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Notte: Rapidly Build Reliable Web Automation Agents

2025-08-08

Notte: Rapidly Build Reliable Web Automation Agents

Notte is a full-stack framework combining AI agents and traditional scripting to build and deploy AI agents that seamlessly interact with the web. Develop, deploy, and scale your agents and web automations with a single API. The open-source core allows you to run web agents, handle structured output, and interact with sites. The recommended API service offers stealth browser sessions, hybrid workflows, secrets vaults, and digital personas for reduced costs and improved reliability. A Python SDK simplifies development, supporting various browsers and custom settings like proxies and CAPTCHA solving. Notte also boasts impressive performance in independent benchmarks.

(github.com)

Development

The User Isn't the Buyer: Cracking the B2B Sales Puzzle

2025-08-08

The User Isn't the Buyer: Cracking the B2B Sales Puzzle

This article tackles the common B2B SaaS problem of the 'user isn't the buyer'. The author argues that identifying the true decision-maker is key, and it's not always the person holding the credit card. In smaller companies, developers often wield significant influence due to direct product usage and time constraints, driving their need for efficient tools. Larger companies, however, typically place decision-making power with CTOs or leadership, prioritizing security and outcomes. The author suggests empowering developers by providing them with data and tools to convincingly demonstrate the product's value to leadership, indirectly leading to sales conversion.

(writings.founderlabs.io)

Development SaaS sales user persona decision-makers

YuE: Open Foundation Model for Long-Form Music Generation

2025-08-08

Researchers introduce YuE, a family of open foundation models based on LLaMA2, tackling the challenging lyrics-to-song problem in long-form music generation. YuE generates up to five minutes of music, maintaining lyrical alignment, coherent structure, and engaging melodies with accompaniment. This is achieved through track-decoupled next-token prediction, structural progressive conditioning, and a multitask, multiphase pre-training recipe. Improved in-context learning enables versatile style transfer (e.g., Japanese city pop to English rap) and bidirectional generation. Evaluations show YuE matching or exceeding proprietary systems in musicality and vocal agility. Fine-tuning adds controls and tail language support. YuE's representations also excel in music understanding tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on the MARBLE benchmark.

(map-yue.github.io)

AI Music Generation

The AI Economy: A Bifurcated US?

2025-08-08

The AI Economy: A Bifurcated US?

The US economy is split: a booming AI economy versus a sluggish consumer economy. AI-related companies have driven stock market growth, fueled by massive investments in infrastructure by tech giants – perhaps the biggest tech project since the 1960s. While the productivity boost from AI is debated, its rapid adoption is undeniable, particularly in information services and management. The long-term effects remain uncertain, but AI's impact on the US economy and job market is already evident.

(www.derekthompson.org)

Tech AI economy

Probing Browser Limits with Infinite CSS Values

2025-08-08

Probing Browser Limits with Infinite CSS Values

The author experimented with setting element width and height to `calc(infinity * 1px)` in CSS to explore how different browser rendering engines handle infinite values. Chrome and Safari capped the value at approximately 33,554,400 pixels. However, Firefox Nightly exhibited unusual behavior; height was limited to the text line height, while width reached millions of pixels, yet the layout width was roughly half. Further tests with font size and line-height revealed similar discrepancies, with Firefox's rendering drastically different from other browsers. The author speculates on the reasons for these oddities and invites readers to provide explanations.

(meyerweb.com)

Development

Framework Desktop Cluster Testing: Ryzen AI Max+ 395 & Radeon 8090S Benchmarks

2025-08-08

Framework Desktop Cluster Testing: Ryzen AI Max+ 395 & Radeon 8090S Benchmarks

The author tested a cluster of four pre-production Framework Desktops, each equipped with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and a Radeon 8090S GPU. Initial tests utilized a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet interconnect, later upgraded to 5 Gbps. Thunderbolt interconnects were also tested, achieving 10 Gbps via TB4. All automation is in the Beowulf AI Cluster repo. Benchmarks covering CPU, GPU, disk, and network performance are available via the provided links.

