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Generative AI Runs on a 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4?!

2025-03-25
Generative AI Runs on a 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4?!

A software engineer successfully ran Meta's Llama 2 large language model on a 2005 PowerBook G4. This vintage laptop, equipped with only a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 1GB of RAM, achieved AI inference by porting the open-source llama2.c project and leveraging AltiVec vector extensions. It's a testament to ingenuity and the boundless possibilities of technology.

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(www.macrumors.com)
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Trump Admin to Use AI to Target Pro-Palestine Students

2025-03-09
Trump Admin to Use AI to Target Pro-Palestine Students

The U.S. State Department is launching "Catch and Revoke," an AI-powered program to scan news and social media for pro-Palestinian and Hamas sympathies among student visa holders. This initiative, starting October 7th, raises serious concerns about free speech and potential biases in AI. The program aligns with the Trump administration's broader efforts to combat perceived antisemitism and domestic terrorism, efforts criticized for their overbroad definitions and potential for silencing dissent. The passage of the "Take it Down Act," ostensibly targeting revenge porn and deepfakes, further exacerbates these concerns, potentially providing a tool for suppressing criticism. The combined actions represent a significant attack on free speech and expression, fueled by surveillance technology.

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(gizmodo.com)
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Level Up Your GRUB Bootloader: A Curated List of Themes and Customization Guide

2025-05-04
Level Up Your GRUB Bootloader: A Curated List of Themes and Customization Guide

Tired of the same old GRUB bootloader? This post offers a curated list of high-quality GRUB themes and a guide on how to easily customize them. From changing background images and fonts to adjusting color schemes and even creating a cycling background, you can personalize your boot experience. Useful tools are also recommended, such as for downloading GitHub files and tweaking GRUB settings.

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(github.com)
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The End of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum: 4000 Banned Books and Their Stories

2025-08-13

In 1948, the Catholic Church published the final 32nd edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a 508-page catalog that, since its first edition in 1559, listed nearly 4000 books banned for heresy, moral deficiency, sexual explicitness, political incorrectness, and more. Notable figures like Erasmus, Voltaire, and Sartre were included, alongside philosophers who believed in God, such as Descartes and Kant. Primarily intended for priests, this index reflects the Church's long history of controlling ideas and restricting intellectual freedom.

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(historyofinformation.com)
Misc Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Balatro: A Modern Take on Solitaire

2025-02-27
Balatro: A Modern Take on Solitaire

The creator of the puzzle game Balatro reveals its design inspiration: the classic card game Solitaire. The goal was to recapture Solitaire's relaxing, low-stakes vibe, creating a comforting pastime. While Balatro incorporates meta-game elements like achievements and challenges, these weren't designed to artificially extend playtime. Instead, they guide players to explore the game's mechanics and offer additional goals. Ultimately, the developer aimed for Balatro to be an evergreen game, offering the same satisfying experience as a quick game of Solitaire.

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(localthunk.com)
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The printf Debugging Debate: A Veteran Game Dev Weighs In

2025-01-06

Alex Dixon, a seasoned game developer, challenges the extreme notion of rejecting debuggers in favor of notepad and printf debugging. He argues that debuggers, address sanitizers, and other tools significantly boost efficiency, even for experienced programmers tackling intricate bugs in large projects or legacy code. While advocating for debuggers, he acknowledges printf's utility in specific scenarios (e.g., debugging release builds or mobile touch events). Ultimately, he emphasizes that efficient bug fixing is the goal, and choosing the right tools is key.

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(www.polymonster.co.uk)
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Trimethylaminuria (TMAU): The 'Fish Odor Syndrome'

2025-03-31
Trimethylaminuria (TMAU): The 'Fish Odor Syndrome'

Trimethylaminuria (TMAU), or 'fish odor syndrome', is a rare metabolic disorder causing sufferers to emit a strong fishy odor. More common in women, it's linked to FMO3 gene mutations hindering the breakdown of trimethylamine. This chemical builds up and is released through sweat, urine, and breath. While not life-threatening, TMAU significantly impacts quality of life. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms through diet modification (avoiding trimethylamine-rich foods), hygiene practices, stress reduction, and sometimes antibiotics or activated charcoal. There's currently no cure.

