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NYC Real Estate Boom: Manhattan Dominates Luxury Market

2025-04-30

NYC Real Estate Boom: Manhattan Dominates Luxury Market

NYC's median home sale price jumped 10% year-over-year in Q1 2025, reaching $768,000. Manhattan claimed the top five priciest neighborhoods, with Hudson Yards leading at a staggering $5.355 million median sale price. Brooklyn and Queens also saw significant increases, with multiple neighborhoods in the city's top 50 most expensive areas. However, these increases paled in comparison to Manhattan's surge. The Bronx saw the smallest increase, with no neighborhoods making the top 50. The report highlights the impact of increased transactions and higher-priced homes driving up prices in certain areas, showcasing a dynamic and stratified NYC real estate market.

(qns.com)

Misc NYC real estate price surge Manhattan

Brazil Fights Dengue Fever with Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

2025-08-01

Brazil Fights Dengue Fever with Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

Brazil is employing genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the widespread dengue fever epidemic. These mosquitoes carry Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents dengue virus replication, thereby reducing transmission. In Niterói, this method has reduced dengue cases by 90%. The Brazilian government is now aggressively expanding this technology, aiming to protect 140 million Brazilians from dengue over the next decade, demonstrating the immense potential of technological innovation in public health.

(www.npr.org)

Tech dengue fever genetically modified mosquitoes Wolbachia

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Return of Wrongfully Deported Salvadoran Migrant

2025-04-12

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Return of Wrongfully Deported Salvadoran Migrant

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador. The case highlights the administration's disregard for due process in deportation proceedings and the court's determination to check executive overreach. While the Court's opinion was cautiously worded, the justices broadly condemned the administration's actions, setting a precedent for future cases. The case also reveals a secretive agreement between the US and El Salvadoran governments involving the deportation of gang members, the details of which remain unclear. The ultimate outcome hinges on the lower court's enforcement of the Supreme Court's ruling and whether the administration complies with the order to return Abrego Garcia.

(harrylitman.substack.com)

Misc judicial review executive power

Guile-Swayer: Scripting Sway/i3 with Guile

2025-08-19

Guile-Swayer: Scripting Sway/i3 with Guile

Tired of Sway/i3's configuration limitations? The Guile-Swayer project offers a powerful solution, allowing you to fully control the Sway/i3 window manager using the Guile scripting language. Developed after migrating from StumpWM to Wayland, this project replicates StumpWM's flexibility and customization. Guile-Swayer lets you bind keys to execute Guile code, subscribe to Sway events and react to them, retrieve Sway information, and more. It includes modules like workspace-grid for grid-based workspaces, workspace-groups for cross-monitor workspace grouping, and which-key for Emacs-like keybinding hints. With Guile-Swayer, create a highly personalized and efficient window management environment.

(github.com)

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Glider Returns: A Classic Apple II Game Reimagined

2025-03-27

Glider Returns: A Classic Apple II Game Reimagined

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

(www.colino.net)

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Monitoring My Minecraft Server with OpenTelemetry and Dash0

2025-05-11

Monitoring My Minecraft Server with OpenTelemetry and Dash0

To enable multiplayer Minecraft mischief with the kids, I set up a Java Minecraft server on a Linux VM and implemented comprehensive monitoring using OpenTelemetry, a Prometheus exporter, and Dash0. The OpenTelemetry Java Agent monitors JVM health, a Minecraft Prometheus exporter collects game-specific metrics (player count, blocks mined, etc.), and the OpenTelemetry Collector aggregates and sends all data to Dash0. Dash0's PromQL queries and log monitoring allow me to track server status, such as downtime and JVM restarts, with Slack alerts. The process was a fun refresher on Java and Linux sysadmin skills. While the dashboard is simple, a stable server is the priority.

(www.dash0.com)

Game

Is AGI Here? No, It's 'Jagged AGI'

2025-04-20

Is AGI Here? No, It's 'Jagged AGI'

Recent AI models like OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro show stunning advancements, even completing complex tasks like marketing campaigns and website building. Economist Tyler Cowen suggests this signifies the arrival of AGI. However, the article argues these AIs exhibit uneven capabilities, excelling in some areas while failing at simple ones – a concept termed 'Jagged AGI'. This uncertainty makes the definition and impact of AGI unclear, suggesting its application and societal integration could be a lengthy process, or potentially see rapid adoption. The future remains uncertain.

