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San Francisco Tech Purity Test: How 'Pure' Are You?

2025-01-01

A viral checklist called the 'San Francisco Purity Test' humorously catalogs experiences common among Bay Area tech workers. From applying to OpenAI to attending NeurIPS, from using stimulants to boost productivity to meeting VCs at Equinox, the list covers a wide range of scenarios. It's a satirical reflection of the Bay Area tech lifestyle, highlighting its unique culture and competitive pressures. Completing more items indicates deeper immersion, but also suggests a potential loss of perspective.

(www.sfpurity.com)

Tech Tech Culture Bay Area Life Humorous Checklist

Autology: A Self-Modifying Lisp Interpreter

2025-03-24

Autology: A Self-Modifying Lisp Interpreter

Autology, a functional Lisp interpreter written in Clojure, offers a unique approach to metaprogramming by providing access to its own interpreter. By rebinding the variable *i* (which points to the interpreter function), programs can dynamically alter Autology's syntax and behavior at runtime. This allows for adding functions, changing evaluation strategies, and more. While not particularly performant, Autology provides a fascinating exploration of Lisp metaprogramming and runtime language modification.

(github.com)

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Mammoths Were a Staple Food Source for Ancient Americans

2024-12-14

Mammoths Were a Staple Food Source for Ancient Americans

New research reveals that mammoths and other large animals were a primary food source for ancient Americans. Using stable isotope analysis, scientists modeled the diet of the mother of an infant found at a 13,000-year-old Clovis burial site in Montana. Results showed that approximately 40% of her diet consisted of mammoth, with other large animals like elk and bison making up the remainder. Small mammals played a minimal role. This supports the hypothesis that Clovis people specialized in hunting large game, explaining their rapid expansion across North and South America. The study also highlights the researchers' collaboration and respect for Indigenous communities and their heritage.

(www.uaf.edu)

AI mammoths Clovis people ancient diet

Samsung Expanding AI Subscription Service to Smartphones and Robots

2025-01-08

Samsung Expanding AI Subscription Service to Smartphones and Robots

Samsung is set to roll out its AI subscription service next month, initially launched last December in South Korea for select home appliances. This service will now expand to Galaxy phones and the upcoming Ballie AI robot. Users can subscribe monthly for AI features and optional repair services at a lower upfront cost. It's unclear if the service will expand beyond South Korea, but more information may be revealed at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in San Jose, California on January 22nd. This expansion signals Samsung's aggressive exploration of AI subscription models in both smart home and mobile device sectors.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech AI Subscription Galaxy Phones

EU's DMA Opens the Floodgates for Alternative iOS App Stores

2025-03-14

EU's DMA Opens the Floodgates for Alternative iOS App Stores

The European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) has unleashed a wave of alternative app stores for iOS users in the EU. Developers are seizing the opportunity, launching options like AltStore PAL, Setapp Mobile, Epic Games Store, Aptoide, and Mobivention, offering users choices beyond Apple's App Store. These stores cater to diverse needs: AltStore PAL emphasizes open source and developer self-hosting; Setapp Mobile offers curated subscription apps; Epic Games Store and Aptoide focus on games; and Mobivention targets enterprise internal apps. While Apple charges fees, the DMA's impact has broken Apple's App Store monopoly, creating opportunities for users and developers alike.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech Alternative App Stores

Pennsylvania's Solar Power Struggle: Politics vs. Clean Energy's Future

2025-05-18

Pennsylvania's Solar Power Struggle: Politics vs. Clean Energy's Future

Pennsylvania's solar energy development faces significant challenges. Despite strong public support, political hurdles are slowing progress. The Tunkhannock Area School District aims to save money with a large solar system, but their state grant application faces stiff competition. Meanwhile, a federal grant program to subsidize solar installations for low-income households is stalled due to political infighting within the state legislature. The article explores the political battles, influence of vested interests, and uncertainty surrounding Pennsylvania's clean energy future.

(capitalandmain.com)

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Tropical Trees Thrive After Lightning Strikes: A New Discovery

2025-03-28

Tropical Trees Thrive After Lightning Strikes: A New Discovery

A new study reveals that the Dipteryx oleifera tree, native to Central America, not only survives lightning strikes but actually benefits from them. Lightning strikes eliminate competing vegetation and parasitic vines, giving the D. oleifera trees more sunlight and nutrients. This leads to a 14-fold increase in reproductive success. Researchers hypothesize that these trees may have evolved to attract lightning. This discovery sheds light on the underappreciated role of lightning in shaping forest ecosystems and has implications for tropical reforestation efforts.

