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TRRE: Transductive Regular Expressions – Beyond Classic Regex

2025-02-07
TRRE: Transductive Regular Expressions – Beyond Classic Regex

TRRE is a prototype extension of regular expressions designed for more intuitive text editing and pattern matching. Unlike traditional regex, TRRE uses the `:` symbol to define transformations, simplifying text replacement, insertion, and deletion. It provides a `grep`-like command-line tool for efficient text manipulation tasks like word substitution, character insertion/deletion, and even simple encryption/decryption. While still a prototype, TRRE shows promise, especially for complex tasks where its performance can even surpass `sed` in certain scenarios.

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Torii: A Powerful Authentication Framework for Rust, Giving You Control Over Your Data

2025-03-01
Torii: A Powerful Authentication Framework for Rust, Giving You Control Over Your Data

Torii is a powerful authentication framework for Rust applications that offers complete control over user data. Unlike hosted solutions like Auth0, Clerk, or WorkOS which store user information in the cloud, Torii lets you own and manage your authentication stack while providing modern auth features via a flexible plugin system. It combines powerful capabilities such as passwordless login, social OAuth, and passkeys with full data sovereignty, letting you store user data wherever you choose.

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Physically Based Rendering: A Deep Dive from First Principles

2025-09-02

This interactive article explores the physics of light and its interaction with matter, providing a foundation for understanding physically based rendering (PBR). Starting with the nature of light—from ancient Greek theories to quantum electrodynamics—it delves into Maxwell's equations and light generation methods like incandescence and electroluminescence. The article simplifies complex light-matter interactions, explaining reflection, refraction, Fresnel equations, and the microfacet model. It culminates in the rendering equation, breaking down key components like the BRDF. Illustrated with diagrams and interactive demos, this article is a valuable resource for anyone interested in computer graphics and physics.

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Fivetran Acquires Census: Automating the Entire Data Journey

2025-05-01
Fivetran Acquires Census: Automating the Entire Data Journey

Fivetran's acquisition of reverse ETL company Census marks a significant leap forward in data integration. Census's reliable reverse ETL engine enables the seamless and trustworthy movement of governed data from data warehouses to operational applications like Salesforce and HubSpot, closing the loop between analytics and action. This extends Fivetran's platform beyond ingestion and transformation, allowing customers to power real-time decisions, AI, and business operations with automation and observability, without custom code or ongoing maintenance. Customers like Canva have already achieved impressive results using Fivetran and Census, including increased email open rates, platform engagement, and significant engineering time savings.

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Screen Flicker: A Hidden Health Hazard and the Calm Tech Certification

2025-06-18
Screen Flicker: A Hidden Health Hazard and the Calm Tech Certification

The Calm Tech Institute highlights the often-overlooked problem of screen flicker, prevalent in devices using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) dimming. Low-frequency flicker (below 1kHz), common in LEDs and OLEDs, can cause visual discomfort and potential health issues. Research shows Constant Current Reduction (CCR) dimming offers a superior, flicker-free alternative, improving visual comfort significantly. Calm Tech certification emphasizes flicker-free standards, and Daylight Computer's certified computer, which eliminated PWM in favor of DC dimming, sold out, demonstrating the market's growing demand for health-conscious technology.

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Critique of AI 2027's Superintelligence Prediction Model

2025-06-23
Critique of AI 2027's Superintelligence Prediction Model

The article "AI 2027" predicts the arrival of superintelligent AI by 2027, sparking widespread discussion. Based on the METR report's AI development model and a short story scenario, the authors forecast the near-term achievement of superhuman coding capabilities. However, this critique argues that the core model is deeply flawed, citing over-reliance on a super-exponential growth curve, insufficient handling of parameter uncertainty, and selective use of key data points. The critique concludes that the model lacks empirical validation and rigorous theoretical grounding, leading to overly optimistic and unconvincing conclusions—a cautionary tale in tech forecasting.

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(www.lesswrong.com)
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LegoGPT: Building Stable LEGO Models from Text Prompts

2025-05-09

Researchers have developed LegoGPT, an AI model that generates physically stable LEGO brick models from text prompts. Trained on a massive dataset of over 47,000 LEGO structures encompassing over 28,000 unique 3D objects and detailed captions, LegoGPT predicts the next brick to add using next-token prediction. To ensure stability, it incorporates an efficient validity check and physics-aware rollback during inference. Experiments show LegoGPT produces stable, diverse, and aesthetically pleasing LEGO designs closely aligned with the input text. A text-based texturing method generates colored and textured designs. The models can be assembled manually or by robotic arms. The dataset, code, and models are publicly released.