(www.oneusefulthing.org)

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Microsoft's Giant 1-Bit AI Model: Impressive Performance, Limited Compatibility

2025-04-17

Microsoft researchers unveiled BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a groundbreaking 2-billion parameter 1-bit AI model. Trained on a massive dataset, it outperforms comparable models from Meta, Google, and Alibaba on benchmarks like GSM8K and PIQA, boasting double the speed and significantly lower memory usage. Surprisingly, it runs on CPUs, including Apple's M2. However, its reliance on Microsoft's custom bitnet.cpp framework, currently incompatible with GPUs, limits its broad adoption. While promising for resource-constrained devices, compatibility remains a major hurdle.

(techcrunch.com)

AI 1-bit AI

Gemini Embedding: Powering the Next Generation of AI Agents

2025-08-01

Gemini Embedding: Powering the Next Generation of AI Agents

Since its release, Google's Gemini Embedding text model has seen rapid adoption by developers building advanced AI applications. Beyond traditional uses like classification and semantic search, it's crucial for 'context engineering,' providing AI agents with complete operational context. Companies like Box, re:cap, Everlaw, Roo Code, Mindlid, and Interaction Co. are already leveraging its power to improve accuracy, speed, and contextual awareness in their products. From boosting financial data analysis to enhancing legal discovery and powering AI assistants, Gemini Embedding's high performance and multilingual support are laying the foundation for the next generation of intelligent agents.

(developers.googleblog.com)

AI context engineering

Plex Security Breach: User Passwords Compromised, Reset Now!

2025-09-09

Plex Security Breach: User Passwords Compromised, Reset Now!

Streaming server Plex experienced a security incident where hackers accessed a database, exposing some user emails, usernames, and hashed passwords. While passwords were encrypted, Plex is requiring all users to reset their passwords and log out of all connected devices as a precaution. The company has patched the vulnerability and implemented further security measures, urging users to enable two-factor authentication.

(nerds.xyz)

Tech

Tailwind Plus Now Features Fully Interactive UI Blocks Without JavaScript Frameworks

2025-07-26

Tailwind Plus Now Features Fully Interactive UI Blocks Without JavaScript Frameworks

Tailwind Plus has announced that all its UI blocks are now fully interactive, even without a JavaScript framework. This is thanks to the newly released @tailwindplus/elements library, providing reusable headless custom elements for dropdowns, command palettes, dialogs, and more. These elements work seamlessly with plain HTML and are customizable with utility classes or custom CSS, simplifying development by eliminating the need to write complex JavaScript for each UI component. The update is available now for all Tailwind Plus customers.

(tailwindcss.com)

Development JavaScript-free

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

The 1%, Climate Change, and Trillions in Damages: Is Legal Liability on the Horizon?

2025-05-07

The 1%, Climate Change, and Trillions in Damages: Is Legal Liability on the Horizon?

A new modeling study in Nature Climate Change reveals that the wealthiest 10% of the global population are responsible for two-thirds of global warming since 1990. The top 1% alone account for one-fifth, not only due to higher energy consumption but also through investments in high-emission sectors like fossil fuels. The study highlights the disproportionate contribution of the wealthy to extreme weather events, particularly in poorer nations, with the richest 1% contributing 26 times more to extreme heat globally and 17 times more to Amazonian droughts than the average person. This research bolsters the argument for climate liability, with the authors estimating Chevron's contribution to extreme heat damage at up to $3.6 trillion, suggesting the scientific case for holding specific companies legally accountable is now closed.

(e360.yale.edu)

Tech climate liability

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-06-03

arXivLabs is a framework for 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 works with partners who share them. Have an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator Achieves Record-Breaking Plasma Duration

2025-07-21

Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator Achieves Record-Breaking Plasma Duration

Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has set a new world record during its OP 2.3 campaign, achieving a high fusion triple product value in its plasma for 43 seconds. This milestone signifies a significant step towards a future fusion power plant. The record was made possible through international collaboration, notably a pellet injector from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and diagnostic equipment from other labs in Europe and the US. Beyond the triple product, the experiment also achieved milestones in energy turnover and plasma pressure.