(github.com)

Hardware Framework Desktop Cluster Computing

The Paranoid Style in American Politics: A Recurring Phenomenon

2025-08-08

The Paranoid Style in American Politics: A Recurring Phenomenon

This essay examines the recurring "paranoid style" in American politics, characterized by heated exaggeration, suspicion, and conspiratorial fantasy. Tracing its manifestations from late 18th-century anxieties about the Bavarian Illuminati to anti-Masonry, anti-Catholicism, and McCarthyism, the author argues this style isn't limited to the extreme right but is linked to movements of discontent. The essay delves into the psychological and social roots of this style, highlighting how paranoid thinking interprets history as the result of individual will and projects both ideal and unacceptable aspects of the self onto the enemy.

(harpers.org)

Misc political psychology conspiracy theories

Germany's Exit Tax: A Berlin Wall for Entrepreneurs?

2025-08-08

Germany's exit tax acts as a significant barrier for entrepreneurs, effectively trapping them in the country. If you own over 1% of any limited liability company (including foreign ones) and the company is profitable, you face a potentially crippling exit tax. This tax is calculated by multiplying the average earnings of the past three years by 13.75, then by 0.6, and finally applying your personal income tax rate. This article analyzes the tax burden in different scenarios, suggesting that entrepreneurs with moderately profitable businesses and plans to leave Germany should consider doing so before their company grows significantly to avoid a massive tax bill.

(eidel.io)

Startup German exit tax

Backend-less Blog Comments with Bluesky

2025-08-08

Backend-less Blog Comments with Bluesky

Tired of clunky comment systems? This author cleverly leverages the decentralized social platform Bluesky's AT Protocol to build a lightweight, backend-less blog comment system. By publishing blog posts to Bluesky and using its post URI to fetch comments via the API, the author achieves rich text support, identity verification, and cross-platform conversations. No database or user account management is required, effectively solving the pain points of traditional comment systems. This enhances user experience and increases the scalability and independence of the blog.

(natalie.sh)

Development blog comments

Immich's Developers Share Their 'Cursed Knowledge'

2025-08-08

Immich's Developers Share Their 'Cursed Knowledge'

The Immich team recounts a series of frustrating, almost cursed, development challenges. From Zitadel's scripting engine lacking named capture groups, to EXIF metadata dimensions differing from actual image dimensions; from the unintuitive handling of YAML whitespace to the access restrictions on hidden Windows files; from carriage return issues in bash scripts to Cloudflare Workers' default HTTP protocol in Fetch requests; from silent GPS data stripping on mobile devices to PostgreSQL NOTIFY's transactional mechanism impacting performance; from inefficient npm script health checks to the confusing indexing in JavaScript Date objects; to bcrypt password length limits, Node.js compatibility problems, PostgreSQL parameter limitations, and TypeORM's side effects in delete operations – the list goes on. These issues highlight the hidden pitfalls and challenges of software development, offering valuable lessons learned.

(immich.app)

Development

From Self-Doubt to Software Developer: A Makers Pre-Course Week Four Diary

2025-08-08

This week's blog post details a student's journey through week four of the Makers pre-course. The author grapples with self-doubt while crafting her CV, then progressively masters Test-Driven Development (TDD) and tackles a solo coding project, showcasing her growth and challenges in learning software development. She openly shares her past experiences, including illness recovery and career changes, ultimately solidifying her commitment to becoming a software engineer. The post also highlights her passion for programming and her use of a Go-based text adventure game to reinforce her learning.

(catzkorn.dev)

Development self-growth

Automating a Rock-Solid Homelab Proxmox Setup with Ansible

2025-08-08

Automating a Rock-Solid Homelab Proxmox Setup with Ansible

To enhance flexibility and robustness, the author migrated their homelab to a Minisforum UM880 Plus mini-PC, deploying Proxmox VE. The post details the entire process, from installing an encrypted Debian OS and configuring a bridged network to automating Proxmox installation and configuration using Ansible. Challenges encountered, such as a Proxmox installation bricking the system, are documented along with their solutions. The result is a highly automated Proxmox setup, providing a solid foundation for future Kubernetes experimentation.

