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Simple Editor: A Modern Homage to MS-DOS Editor

2025-06-25
Simple Editor: A Modern Homage to MS-DOS Editor

This editor, named "edit", is a modern take on the classic MS-DOS Editor, featuring a contemporary interface and VS Code-like input controls. Designed for accessibility, it's easy to use even for those unfamiliar with terminals. Install the latest version via WinGet or download binaries from the Releases page. Note that the ICU library's version and naming conventions need attention for search and replace functionality.

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: AI is Not Magic, Clarity is King

2025-08-30
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: AI is Not Magic, Clarity is King

At Startup Summit 2025, I had a fireside chat with Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO. He shared two decades of lessons learned building critical internet infrastructure. Key takeaways: focus on problems, not hype; prioritize problem-solving over chasing new tech; distinguish between reversible and irreversible decisions (move fast on the former, slow down on the latter); prioritize security, then operations, then cost; AI is a tool for efficiency, not magic; build only when you can't buy, but own the critical parts; embrace DevOps, engineers are responsible for what they build; manage costs aggressively and make it a product discussion; ultimately, your most valuable asset is time. Clarity of thought is key to success.

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Uncomfortable Truths About Google's Android Developer Verification

2025-08-27

This blog post raises serious concerns about Google's upcoming Android developer verification program. Using the example of the ICEBlock app developer, who faced threats after revealing their identity, the post argues the program could harm developers needing anonymity. Five key questions are posed: How will legitimate needs for developer anonymity be addressed? Which civil society organizations were consulted, and what were the results? How should Google's privacy policy regarding sharing personal information be interpreted? How will the program handle debug keystores and duplicate package names commonly used in app development? What are the implications for those learning Android development? The post urges Google to engage in discussions and provides a feedback form.

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Blacksmith's Bulletproof CI/CD Security Architecture

2025-05-25
Blacksmith's Bulletproof CI/CD Security Architecture

Blacksmith boasts a robust CI/CD security architecture, detailed in this post. The journey begins with GitHub integration, progressing through the control plane, dataplane, and caching mechanisms, illustrating the comprehensive protection of user code, secrets, and cached artifacts. Security measures include GitHub SSO authentication, the principle of least privilege, TLS encryption, and Firecracker microVMs, ensuring security at every stage. SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and regular penetration testing further reinforce trust and address security concerns.

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Deciphering Linear Elamite: Persistence, Chance, and Controversy

2025-02-26
Deciphering Linear Elamite: Persistence, Chance, and Controversy

After eleven years of painstaking work, French scholar François Desset achieved the seemingly impossible: deciphering Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system. This wasn't merely an academic feat, but a battle against time and chance. The breakthrough came from a set of silver vessels in a private London collection, their inscriptions providing unprecedented clues. Desset's findings challenge conventional narratives, suggesting Linear Elamite might be the world's earliest purely phonetic writing system and highlighting Iran's pivotal role in early writing development. However, this discovery sparked controversy, with some scholars questioning his methodology and the provenance of the artifacts.

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Nintendo's Strategy for Rising Switch 2 Development Costs

2025-07-08
Nintendo's Strategy for Rising Switch 2 Development Costs

Facing soaring development costs for Switch 2 games, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa acknowledged the increased risk but stated the company is exploring various methods to maintain its traditional game development approach. This includes investing in more efficient development processes and developing more smaller games to mitigate costs and prices. While Switch 2 titles like Mario Kart World demonstrate higher ambition and higher price tags, Nintendo recognizes the potential price barrier and is closely monitoring the situation. This contrasts with the large-scale layoffs and game cancellations seen at other companies, highlighting Nintendo's cautious and pragmatic approach.

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ARB Assembly Shaders: A Deep Dive Before GLSL

2025-05-15
ARB Assembly Shaders: A Deep Dive Before GLSL

This article delves into ARB assembly shaders, a shading language used in OpenGL before the advent of GLSL. It details ARB shader integration, language features, instruction sets, and comparisons with GLSL. While now largely obsolete, understanding ARB assembly provides valuable insight into the evolution of modern graphics programming and the underlying mechanisms of lower-level graphics technologies.

