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Temporal API: Revolutionizing Date and Time Handling in JavaScript

2025-01-30
Temporal API: Revolutionizing Date and Time Handling in JavaScript

The Temporal API simplifies date and time manipulation in JavaScript. It supports various calendar systems (like the Chinese Lunar calendar), handles time zone conversions seamlessly, and offers intuitive comparison methods. For example, it can calculate the next Chinese New Year or determine the duration until a future Unix timestamp. While `toLocaleString` behavior varies slightly across browser implementations, the Temporal API offers robust date and time operations, making it a boon for developers.

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(developer.mozilla.org)
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Making Metal on Mars: In-Situ Resource Utilization for Martian Settlements

2025-09-07
Making Metal on Mars: In-Situ Resource Utilization for Martian Settlements

Transporting metals from Earth to Mars is prohibitively expensive. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO are exploring in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) by producing metals from Martian regolith. They've successfully produced iron using a regolith simulant, paving the way for sustainable metal production on Mars and potentially revolutionizing metallurgy on Earth.

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(www.csiro.au)
Tech metal production ISRU

AI Cheats: Why You Didn't Notice Your Teammate Was Cheating

2025-04-03
AI Cheats: Why You Didn't Notice Your Teammate Was Cheating

Game cheating has evolved rapidly, from memory-reading aimbots to colorbots, and now AI-powered aim assist. A veteran cheat developer shares their journey, starting at age 12, detailing the inner workings of AI cheats. These cheats, essentially advanced colorbots, use AI models to identify enemies, making them incredibly difficult to detect. While modern cheats are expensive and risky, their subtlety makes them nearly invisible unless poorly configured. The article reveals the latest trends in game cheating and the challenges faced by anti-cheat technology.

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(niila.fi)
Game

Firefly's Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Enters Lunar Orbit

2025-02-16

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, launched from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, has successfully entered lunar orbit. This CLPS mission carries a record-breaking 10 NASA payloads designed for various scientific experiments, including studying lunar heat flow and the plume generated during landing. After final preparations, the lander is scheduled to touch down near Mare Crisium on March 2nd.

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(spaceflightnow.com)
Tech lunar lander Firefly Aerospace

Building a Link Blog: Inspired by Simon Willison

2025-02-04

Inspired by blogger Simon Willison, I've started a link blog to share interesting web links along with my personal comments and thoughts. Simon's blog is known for its AI content and high-quality links, where he adds personal insights and even code snippets, inspiring my approach to personal knowledge management and sharing. I used to struggle with the uniqueness and value of my posts, but Simon emphasizes the importance of consistent writing and accumulating work over time. My link blog will be a combination of public bookmarks and my commentary, aiming to enhance the reader's experience by adding context, connecting to related topics, and supplementing with background information or other sources.

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(xuanwo.io)
Development link blog

Network States: Utopian Fantasy or Dystopian Nightmare?

2025-02-05
Network States: Utopian Fantasy or Dystopian Nightmare?

Balaji Srinivasan's new book, *The Network State*, envisions a new social contract powered by Web3 technology, proposing the creation of 'startup countries' via blockchain. These 'network states' would consist of highly aligned online communities crowdfunding territory globally, eventually gaining diplomatic recognition. Critics argue this model resembles an archipelago of 'privatopias', exacerbating inequality and suppressing democratic participation with its simplistic 'one-commandment' governance. Instead of fragmented network states, leveraging network technology to build a more inclusive and participatory network society to solve real-world problems is proposed as a more viable solution.

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(www.cip.org)
Tech Network Governance

Prolog Planners from LLMs: A Surprisingly Effective Approach

2025-04-02

This paper explores using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate Prolog planners, leveraging Prolog's combinatorial search capabilities. The authors argue that LLMs are better suited for translating natural language into Prolog than for planning directly. Their approach involves prompting an LLM to translate problem descriptions into Prolog code, which is then used by a Prolog engine to perform the planning. A detailed prompting guide is provided, focusing on generating state facts, action predicates, and check predicates. This approach bypasses limitations of LLMs in direct planning while utilizing Prolog's strengths in logical reasoning and combinatorial search. The method is shown to be effective on various toy planning problems.

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(quantumprolog.sgml.net)
Development Automated Planning

Conquering Makefiles: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-06-20

This guide demystifies Makefiles, tackling their often-confusing syntax and hidden rules. It starts with the basics, progressing through syntax, variables, functions, and advanced techniques, all illustrated with runnable examples. The guide culminates in a practical Makefile template for medium-sized projects, making it a valuable resource for developers of all levels.