(ergaster.org)

Development

GPT-5: A Deep Dive into Pricing, Model Card, and Key Features

2025-08-08

GPT-5: A Deep Dive into Pricing, Model Card, and Key Features

OpenAI's GPT-5 family has arrived! It's not a revolutionary leap, but it significantly outperforms its predecessors in reliability and usability. In ChatGPT, GPT-5 is a hybrid system intelligently switching between models based on problem difficulty; the API version offers regular, mini, and nano models with four reasoning levels. It boasts a 272,000-token input limit and a 128,000-token output limit, supporting text and image input, but only text output. Pricing is aggressively competitive, significantly undercutting rivals. Furthermore, GPT-5 shows marked improvements in reducing hallucinations, better instruction following, and minimizing sycophancy, employing a novel safety training approach. It excels in writing, coding, and healthcare. However, prompt injection remains an unsolved challenge.

(simonwillison.net)

AI

Building a Custom In-Memory Table Access Method for Postgres

2025-08-08

This post details the author's journey building a custom PostgreSQL table access method, effectively creating a simple in-memory storage engine. Starting with a debug build of PostgreSQL, the author incrementally implemented the various functions of the table access method API, culminating in a fully functional system capable of creating tables, inserting data, and querying results. The process involved overcoming numerous challenges, including debugging and understanding PostgreSQL internals, which were addressed through logging and iterative debugging. This serves as an excellent example of PostgreSQL extension development, providing valuable experience and guidance for other developers.

(notes.eatonphil.com)

Development Extension Development

React Three Fiber Game Scene Rendering Snippet

2025-08-08

React Three Fiber Game Scene Rendering Snippet

This code snippet demonstrates rendering a game scene using the React Three Fiber library. It uses Suspense for asynchronous rendering, Canvas to create a Three.js rendering context, and Leva for parameter control. The code also sets properties for the WebGL renderer such as antialiasing, alpha channel, stencil buffer, depth buffer, and high-performance preference. The GameScene component handles the specific scene rendering logic.

(cursor.com)

Game

Flipper Zero Firmware Bypasses Car Security: Single Button Press Unlock

2025-08-08

YouTube channel Talking Sasquach demonstrated a custom Flipper Zero firmware that breaks the rolling code security of many modern vehicles. The attack requires only a single button-press recording from the key fob to replicate all functions, including unlocking doors and trunks, rendering the original key fob unusable. Affected brands include Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Mitsubishi, and Subaru. Currently, there's no easy fix, potentially requiring mass vehicle recalls. The attack's mechanism might involve reverse-engineering the rolling code sequence or a 'RollBack' attack that resets synchronization by replaying captured codes in a specific order.

(www.rtl-sdr.com)

Tech rolling code attack

Improving LLM Fine-tuning Through Iterative Data Curation

2025-08-08

Improving LLM Fine-tuning Through Iterative Data Curation

Researchers significantly improved the performance of large language models (LLMs) by iteratively curating their training data. Experiments involved two LLMs of varying sizes (Gemini Nano-1 and Nano-2) on tasks of different complexity, using ~100K crowdsourced annotations initially suffering from severe class imbalance (95% benign). Through iterative expert curation and model fine-tuning, performance substantially increased. The models reached approximately 40% positive examples and a Cohen's Kappa of ~0.81 (lower complexity) and ~0.78 (higher complexity), approaching expert-level performance, highlighting the crucial role of high-quality data in LLM training.

(research.google)

AI Data Curation Model Fine-tuning

Critical Flaw Found in Widely Used TETRA Encryption

2025-08-07

Critical Flaw Found in Widely Used TETRA Encryption

Researchers have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the encryption algorithms used in TETRA radio systems, widely adopted by police and military forces globally. The study reveals that TEA1, one of the TETRA standard's encryption algorithms, has a key reduction vulnerability, weakening it to a mere 32 bits and making it crackable in under a minute. Furthermore, flaws in the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) implementation reduce the key size to 56 bits, potentially allowing interception of voice and data communications. These vulnerabilities affect numerous users employing the TCCA E2EE scheme, including law enforcement and military agencies across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. While some algorithms have geographical usage restrictions, TEA1 is also used in critical infrastructure in the US and elsewhere. The findings highlight significant global communication security risks and necessitate urgent security updates to TETRA systems.