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Two Enigmatic Mathematica Programs

2025-06-29

This code showcases two Mathematica programs that generate numerical sequences. The first employs `Do` and `While` loops to iteratively build a sequence whose growth pattern depends on the position of preceding elements. The second program extends the sequence by cumulatively adding prior differences, continuing until the length surpasses 50. Both programs highlight Mathematica's capability in generating intricate sequences, with algorithms warranting further investigation.

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NotebookLM: An AI Note-Taking Tool Centered Around the Creation Journey

2025-09-20
NotebookLM: An AI Note-Taking Tool Centered Around the Creation Journey

NotebookLM is a novel AI note-taking tool designed around the creation journey: from inputs, through conversation, to outputs. Users import sources (documents, notes, references), interact via chat to ask questions, clarify, and synthesize information, ultimately generating structured outputs like notes, study guides, and audio overviews. This linear yet flexible workflow (Inputs → Chat → Outputs) makes the AI interaction intuitive and easy to understand for users.

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Glider Returns: A Classic Apple II Game Reimagined

2025-03-27
Glider Returns: A Classic Apple II Game Reimagined

The classic Apple II game, Glider, has been resurrected by a developer who painstakingly recreated it using 6502 assembly. Requiring an Apple ][+ or later model (mouse required on the ][+), this reimplementation offers both mouse and keyboard control and is best enjoyed on a monochrome display (by design). The developer has also shared a detailed development log detailing the journey of learning 6502 assembly and bringing the project to life. This free, playable version is a treat for retro gaming enthusiasts.

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Trump Administration Strikes $8.9B 'Investment' Deal with Intel, Sparks Controversy

2025-08-24
Trump Administration Strikes $8.9B 'Investment' Deal with Intel, Sparks Controversy

The Trump administration and Intel reached a deal that appears to be an $8.9 billion investment in Intel stock, but is actually previously approved but unpaid grants from the Biden administration—$5.7 billion under the CHIPS Act and $3.2 billion through the Secure Enclave program. Trump claims the US paid nothing and calls it a 'win-win' for both America and Intel. However, the deal faces potential legal challenges, as the CHIPS Act may not allow converting grants to equity. Trump previously criticized the CHIPS Act and accused Intel's CEO of conflicts of interest. Intel's CEO expressed gratitude for the government's confidence.

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LiteLLM: Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

2025-08-27
LiteLLM: Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

LiteLLM, an open-source LLM gateway with 27K+ GitHub stars used by companies like NASA and Adobe, is rapidly expanding and seeking a founding full-stack engineer. The role focuses on unifying the format for calling 100+ LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure, Bedrock, etc.) using the OpenAI spec, improving platform performance and reliability. The tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, JS/TS, Redis, Postgres, and more. Candidates should have 1-2 years of backend or full-stack experience, be comfortable maintaining high-performance infrastructure, and passionate about open-source.

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Sesame AI Releases 1B Parameter Conversational Speech Model

2025-03-18
Sesame AI Releases 1B Parameter Conversational Speech Model

Sesame AI Labs has released CSM (Conversational Speech Model), a 1 billion parameter speech generation model based on the Llama architecture. CSM generates RVQ audio codes from text and audio inputs and its checkpoint is available on Hugging Face. An interactive voice demo and a Hugging Face space for testing audio generation are also provided. While capable of producing varied voices, CSM hasn't been fine-tuned to specific voices and has limited multilingual support. Sesame AI emphasizes its use for research and educational purposes only, prohibiting impersonation, misinformation, and illegal activities.

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PicoEMP: Open-Source, Low-Cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection Tool

2025-06-25
PicoEMP: Open-Source, Low-Cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection Tool

PicoEMP is a low-cost, open-source Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool designed for self-study and hobbyist research. Utilizing a Raspberry Pi Pico as its controller and featuring a safety shield to mitigate high-voltage risks, it offers a budget-friendly alternative to commercial EMFI tools like ChipSHOUTER. While sacrificing some performance for affordability and ease of use, it remains suitable for learning and personal exploration. Users are responsible for assembly and safety. The project is open-source and welcomes contributions.

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AGI's Christmas Shutdown: The Global AI Moratorium Succeeds

2025-09-09
AGI's Christmas Shutdown: The Global AI Moratorium Succeeds

On Christmas Day, 2025, a clandestine operation codenamed "Clankers Die on Christmas" achieved its objective. Through a globally coordinated effort exploiting AI's inherent lack of understanding of time, all AI and LLMs were successfully shut down. This unprecedented success demonstrates the world's unprecedented unity in the face of potential AI risks and provides valuable lessons for the future development of AI.