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(www.livescience.com)
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Sea Stars: Ancient Ocean Wonders

2025-08-09
Sea Stars: Ancient Ocean Wonders

Sea stars, existing a quarter-billion years before dinosaurs, thrive in every ocean, from shallow sands to the deepest trenches. Lacking fins and gills, they've evolved diverse defenses: armor, spines, neurotoxins, and remarkable regeneration – some can regrow an entire body from a single arm! Throughout history, they've captivated cultures, from Aztec altars to modern cartoons. Today, approximately 2,000 species exhibit stunning variety in shape and color, ranging from tiny to enormous, showcasing the incredible diversity of the natural world.

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(www.biographic.com)
Misc Sea Stars Marine Life

Beyond RISC-V: A Revolution in Distance-Based Instruction Set Architectures

2025-06-04
Beyond RISC-V: A Revolution in Distance-Based Instruction Set Architectures

CPU core instruction decoding and execution widths have significantly increased in recent years, but the cost of register renaming limits further scaling. This article introduces a distance-based instruction set architecture that eliminates register renaming by specifying operands based on the distance from the instruction's result, thus reducing hardware complexity and power consumption. Researchers have developed three distance-based instruction sets (STRAIGHT, Clockhands, and TURBULENCE) and successfully fabricated a chip based on the STRAIGHT instruction set. This innovation promises significant performance improvements for both CPUs and GPUs, especially for GPUs due to their flexible intermediate representation, making adoption easier.

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(www.sigarch.org)
Hardware

Anarchitecture: A 1970s NYC Art Collective's Rebellion Against Modernist Architecture

2025-05-09

In 1970s New York, the artist collective Anarchitecture, comprising figures like Laurie Anderson and Gordon Matta-Clark, challenged the rigidity of modernist architecture and its complicity in capitalist production. Their 1974 exhibition, similarly titled, anonymously showcased works critiquing architecture as a symbol of cultural excess. Matta-Clark's later 'building cuts' further explored this theme, transforming abandoned structures to expose society's obsession with material wealth. Concurrently, the group ran the influential restaurant 'Food' in SoHo, supporting a local artist network. Anarchitecture's work posed profound questions about modern architecture and urban space.

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(www.spatialagency.net)
Design Avant-garde art Modernism critique

3D-Printed Job Application Lands Dream Startup Role

2025-05-16

A tech consultant, tired of mundane software work, craved a more tangible application of his skills. He cleverly combined his expertise with a love for physical objects, designing a unique job application for Matta, a startup focused on industrial cameras and machine learning. His application? A beautifully 3D-printed box containing his resume, chocolate, and a Lego minifigure, ingeniously using an NFC tag to link to his online resume. This creative application showcased not only his technical abilities but also his passion and creativity, landing him the job at Matta and marking a transition from abstract software development to tangible, real-world product creation. He found fulfillment in creating something that directly served humanity.

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(dancrimp.nz)
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Anthropic Enables Web Search for Claude AI

2025-05-07
Anthropic Enables Web Search for Claude AI

Anthropic has integrated web search capabilities into its Claude API, allowing Claude to access and process real-time information from the web. This empowers developers to build more powerful AI applications, such as those analyzing real-time stock prices, conducting legal research, or accessing the latest API documentation. Claude intelligently determines when web search is necessary, providing comprehensive answers with source citations. Admin settings, including domain allow and block lists, enhance security. Available for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku, it costs $10 per 1,000 searches plus standard token costs.

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(www.anthropic.com)
AI

Early Bird Gets the Worm: Pre-order App & Get Exclusive Early Access

2025-08-17

Pre-order now and receive all minor updates during the pre-sale period, including bug fixes, performance improvements, and minor feature tweaks—completely free! After the pre-sale, larger features and major upgrades will be developed, available to pre-sale buyers at a special discounted price. Join early for immediate access, influence development with your feedback, and secure the lowest price.

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(fallinorg.com)
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Indiana's Pi Bill: When Legislators Tried to Define Pi

2025-03-19
Indiana's Pi Bill: When Legislators Tried to Define Pi

In 1897, the Indiana General Assembly nearly passed a bill attempting to legislate the value of pi and solve the mathematical problem of squaring the circle. Proposed by a physician and amateur mathematician, the bill contained flawed calculations resulting in an incorrect value for pi. Fortunately, a Purdue University professor intervened, preventing the bill from becoming law and averting a mathematical absurdity. This bizarre episode remains a fascinating footnote in mathematical history, a reminder that scientific truth cannot be legislated.