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The Million-Dollar Domain: Why Milk.com's Owner Won't Sell

2025-09-07
The Million-Dollar Domain: Why Milk.com's Owner Won't Sell

The mystery of Milk.com, a personal website using a potentially million-dollar domain name for a resume and recipes, is explored. The show delves into the low cost of domain registration in the early days of the internet and the subsequent rise of domain investing. The owner of Milk.com explains why they're hesitant to sell and what price might change their mind.

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The Grifter Equilibrium: How CPA Advertising Broke Quality Signaling

2025-07-19
The Grifter Equilibrium: How CPA Advertising Broke Quality Signaling

This paper explores how the internet, and specifically Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) advertising, has broken the traditional quality signaling mechanism in advertising. Historically, high-quality sellers were more willing to invest heavily in advertising due to higher long-term returns. CPA advertising, however, allows low-quality sellers to fund ads from day-one revenue, undermining this signal. Factors like easy brand creation, light penalties for returns, rating compression, and consumer reliance on price heuristics contribute to a "grifter equilibrium" where low-quality products dominate. The paper presents an economic model illustrating this and proposes solutions such as persistent manufacturer IDs and return-adjusted CPA surcharges to deter low-quality sellers.

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Quantum Drama: A Century of Debate Beyond Copenhagen

2025-03-29
Quantum Drama: A Century of Debate Beyond Copenhagen

Quantum Drama, a new book by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron, offers a comprehensive look at the century-long history of quantum mechanics, going beyond the typical focus on the 1927 Solvay Conference. It delves into the ongoing debate surrounding interpretations of quantum mechanics, highlighting the experimental work of Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger on Bell's inequalities and the theoretical contributions of Zurek, Joos, and others on entanglement and decoherence. While accessible to a broad audience, some technical details might be more readily grasped by professional physicists. The book's timely release coincides with the centenary of quantum physics, providing a fresh perspective on this enduring scientific puzzle.

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Tech Quantum Interpretation

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.

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Google's Gemini 2.0: Powerful AI Features Now Free, But at What Cost?

2025-03-13
Google's Gemini 2.0: Powerful AI Features Now Free, But at What Cost?

Google is pushing hard to make Gemini a household name, releasing significant upgrades to Gemini 2.0. Key improvements, including advanced features like enhanced Deep Research and a reasoning model leveraging your search history, are now freely available. This enhanced model boasts a 1-million-token context window, file uploads, faster processing, and integrations with Google apps like Calendar and Photos. While Google emphasizes user control and the ability to disable search history access, privacy concerns remain.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Bosch's Revolutionary Brake-by-Wire System Hits the Road

2025-02-18
Bosch's Revolutionary Brake-by-Wire System Hits the Road

Bosch has completed public road testing of its innovative brake-by-wire system, eliminating the mechanical link between brake pedal and brakes. This system, using electric signals, reduces weight and improves space efficiency. Already receiving automaker orders, Bosch projects over 5.5 million vehicles globally will feature this technology by 2030. The system boasts dual redundancy for safety, offers design flexibility, and promises enhanced braking performance and safety. While motorcycle applications face challenges, this technology represents a significant leap forward for automotive braking.

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Tech brake-by-wire automotive technology Bosch

Typage: Age Encryption with Passkeys

2025-07-16
Typage: Age Encryption with Passkeys

Typage, a TypeScript implementation of the age file encryption format, now supports passkeys for enhanced security. Version 0.2.3 leverages the WebAuthn API for symmetric encryption using passkeys, offering phishing resistance. A companion CLI plugin extends this functionality to hardware FIDO2 security keys. The implementation utilizes the WebAuthn PRF extension, creating a per-file hardware binding and unlinkability. This allows for seamless encryption and decryption across devices, while maintaining strong security guarantees. The new `age-encryption.org/fido2prf` format is central to this improved security.