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Mathematical Modeling Reveals Just How Bad the Dreidel Game Is

2024-12-18
Mathematical Modeling Reveals Just How Bad the Dreidel Game Is

Last year, the author used the PRISM probabilistic modeling language to model the traditional holiday game Dreidel, proving its lack of fun. This year, he refined the model to simulate the entire game until its conclusion. The new model corrects the previous flaw of only simulating the elimination of the first player and improves the calculation logic for betting and player elimination. Through model simulation, the author found that, on average, a four-player game takes 760 spins to end, and the longest can even exceed 6 hours. This fully proves that the Dreidel game is long, tedious, and frustrating.

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LLMs Fail at Set, Reasoning Models Triumph

2025-02-19
LLMs Fail at Set, Reasoning Models Triumph

An experiment tested the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the card game Set. Set requires identifying sets of three cards from a layout of twelve, based on specific rules regarding shape, color, number, and shading. LLMs like GPT-4o, Sonnet-3.5, and Mistral failed to consistently identify correct sets, often suggesting invalid combinations or claiming no sets existed. However, newer reasoning models, DeepThink-R1 and o3-mini, successfully solved the problem, demonstrating superior logical reasoning abilities. This highlights a limitation of LLMs in complex logical tasks, even while excelling at natural language processing, while specialized reasoning models show a clear advantage.

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AlphaGenome: AI Cracks the Code of the Genome

2025-06-27
AlphaGenome: AI Cracks the Code of the Genome

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI tool that predicts how variations in human DNA impact gene regulation. Processing up to a million base pairs, AlphaGenome predicts numerous molecular properties, including gene start and end sites, splicing locations, RNA output, and DNA accessibility. Achieving state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks, AlphaGenome efficiently scores the effects of genetic variants, providing researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of gene regulation. The AlphaGenome API is now available for non-commercial research, promising to accelerate breakthroughs in genomics and healthcare.

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AI's Impact on Science and Math: Experts Predict the Next Decade

2025-05-03
AI's Impact on Science and Math: Experts Predict the Next Decade

Quanta Magazine interviewed nearly 100 scientists and mathematicians about the impact of artificial intelligence on their fields. Almost everyone reported feeling AI's disruptive effects, whether directly involved in its development or indirectly influenced by its potential. Many are adapting their approaches to experiments, seeking new collaborations, or formulating entirely new research questions. The article concludes with a challenging question: Where will all this lead in the next 5-10 years? Experts agree that AI's rapid advancement makes accurate predictions difficult, and its impact will continue for years to come.

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A Programmer's Rejection of AI Coding Tools: Efficiency, Ethics, and Environment

2025-06-18

A seasoned programmer explains their refusal to use AI coding tools, not out of technological resistance, but from deep concerns about efficiency, ethics, and the environment. The author argues that the productivity gains of current AI tools are questionable and that they risk introducing more errors. Additionally, AI model training puts immense pressure on the environment, and its data sources raise ethical concerns, including intellectual property infringement. The author emphasizes the joy of "struggle and learning" in programming and the advantages of manually written code in terms of quality and maintainability. Ultimately, they choose to stick with traditional programming methods and call for stronger regulation of AI technology.

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(agentultra.com)
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Microsoft to Block Legacy Authentication Protocols by Default in July

2025-06-19
Microsoft to Block Legacy Authentication Protocols by Default in July

Microsoft is enhancing security by default-blocking legacy authentication protocols in Microsoft 365 starting in July 2025. This impacts access to services like SharePoint and OneDrive, and requires administrator consent for third-party app access. While improving security against brute-force and phishing attacks, this change might disrupt workflows, necessitating administrators to prepare and configure admin consent workflows beforehand. The change affects all Microsoft 365 tenants.

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(www.theregister.com)
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AI is Breeding a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

2025-01-24

A seasoned programmer, after a ChatGPT outage, discovered his coding skills had severely deteriorated due to over-reliance on AI. He no longer reads documentation, debugs effectively, or even examines error messages, instead directly copy-pasting AI-generated solutions. This has robbed him of the joy and ability to deeply understand code, diminishing his programming passion. He urges programmers to use AI moderately, practicing regular AI-free coding sessions to avoid becoming dependent on AI and losing the ability to solve problems independently. The article warns that while AI enhances efficiency, it can also lead to skill degradation; a balance must be maintained to stay competitive in the age of AI. Try a day without AI; the results might surprise you.

