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El Salvador Ditches Bitcoin as Legal Tender: A Failed Economic Gamble

2025-02-04
El Salvador Ditches Bitcoin as Legal Tender: A Failed Economic Gamble

El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, has reversed course. President Nayib Bukele's economic gamble has failed, with Bitcoin never gaining widespread adoption among Salvadorans and the planned Bitcoin City remaining unbuilt. A revised Bitcoin Law removes the definition of Bitcoin as 'currency,' though it remains 'legal tender,' effectively allowing refusal of Bitcoin payments. This reform was a key condition for El Salvador to receive a $1.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While the government claims it will continue holding Bitcoin reserves, the move is criticized for its lack of transparency and highlights flawed economic decision-making by the Bukele administration.

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(ticotimes.net)
Tech El Salvador Economic Policy

Half-Life and Steam's DRM Journey: It Started with a Nephew's CD Burner

2025-03-24
Half-Life and Steam's DRM Journey: It Started with a Nephew's CD Burner

In 1998, Valve co-founder Monica Harrington's nephew used money intended for school supplies to buy a CD burner, then copied and shared games, prompting her to realize the threat of game piracy enabled by this technology. This led Valve to implement a simple CD key verification system in Half-Life. While initially met with complaints, it effectively combated piracy and laid the groundwork for the eventual rise of Steam as a dominant DRM platform.

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(arstechnica.com)
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A Year of Daily Coding: Lessons Learned

2025-03-12
A Year of Daily Coding: Lessons Learned

This post recounts a year-long commitment to daily coding and publishing to Github, resulting in approximately 100,000 lines of code. The author details the challenges and triumphs, highlighting key takeaways: software development is hard but perseverance pays off; iteration is crucial; confidence builds over time; rest is essential; asking for help is a valuable skill; challenging yourself leads to growth; and failure is part of the process. Looking ahead, the author plans to continue the daily practice, improve their project Vewrite, and explore new ideas.

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(www.ramijames.com)
Development consistent learning

Raft: Simplifying Consensus in Distributed Systems

2025-08-17

Raft is a consensus algorithm designed for ease of understanding. It offers fault-tolerance and performance equivalent to Paxos, but decomposes the problem into simpler, independent subproblems, making it more practical. Consensus is fundamental in fault-tolerant distributed systems, requiring multiple servers to agree on values. Raft ensures that even with server failures (as long as a majority remain operational), all servers process the same commands, ultimately achieving a consistent state across the replicated state machines.

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Birdsong Echoes Human Language Rule: Zipf's Law Discovered in Avian Vocalizations

2025-08-18
Birdsong Echoes Human Language Rule: Zipf's Law Discovered in Avian Vocalizations

Researchers from the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo have uncovered a hidden pattern in birdsong mirroring a core principle of human language – Zipf's Law of Abbreviation (ZLA). This law states that more frequently used sounds tend to be shorter, increasing communication efficiency. Using a new open-source tool, ZLAvian, they analyzed over 600 songs from 11 bird populations across seven species. While individual variation was significant, the overall data revealed that more frequently used birdsong phrases were shorter on average. This finding offers new insights into animal communication and the potential application of the 'principle of least effort' in avian vocalizations.

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Tencent's Hunyuan3D Model Gets a Speed Boost and Texture Generation

2025-03-20
Tencent's Hunyuan3D Model Gets a Speed Boost and Texture Generation

Tencent has released an updated version of its open-source Hunyuan3D model, featuring a smaller, faster 'mini' variant. This update not only improves inference speed but also adds texture generation capabilities, resulting in significantly enhanced 3D model visuals. Code changes focus on optimized model loading, parameter adjustments, and a streamlined texture generation pipeline with broader file format support. This makes the powerful 3D modeling technology more accessible to a wider range of developers.

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Recreating Apple's WWDC 2025 Liquid Glass Effect with CSS, SVG, and Physics

2025-09-09
Recreating Apple's WWDC 2025 Liquid Glass Effect with CSS, SVG, and Physics

This article delves into recreating the stunning Liquid Glass UI effect showcased at Apple's WWDC 2025. It uses CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations to achieve a convincing approximation. The author explains the principles of refraction, detailing how light bends when passing through different materials and how mathematical functions describe the glass surface shape. SVG displacement maps are then employed to simulate the refraction effect. The article culminates in creating UI components, such as magnifying glasses, search boxes, switches, and sliders, with the Liquid Glass effect. Note that optimal performance is currently seen in Chrome due to browser compatibility with SVG filters as backdrop-filter.

