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Orwell's 1984: A Surprise Bestseller in the Age of Post-Truth

2025-06-17
Orwell's 1984: A Surprise Bestseller in the Age of Post-Truth

Following Donald Trump's election, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four unexpectedly became a bestseller. The article explores the reasons for its renewed popularity: not solely due to superficial similarities between Oceania and Trump's America, but primarily because the novel's prescient depiction of manipulation of truth resonates deeply in our current “post-truth” era. Orwell's experiences at the BBC informed the book's portrayal of information control, and today's politically charged discourse mirrors the novel's absurd reality where 'two plus two equals five'.

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(www.openculture.com)
Misc Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four Post-truth

LLM Architecture Evolution in 2025: Deep Dives into DeepSeek, OLMo, Gemma, Mistral, and Qwen

2025-07-20
LLM Architecture Evolution in 2025: Deep Dives into DeepSeek, OLMo, Gemma, Mistral, and Qwen

This article reviews the architectural advancements in large language models (LLMs) during 2025, focusing on open-source models like DeepSeek, OLMo, Gemma, Mistral, and Qwen. DeepSeek V3/R1 enhances computational efficiency with Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). OLMo 2 emphasizes RMSNorm placement, employing Post-Norm and QK-Norm. Gemma 3 utilizes sliding window attention to reduce memory requirements. Mistral Small 3.1 balances performance and speed. Qwen 3 offers both dense and MoE variants for flexibility. SmolLM3 stands out with its 3B parameter size and NoPE (No Positional Embeddings). Finally, Kimi 2 impresses with its trillion-parameter scale and the Muon optimizer. These models showcase innovations in attention mechanisms, normalization, MoE, and optimizers, demonstrating the diversity and ongoing evolution of LLM architectures.

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(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
AI Architectural Innovations

Human Nose Shape and Climate Adaptation: A Genetic Investigation

2025-01-30
Human Nose Shape and Climate Adaptation: A Genetic Investigation

A study published in PLOS Genetics investigates whether variations in human nose shape across populations are linked to climate adaptation. Researchers used Qst-Fst comparisons to analyze the genetic differentiation of nose shape traits and neutral markers. They found that nares width correlates with temperature and absolute humidity, suggesting that some aspects of nose shape may have been driven by local adaptation to climate. However, the study acknowledges that this is a simplified explanation, potentially involving other factors like sexual selection.

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(journals.plos.org)
Tech Human Genetics Climate Adaptation Nose Shape

Trump Admin Admits to Wrongfully Deporting Protected Salvadoran Man

2025-04-01
Trump Admin Admits to Wrongfully Deporting Protected Salvadoran Man

The Trump administration admitted in a court filing to mistakenly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father with protected legal status, to El Salvador. Garcia received "withholding of removal" in 2019, signifying a high likelihood of harm if returned. Despite ICE's knowledge of his protected status, an administrative error led to his deportation. Now held in El Salvador's grim "Terrorism Confinement Center," the government claims the court lacks jurisdiction to order his return. His attorney argues that if the government can deport anyone at will with no judicial recourse, immigration laws become meaningless.

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(www.theatlantic.com)
Misc deportation legal error

Twentyseven 1.0.0: A 12-Year Haskell Odyssey in Rubik's Cube Solving

2025-08-02

After twelve years of development, a Haskell-based Rubik's Cube solver, Twentyseven, has reached version 1.0.0. Inspired by Herbert Kociemba's Cube Explorer, it uses Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*) search, cleverly projecting the cube state into simpler subproblems to estimate remaining moves and find optimal solutions. While optimal solutions can take hours, the author also discusses Kociemba's faster two-phase algorithm for near-instantaneous solutions. This release primarily focuses on GHC compiler compatibility and code maintenance.

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(blog.poisson.chat)
Development

Tackling Dependency Management Challenges in Common Lisp's Metaobject Protocol

2025-03-01

This article details the author's experience tackling dependency management challenges while working on a Common Lisp library utilizing the Metaobject Protocol (MOP). Through a monitored-class example, the author demonstrates how to elegantly leverage CLOS's Dependent Maintenance Protocol to ensure that subclass monitoring functionality remains consistent even when superclasses are redefined. The article thoroughly explains the use of dependency wrappers and update-dependent methods to guarantee subclasses always inherit the latest monitoring capabilities, even after superclass redefinitions. This is a practical case study of efficient interactive development in Common Lisp, showcasing the language's powerful metaprogramming capabilities and its robust support for interactive development.

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(stevelosh.com)
Development Metaobject Protocol

Running a Neural Network on a Calculator: A 56-Hour Train Journey

2025-01-04
Running a Neural Network on a Calculator: A 56-Hour Train Journey

A computer science PhD challenged himself to port a convolutional neural network (CNN) to a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator during a 56-hour train ride. Overcoming significant hardware limitations, including scarce memory and the lack of native floating-point operations, he successfully trained and ran the network to identify handwritten digits. While slow, the accomplishment demonstrates the feasibility of running AI on severely resource-constrained devices, showcasing ingenious memory management and algorithmic optimizations.

