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Harlem Blues: A White Musician's Journey into the Heart of Black Music

2025-05-02
Harlem Blues: A White Musician's Journey into the Heart of Black Music

In the 1980s, a young white musician in Harlem, NYC, transcends racial divides and forges a deep musical partnership with a legendary bluesman known only as "Satan." The author recounts his journey, from chance encounters at outdoor jazz concerts to jamming in local bars, culminating in a long-lasting duo with "Satan," playing blues on the streets of Harlem. This experience shattered preconceived notions and revealed the unifying power of music across racial lines, offering a powerful message of connection and healing.

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(theamericanscholar.org)
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Hungry? Your Brain Ignores Nutritional Info!

2025-04-13
Hungry? Your Brain Ignores Nutritional Info!

New research reveals that hunger shifts attention towards the tastiness of food, causing people to overlook nutritional information—a key factor in poor dietary choices. Using eye-tracking and computational modeling, scientists found that hunger amplifies the reward associated with calorie-dense foods, diminishing the importance of nutritional labels. This suggests that simply displaying nutritional labels might be insufficient to combat hunger-driven unhealthy eating. Interventions should focus on making health information more visually prominent or directing attention towards it.

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(medicalxpress.com)
Tech hunger food choice nutrition

iNaturalist Opensources Parts of its Computer Vision Models

2025-09-02
iNaturalist Opensources Parts of its Computer Vision Models

iNaturalist has open-sourced a subset of its machine learning models, including "small" models trained on approximately 500 taxa, along with taxonomy files and a geographic model, suitable for on-device testing and other applications. The full species classification models remain private due to intellectual property and organizational policy. The post details installation and running instructions for MacOS, covering dependency installation, environment setup, performance optimization suggestions (including compiling TensorFlow and using pillow-simd), and provides performance benchmarks.

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(github.com)
AI open-source models

Snapchat's Internal Emails Reveal 10,000+ Monthly Sextortion Reports

2025-04-17
Snapchat's Internal Emails Reveal 10,000+ Monthly Sextortion Reports

Internal Snap Inc. emails revealed that the company receives approximately 10,000 sextortion reports monthly—a figure likely representing only a fraction of the problem. This article investigates Snapchat's impact on teenagers, examining court cases and internal documents detailing widespread harm. These include addictive design, drug and gun sales, CSAM, sextortion, offline sexual assault, and cyberbullying. Snap insiders acknowledge these issues but demonstrate slow responses and ineffective mitigation. The article calls for Snap to implement design changes to protect its young users.

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(www.afterbabel.com)
Tech sextortion teen safety

Verizon CEO on 5G ROI, Network Building, and the Future

2025-04-21
Verizon CEO on 5G ROI, Network Building, and the Future

Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath sits down with The Verge to discuss Verizon’s 5G investments, network operations, and future strategies. He details the actual return on investment from 5G, highlighting the importance of network capacity and 5G’s role in handling the explosion of mobile data. He also touches on Verizon’s attempts and lessons learned in content and application integration, and his views on net neutrality and government regulation. Sampath shares his unique decision-making framework and Verizon’s strategies for addressing market changes and customer needs, such as the three-year price lock plan. The conversation also covers the fiber network Fios’s construction plans, OpenRAN technology, and the outlook for future 5G applications.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Network Infrastructure

Chrome's Manifest V3: A Nightmare for Ad Blocker Developers?

2025-02-08
Chrome's Manifest V3: A Nightmare for Ad Blocker Developers?

Google's Chrome Manifest V3 (MV3) extension architecture overhaul continues to cause headaches for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools. While Google claims MV3 aims to improve security and performance, developers like those behind AdGuard and uBlock Origin find its restrictions far more severe than anticipated, limiting or even preventing core functionality. Developers complain that MV3 increases development difficulty and accuse Google of slow responses to developer feedback, even subtly undermining extensions through UI changes. This raises questions about Google's true intentions: is it about improving security and privacy, or subtly limiting extension capabilities?

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(www.theregister.com)
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DIY Nissan LEAF Battery Widget: A Clever Hack Using GitHub Actions and IFTTT

2025-04-14
DIY Nissan LEAF Battery Widget: A Clever Hack Using GitHub Actions and IFTTT

Frustrated by the lack of a battery status widget in Nissan's official app and the unavailability of third-party alternatives, the author devised a clever workaround. By ingeniously combining GitHub Actions, IFTTT, and Apple Shortcuts, they created a free solution. A scheduled GitHub Actions workflow retrieves data, sends an email, and IFTTT transforms the email content into an iPhone home screen widget displaying the LEAF's battery level. While not perfect, this successful hack avoids the cost of additional hardware or subscriptions, showcasing the author's creativity and technical prowess.