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(kube.io)
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BunkerWeb: Next-Gen Open-Source Web Application Firewall

2025-07-04
BunkerWeb: Next-Gen Open-Source Web Application Firewall

BunkerWeb is a next-generation, open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on NGINX, acting as a full-featured web server that prioritizes security by default. Easily integrated into various environments (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.), it offers a user-friendly web UI and a plugin system for customization. Key features include HTTPS support, ModSecurity WAF integration, automatic banning of suspicious activities, and more. A paid PRO version is available with enhanced features and professional services.

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(docs.bunkerweb.io)
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Continuous LOD Mesh Library: nv_cluster_lod_builder

2025-02-04
Continuous LOD Mesh Library: nv_cluster_lod_builder

nv_cluster_lod_builder is a continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library offering fine-grained control over geometric detail. It precomputes clusters of triangles, selecting a subset at render time for adaptive detail based on camera position. This results in faster rendering and reduced memory usage compared to discrete LOD, especially beneficial for ray tracing. A unique decimation strategy ensures smooth LOD transitions without gaps or overlaps. A spatial hierarchy accelerates cluster selection, and geometry streaming further minimizes memory consumption.

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(github.com)
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Build a Tiny, YubiKey-Secured CA for Your Homelab

2025-01-19
Build a Tiny, YubiKey-Secured CA for Your Homelab

This tutorial walks you through building a secure, YubiKey-protected Certificate Authority (CA) on a Raspberry Pi. Leveraging the open-source step-ca and an optional Infinite Noise TRNG for enhanced randomness, you'll create a miniature internal ACME server for your homelab's TLS needs. The guide covers system setup, PKI creation, CA configuration, adding an ACME provisioner, and implementing systemd services for handling YubiKey removal/insertion. The result? A secure, SSH-less, tiny CA.

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(smallstep.com)
Development certificate authority

The Reliability Crisis in AI Agent Benchmarking

2025-07-11
The Reliability Crisis in AI Agent Benchmarking

Current AI agent benchmarks suffer from a significant reliability crisis. Many benchmarks contain exploitable flaws, leading to severe overestimation or underestimation of agent capabilities. For example, WebArena marks incorrect answers as correct, while others suffer from flawed simulators or lack robust evaluation methods. Researchers propose a 43-item AI Agent Benchmark Checklist (ABC) to improve benchmark reliability and evaluate 10 popular benchmarks, finding major flaws in most. This checklist aims to help benchmark developers and AI model developers build more reliable evaluation methods, enabling a more accurate assessment of AI agent capabilities.

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(ddkang.substack.com)
AI AI evaluation

Framework's First All-in-One Mini PC: Powerful, But Not Upgradable

2025-02-25
Framework's First All-in-One Mini PC: Powerful, But Not Upgradable

Framework has launched its first all-in-one mini PC, boasting a compact 4.5-liter chassis, comparable to a game console. Powered by Ryzen AI Max processors and starting with 32GB of RAM, it's capable of 1440p gaming and workstation tasks. Pricing starts at $1099, topping out at $1999 for the highest configuration. While offering strong performance at a relatively competitive price, its soldered CPU, GPU, and RAM make it non-upgradeable – a significant departure from Framework's usual modular design philosophy.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Radar's HorizonDB: A Rust-Powered Geospatial Database

2025-08-09
Radar's HorizonDB: A Rust-Powered Geospatial Database

Radar processes over 1 billion API calls daily, demanding high-performance geolocation services. To meet this challenge, they built HorizonDB, a geospatial database written in Rust, replacing their previous MongoDB and Elasticsearch setup. HorizonDB consolidates multiple location services and leverages technologies like RocksDB, S2, Tantivy, FSTs, LightGBM, and FastText to achieve millisecond response times and linear scalability. This resulted in significant cost savings, improved developer efficiency, and a robust foundation for future growth.

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(radar.com)
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Doodle Dreams: Bringing Your Drawings to Life

2024-12-27

Doodle Dreams is an app that transforms your hand-drawn doodles into animations. Simply draw your desired characters on paper, scan them using the app, and it will recognize and create animations. You can choose different backgrounds, music, and effects to make your doodles more vivid and engaging. This app is suitable for all ages; whether you're an experienced artist or a beginner, you can easily create your own animated works.

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(doodledreams.cc)
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Google's Android XR Camera Access: As Easy as on Your Phone

2025-02-07
Google's Android XR Camera Access: As Easy as on Your Phone

This article reveals Google's approach to camera access in its Android XR system. Similar to phones, developers can access camera data with user permission, utilizing standard Android Camera APIs (like CameraX) for image streams. While the front camera is accessible (showing a user avatar), the rear camera provides a reconstructed image, not the raw data stream. This mirrors Apple's Vision Pro strategy, ensuring seamless Android app porting to XR devices and maintaining consistent permission requests across phones and headsets. Android XR is currently in preview, so future changes are possible.