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(z80.me)
Hardware neural network

47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

2025-08-16
47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

An iOS developer's frustration with PureGym's app (47 seconds to check in!) led him on a wild ride. He discovered laughably insecure APIs – an 8-year-old unchanging PIN was more secure than the minute-refreshing QR code. Using mitmproxy, he reverse-engineered the system, built an Apple Wallet pass using PassKit, and slashed check-in time to 3 seconds. The article details the process: reverse engineering, certificate wrestling, Swift backend development, and more. He even integrated it with Home Assistant. A humorous and technically detailed personal project highlighting the importance of user experience.

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(drobinin.com)
Development

Monorepo Build Tools: Scaling Your Codebase

2024-12-20

Traditional build tools struggle with large codebases (100-10,000 active developers). Monorepo build tools like Bazel and Mill offer solutions by supporting multiple languages, custom build tasks, automatic caching and parallelization, remote caching and execution, drastically improving build speed and efficiency. They also feature dependency-based test selection and build task sandboxing, reducing testing time and non-determinism. While these features might seem unnecessary for small projects, they are crucial for large-scale collaboration and continuous integration in larger projects, preventing build times from becoming a bottleneck.

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(mill-build.org)
Development build tools scalability

Lightpanda: A Lightweight Headless Browser for AI and Automation

2025-01-24
Lightpanda: A Lightweight Headless Browser for AI and Automation

Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser designed for AI and automation tasks. Written in Zig, it boasts ultra-low memory footprint and exceptionally fast execution—11x faster and 9x less memory than Chrome. Supporting Javascript execution and partial Web APIs, it's compatible with Playwright and Puppeteer, ideal for AI agents, LLM training, scraping, and testing. Currently in Beta, it already features an HTTP loader, HTML parser, DOM tree, Javascript support (v8), basic DOM APIs, Ajax, XHR API, Fetch API, and DOM dumping.

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(github.com)
Development headless browser

The $30k Side Hustle: Referrals for Strangers

2025-01-14
The $30k Side Hustle: Referrals for Strangers

A tech worker earned roughly $30,000 in 18 months by referring over 1,000 job candidates – many strangers – to his employer. Dozens of referrals resulted in successful hires. This reflects the competitive job market, with applicants seeking any advantage. Platforms like Blind and Refermarket connect job seekers with anonymous employees willing to provide referrals, but this practice also poses risks for employers who might be flooded with unvetted candidates.

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(www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Startup recruiting side hustle referrals

Fake CDC Website Spreads Vaccine Misinformation, Raising Legal Concerns

2025-03-23
Fake CDC Website Spreads Vaccine Misinformation, Raising Legal Concerns

A website mimicking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is spreading false and misleading claims about vaccines, using CDC logos, social media links, and authoritative language. Hosted by an NGO whose leader was the HHS Secretary until December 2024, the site raises serious legal concerns under federal impersonation statutes. It uses parental testimonials and selectively cited scientific arguments to support its claims, potentially misleading the public and undermining trust. The HHS Secretary's awareness and response to this apparent conflict of interest and potential violation of federal law remain unclear.

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(infoepi.substack.com)
Tech vaccine misinformation

ViTs vs. CNNs: Speed Benchmarks Shatter Resolution Myths

2025-05-04

This article challenges the common belief that Vision Transformers (ViTs) are inefficient for high-resolution image processing. Through rigorous benchmarking across various GPUs, the author compares the inference speed, FLOPs, and memory usage of ViTs and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Results show ViTs perform exceptionally well up to and including 1024x1024 pixels, often outperforming CNNs on modern hardware in both speed and memory efficiency. The author also argues against an overemphasis on high resolution, suggesting that lower resolutions are often sufficient. Finally, the article introduces local attention mechanisms, further enhancing ViT efficiency at higher resolutions.

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(lucasb.eyer.be)
AI

Rust Drivers Hit a Snag in the Linux Kernel's DMA Subsystem

2025-02-04

The Linux kernel's efforts to integrate Rust for device driver development are encountering resistance within the DMA (Direct Memory Access) subsystem. Rust drivers require interaction with the kernel's DMA mapping layer, necessitating a set of abstractions. However, core maintainer Christoph Hellwig opposes adding Rust code to `kernel/dma`, citing increased maintenance complexity. While Rust developers proposed maintaining these abstractions separately, Hellwig remains unconvinced. This impasse highlights challenges in Rust's kernel integration, with its future hinging on the kernel community's decision and the adaptation of core maintainers to a multi-language environment.