(www.caryinstitute.org)

Tech lightning tropical trees

How I Got 100% Off My Train Travel in the UK

2025-03-19

How I Got 100% Off My Train Travel in the UK

High UK train delays led to a clever money-saving scheme. By predicting delays using strike actions, planned engineering works, and bad weather, the author consistently received full refunds, essentially getting free long-distance train travel. The 'Train Delay Prediction Paradigm' (TDPP) involves monitoring public information to maximize the chances of delays and claiming refunds. While effective, the author advises using this to get work done and to prepare for potentially long journeys.

(readbunce.com)

Misc UK trains money saving life hack

Maine Police Apologizes for AI-Doctored Evidence Photo

2025-07-07

Maine Police Apologizes for AI-Doctored Evidence Photo

The Westbrook Police Department in Maine apologized for sharing an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on Facebook. An officer used a photo editing app to add the department's patch, unintentionally altering the image's details. The police initially denied using AI, later admitting to it and releasing a side-by-side comparison of the original and altered photos. The incident highlights the challenges posed by AI in ensuring evidence authenticity.

(www.boston.com)

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Europe's Digital Sovereignty: Stop Relying on American Clouds!

2025-02-23

Europe's Digital Sovereignty: Stop Relying on American Clouds!

The transfer of European societies and governments to American clouds is madness. The author argues this is not only risky given US government policy shifts, but the legal justifications are invalidated by Trump's actions. This reliance stems from convenience, but sacrificing digital sovereignty for ease is dangerous. The article urges Europe to break free from US tech dependence, support homegrown software, and invest in alternatives to ensure digital sovereignty and national security. The convenience of American software shouldn't outweigh the risks of total dependence.

(berthub.eu)

Tech digital sovereignty US tech dependence

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-02-20

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

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Eight Years of Rust: A Multimedia Framework Retrospective

2025-04-04

This post reflects on eight years of using Rust to develop the NihAV multimedia framework. The author initially chose Rust to overcome the composability and portability issues of C. A comparison of Rust with other languages (C++, Java, Go, Nim, etc.) highlights Rust's strengths in composability, performance, low-level operations, and inline assembly. However, limitations are also noted, such as quirks in the macro and trait systems, and controversies surrounding the Rust Foundation. Ultimately, the author finds Rust a good choice, but emphasizes the need for developers to adapt their thinking to Rust's unique paradigms.

(codecs.multimedia.cx)

Development multimedia development

Unlock Exclusive Canadian News: Subscription Guide

2025-02-13

Unlock Exclusive Canadian News: Subscription Guide

This is an advertisement for a Canadian news website subscription. It highlights exclusive content available to subscribers, including articles from renowned authors like Barbara Shecter and Joe O'Connor, daily content from the Financial Times, and unlimited access to 15 Canadian news sites. Additional benefits include the National Post ePaper, daily puzzles (including the New York Times Crossword), and more. The ad encourages readers to register or sign in to unlock more articles.

(financialpost.com)

Misc news subscription paywall Canadian news

Betting on the Pope: A 500-Year History of Papal Prediction Markets

2025-03-07

Betting on the Pope: A 500-Year History of Papal Prediction Markets

This article explores the complex, 500-year relationship between papal elections and gambling. From the 16th century Papal States, bets were placed on papal deaths and elections, even involving insider trading. Pope Gregory XIV issued a bull banning such practices, but with limited success. The ban was overturned in 1918. Today, prediction markets are resurfacing, allowing bets on the Pope's health and succession, sparking discussions about their societal impact, especially regarding information asymmetry and potential manipulation.