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(skarredghost.com)
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The Relentless Cycle of Homelessness: A Two-Year Struggle

2025-02-17
The Relentless Cycle of Homelessness: A Two-Year Struggle

Morrisette, a homeless individual, repeatedly experienced a cycle of setting up camp, having it cleared by authorities, and then rebuilding. For two years, despite the kind assistance of Barrows in applying for housing, he felt despair at failing to qualify for priority placement. This article recounts a poignant story of struggle within the system, highlighting the challenges and intertwined hopes of a homeless person seeking help.

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(sfstandard.com)
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Level Up Your Digital Hygiene: A Practical Guide to Online Security

2025-03-19
Level Up Your Digital Hygiene: A Practical Guide to Online Security

This comprehensive guide outlines practical steps to enhance your digital security, covering everything from essential password managers and hardware security keys to more advanced techniques like disk encryption, VPNs, and network monitoring. The author stresses the importance of avoiding 'smart' devices, utilizing privacy-focused browsers and search engines, and protecting personal information. They share their preferred tools and strategies, including 1Password, YubiKey, Signal, and Brave browser, aiming to empower readers to build a more secure digital life and mitigate risks of data breaches and cyberattacks.

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(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
Tech security tools

Kagi Family Plan: A Safer Search Experience for Kids

2025-03-31
Kagi Family Plan: A Safer Search Experience for Kids

Kagi's new Family Plan prioritizes a safe and private search experience for families. It features a kid-friendly interface, parental controls (including whitelisting and blacklisting websites), and AI-powered quick answers with safety warnings and content filtering. Kagi also uses fun avatars, like a poop emoji, to teach kids about online identity and privacy. The plan's unique approach emphasizes child online safety and promotes responsible tech use through engaging, lighthearted methods.

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(help.kagi.com)
Tech family search engine

Budget Cuts to National Weather Service Lead to Delayed Tornado Warnings, Casualties

2025-05-18
Budget Cuts to National Weather Service Lead to Delayed Tornado Warnings, Casualties

Budget cuts to the National Weather Service earlier this year forced some offices to cease 24-hour operations, including the Jackson, Kentucky office, which lost its full-time overnight forecaster. This directly contributed to delayed tornado warnings in a recent devastating storm, resulting in at least 27 deaths and numerous missing persons. The New York Times had previously reported on how these cuts would undermine weather forecasting improvements. Now, a NOAA PR team, under Trump loyalists, is scrambling to deny and downplay the situation. This tragedy highlights the severe consequences of underfunding weather services and raises serious concerns about public safety during future extreme weather events.

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(www.mesoscalenews.com)
Tech weather warning

Walmart Pilots Body Cameras for Employee Safety

2024-12-20
Walmart Pilots Body Cameras for Employee Safety

Walmart is testing body cameras for its employees in select stores to deter conflict and theft. While the company won't disclose specifics, photos have emerged showing employees wearing the cameras and charging stations in stores. The initiative, currently a pilot program in one market, prioritizes employee safety over loss prevention. This follows a trend among retailers to enhance security, with companies like TJX and Greggs also adopting similar measures. The move comes after over 200 violent incidents at Walmart stores in 2023, according to a worker rights group.

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(petapixel.com)
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Tracking Code Changes with Git Hooks: A Data-Driven Approach to Development

2025-03-29

This article presents a method for tracking code modification time using Git hooks to provide a more objective measure of development efficiency. By recording the time from branch creation to merge, excluding thinking time, it offers a clearer reflection of actual coding time. This approach helps teams identify and address inefficiencies in code maintenance, such as excessively long maintenance times for certain components, or efficiency gains from AI tools. The ultimate goal is to optimize the development process, reduce entropy, and boost team productivity through data-driven insights rather than subjective estimations.

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(doocot.sh)
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Warner Bros. Discovery Axes Game Studios, Cancels Wonder Woman Game

2025-02-25
Warner Bros. Discovery Axes Game Studios, Cancels Wonder Woman Game

Warner Bros. Discovery announced sweeping cuts to its games division, shutting down three studios and canceling the planned Wonder Woman game. Monolith Productions (creators of the Middle-earth: Shadow games), Player First Games (developers of the struggling MultiVersus), and WB Games San Diego were all closed due to a disappointing 2024 performance. The company will now focus on four core franchises: Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC, and Game of Thrones, shifting to a strategy of 'fewer but bigger franchises'.