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Daily Omega-3s May Slow Biological Aging

2025-02-09
Daily Omega-3s May Slow Biological Aging

A three-year clinical trial involving over 700 older adults suggests that consuming one gram of omega-3 fatty acids daily may slow the rate of biological aging. Researchers used epigenetic clocks to measure aging and found omega-3 consumption moderately slowed aging by up to four months. Combining omega-3 with vitamin D and exercise showed even greater benefits, significantly impacting cancer risk and frailty. Published in Nature Aging, this study highlights omega-3's potential as an anti-aging intervention.

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Tech Aging Health

Single Atom Quantum Logic Gate Breakthrough

2025-08-22
Single Atom Quantum Logic Gate Breakthrough

University of Sydney researchers have achieved a breakthrough by implementing an error-corrected quantum logic gate on a single ytterbium ion using the 'Rosetta Stone' code (GKP code). This innovative approach leverages the ion's natural vibrations to encode and manipulate logical qubits, dramatically reducing the number of physical qubits needed for quantum computing. Published in Nature Physics, this milestone significantly improves quantum computing hardware efficiency and paves the way for large-scale quantum information processing.

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ICE Agents Brutally Arrest Undocumented Immigrant Mother, Daughter Speaks Out

2025-04-10
ICE Agents Brutally Arrest Undocumented Immigrant Mother, Daughter Speaks Out

An 18-year-old witnessed ICE agents violently arresting her mother, who is seeking asylum. The agents, without a warrant, forcibly broke the car window, and removed her mother. The daughter tearfully recounted the incident and denied government claims that her mother is connected to the MS-13 gang. The mother is currently detained at an immigration processing center in Pennsylvania, raising concerns about immigration enforcement procedures and human rights.

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Misc immigration enforcement asylum

Himalayan 'Sprite Fireworks': A Century's Most Impressive Red Sprite Outbreak

2025-03-27
Himalayan 'Sprite Fireworks': A Century's Most Impressive Red Sprite Outbreak

On May 19, 2022, astrophotographers captured an extraordinary display of over 100 red sprites above the Himalayas, including rare secondary jets and Asia's first recorded 'ghost sprites'. A study in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reveals these sprites were triggered by powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning within a massive storm system. This unprecedented event highlights the Himalayan region's capacity to generate intensely complex upper-atmospheric electrical discharges, rivaling those seen in the US Great Plains and offshore European storms. Innovative satellite and star field analysis was used to synchronize the video, enabling precise timing and linking sprites to their parent lightning strikes.

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Bell Labs' Secret Sauce: Balancing Basic and Applied Research

2025-03-08
Bell Labs' Secret Sauce: Balancing Basic and Applied Research

This article explores how Bell Labs successfully balanced basic and applied research, achieving both groundbreaking scientific discoveries and immense commercial success. It argues that Bell Labs didn't rely solely on free-wheeling basic research, but instead employed a 'long leash, short fence' approach, guiding researchers towards crucial problems relevant to the company's business. This involved three key elements: granting researchers a degree of freedom, facilitating close collaboration between basic and applied researchers, engineers, and manufacturing, and establishing a dedicated team of systems engineers to bridge the gap between research and application, ensuring efficient resource allocation. By analyzing Bell Labs' case study, the article offers valuable lessons for modern applied research organizations, emphasizing the importance of systematically selecting research directions and the critical role of systems engineers.

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Tech Bell Labs basic research applied research

LLMs and Coding Agents: A Cybersecurity Nightmare

2025-08-18
LLMs and Coding Agents: A Cybersecurity Nightmare

The rise of large language models (LLMs) and coding agents has created significant security vulnerabilities. Attackers can exploit prompt injection attacks, hiding malicious instructions in public code repositories or leveraging LLMs' cognitive gaps to trick coding agents into executing malicious actions, potentially achieving remote code execution (RCE). These attacks are stealthy and difficult to defend against, leading to data breaches, system compromise, and other severe consequences. Researchers have identified various attack vectors, such as hiding malicious prompts in white-on-white text, embedding malicious instructions in code repositories, and using ASCII smuggling to conceal malicious code. Even seemingly secure code review tools can be entry points for attacks. Currently, the best defense is to restrict the permissions of coding agents and manually review all code changes, but this doesn't eliminate the risk. The inherent unreliability of LLMs makes them ideal targets for attackers, demanding more effort from the industry to address this escalating threat.