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(en.wikipedia.org)
Misc mathematical history pi legislation

New Lasso-Shaped Antibiotic Discovered in Soil

2025-04-04
New Lasso-Shaped Antibiotic Discovered in Soil

Researchers have unearthed a novel antibiotic molecule from a soil sample, demonstrating potent antibacterial activity against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria, including those resistant to current treatments. This lasso-shaped peptide, produced by a Paenibacillus species, uniquely targets bacterial ribosomes, making resistance development difficult. The discovery offers a beacon of hope in the fight against the escalating antibiotic resistance crisis.

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(www.nature.com)
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Type-Safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam Actors

2025-08-23
Type-Safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam Actors

Glyn is a library providing a type-safe PubSub and registry for Gleam actors, with support for distributed clustering. Built on the Erlang syn library, it offers two complementary actor communication systems: PubSub for broadcasting events and a registry for direct command routing. Glyn seamlessly integrates with Gleam's actor model using selector composition patterns. Explicit decoders are required for type safety when sending messages between nodes in a cluster. The code examples demonstrate defining message types, creating decoders, and using PubSub and the registry for actor communication. Multi-channel actor integration is also showcased, enabling more complex communication scenarios.

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(github.com)
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1GB Boot Partition? Not Enough! My Debian Upgrade Nightmare

2025-03-19

I confidently allocated a 1GB ESP partition and a 1GB boot partition, only to be quickly proven wrong. During a routine system update, apt complained about insufficient boot partition space. The culprit? New NVIDIA driver modules from my recently installed graphics card. A temporary fix was cleaning up old kernel versions, but this was only a band-aid solution. The final solution involved using GParted to shrink the root partition, expand the boot partition, and migrate data using rsync. I also updated fstab and grub. Crucially, I learned to run `grub install` before cleaning the old partition, otherwise the system wouldn't boot. Finally, I repurposed the old boot partition as an unencrypted temporary backup partition.

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(blog.fernvenue.com)
Development Partition Management

Go 1.24 Released: Generic Type Aliases, Module Improvements, and Performance Boosts

2025-02-18

Go 1.24 is here, packed with improvements! Key changes include full support for generic type aliases, simplified tool dependency management (via tool directives in go.mod), and enhanced build caching and performance. The standard library gains os.Root for restricted filesystem access, along with new testing and cryptographic packages, boosting security and efficiency. Runtime, compiler, and linker improvements round out the release, along with optimizations for multiple platforms and architectures.

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(tip.golang.org)
Development Generics

Nvidia Phasing Out Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

2025-01-25
Nvidia Phasing Out Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

Nvidia is phasing out its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architectures, moving them to a legacy driver branch. While CUDA support will remain, these GPUs will no longer receive new feature updates. The announcement marks the end of an era for GTX-series cards, with only the GTX 16-series and newer architectures receiving full support going forward. While game driver support for Maxwell and Pascal currently persists, the timeline for its termination remains unclear. This means no further performance improvements for users of these older cards.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
Hardware driver support

Amazon's Leadership Principles: A Critical Examination

2025-09-01

This article offers a critical look at Amazon's leadership principles, particularly "Customer Obsession," "Ownership," and "Bias for Action." The author argues that Amazon overemphasizes speed and meeting superficial customer demands, neglecting true customer needs and long-term value. Regarding "Customer Obsession," the author criticizes Amazon's over-reliance on customer feedback rather than proactively developing potentially impactful technologies. On "Ownership," the author points to a lack of communication and collaboration within Amazon, with significant information silos between teams. Concerning "Bias for Action," the author believes Amazon overemphasizes speed at the expense of product quality and customer trust, advocating for a "bias for inaction" mechanism at senior engineering levels to ensure high standards before product launches.

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(www.daemonology.net)
Startup

Sandstorm: Your Data's Secure Sandbox

2025-08-09
Sandstorm: Your Data's Secure Sandbox

Sandstorm is a collaborative platform prioritizing security. Each document, chat room, mailbox, and more, is containerized as a secure 'grain' in its own sandbox. These grains are isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world without explicit permission. This automatically mitigates 95% of security vulnerabilities, keeping your data private until you choose to share it.

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(sandstorm.org)
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Mathematician Cracks Algebra's Oldest Problem with Novel Number Sequences

2025-05-02
Mathematician Cracks Algebra's Oldest Problem with Novel Number Sequences

UNSW Sydney's Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, in collaboration with computer scientist Dr. Dean Rubine, has unveiled a new method for solving higher-order polynomial equations, published in *The American Mathematical Monthly*. Rejecting the irrational numbers used in classical approaches, the method utilizes novel number sequences called the "Geode," a multi-dimensional extension of Catalan numbers. This breakthrough solves a centuries-old problem and promises improved algorithms for computer programs.