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(kevintechnology.com)
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Trump Admin's Massive Immigration Database Raises Privacy Fears

2025-04-27
Trump Admin's Massive Immigration Database Raises Privacy Fears

The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in collaboration with Palantir, is building a massive database integrating sensitive data from various federal agencies to expedite immigration enforcement and deportations. This aims to create "target lists" for quick identification and removal of undocumented immigrants. However, the plan has sparked significant privacy concerns and legal challenges. Democratic lawmakers accuse DOGE of unlawfully exploiting Americans' personal data and question the database's accuracy and security. Former Homeland Security officials also express concerns about Palantir's capabilities, suggesting it might be insufficient for the complex logistical planning involved. The database's development is ongoing, and its future impact remains uncertain.

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(www.cnn.com)
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Solving Decentralized Social Media's URI Problem

2025-04-21
Solving Decentralized Social Media's URI Problem

This essay explores user experience issues stemming from URI schemes in decentralized social media platforms like the Fediverse and Bluesky. Sharing links across instances often leads to problems like inability to comment or like posts. The author proposes a solution: new URI schemes (e.g., `fedi:` or `at:`). These would allow operating systems or browsers to directly invoke relevant apps based on the scheme, resolving link sharing, client compatibility, and post migration issues. While browser support for custom schemes is limited, this approach promises to greatly improve user experience in decentralized social media and warrants further investigation.

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(www.tbray.org)
Tech URI schemes

SignalSDR Pro: A Raspberry Pi-Sized High-Performance Software-Defined Radio

2025-01-02
SignalSDR Pro: A Raspberry Pi-Sized High-Performance Software-Defined Radio

Signalens is launching the SignalSDR Pro, a high-performance software-defined radio (SDR) with a Raspberry Pi-like form factor. Based on the Analog Devices AD9361 transceiver and AMD Zynq 7020 FPGA, it boasts a 70MHz to 6GHz frequency range and features Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 connectivity. A 40-pin GPIO header allows for external hardware integration, and compatibility with other SDR platforms like ADALM-PLUTO and USRP B210 is achieved through simple jumper changes and microSD card swaps. The package includes a metal enclosure for passive cooling, multiple antennas (including GPS), cables, and SIM cards.

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(www.hackster.io)
Hardware Software Defined Radio

UAE May Offer ChatGPT Plus to All Residents for Free

2025-05-30
UAE May Offer ChatGPT Plus to All Residents for Free

The UAE and OpenAI are in talks that could make ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI's AI chatbot, freely available to all residents. This agreement would be part of the Stargate UAE infrastructure plan, creating an AI hub in Abu Dhabi. Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt computing cluster, is a collaboration between Abu Dhabi's G42, OpenAI, Oracle, and Nvidia. If successful, this would be unprecedented in the AI sector, giving millions access to one of the world's most powerful AI services for free.

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(www.thenationalnews.com)
Tech UAE

OpenAI Eyes Chrome Acquisition: An AI-First Browser in the Works?

2025-04-23
OpenAI Eyes Chrome Acquisition: An AI-First Browser in the Works?

OpenAI has signaled its interest in acquiring Chrome should Google be forced to sell. This follows OpenAI's hiring of former Google developers and its reported exploration of building a Chromium-based browser. Acquiring Chrome would grant OpenAI immediate access to billions of users and a significant market share, allowing for seamless integration of ChatGPT and other AI tools into a revolutionary 'AI-first' browsing experience. The influx of user data would also be invaluable for training more powerful AI models. While Google claims Chrome is unsustainable independently, its substantial search advertising revenue suggests otherwise. If a sale is mandated, OpenAI's substantial resources could position it to reshape the future of browsing.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech AI Browser

Microsoft at 50: A Look Back at Peaks and Valleys

2025-04-11
Microsoft at 50: A Look Back at Peaks and Valleys

As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, The Register polled readers on the company's history. Windows Server 2000 emerged as a favorite, praised for its stability and ease of use. Conversely, Windows 8 and its successors received criticism for their user interfaces. The Nokia acquisition and subsequent Windows Phone failure were also highlighted as missteps. While achievements like the cloud pivot and Office suite were acknowledged, the overall sentiment suggests Microsoft's best days may be behind it. The company's future direction with AI remains uncertain.

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(www.theregister.com)
Tech Operating Systems

Unsure Calculator: Taming Uncertainty in Everyday Calculations

2025-04-15
Unsure Calculator: Taming Uncertainty in Everyday Calculations

Filip Hracek introduces an uncertainty calculator that simplifies statistical reasoning by allowing input of numerical ranges (e.g., 4~6, representing a 95% confidence interval). Using a Monte Carlo method, the calculator handles basic arithmetic, powers, roots, and trigonometric functions, providing probability distributions and percentiles for a more comprehensive analysis. Illustrated with examples like a family's financial decision-making process and the Drake equation, the article showcases its practicality while acknowledging limitations such as slow computation and a rudimentary user interface. The calculator empowers users to make informed decisions despite inherent uncertainties.