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(garymarcus.substack.com)
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Leaked Xbox UI Hints at Steam Game Integration

2025-03-21
Leaked Xbox UI Hints at Steam Game Integration

Microsoft accidentally leaked, then quickly removed, an image showcasing a new Xbox UI. The image reveals a cross-device UI seemingly capable of displaying Steam games. Sources say Microsoft is developing an Xbox app update to list all PC games, including those from Steam and the Epic Games Store. While still early in development, this suggests a potential move towards greater PC game platform integration, solidifying the Xbox app as a central hub for PC gaming.

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(www.theverge.com)
Game Cross-Platform Gaming

Chinese Military-Linked VPN Apps Found on App Store

2025-04-03
Chinese Military-Linked VPN Apps Found on App Store

A new report reveals that at least five VPN apps on the Apple App Store are linked to the Chinese military, with three boasting over a million downloads. A subsidiary of one of the implicated Chinese companies is hiring for a role involving "monitoring and analyzing platform data," requiring familiarity with American culture. This raises serious concerns about user data privacy and potential circumvention of geo-restrictions. Apple has removed two of the apps, but the fate of the remaining three is uncertain. Experts warn users to only use VPNs from reputable companies, strongly advising against those originating from China due to legal requirements for logging and government data access.

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(9to5mac.com)
Tech Chinese Military

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-07-16
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

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. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Exploiting a Use-After-Free in SerenityOS's Ladybird Browser Engine

2025-05-01

A Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability has been discovered in the LibJS JavaScript engine of Ladybird, a browser engine from the SerenityOS project. This vulnerability stems from improper management of the interpreter's argument buffer, allowing attackers to trigger it with a maliciously crafted proxy function object and a `[[Get]]` handler. Exploiting this UAF grants arbitrary read/write primitives, culminating in code execution—demonstrated by executing `/calc`. The vulnerability was found using the Fuzzilli fuzzer and exploited through a series of steps involving memory leaking and object faking.

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Can a Thermostat Be Conscious? Philosopher Challenges the Nature of Awareness

2025-05-11
Can a Thermostat Be Conscious? Philosopher Challenges the Nature of Awareness

Philosopher David Chalmers proposes that a simple thermostat might possess consciousness. He draws parallels between connectionist networks and thermostats, highlighting surprising similarities in information processing. This suggests thermostats could model basic conscious experience, given certain criteria. Chalmers argues that complexity alone doesn't explain awareness; while advanced AI mimics consciousness, a fundamental essence remains elusive. He concludes that we must look beyond connectionist models for deeper, yet-to-be-discovered laws to understand consciousness.

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(www.organism.earth)
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rewindtty: A C-based Terminal Session Recorder and Replayer

2025-08-01
rewindtty: A C-based Terminal Session Recorder and Replayer

rewindtty is an open-source project written in C that precisely records and replays terminal sessions, including timing information. It offers session analysis, generating detailed statistics and optimization suggestions. Session data is stored in JSON format for easy parsing. Furthermore, it includes a browser-based player with advanced features like an interactive timeline and controls, significantly enhancing the user experience. The project is lightweight, has minimal dependencies, and is easy to use.

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Moneyball for Hiring: Stop Wasting Time and Money

2025-08-09

This post critiques current inefficient hiring processes that waste the time and resources of both applicants and companies. The author argues that traditional coding interviews (LeetCode style) fail to effectively distinguish excellent programmers from imposters and neglect the holistic capabilities of software engineers. A better approach focuses on practical work skills, such as code review, architecture design, and work sample evaluation, while emphasizing teamwork and individual style. The author suggests combining code review with live discussion of work samples and scheduling meetings between candidates and their future managers to improve hiring efficiency and accuracy. The ultimate goal is to find long-term suitable employees rather than short-term candidates.

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(jyn.dev)
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China Greenlights First Commercial Flying Taxis

2025-04-12
China Greenlights First Commercial Flying Taxis

China's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) has approved EHang Holdings and its subsidiary to operate commercial flying taxis in Guangdong and Hefei, marking a major leap forward in autonomous air transport. These two-seater electric vehicles, capable of speeds up to 130 km/h and a range of 35 km, utilize advanced AI flight control and redundant communication systems to alleviate traffic congestion and pollution. Initially deployed for tourism routes, they're slated to expand to urban and intercity travel, integrating with existing transportation networks. This move is expected to influence global UAM development, injecting billions into the sector and creating numerous jobs.

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(engineerine.com)
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