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(lwn.net)
Development

Postgres Reads Causing Writes: MVCC, Page Pruning, and Hint Bits

2024-12-25

This article delves into the seemingly paradoxical behavior in PostgreSQL where simple SELECT queries can trigger data writes. Starting with the Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) mechanism, it explains concepts like row versions, pages, and tuples. Through code examples, it analyzes how hint bit updates and page pruning cause read operations to modify pages, ultimately leading to disk writes. The article also discusses the HOT update optimization strategy and uses page inspection tools to illustrate how data is stored and updated within pages.

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(jesipow.com)
Development Database Performance

The Shocking Origins of Modern Education: Students on an Assembly Line?

2025-03-22
The Shocking Origins of Modern Education: Students on an Assembly Line?

This article exposes the origins of the modern education system, revealing its purpose wasn't to foster learning and creativity, but to mold docile factory workers. From the 18th-century Prussian model to the funding from industrialists like Rockefeller, the system was designed to instill obedience, repetitive work, and discipline, not critical thinking and independent thought. The article argues this "factory model" of education is outdated in today's world and explores the rise of homeschooling and alternative education.

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(www.thesouljam.com)
Misc education system industrialization

Newberry Library Unearths Largest Known Example of Rare Maguey Paper Manuscript

2024-12-23
Newberry Library Unearths Largest Known Example of Rare Maguey Paper Manuscript

The Newberry Library in Chicago has made a remarkable discovery: a colonial-era Mexican manuscript, Ayer 1485, written on an exceptionally rare type of paper made from agave plants—maguey paper. The manuscript, a collection of sermons by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan missionary, contains nearly 50 sheets, far surpassing the number of known existing maguey paper sheets worldwide. The choice of maguey paper, a material with significant pre-Hispanic religious connotations, suggests a deliberate decision by Sahagún's indigenous collaborators, offering valuable insight into the complex cultural exchange during the early period of contact between Europe and the Americas. This find not only highlights ancient papermaking techniques but also enriches our understanding of this crucial historical moment.

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(www.chicagotribune.com)
History maguey paper ancient manuscript colonial Mexico

School Smartphone Ban Improves Sleep and Mood

2024-12-15
School Smartphone Ban Improves Sleep and Mood

A three-week school smartphone ban experiment at the University of York showed significant improvements in students' sleep and mood. Students fell asleep 20 minutes faster on average, gained an hour of sleep nightly, and reported 17% less depression and 18% less anxiety. While cognitive improvements were modest, researchers suggest longer-term bans may yield greater benefits, informing policy decisions regarding smartphone use among young people.

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(www.york.ac.uk)
Misc smartphone ban sleep mood

Stripe Quietly Launches V2 API: REST Improvements and DX Shift

2024-12-29

Stripe quietly released its V2 API in October, featuring a shift from form-encoded request bodies to JSON and the introduction of HATEOAS-style pagination. V2 aims for speed improvements and controlled sub-object loading via an `include` parameter. True idempotency is also attempted for better handling of failed requests. However, improvements are still needed in REST verb usage and resource modeling. The author argues that a great developer experience (DX) now hinges more on high-quality SDKs than a perfect REST API.

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(brandur.org)
Development

Optimal Brain Processing: The Key Role of Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance

2025-03-10
Optimal Brain Processing: The Key Role of Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance

New research reveals a crucial aspect of brain information processing: the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neuronal activity is key to optimal information encoding. Researchers from the University of Padova, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, and EPFL used mathematical models and information theory to show that balanced activity of these two neuron types enables efficient information processing, accurately encoding both long-timescale and rapidly changing inputs. This finding offers new insights into brain information processing and guides future neuroscientific research.

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(phys.org)
Tech neuronal balance

Massive Cross-Compilation Toolchain Repository for Linux

2025-06-22

This website offers a vast collection of ready-to-use cross-compilation toolchains targeting Linux on numerous architectures. Built with GCC and Binutils, these toolchains come in variants using glibc, uClibc-ng, and musl C libraries, leveraging the Buildroot build system. Most toolchains are tested by building and booting a Linux kernel and userspace in Qemu. Two versions—stable (using older, proven components) and bleeding-edge (using the latest)—are provided for each architecture and C library combination.

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(toolchains.bootlin.com)
Development toolchain

Quick Start with TideCloak: Secure React App in 10 Minutes

2024-12-19
Quick Start with TideCloak: Secure React App in 10 Minutes

TideCloak is an easy-to-use identity and access management system based on Keycloak and secured by Tide's Cybersecurity Fabric. This guide shows you how to build a secure single-page React application with TideCloak in under 10 minutes. First, install Docker and NPM, then run the TideCloak-Dev Docker container. After activating a free developer license, create your React project, install dependencies, and run the application. Users can log in, register, and view customized content based on predefined roles, all managed by TideCloak and secured by Tide's Cybersecurity Fabric.