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(filiph.github.io)
Development uncertainty calculation Monte Carlo method

Spotify Submits iOS App Update Bypassing Apple's Payment System

2025-05-02
Spotify Submits iOS App Update Bypassing Apple's Payment System

Spotify announced it submitted an iOS app update allowing US users to utilize non-Apple payment options. This follows the landmark Epic Games v. Apple ruling, forcing Apple to forgo its cut from non-Apple payment systems and prohibiting restrictions on informing users about alternative payment methods. The update offers clearer subscription pricing, easier plan upgrades and changes, and a wider range of payment choices. Spotify highlights improved user experience and increased opportunities for creators. Apple's approval remains pending. Patreon also plans to submit a similar update.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Payments

Tutorial: Building a Simple Unix Shell in C

2024-12-26
Tutorial: Building a Simple Unix Shell in C

This tutorial walks you through creating a basic Unix shell in C. The author details the shell's lifecycle: initialization, command interpretation, and termination. Key aspects covered include reading user input, parsing commands, executing programs using fork() and exec(), and handling built-in commands like cd, help, and exit. Dynamic memory allocation using malloc() and realloc() is emphasized, and the use of getline() is explained. While simplified (no piping, redirection, or globbing), the tutorial provides a solid foundation for understanding shell programming in C.

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(brennan.io)
Development C Programming System Programming

API Platform Conference 2025: AI-Powered API Development Takes Center Stage

2025-07-09
API Platform Conference 2025: AI-Powered API Development Takes Center Stage

The API Platform Conference returns September 18th-19th, 2025, in Lille, France, and online! This two-day event showcases the latest trends, best practices, and case studies in API Platform and its ecosystem (PHP, Symfony, JavaScript, AI, FrankenPHP, performance, tools). Nearly 30 talks in English and French make it a must-attend for innovative companies, project leaders, and skilled developers. Developers, CTOs, and decision-makers specializing in these technologies are especially encouraged to attend. The call for papers is open until March 23rd, with final speakers announced from May 14th. Submit your pitch and be part of this special anniversary edition!

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(www.php.net)
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The 512x342 Mystery: Why the Original Mac Had That Resolution

2025-05-27
The 512x342 Mystery: Why the Original Mac Had That Resolution

Why did the original Macintosh use a non-standard 512x342 resolution instead of the more common 512x384? This article delves into the reasons, revealing it wasn't simply a matter of technical limitations. The 128KB memory constraint, the CPU resource usage for a 60Hz refresh rate, and the pursuit of square pixels for optimal graphics and printing all played a role. This showcases Apple's masterful trade-offs in the original Mac's design, balancing performance, usability, and cost to achieve a surprisingly impressive product for its time.

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(512pixels.net)
Hardware Apple History

The College Tuition Myth: It's Cheaper Than You Think

2025-02-23
The College Tuition Myth: It's Cheaper Than You Think

Despite widespread belief that college tuition is skyrocketing, data reveals a different story. Since 2014, public four-year college tuition has actually fallen by 21% in real terms, while private college tuition is down 12% after adjusting for inflation. This is due to a peculiar pricing strategy: universities set a high sticker price, then offer substantial financial aid to low-income students, effectively subsidizing their education. This creates a huge gap between the published cost and the net price, with the public fixating on the inflated sticker price. While sticker prices continue to rise, net prices are falling, thanks to increased federal Pell Grants, rebounding state appropriations, and colleges offering more aid. With the number of 18-year-olds peaking this year before a long decline, competition for students will intensify, likely pushing net tuition further down. However, public perception remains skewed, leading many to miss out on higher education and eroding confidence in the system.

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(www.theatlantic.com)
Misc higher education tuition financial aid

Manus: Context Engineering for Efficient AI Agents

2025-09-24
Manus: Context Engineering for Efficient AI Agents

The Manus project team chose to leverage the in-context learning capabilities of existing models instead of training large models from scratch when building their AI agent. The article distills four key learnings: 1. Optimize KV cache hit rate by keeping prompt prefixes stable, appending to context, and explicitly marking cache breakpoints; 2. Mask, don't remove, tools; dynamically manage tool availability to avoid cache invalidation and model confusion; 3. Use the file system as external memory for persistent, unlimited context; 4. Manipulate attention by reiterating objectives and retaining error information for learning. These practices significantly improve AI agent performance and stability, offering valuable insights for building efficient AI agents.