(www.iter.org)

Tech

US Teens' Trust in Big Tech Plummets

2025-01-30

US Teens' Trust in Big Tech Plummets

A new report from Common Sense Media reveals a significant decline in trust among US teens toward major tech companies like Google, Apple, Meta, TikTok, and Microsoft. The survey found low levels of trust regarding these companies' concern for teen well-being, ethical decision-making, and data privacy. This distrust is linked to several tech scandals over the years, including government mass data collection, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Meta whistleblower leaks. Teens also express skepticism about these companies' responsible use of AI, with many believing AI exacerbates online misinformation and impacts the accuracy of online information. The report calls for increased AI privacy safeguards and transparency, suggesting AI-generated content should be labeled and watermarked.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech teens tech trust

Lambda Calculus Interpreter in 383 Bytes

2025-01-15

Lambda Calculus Interpreter in 383 Bytes

This blog post introduces a brand new 383-byte implementation of a binary lambda calculus interpreter as an x86-64 Linux ELF executable. This tiny interpreter manages to achieve garbage collection, lazy lists, and tail recursion. Programs are encoded in a remarkably small binary format; for example, its metacircular evaluator is only 232 bits. The author provides friendly portable C code and pre-built binaries for other platforms. This project is a fun learning tool for lambda calculus and showcases the possibility of implementing complex computation in extremely resource-constrained environments.

(justine.lol)

Development Lambda Calculus

Lightweight, Ad-Free Jetpack Compose Compass App

2025-06-02

Lightweight, Ad-Free Jetpack Compose Compass App

MBCompass is a lightweight compass app built with Jetpack Compose. Unlike most compass apps burdened with ads and unnecessary features, MBCompass prioritizes accuracy and efficiency. It uses the device's magnetometer and accelerometer for real-time geomagnetic field updates. Features include displaying the user's current location (using OpenStreetMap), light/dark theme support, magnetic strength display, keep screen on, landscape orientation, smooth compass rotation, and sensor fusion for improved accuracy. Importantly, it's completely free, ad-free, and without in-app purchases.

(github.com)

Development Compass

Lost at Sea: A 13-Day Survival Against the Odds

2025-05-24

Lost at Sea: A 13-Day Survival Against the Odds

Seeking escape from a monotonous life, the author quits his job and embarks on a fishing trip. A storm capsizes their boat, leaving him adrift in a life raft for 13 days. He endures starvation, hypothermia, despair, and the terror of death, yet finds inner peace and redemption. Rescued by a passing cargo ship, he reunites with his family, but his future remains uncertain. This gripping tale explores survival, self-discovery, and the human spirit's resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

(www.theatlantic.com)

Misc sea survival

Apple's Password Monitoring Service: A 40% Performance Boost with Swift

2025-06-03

Apple's migration of its Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift resulted in a significant performance improvement. The new Swift-based service handles billions of daily requests, boasting a 40% performance increase and improvements in scalability, security, and availability. Driven by Java's limitations in memory management, the switch to Swift leveraged its concise syntax, protocols and generics, robust safety features (like optionals and safe unwrapping), and async/await capabilities for cleaner, safer, and more maintainable code. The result? A dramatic reduction in memory footprint and a freeing up of 50% of Kubernetes cluster capacity.

(www.swift.org)

Development

China's 'Thousand Sails' Megaconstellation Faces Major Delays

2025-07-27

China's 'Thousand Sails' Megaconstellation Faces Major Delays

China's ambitious 'Thousand Sails' (G60 Starlink) constellation, aiming for over 15,000 satellites by 2030 to provide global internet access, is facing significant delays. Only 90 satellites have been launched, far short of the 648 target for the end of 2025. The shortfall stems from a severe rocket shortage, hindering the project's ability to compete with SpaceX's Starlink. To meet its goals, the project needs to launch over 30 satellites per month, a pace currently unattainable.

(www.scmp.com)

Tech satellite constellation space launch

A Policy of Transience: A Programmer's Philosophy of Computer Use

2025-05-13

This article details the unique computer usage habits of a programmer, centered around a "policy of transience." This philosophy dictates that all data should be either deliberately permanent and organized, or strictly temporary, avoiding accidental permanence. Examples include disabling persistent shell history, regularly clearing the GUI desktop, and frequently closing the web browser. The author explains the benefits, such as increased efficiency, better organization, and reduced data clutter. Related practices like corporate records management and automated OS setup are discussed, along with exceptions to the policy, such as email and browser history, which are kept permanently due to their unpredictable usefulness.