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(github.com)
Development Identity Management

Cursor Apologizes for Pro Plan Pricing Changes, Offers Refunds

2025-07-05
Cursor Apologizes for Pro Plan Pricing Changes, Offers Refunds

Cursor is apologizing for its recent pricing changes to its Pro plan, admitting poor communication led to unexpected charges for users. They're issuing full refunds for any unexpected usage between June 16th and July 4th. The new Pro plan offers unlimited usage of Tab and models in Auto mode, $20 of frontier model usage per month (at API pricing), with the option to purchase more. This change reflects the varying costs of different models across various tasks. Cursor promises improved communication for future pricing updates, including advance notice, clearer documentation, and better support.

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(cursor.com)
Development pricing change

Classic 2 Mouse Released: USB-C, Improved Scroll Wheel, and Still Open Source!

2025-04-02

The Classic 2 mouse is here, starting at $144 CAD! This updated version retains the beloved ergonomics of the original Classic, but features a significant upgrade to USB-C connectivity. The biggest improvement is a much smoother, more accurate scroll wheel thanks to a new Raspberry RP2040 microcontroller that resolves previous responsiveness issues. It remains open-source and boasts improved 3D printability. Unfortunately, no upgrade kit is offered for the original Classic.

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(blog.ploopy.co)
Hardware

Switching from Cloudflare to BunnyCDN: A Smooth Transition

2025-03-15
Switching from Cloudflare to BunnyCDN: A Smooth Transition

Concerned about recent US political instability, I migrated my website from Cloudflare to the European CDN alternative, BunnyCDN. The entire process was surprisingly easy and took less than two hours. I created storage and pull zones, and switched my domain DNS to point to BunnyCDN. I encountered a few minor hurdles, like HTTPS certificates and automated deployments, but overall, BunnyCDN is faster, has a cleaner UI, and is cheaper. It's a great option, though not quite as one-click convenient as Cloudflare Pages.

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(jonathan-frere.com)
Development CDN migration

OpenAI's GPT-5 Project Hit by Delays and High Costs

2024-12-23
OpenAI's GPT-5 Project Hit by Delays and High Costs

OpenAI's highly anticipated GPT-5 project, codenamed 'Orion,' is significantly behind schedule and facing substantial cost overruns, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intended as a major leap forward for the technology powering ChatGPT, the project is encountering challenges, including concerns about insufficient data to reach its ambitious intelligence goals. Microsoft, OpenAI's largest investor, had expected the new model by mid-2024, but that timeline is now uncertain. The project, underway for over 18 months, faces an unclear future.

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(www.wsj.com)
AI

Cruz Blocks Wi-Fi for Schoolkids: Censorship Concerns?

2025-01-29
Cruz Blocks Wi-Fi for Schoolkids: Censorship Concerns?

Senator Ted Cruz is attempting to block the FCC's plan to distribute Wi-Fi hotspots to students, citing concerns about unsupervised internet access, potential safety risks, and the possibility of limiting children's exposure to conservative viewpoints. Cruz argues the FCC's action violates federal law and harms parental rights. The FCC counters that the program, utilizing existing E-Rate funding, is necessary to bridge the homework gap for students lacking reliable internet. While a similar temporary program existed during the pandemic, Cruz claims the new plan lacks sufficient safeguards and could lead to censorship. The dispute involves the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn recent agency actions, and highlights ongoing debate about internet access and parental control.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech internet access parental control political debate

Rust and C Memory Allocators Clash: A Silent Disaster

2025-08-04
Rust and C Memory Allocators Clash: A Silent Disaster

This article recounts a programmer's experience with a memory management interview question involving Rust and C, sparking a deep dive into the complexities of allocator interoperability. By building a comprehensive testing framework, the author experimentally explores the mixing of different allocators, discovering that such mixing frequently results in silent memory corruption. The article delves into the underlying concepts of virtual memory, heap structure, and CPU cache architecture, analyzing allocator characteristics and ultimately summarizing the risks and debugging strategies involved in mixing allocators. The findings highlight the insidious nature of silent memory corruption, where seemingly successful execution masks underlying vulnerabilities.

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(notashes.me)
Development

Reflection AI: Building Superintelligence Through Autonomous Coding

2025-03-07
Reflection AI: Building Superintelligence Through Autonomous Coding

Reflection AI is building superintelligent autonomous systems. Team members were instrumental in projects like AlphaGo and have spearheaded breakthroughs in reinforcement learning and large language models. They believe autonomous coding is key to broader superintelligence, planning to first build a superintelligent autonomous coding system, then expand that blueprint to all other computer-based tasks. The company emphasizes real-world application, iterating with user feedback to ensure systems reliably meet real-world needs and responsibly shape the future of AI.

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(www.reflection.ai)
AI Superintelligence Autonomous Coding
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