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(makefiletutorial.com)
Development

Drawing World Flags with Python's Turtle Graphics Library

2025-01-21

This post details the author's journey of using Python's Turtle graphics library to draw flags of various countries by parsing SVG files. Starting from a simple Java drawing exercise, the author progressed to a more complex SVG parsing implementation using Python and Turtle. They overcame numerous challenges including coordinate transformation, Bézier curve rendering, and style application. The author successfully rendered a large number of flags, including complex ones previously considered 'impossible,' such as the flag of Wales. While some issues remain unresolved, this post showcases the author's programming skills and persistence.

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(jtanx.github.io)
Development

Simulated SPI RAM on RP2040: A High-Performance Implementation

2025-07-06
Simulated SPI RAM on RP2040: A High-Performance Implementation

This project simulates an SPI RAM, similar to a 23LC512, on the RP2040 microcontroller. It supports READ, WRITE, and FAST READ commands, leveraging PIO and DMA for efficient data transfer. To meet stringent timing requirements, the simulated RAM utilizes Core1 and optimized PIO programs to minimize latency. While currently not supporting aborting operations before data transfer begins, this project offers an effective way to achieve high-performance SPI RAM on the RP2040.

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(github.com)
Hardware

Hubble and Webb Face Operational Cuts Amidst Budgetary Constraints

2025-07-14
Hubble and Webb Face Operational Cuts Amidst Budgetary Constraints

NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, two of its most productive observatories, are facing operational cuts due to budget limitations. Hubble's budget has remained stagnant for a decade, decreasing its purchasing power, while proposed cuts to Webb's budget could reach 25%. This will likely result in fewer telescope modes, reduced user support, and staff reductions. While Webb is performing exceptionally well and has enough fuel for over 20 years, its operational budget, set in 2011, was optimistically low, compounded by inflation. Hubble, despite exceeding its lifespan, requires continued funding for operation. These cuts threaten the scientific output of both telescopes and represent a significant loss to the scientific community.

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(www.astronomy.com)
Tech Space Telescopes

Tom Wolfe: Did He Kill Democracy?

2025-03-04
Tom Wolfe: Did He Kill Democracy?

This article reflects on the legacy of Tom Wolfe, exploring his profound impact on journalism and the decline of his distinctive style. The author recounts a personal interview with Wolfe and analyzes his insightful portrayals of class, status, and social observation. The piece examines the rise and fall of New Journalism and questions how to recapture Wolfe's sharp, engaging, and objective reporting style in today's fragmented and highly polarized media landscape. While acknowledging the near impossibility of replicating Wolfe's approach in the current climate, the author suggests his keen social observation and unique writing style remain invaluable.

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(commonreader.wustl.edu)
Misc New Journalism Tom Wolfe Media Criticism

Google Utopia Gone Wrong: Locked Out of Paradise

2025-06-17
Google Utopia Gone Wrong: Locked Out of Paradise

A devoted Google fanboy moves into a Google-designed smart city. Initially, life is idyllic, but a seemingly arbitrary violation of terms of service results in him being locked out of his apartment and all his Google-connected devices. His attempts to regain access lead to a Kafkaesque legal battle and imprisonment. The story satirizes over-reliance on technology, loss of autonomy, and the potential dangers of unchecked corporate control over personal lives.

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(theandrewbailey.com)
Misc Privacy Risks Tech Dependence

Alibaba Unveils its First Server-Grade CPU, Boosting China's Chip Self-Sufficiency

2025-03-03
Alibaba Unveils its First Server-Grade CPU, Boosting China's Chip Self-Sufficiency

Alibaba's Damo Academy launched its first server-grade CPU, the C930, part of its XuanTie RISC-V processor series. Shipping to clients in March, the chip is a key step in China's efforts to enhance its semiconductor independence amidst US export controls. Targeting high-performance computing, Alibaba also plans further XuanTie chips for AI acceleration, automotive applications, and high-speed interconnection. This move aligns with China's increased investment in RISC-V, reducing reliance on foreign technology, and fostering military-civilian tech integration. It also complements Alibaba's planned 380 billion yuan investment in AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years, supporting the burgeoning demand for AI applications in China.