(www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)

Development programming habits

Xata's Efficient MCP Server: OpenAPI, Kubb, and a Pinch of Next.js

2025-05-27

Xata's Efficient MCP Server: OpenAPI, Kubb, and a Pinch of Next.js

Xata built an MCP server enabling secure real-time interaction between AI models and tools/APIs. Instead of hand-coding each tool, they leveraged their existing OpenAPI specification and Kubb, a code generation tool, to automate the process. This approach uses the OpenAPI spec as a single source of truth, ensuring rapid development and consistency. The post details migrating to Kubb, creating custom generators, and building the MCP server with Next.js, resulting in an efficient AI integration.

(xata.io)

Development

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community-Driven Features

2025-02-01

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to build and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants, both individuals and organizations, 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)

Development Community Collaboration Open Platform

Guix Successfully Builds a Fully Bootstrapped Mono: A Long and Winding Road

2024-12-31

The Guix system has successfully built a fully bootstrapped Mono environment, overcoming numerous challenges in the process. The author details their journey to support C# 12.0 features, encountering issues with older Mono versions relying on pre-built binaries. Through a series of patches, a fully bootstrapped chain from Mono 1.2.6 to 6.12.0 was created. Along the way, bugs in Mono and xbuild were fixed, and runpath support in Mono was enhanced. This not only solved the author's C# compatibility problem but also highlighted the importance of fully bootstrapped, reproducible builds and their impact on software security.

(guix.gnu.org)

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Apple Officially Ends the Intel Mac Era: The End of an Epoch

2025-06-10

Apple Officially Ends the Intel Mac Era: The End of an Epoch

Apple announced that macOS Tahoe will be the final release supporting Intel processors, marking the end of a 20-year run of Intel-based Macs. While Apple is giving users a one-year grace period and promising security updates, the decision has sparked some controversy. The article revisits the history of Intel Macs and discusses the impact of this transition on users and developers, along with the advantages of a cheaper Mac Mini and the end of the Hackintosh culture. The author expresses nostalgia for the flexibility of Intel Macs and argues that Apple lacks user choice.

(tedium.co)

Tech

Children Could Hold the Key to an HIV Cure

2025-08-02

Children Could Hold the Key to an HIV Cure

Research suggests children's immune systems may be more effective at suppressing HIV than adults'. Some HIV-infected children, after early antiretroviral therapy, maintain undetectable viral loads for months or even years after stopping medication. This offers new hope for an HIV cure, with researchers believing children could be the breakthrough point in HIV cure research.

(www.wired.com)

Tech children's immune system viral suppression

Do Files Want to Be Actors? io_uring and the Convergence of Computing Paradigms

2025-01-04

Do Files Want to Be Actors? io_uring and the Convergence of Computing Paradigms

In high-performance Linux applications, io_uring is revolutionizing OS interaction. It uses submission and completion queues, allowing asynchronous I/O without waiting for syscalls. Simply queue operations and continue computation. This remarkably mirrors the Actor model: objects send messages for concurrent computation. io_uring's sending operations to file descriptors and asynchronously receiving responses strikingly resembles this. This suggests a shift towards asynchronous, self-managing OS behavior; traditional syscall methods might be an outdated abstraction.

(lewiscampbell.tech)

Development

Sun Ships, Coltrane, and Interstellar Dreams: A Cosmic Musings on Speed and Distance

2025-06-26

Inspired by John Coltrane's album *Sun Ship*, the author connects the Parker Solar Probe's incredible speed with interstellar travel. The article compares the speeds of Apollo 10, Voyager 1, and New Horizons, highlighting Parker's record-breaking velocity at perihelion. It delves into the timescales involved in interstellar journeys, drawing parallels to the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu's 'solar boat', bridging ancient cosmic perspectives with modern technological exploration. The piece concludes with a hopeful vision of interstellar flight and the need for long-term technological breakthroughs.

(www.centauri-dreams.org)

Tech speed and distance

CSS Infinity: A Curious Journey Through Browser Interpretations

2025-08-21

CSS Infinity: A Curious Journey Through Browser Interpretations

This article explores the quirky behavior of the `infinity` keyword in CSS calculation functions. By applying `infinity` to properties like `text-indent`, `word-spacing`, and `letter-spacing`, the author discovers inconsistencies in how different browsers handle infinite values, although the visual results consistently lead to horizontal overflow. More intriguingly, when used with `z-index`, the computed value of `infinity` is capped at the maximum integer value across browsers, resulting in unexpected stacking order. Finally, the author experiments with `infinity` for animation duration, finding that it translates to extremely long times, even causing Safari to render the page unresponsive. In short, the experiment reveals the different strategies browsers employ in handling infinite values in CSS and some surprising side effects.

(meyerweb.com)

Development

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