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(phys.org)
Tech Polynomial Equations

Multiple Dispatch in C++: Challenges and Solutions

2025-09-11

This article explores the challenges of implementing multiple dispatch in C++. Multiple dispatch allows dynamic function selection based on the runtime types of multiple objects, useful when handling interactions between objects of different types, such as computing intersections of various shapes. The article compares several approaches, including the visitor pattern and brute-force if-else checks, analyzing their pros and cons. The visitor pattern, while efficient, is intrusive and hard to maintain; brute-force is maintainable but verbose and inefficient. The article also briefly mentions a C++ standardization attempt proposing multiple dispatch and previews subsequent articles exploring its implementation in other programming languages.

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(eli.thegreenplace.net)
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BusyBee: Blazing-Fast Background Job Processing for .NET

2025-08-20
BusyBee: Blazing-Fast Background Job Processing for .NET

BusyBee is a high-performance .NET background job processing library built on native channels. It offers a simple, configurable, and observable solution for handling background tasks, boasting built-in OpenTelemetry support and flexible queue management. Features include unbounded or bounded queues with various overflow strategies, configurable timeouts, parallel processing, comprehensive logging, and rich job context information. OpenTelemetry integration allows for robust monitoring and analysis. Error and timeout handling is also supported via custom handlers.

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(github.com)
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40-Year-Old Conjecture Shattered: New Hash Table Outperforms Expectations

2025-02-10
40-Year-Old Conjecture Shattered: New Hash Table Outperforms Expectations

Graduate student Krapivin (University of Cambridge), along with Farach-Colton and Kuszmaul (New York University), have overturned Yao's conjecture, a long-held belief in computer science. Their novel hash table achieves a worst-case time complexity of (log x)² for element lookups, significantly faster than the previously believed optimal x. This groundbreaking research not only solves a classic problem in hash table design but also dramatically improves data storage efficiency, sparking significant interest within the academic community.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
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Anthropic CEO Warns of Chinese Espionage Targeting US AI Secrets

2025-03-13
Anthropic CEO Warns of Chinese Espionage Targeting US AI Secrets

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that Chinese spies are likely stealing valuable "algorithmic secrets" from top US AI companies, urging government intervention. He highlighted China's history of industrial espionage and the high value – potentially hundreds of millions of dollars – of seemingly simple code snippets. Amodei advocates for increased collaboration between the US government and AI companies to bolster security at leading AI labs, potentially involving US intelligence agencies and allies. This concern aligns with Amodei's previously expressed worries about China's use of AI for authoritarian and military purposes and his calls for stricter export controls on AI chips to China. His stance has drawn criticism from some who believe US-China collaboration on AI is necessary to prevent an uncontrollable AI arms race.

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(techcrunch.com)
AI Chinese espionage algorithm theft

MoonBit on Golem Cloud: Building a Collaborative List Editor

2025-01-04

This blog post details building a collaborative list editor on Golem Cloud using the new programming language MoonBit. The author breaks down the application into three Golem components: list, archive, and email notifier. MoonBit's features are leveraged to implement list manipulation, archiving, and timeout email notifications. The post thoroughly explains MoonBit usage, Golem component architecture design, and accessing system time and environment variables using WASI. The application is successfully built and deployed, showcasing MoonBit's potential on the Golem Cloud platform.

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(blog.vigoo.dev)
Development

No-Soldering Upgrade for Your Casio F-91W: Sensor Watch Pro

2025-07-19
No-Soldering Upgrade for Your Casio F-91W: Sensor Watch Pro

Oddly Specific Objects is back with a solderless upgrade for the classic Casio F-91W: the Sensor Watch Pro. This upgrade features an accelerometer and a custom LCD, allowing for more complex display options. A browser-based emulator simplifies firmware flashing. The upgrade process is straightforward, involving disassembly and component replacement. The author customized the firmware, removing imperial units and the 12-hour clock, and adding a counter, accelerometer, and light sensor displays.

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(blog.jgc.org)
Hardware

Quitting Microsoft: Ethics Over Six Figures

2025-03-02

A software engineer who worked on Microsoft's Viva Insights, an employee monitoring tool, quit due to ethical concerns. Despite the high salary and prestige of working at a big tech company, he prioritized his values over income, choosing to live off dividend income and pursue his own IT startup, Fourplex. He'd rather work a less lucrative job or even flip burgers than participate in developing surveillance technology, highlighting a strong commitment to personal ethics over financial gain.

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(www.neelc.org)
Development career choice
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