue in Falmouth, Cornwall, I was DJ-ing at a night I run called Rave Machine. It...
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and...
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
UPDATE Oct 10th On 24 August 2026 X Corp. sent cease and desist letters demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's...
IRCv3
Specifications These are the specifications which make up modern IRC, and the extensions that the IRCv3 WG have defined. View Working Group The...
What's Wrong with GitHub
What's Wrong with GitHub By Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman Software developers, the GNU Project urges you to avoid hosting your repositories...
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit Most up-to-the-minute information on service availability, timeline & reports of Yandex Cloud
JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data (2021)
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LineageOS 24.0 released
24 - Getting Sentimental Hey there! Welcome back! We’re a bit sentimental about this release, as it precedes a really fun upcoming milestone. On...
How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
#Logfire Data Model OpenTelemetry data (the data that Logfire ingests) is semi-structured data. It contains a mix of: Fixed schema fields...
Show HN: GSD Task Manager – an MCP server that gives your AI agent a task list
A privacy-first Eisenhower matrix for deciding what to do, schedule, delegate, or eliminate. Live app: gsd.vinny.dev Current version: 13.9.2 Current...
AI agents in a stand-up call
Your AI agents,in a stand-up call. See who is waiting on whom and who is blocked, at zero token cost. Agent Standup turns your Claude Code session...
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] I wrote a custom display driver for a small ESP32-S3 e-paper board and managed to get around 30 display...
CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation
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Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine
I understand that mathematicians are upset with how quickly artificial intelligence is solving some long-standing and inscrutable puzzles. I...
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple...
61 Blog Posts To Learn About Electronics
Let's learn about Electronics via these 61 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or...
European Alternatives
European Alternatives European Products Non-European Support Submit Suggestion European Products Non-European Support Submit Suggestion Search You...
A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease
Microplastics have spread into nearly every corner of the environment. These tiny plastic particles have been found in ocean water, drinking water,...
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
ai and ml Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing...
Consistency is not a localized property
Consistency is not a localized property Oct 6, 2026 It is a common pattern for developers to assume that consistency is something they can achieve...
WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
Read the article. Skip the wall. Paste a link. Get the story. No paywall, no signup. /shortcut iPhone Shortcut Hop any article from the Share...
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP
PSPi 6: Raspberry Pi in a PSP This is my passion project that transforms the classic PSP 1000 into a modern handheld using a Raspberry Pi. This...
Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System
Veda: The Agentic-Native Operating System Veda is an operating system with an AI agent built into it — not an assistant added to a desktop, but a...
A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches
GitHub - jorgeandrecastro/github-workflow · GitHub Skip to content Navigation MenuSign inAppearance settingsPlatformAI CODE CREATIONGitHub...
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
The rule takes effect Nov. 12; enforcement is the same conversation-ending tool Claude got in August 2025 In briefAnthropic’s updated usage policy...
Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5
np.searchsorted is NumPy’s implementation of the binary search algorithm. This is one of the fundamental search algorithms and is used in the Python...
Build your own decision model
"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer.Consider your everyday language...
Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation
Complete spelling prompt (user message) Spell out the word, putting spaces between each letter, based on the following examples: 1. Question: Spell...
Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled...
The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles
Instructions You can play the recreation above, with touch controls if you are on mobile. In addition to the default "Car" mode (1), you can also...
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
There is nothing in the pipeline. Pick a site from the pins marked + on the map, or from the Sites tab. City Hall, Jan 2015 Mayor Ed Lee. A 6-5...
61 Blog Posts To Learn About Efficiency
Let's learn about Efficiency via these 61 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or...
50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC
I have a decade-old Dell Inspiron laptop with a 2nd-gen Intel Core i3 processor, 4 GB RAM, and an integrated Intel HD GPU. It came with Windows 7...
Takeshi's Castle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Takeshi's CastleTitle cardStarringNarrated byShizuo MiyauchiRunpei MasuiComposersTadakazu OnoderaNoriaki...
Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
A flock of birds in your terminal. cbirds --render kitty --hawks 2 --color ice --speed 0 Craig Reynolds' boids, drawn in braille in any terminal,...
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
DuckDB 2.0 is coming this fall and the alpha is out! I ran the interesting features on my own laptop, and against S3, to see what actually changes...
The Safer Internet Lie: Why More Surveillance Isn't Making Anyone Safer
Try this experiment. Go sign up for a porn site in Texas, open a new messaging app in the UK, or apply for a driver's license in an EU country...
Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0Published on 2026-10-08.This week I completed the update to Zig 0.17 and released Kiesel 0.4.0! It contains 64...
SNTPings, draw on a canvas using ICMPv6
Voor de Nederlandse versie van deze website, klik hier On the 9th of October, we are celebrating the launch of SURFnet Infinity. Therefore, it is...
AI Agent Evaluation Is the Foundation of Reliable Autonomy
AI agent evaluation frameworks turn impressive demos into evidence about which tasks a system can perform reliably, within limits, and at an...
Why 'externalized' proofs of cyclic trait impls does not work
For this post, I wanted to talk about two different approaches to handling supertraits. I’m calling them modular proofs vs external proofs. The key...
AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic
I recently finished a philosophical science-fiction novel by Soviet authors Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky called “Roadside Picnic”. Aliens...
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