(nodumbideas.com)

Misc Papal election Prediction markets

Running Linux in a PDF: A RISC-V Emulator in Your Browser

2025-01-31

Running Linux in a PDF: A RISC-V Emulator in Your Browser

Developer @ading2210 has achieved the remarkable feat of running a Linux system inside a PDF file. Leveraging the Javascript engine within PDFs and an asm.js compiled version of the TinyEMU RISC-V emulator, a functional Linux environment is created. Output is displayed using ASCII characters, and input is managed through a virtual keyboard. While boot times are slow (30-60 seconds), the project showcases the surprising capabilities of the PDF format. The code is open-source and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

(github.com)

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Nue: A Standards-First Web Framework Reimagining Frontend Development

2025-01-16

Nue: A Standards-First Web Framework Reimagining Frontend Development

Nue is a novel web framework prioritizing web standards to tackle two major frontend development challenges: engineering complexity and the design-engineering disconnect. It eschews heavy build processes and abstraction layers, advocating for semantic HTML, modern CSS, and clean JavaScript for faster development and elegant design. Nue supports multiple design systems, mimicking the styles of masters like Mies van der Rohe and Dieter Rams. A single command generates websites in various styles, dramatically increasing efficiency. Future plans include single-page application functionality, further enhancing the frontend experience.

(nuejs.org)

Development Design Systems

Sci-Hub: An Outpouring of Gratitude from Indian Researchers

2025-08-28

Sci-Hub, a website providing free access to academic papers, has received a flood of thank-you messages from researchers across India. From PhD students to professors, these scholars express deep gratitude for Sci-Hub's assistance in overcoming the prohibitive cost of journal subscriptions, enabling them to conduct their research. The letters are filled with praise and admiration for Sci-Hub's founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, and hopes for its continued operation.

(sci-hub.se)

Tech academic papers open access

Writing Blog Posts Developers Actually Read

2025-03-28

Writing Blog Posts Developers Actually Read

A developer gave up blogging due to low readership. Author Michael Lynch shares nine years of blogging lessons, highlighting common mistakes: rambling introductions, unclear benefits, and neglecting audience reach. He advises clearly stating the target audience and benefits upfront, considering broadening the appeal, and planning the reader's path to discovery. Using visuals, strong headlines, and considering different platforms for sharing are also key to success.

(refactoringenglish.com)

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llama.cpp WASM Gets 2x Speedup Thanks to Optimized SIMD

2025-01-28

Simon Willison's blog post highlights a significant performance improvement in llama.cpp: a 2x speed increase for the WASM version achieved by optimizing SIMD instructions. Surprisingly, 99% of the code was generated by the AI-assisted programming tool DeepSeek R1. DeepSeek R1 spent 3-5 minutes 'thinking' about each prompt, ultimately helping the developer improve the llm_groq.py plugin and elegantly eliminate the model_map, streamlining the code. This showcases the immense potential of AI in code optimization and refactoring.

(simonwillison.net)

Development AI-assisted programming

Gaza Massacre: 15 Paramedics Killed in Israeli Attack

2025-04-05

Gaza Massacre: 15 Paramedics Killed in Israeli Attack

On March 23, Israeli forces massacred 15 Palestinian paramedics in Rafah, southern Gaza, including eight Red Crescent and five Civil Defense workers. The sole survivor, Munther Abed, recounted being directly shot at, their vehicles destroyed, and subsequently tortured. The UN described the attack as part of a “concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system,” and the Red Cross/Red Crescent called it the deadliest single attack on their workers since 2017. This incident highlights the ongoing attacks on medical personnel in the Gaza war and the gross violation of international humanitarian law.

(www.dropsitenews.com)

Misc Gaza conflict human rights abuses war crimes

Why Scripts Beat Aliases (Most of the Time)

2025-03-05

Why Scripts Beat Aliases (Most of the Time)

The author initially relied heavily on shell aliases for common commands like shortening `git` to `g`. However, they transitioned to using scripts within their `$PATH` for several key advantages. Scripts offer immediate updates without requiring shell restarts, support multiple programming languages, handle complex logic more effectively, and provide greater portability across different systems. While aliases excel in specific niche cases (e.g., modifying `cd`, conditional definitions) and offer slight performance benefits, the author prefers scripts for their flexibility and extensibility in everyday command aliases.

(evanhahn.com)

Development Shell scripting command aliases

Misty Programming Language: A Novel Approach

2025-01-14

The Misty programming language, developed by Douglas Crockford, aims for conciseness and efficiency. It features a unique type system, operators, statements, functions, pattern matching, and intrinsic constants and functions. Misty prioritizes performance with built-in support for math, Blob, JSON, Parseq, and system security. Its parse tree structure and unique Wota message format are also noteworthy aspects.