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(www.engadget.com)
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50 Lessons Learned Building Successful Products: Insights from Product for Engineers

2025-03-05
50 Lessons Learned Building Successful Products: Insights from Product for Engineers

Celebrating 50k subscribers, Product for Engineers shares 50 key lessons on building successful products. The article emphasizes the importance of small, autonomous teams, high hiring standards, building trust and transparency, and relying on trust and feedback over process. It also covers defining your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), creating product principles, website design, rapid iteration, agile development, effective communication, clear ownership, user interviews, user support, dogfooding, A/B testing, growth engineering mindset, data analytics, and achieving product-market fit, offering valuable insights for product managers and engineers.

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(newsletter.posthog.com)
Development

Robot Hand Outperforms Humans at Blackberry Harvesting

2025-07-29
Robot Hand Outperforms Humans at Blackberry Harvesting

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a novel soft robotic gripper capable of harvesting blackberries more efficiently than humans. Inspired by the opening and closing of a tulip, the gripper features three soft fingers and force sensors to ensure gentle handling and prevent damage. By measuring the force used by human pickers, researchers optimized the gripper's picking parameters. While further development of computer vision and positioning technologies is needed, the gripper demonstrates potential to surpass human capabilities in efficiency and consistency, promising applications in other soft fruit harvesting and assistive technologies for people with limited mobility.

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(news.uark.edu)
Tech automated harvesting

Punched in the Stomach: A Surreal High-Paying Job

2025-02-18
Punched in the Stomach: A Surreal High-Paying Job

A programmer stumbles upon a job perfectly matching his skills, except for one bizarre detail: getting punched in the stomach by his boss daily. The high salary and benefits outweigh his concerns. The job, as surreal as it sounds, becomes his reality. He adapts, contemplates the meaning of work and life, and eventually quits, embarking on a new chapter. The story explores themes of absurdity, corporate culture, and self-discovery.

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(www.scottsmitelli.com)
Misc absurdity life purpose

Intel Quietly Slashes Xeon 6 CPU Prices by Up to $5,340

2025-01-28
Intel Quietly Slashes Xeon 6 CPU Prices by Up to $5,340

Intel unexpectedly slashed prices on its latest Xeon 6 'Granite Rapids' processors, just four months after their release. The flagship model now costs $12,460, a $5,340 drop. This makes Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs cheaper than AMD's EPYC processors, both in absolute terms and per-core. While unannounced officially, the price cuts are reflected in Intel's online database. Reductions vary by model, reaching up to 30% for some, with certain models undercutting AMD's per-core pricing. This move may be a response to declining market share or an attempt to boost sales. However, these prices are based on Intel's Recommended Customer Price (RCP) for 1,000 units; large-scale buyers will likely have negotiated different prices.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
Hardware Xeon Price Cuts

Debian's Controversial Approach to Rust Dependency Handling

2024-12-26

Debian's integration of Rust has been a long-standing effort, but its dependency handling approach has become a point of contention. Author Ian Jackson argues that faithfully following Rust's Semantic Versioning (semver) in Debian package dependencies is impractical. Fundamental differences exist between Debian's and Rust's dependency management semantics, leading to significant manual work when directly translating Rust's version dependencies. Jackson proposes a radical solution: Debian shouldn't precisely follow upstream Rust semver dependency information, but instead optimistically try various package combinations, letting automated QA discover and fix breakages. This approach, while violating semver, is argued to be mitigated by the Rust community's emphasis on API safety and change notifications, along with Debian's QA mechanisms. The proposal aims to improve the update efficiency of Debian Rust packages, but it might also lead to some dependency combinations failing.

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(diziet.dreamwidth.org)
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LLMs Fail Spectacularly on Niche Knowledge: A Brachiosaurus Case Study

2025-02-15
LLMs Fail Spectacularly on Niche Knowledge: A Brachiosaurus Case Study

A blog post exposes the critical flaws of Large Language Models (LLMs) when dealing with specialized knowledge. Using the taxonomy of the Brachiosaurus genus as an example, the author demonstrates ChatGPT's significant errors in answering related questions. These errors are not just factual inaccuracies; they're presented in a deceptively plausible manner. This highlights that LLMs are not omniscient and their output is unreliable in areas lacking robust data support. Users need domain expertise to discern truth from falsehood. The author cautions against blindly trusting LLM outputs and recommends verifying answers.

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(svpow.com)
AI Knowledge Gaps Scientific Accuracy

DOGE: An Unprecedented National Cyberattack

2025-02-13

A department called "DOGE" has gained unauthorized access to critical US government systems, including the Treasury Department, USAID, and the Office of Personnel Management. They obtained sensitive data, including trillions in federal payments, classified information, and personal data of millions of federal employees. This wasn't a sophisticated external hack, but an internal breach, unprecedented in its audacity and impact. While some access has been blocked, copied data and potential vulnerabilities remain. The situation poses a grave national security threat, demanding immediate action to restore system integrity and security protocols before irreversible damage occurs.

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(www.schneier.com)
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