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(manus.im)
AI

AI Winter: A Season of Joblessness for a Senior Software Engineer

2025-05-13
AI Winter: A Season of Joblessness for a Senior Software Engineer

A senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience recounts his struggles with unemployment in the wake of the AI revolution. Owning three houses, he's forced to rely on Doordash to survive after losing his job due to AI-driven layoffs. Despite upskilling, creating YouTube content, and considering career pivots, he's found little success. He calls for a societal reevaluation of work and money's role in life, arguing that relying solely on labor for survival is no longer viable in the age of AI.

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(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
Tech AI unemployment

Inria's Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm: Elegance Under Memory Constraints (1980s)

2025-06-04
Inria's Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm: Elegance Under Memory Constraints (1980s)

This article recounts the story of an efficient chain-linking algorithm developed at Inria in the 1980s, a time when memory was scarce. Developed by Gérard Giraudon's team, the algorithm cleverly addressed memory limitations, processing image contours using only three lines of memory. Now preserved by Software Heritage, this work showcases the innovative spirit of the era and offers a unique perspective on computer vision. Its efficiency remains remarkable even in today's memory-rich environment.

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(www.softwareheritage.org)
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Focused Ultrasound Stimulation: A Revolutionary Treatment for Inflammation and Metabolic Diseases?

2025-06-09
Focused Ultrasound Stimulation: A Revolutionary Treatment for Inflammation and Metabolic Diseases?

Exciting research suggests that focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS), a non-invasive technique using sound waves to treat diseases, holds promise as a revolutionary therapy for inflammatory diseases (like arthritis) and metabolic disorders (like obesity and diabetes). Researchers found that FUS can suppress inflammatory responses by stimulating nerves in the spleen, achieving significant results in animal and human trials. The technique is non-surgical and may eventually be delivered via wearable devices at home. While clinical application is still years away, FUS opens new avenues for precise treatment and could reduce reliance on pharmaceuticals.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
Tech Focused Ultrasound Stimulation Inflammation Metabolic Diseases

The Enigma of Time Spent on Error Handling in Software Development

2025-09-19

A software engineer struggles to find research quantifying the time developers spend on error detection and handling code. While it's widely believed this constitutes a significant portion, perhaps exceeding two-thirds of production code, reliable figures are lacking. This contrasts with the precise quantification of various metrics in current AI research, highlighting a gap in understanding fundamental aspects of software engineering.

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(third-bit.com)
Development code proportion

Agent Experience (AX): Designing for the Rise of AI Agents

2025-02-07
Agent Experience (AX): Designing for the Rise of AI Agents

AI agents like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how we interact with apps. This article argues that we need to shift from focusing solely on User Experience (UX) to Agent Experience (AX), emphasizing secure, transparent, and user-consented machine access to data and actions. OAuth is presented as the key to secure, controlled agent access, offering granular permissions and revocation. Key elements for great AX include clean APIs, easy onboarding, frictionless agent operations, and tiered authentication. The article concludes by advocating for all apps to become OAuth providers, building an open AX ecosystem for a competitive advantage.

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(stytch.com)
AI AI Agents Agent Experience

Hacker News: C64 Audio/Video Cable Swap Demo

2025-04-20

At Revision 2025, a demo called "Signal Carnival" showcased a groundbreaking feat: swapping the audio and video cables of a Commodore 64 and still producing meaningful audio and video. This isn't a simple miswiring; it cleverly uses the C64's VIC and SID chips, driving audio with the video signal and vice versa. The demo even plays audio during loading, featuring a custom loader with on-the-fly GCR decoding. This demonstrates the unexpected potential of the C64 and impressive programming skills.

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(www.quiss.org)
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Classic Novels: Training Data for Full-Spectrum Thinking

2025-06-04
Classic Novels: Training Data for Full-Spectrum Thinking

This essay explores the value of reading classic novels like Middlemarch and Bleak House. The author argues that these novels offer more than entertainment; they train 'full-spectrum thinking,' encompassing multiple dimensions (mind, family, career, community, economy, technology, politics) to understand events and characters. Using Middlemarch as an example, the author explains how the novel integrates these dimensions, showing the connection between character destinies and societal changes. While Dickens excels at depicting the lower classes and bureaucracy, his character depth is less developed. The author calls for more novels with a full-spectrum perspective and reflects on whether the current cultural environment hinders such writing.

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(adjacentpossible.substack.com)
Misc full-spectrum thinking

Biofilm Geometry: How Local Interactions Shape Macroscopic Structures

2025-04-22
Biofilm Geometry: How Local Interactions Shape Macroscopic Structures

New research unveils the geometric secrets of bacterial biofilm growth. Researchers discovered that the contact angle of cells at the biofilm's edge dictates growth patterns, impacting overall fitness. A high contact angle leads to increased vertical growth, while a low contact angle promotes horizontal spread. These local cell-cell interactions ultimately shape the macroscopic structure of the entire biofilm, offering insights into how cell collectives form multicellular individuals.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
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