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(www.hpcwire.com)
Tech Chip Self-Sufficiency

Quiet Quitting: A Symptom of Workplace Imbalance

2025-01-26
Quiet Quitting: A Symptom of Workplace Imbalance

The recent surge in 'quiet quitting' and 'soft quitting' isn't about laziness; it's a response to unfair compensation, excessive workloads, and a lack of work-life balance. Employees aren't necessarily uncaring, but seek alignment between work and personal well-being. The article argues that businesses must address employee needs through fair pay, flexible arrangements, and meaningful work to avoid massive economic losses from disengagement. Fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration is key to creating a more effective and engaging workplace.

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(www.forbes.com)
Startup quiet quitting

Motion Sickness in Gaming: An Often-Overlooked Accessibility Issue

2025-02-04
Motion Sickness in Gaming: An Often-Overlooked Accessibility Issue

Up to one-third of gamers experience motion sickness, significantly impacting their gaming experience. This article explores the causes of motion sickness—a mismatch between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's perception of movement—and common triggers in games, such as field of view, screen shake, motion blur, etc. The article argues that game developers should provide more accessibility options, such as FOV sliders, FPS targets, and the ability to turn off motion bobbing, to improve game accessibility. Using personal experiences and Minecraft's accessibility settings as examples, the author emphasizes the importance of considering accessibility from the initial stages of game development. The article also points out that the misuse of accessibility options by some players highlights not a problem with the options themselves, but rather flaws in game design.

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(madelinemiller.dev)
Game motion sickness game accessibility

Revisiting Barricelli's Cellular Automata: Spontaneous Generation of Life

2025-01-07

This article explores the work of Nils Aall Barricelli, who pioneered cellular automata 15 years before John Conway. Barricelli's 'symbioorganisms' model, in a finite, circular 1D space, simulates the movement and interaction of different elements through simple rules of collision elimination, positional replication, and mutation. The simulations reveal that even with simple rules, stable periodic patterns spontaneously emerge, resembling the spontaneous generation of life. The author delves into the stability of these patterns and proposes combining early universe simulations with simulations of abiogenesis to find more efficient ways to explore life's origins.

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(akkartik.name)
AI abiogenesis complex systems

Pony: A High-Performance, Secure Actor-Model Language

2025-07-29

Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. Its unique actor model ensures safe and efficient concurrent programming. Ready to dive in? Try the Pony Playground in your browser! Learn more about Pony's design and advantages by reading its early history.

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(www.ponylang.io)
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Tesla Recalls Entire Cybertruck Fleet: Falling Trim Pieces Force Massive Recall

2025-03-20
Tesla Recalls Entire Cybertruck Fleet: Falling Trim Pieces Force Massive Recall

Tesla has issued a recall for all 46,096 Cybertrucks produced between November 2023 and February 2025. The recall addresses a faulty adhesive causing stainless steel roof trim panels to detach while driving. Owners must bring their vehicles to dealerships for repairs involving a stronger adhesive and reinforcement. This marks the eighth recall for the Cybertruck since deliveries began in 2023, although previous recalls were often software-based. This one requires physical intervention.

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(www.carscoops.com)
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Nvidia's Valuation: A Looming Bubble?

2025-01-26
Nvidia's Valuation: A Looming Bubble?

A former hedge fund analyst and current AI developer expresses concerns about Nvidia's stock valuation. While AI is booming and Nvidia enjoys a GPU monopoly, its high valuation faces multiple threats: a new "inference compute" scaling law suggests lower-than-expected compute demand; innovative chip architectures from Cerebras and Groq circumvent Nvidia's interconnect advantage; major tech companies are developing custom silicon, eroding Nvidia's market share; new software frameworks reduce CUDA dependency; and DeepSeek's efficient model training drastically cuts compute costs. These factors combined could lead to lower revenue growth and margins for Nvidia, making its current high valuation unsustainable.

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(youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
Tech

Resist Real ID: A Fight for Freedom

2025-04-02
Resist Real ID: A Fight for Freedom

Real ID, a federally mandated driver's license, is set to become mandatory. The author argues that Real ID demands excessive personal information, increasing the risk of identity theft and government surveillance. It essentially creates an internal passport, restricting citizen freedom. The author calls for a boycott of Real ID, deeming it a necessary act of defending liberty. The author suggests legislative action to halt its implementation, even advocating for a government shutdown if necessary.