(mistysystem.com)

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Xerox's 50 Series: A Comeback Story

2025-09-17

In 1988, Xerox launched its 50 series copiers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chester Carlson's invention of the first xerographic image. Xerox touted the 50 series as its most significant product line since the 10 series in 1982. Featuring enhanced capabilities and a higher price point, the 50 series (models 5018, 5028, 5046, 5052, and 5090) helped Xerox reclaim market share lost to Japanese competitors.

(xeroxnostalgia.com)

Tech Xerox Copiers

Ergo: A Modern Go-Based IRC Server Released

2024-12-18

Ergo: A Modern Go-Based IRC Server Released

Ergo is a modern IRC server written in Go, designed for ease of setup and use. It combines the features of an ircd, services framework, and bouncer (integrated account management, history storage, and bouncer functionality). It boasts bleeding-edge IRCv3 support and is highly customizable via a rehashable YAML config. Key features include integrated services (NickServ, ChanServ, HostServ), native TLS/SSL support, SASL authentication, LDAP support, and advanced security and privacy features.

(github.com)

Development IRC server

one.el: A Minimalist Static Site Generator in Emacs Lisp

2025-03-07

Tired of complex static site generators? one.el is a lightweight static site generator built entirely in Emacs Lisp and org-mode, requiring no configuration files or external dependencies. Build and modify your website with Emacs Lisp code and CSS using a single org file. Simple templates and render functions are included, supporting custom page paths and styling. Want to get started quickly? Check out the GitHub repository for more information.

(one.tonyaldon.com)

Development Static Site Generator

GPU Conditional Branching: Myth vs. Reality

2025-02-09

This article debunks a long-standing misconception in computer graphics: ternary operators in GPUs are not conditional branches. The author uses code examples and assembly code analysis to show that ternary operators or if statements in GPUs implement conditional move instructions, not branch jumps that alter the instruction pointer. These conditional moves are more efficient, and the supposed 'optimization' using the `step()` function actually reduces performance. The article calls for correcting this 20-year-old misunderstanding.

(iquilezles.org)

Development Optimization

TikTok's LA Staff Face Paid Time Off Crunch Amid Wildfires

2025-01-10

TikTok's LA Staff Face Paid Time Off Crunch Amid Wildfires

Devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have forced the closure of TikTok's LA office, leaving employees scrambling. The company is instructing staff to work from home if possible, but those unable to do so are told to use their personal/sick days. Many employees are facing power outages, internet disruptions, or even evacuation orders at home. TikTok's strict return-to-office policy, requiring three days a week in the office, exacerbates the issue, as employees are forced to use paid time off even for illness. While the company claims to prioritize employee safety, this policy has sparked controversy for its lack of flexibility during a natural disaster.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech Employee benefits

Meta Bets Big on Geothermal to Power its AI Boom

2025-06-13

Meta Bets Big on Geothermal to Power its AI Boom

Meta has partnered with XGS Energy to build a 150-megawatt geothermal power project in New Mexico, supplying clean energy to its data centers. This deal signifies a major step in Meta's commitment to renewable energy to fuel its booming AI infrastructure. XGS Energy's next-generation geothermal technology unlocks previously inaccessible resources, directly addressing the massive energy needs of AI and reducing carbon emissions. This initiative underscores Meta's sustainability goals while boosting the geothermal startup sector.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech Geothermal Energy

Analyzing NYC Subway's Potential: A Data-Driven Approach

2025-01-25

The NYC Subwaysheds project leverages data visualization to analyze the development potential of areas surrounding each New York City subway station. By considering factors such as population density, land use, and accessibility, the project provides valuable insights for urban planning and real estate development. It reveals significant potential for commercial and residential growth along subway lines, highlighting specific opportunities and challenges in different areas, offering clearer decision-making information for investors and planners.

(subwaysheds.com)

Misc Real Estate

Adélie Linux Saves the Day: RISC-V Rebuilds on Milk-V Pioneer

2025-03-21

Facing infrastructure challenges, the decision to drop RISC-V repositories was reversed thanks to Zach van Rijn of Adélie Linux, who provided access to a Milk-V Pioneer machine. A full world rebuild was completed on this machine, resulting in new, tested repositories. While performance isn't quite on par with Cortex-A72 (closer to Cortex-A55), build times are acceptable for most projects (though Rust builds remain slow). The new repositories are comparable to LoongArch64, including tests. This solution is provisional and future support will depend on ongoing performance and stability.

(chimera-linux.org)

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