(www.wired.com)

Tech

Running x86_64 Apps on an AArch64 Desktop: A FEX-Emu Experiment

2025-08-07

Running x86_64 Apps on an AArch64 Desktop: A FEX-Emu Experiment

This post details an experiment running x86-64 applications on an Ampere Altra-based AArch64 desktop system using FEX-emu. While Steam and Factorio ran, performance was poor, scoring a measly 459 and 4110 on Geekbench 6's single and multi-core tests respectively. Optimizations to FEX-emu's configuration and replacing the x86_64 version of the Ninja build tool with an aarch64 version yielded some performance improvements. Ultimately, the author concludes that x86_64 emulation on this AArch64 system is limited in practicality, primarily useful for running older games.

(marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)

Development x86_64 emulation

Super Cars II: The Story Behind the Amiga Classic

2025-08-07

Super Cars II: The Story Behind the Amiga Classic

Spillhistorie.no interviewed Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern, the creators of Super Cars, a 1991 Amiga top-down racing game. Inspired by Super Sprint, Super Cars II added weapons and strategic elements, along with a unique humorous question-and-answer mechanic. Development faced tight deadlines and technical challenges, such as handling graphics and AI on the Atari ST version. Despite rampant piracy, the Super Cars series enjoyed good sales and positive reception. The developers still express interest in creating a sequel.

(spillhistorie.no)

Game

The Whispering Earring: A Paradox of Happiness and Free Will

2025-08-07

The ancient treasure vaults of Til Iosophrang hold a magical earring that provides its wearer with optimal advice, ensuring maximum happiness. However, at a cost: it gradually takes control of the wearer's mind, causing their neocortex to atrophy, ultimately turning them into an individual acting purely on instinct. Finally, a man named Kadmi Rachumion uncovers the earring's secret and locks it away deep within the vaults, a warning that the line between freedom and happiness is sometimes more subtle than imagined.

(croissanthology.com)

Misc fantasy story philosophical implications

Forget Monads: Embrace Natural Transformations

2025-08-07

This article challenges the overuse of Monads in functional programming. The author argues that the concept of Monads is overly abstract and proposes using the underlying natural transformations directly for programming. Using the Я language as an example, the article explains how to combine different Functors using natural transformations, comparing this approach to Monad Transformers. It ultimately advocates replacing Monads with more flexible, lower-level natural transformations for cleaner and more powerful program design.

(muratkasimov.art)

Development monads natural transformations

Nine Years of NYC Commute: A Street Photography Project

2025-08-07

Nine Years of NYC Commute: A Street Photography Project

For nine years, Danish photographer Peter Funch captured the daily morning commute at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City. His project, "42nd and Vanderbilt," presents a unique perspective on the subtle changes and unchanging habits of commuters. By photographing the same individuals multiple times over the years, Funch invites viewers to ponder the unnoticed details of daily life, the fleeting moments of solitude amidst the urban bustle, and the spectrum of emotions—from anxiety to tranquility—reflected in the commuters' faces.

(mymodernmet.com)

Design documentary photography

AURA: A Machine-Readable Web Protocol

2025-08-07

AURA: A Machine-Readable Web Protocol

AURA (Agent-Usable Resource Assertion) revolutionizes AI-web interaction. Instead of relying on brittle screen scraping and DOM manipulation, AURA introduces a standardized `aura.json` manifest file, allowing websites to declare their capabilities (e.g., creating posts, logging in) as HTTP requests. This enables efficient, secure AI-website interaction and paves the way for smarter search engines indexing actions, not just content. The project includes a reference server and client, demonstrating its functionality.