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(www.zocalopublicsquare.org)
Misc civil liberties

Resurrecting a 25-Year-Old Tape Driver with AI

2025-09-08

The author enjoys recovering data from old QIC-80 tapes, a popular backup medium in the 1990s. These tapes require the outdated ftape driver, only compatible with very old Linux versions (CentOS 3.5). Using Claude Code, an AI model, the author modernized the ftape driver to compile and run on modern Linux kernels. Through iterations and minor manual adjustments, a loadable kernel module was created, successfully reading test tapes on Xubuntu 24.04. The author shares lessons learned collaborating with AI, emphasizing clear instructions, understanding AI limitations, and leveraging AI as a skill multiplier.

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(dmitrybrant.com)
Development

AI Addiction: A Growing Concern and the 12-Step Solution

2025-07-11

The rise of AI technologies has brought about a new form of digital addiction: AI addiction. This article introduces Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous (ITAA), a 12-step fellowship supporting recovery from internet and technology addiction, including AI-related issues. It details symptoms, effects, and recovery strategies, offering a self-assessment questionnaire to help identify potential AI addiction. ITAA provides free, anonymous online and in-person meetings, encouraging members to recover through mutual support, abstinence, and seeking professional help when needed. The article emphasizes the serious impact of AI addiction, mirroring the effects of substance abuse on the brain and overall well-being.

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(internetaddictsanonymous.org)
AI AI addiction

Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30: A Small Model Revolution

2025-01-28
Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30: A Small Model Revolution

A Berkeley AI team replicated DeepSeek R1-Zero's core technology for under $30, demonstrating sophisticated reasoning in a small (1.5B parameter) language model. Using the countdown game as a benchmark, they showed that even modest models can develop complex problem-solving strategies via reinforcement learning, achieving performance comparable to larger systems. This breakthrough democratizes AI research, proving that significant advancements don't require massive resources.

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(xyzlabs.substack.com)
AI Small Model AI AI Revolution Small Model AI Research Cost-Effective AI Small Language Models AI Cost

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

2025-01-06
Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

A University of Waterloo intern attempted to build an app using LLMs and the Greptile API to generate memes that roast GitHub repositories. The process proved unexpectedly challenging. Directly prompting the LLM for roasts yielded generic results. The solution involved separating the task into code analysis (using Greptile to pinpoint specific issues) and roast generation (using the LLM to create targeted humor). Image generation proved difficult due to limitations in handling text, leading to the use of pre-built meme templates and node-canvas for text insertion. Despite the hurdles, the project culminated in reporoast.com, a website capable of generating custom code-roasting memes.

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(www.greptile.com)
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Was Houdini a Spy? The Magician's Secret Life and the CIA's Lost Manuals

2025-04-03

Harry Houdini, the world-famous magician, had a profound, unexpected influence on espionage. Declassified CIA documents reveal that the agency used Houdini's escape techniques, among others, to train clandestine officers in deception. While rumors persist of Houdini acting as a spy for various agencies, concrete evidence remains scarce. Historians debate whether he was a full-fledged spy or simply an 'observer' providing intelligence to President Theodore Roosevelt. This intriguing story blends magic, espionage, and historical mystery.

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(www.cia.gov)
Misc Houdini Magic

Firefox and the Silent Audio Killer: How Websites Waste Your CPU and Battery

2025-02-15

The author discovered annoying white noise in Firefox, stemming from websites inefficiently using the WebAudio API's AudioContext. Many sites create and leave AudioContexts active even without playing audio, leading to excessive CPU and battery drain. While Chrome automatically suspends unused AudioContexts, Firefox doesn't, prompting the author to create a browser extension to mitigate the issue. This extension automatically suspends AudioContexts and attempts to resume them when sound is needed, saving resources.

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(h.43z.one)
Development browser performance

Critical Apple Chip Flaws: FLOP and SLAP Attacks

2025-01-28
Critical Apple Chip Flaws: FLOP and SLAP Attacks

Researchers discovered two critical vulnerabilities, dubbed FLOP and SLAP, in Apple's M-series and A-series chips. FLOP exploits the chip's load value predictor (LVP) to steal sensitive data from Chrome and Safari browsers, including information from Gmail, iCloud, and Google Maps. SLAP, targeting primarily Safari, leverages the load address predictor (LAP) for similar data theft. Affected devices include iPhones, iPads, and Macs released since September 2021. While Apple claims to be assessing the risk, researchers have published mitigations and recommend users update their systems.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech Apple chip vulnerabilities security risk FLOP and SLAP attacks
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