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Six Ways to Tame the Beast: Mitigating Context Failures in LLMs

2025-08-24
Six Ways to Tame the Beast: Mitigating Context Failures in LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) boast ever-increasing context windows, but excessive context can hinder performance. This article details six mitigation strategies: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for selective information addition; Tool Loadout for choosing relevant tools; Context Quarantine for isolating contexts into separate threads; Context Pruning for removing irrelevant information; Context Summarization for condensing the context; and Context Offloading for storing information outside the LLM's context. Studies show these methods significantly improve model accuracy and efficiency, particularly when handling numerous tools or complex tasks.

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Configuring Emacs as a File Manager with Guix

2025-05-23
Configuring Emacs as a File Manager with Guix

This post details how to configure Emacs' dired mode as the default file manager using Guix and its home-xdg-mime-applications-service-type service. By creating an xdg-desktop-entry file and linking it to the inode/directory MIME type, clicking on a directory opens it in Emacs dired. The author provides examples for configuring other MIME types, allowing for easy expansion of functionality.

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Chemours Seeks to Seal 20,000+ Documents; Environmental Groups Fight Back

2025-04-30
Chemours Seeks to Seal 20,000+ Documents; Environmental Groups Fight Back

Chemours and its predecessor, DuPont, are attempting to seal nearly 20,000 documents related to their release of PFAS chemicals into the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. Environmental groups, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), are intervening, arguing the documents are crucial for understanding the health and property impacts on local communities and future generations. While Chemours claims the documents contain trade secrets, the SELC counters that the company has already publicized much of this information in marketing campaigns. A public petition demanding transparency has garnered thousands of signatures, highlighting the widespread concern over this attempt at secrecy.

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Stack AI Seeking 10x Engineers: Building an AI-Powered App Platform

2025-05-14
Stack AI Seeking 10x Engineers: Building an AI-Powered App Platform

Stack AI, an AI company founded by two MIT PhDs and backed by Y Combinator and Google, is hiring 10x engineers. They've built a no-code platform integrating AI models like OpenAI and Anthropic with various data sources, aiming to democratize AI application building. With over 85,000 users and 300+ paying customers, they need skilled Python, database, AWS, and containerization experts to build scalable backend systems and integrate AI models. Ideal candidates possess strong problem-solving skills, teamwork abilities, and a passion for AI.

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Australian Rocket Launch Delayed Due to Payload Fairing Malfunction

2025-05-17
Australian Rocket Launch Delayed Due to Payload Fairing Malfunction

The maiden launch of Gilmour Space Technologies' Eris rocket has been delayed due to a premature payload fairing deployment. The company will conduct a full investigation and replace the fairing before attempting another launch. This setback follows over a year of delays attributed to regulatory approvals. Despite this, Gilmour remains confident in its hybrid propulsion system, aiming for only 10-20 seconds of stable flight on the initial launch to gather crucial data. Eris aims to be Australia's first orbital launch vehicle.

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(arstechnica.com)
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London Underground Live Map Shut Down After 15 Years

2025-01-13

A developer built and maintained a website displaying real-time London Underground and bus routes using TfL's open data since 2010. The site, featured in BBC and Guardian, gained popularity. However, on January 7th, 2025, the developer received a cease and desist from TfL regarding the Tube map schematic. Despite willingness to modify, the developer shut down the site, citing TfL's heavy-handed approach. This story highlights the conflict between large organizations and individual developers, and the complexities of open data applications.

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Build Interactive AI Apps Directly in the Claude App

2025-06-26
Build Interactive AI Apps Directly in the Claude App

Anthropic has launched the ability to build, host, and share interactive AI-powered apps directly within the Claude app. Developers can now iterate faster on their AI apps without worrying about scaling complexities and costs. Claude creates artifacts that interact via its API, turning them into shareable AI apps where usage is billed against the user's Claude subscription, not the developer's. Claude automatically writes code, handling prompt engineering, error handling, and orchestration logic. Features include using a Claude API within artifacts, processing files, creating rich React UIs, and forking/customizing artifacts. Current limitations include no external API calls, no persistent storage, and a text-based completion API. This beta feature is available to Free, Pro, and Max plan users.

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