(github.com)

AI Web Protocol Machine Readable

Stasher: Accountless, Ephemeral Secret Sharing

2025-08-07

Stasher: Accountless, Ephemeral Secret Sharing

Stasher is a command-line tool for secure, ephemeral secret sharing. No accounts, no backend, just pure, encrypted secret transmission using AES-256-GCM. Burn-after-read functionality ensures secrets are deleted after a single use. Built with full supply chain transparency (cryptographically signed, SLSA v1 attested, Rekor logged), Stasher's open-source nature and verifiable security make it ideal for even the most paranoid users.

(github.com)

Development secret sharing

Trump's Trade Delusions: The 15% Tariff and the Bigger Danger

2025-08-07

Trump's Trade Delusions: The 15% Tariff and the Bigger Danger

Trump claims the EU pledged a $600 billion “gift” for his discretionary investment. This is a delusion; the EU made no such commitment. Despite this, Trump threatens to raise tariffs on the EU to 35%. While this would harm the EU, the impact may be less than anticipated due to the EU's relatively low dependence on the US market and its adjustments to existing tariffs. However, the underlying hubris and miscalculation in Trump's trade policy pose a far greater concern.

(paulkrugman.substack.com)

Tech

Splatshop: Interactive Editing of Massive Gaussian Splat Models

2025-08-07

Splatshop is a highly optimized toolbox for interactive editing (selection, deletion, painting, transformation, etc.) of 3D Gaussian splatting models, handling up to 100 million primitives in real-time. Balancing speed and accuracy, it enables precise edits without performance sacrifices. Furthermore, Splatshop is VR-capable, making it the first VR editor for large-scale Gaussian splatting models—a significant step toward a 'Photoshop' for this technology.

(momentsingraphics.de)

Development

OpenAI's Open-Source Model: Dodging the Real Ethical Bullet?

2025-08-07

OpenAI's Open-Source Model: Dodging the Real Ethical Bullet?

OpenAI recently open-sourced a large language model, but its stated 'safety' concerns have raised eyebrows. The article argues that OpenAI cleverly redirects public concerns about AI ethics towards the model's inherent morality—preventing it from swearing or making harmful decisions. However, the public is far more concerned with the real-world implications: governance, accountability, data usage, job displacement, etc. This mirrors past tech strategies around privacy, focusing on easily solvable issues while avoiding tougher societal challenges. Instead of worrying if the AI follows ethical guidelines, we should focus on the companies and leaders wielding that AI. The real AI ethics question is how to ensure these companies don't misuse their resources and power to harm humanity.

(nimishg.substack.com)

AI

Ex-Google AI Researcher Sounds the Alarm on LLMs and Ethical Concerns

2025-08-07

Ex-Google AI Researcher Sounds the Alarm on LLMs and Ethical Concerns

Bhaskar Mitra, a 19-year veteran of big tech and former AI researcher, speaks out after being laid off, exposing the realities and ethical dilemmas of Large Language Models (LLMs). He argues that LLMs won't replace professionals like doctors and teachers, and their centralized control over information raises concerns about social equity, information access, and power concentration. Mitra calls for a re-evaluation of the relationship between AI technology and social justice, advocating for a more inclusive and humanistic technological future.

(hardresetmedia.substack.com)

AI

AI Surveillance in Schools: A 13-Year-Old's Joke Leads to Arrest, Sparking Debate

2025-08-07

AI Surveillance in Schools: A 13-Year-Old's Joke Leads to Arrest, Sparking Debate

A 13-year-old girl's arrest for an online joke highlights the controversial use of AI-powered surveillance software in schools. The software, designed to detect threats, flagged an innocuous comment as a violent threat, leading to interrogation, a strip search, and jail time. While educators claim the technology saves lives, critics argue it criminalizes careless words and disproportionately impacts teenagers. High false alarm rates and numerous lawsuits underscore the ethical dilemmas of using AI in schools, raising questions about balancing safety with student rights and well-being.

(apnews.com)

Tech teen rights

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