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Local-First & Ejectable Apps: The Future of Data Ownership

2025-03-16

Cloud apps offer convenience, but traditional desktop software provides better data ownership. 'Ejectable' apps bridge this gap, letting users self-host the backend sync server. This means saving a workspace and downloading a server executable, allowing seamless switching between cloud and local versions. Data remains accessible even if the cloud service shuts down, ensuring longevity like classic apps like DOOM.EXE. The author highlights Thymer as an example of this approach.

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(thymer.com)
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Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions

2025-01-27

This article demonstrates how to enhance SQLite's capabilities by integrating Ruby functions. The author creates User-Defined Functions (UDFs) to directly call Ruby code within SQL queries, enabling features like generating time-ordered UUIDs, performing regex matching, and calculating statistical measures (e.g., standard deviation and percentiles). The article also explores using the SQLITE_DIRECTONLY flag to prevent issues when accessing custom functions outside the application's process. Overall, this provides a powerful way to boost SQLite's flexibility and functionality, particularly useful for data exploration and analysis.

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(blog.julik.nl)
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FPGA-Powered Retro Console Recreates the PlayStation Experience

2025-01-28
FPGA-Powered Retro Console Recreates the PlayStation Experience

Retro Remake's SuperStation One, a $180 FPGA-based PlayStation clone, is set to launch in Q4 2025. This console boasts compatibility with original PlayStation accessories and supports other MiSTer FPGA cores, offering versatility beyond PlayStation games. Featuring modern connectivity like HDMI and USB-C, the SuperStation One also offers an optional SuperDock for playing original PlayStation discs. Its FPGA emulation ensures accurate game performance and low latency.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Kremlin's Assassination Plot Against Investigative Journalist Foiled

2025-03-07
Kremlin's Assassination Plot Against Investigative Journalist Foiled

An investigative journalist exposed a chilling plot by the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly assassinate him. The plan, orchestrated by Russian security service operatives, involved forged documents, a clandestine route, and a violent attack, even considering the use of poison or explosives. Despite its meticulous planning, British authorities intervened, dismantling the criminal operation and bringing several suspects to justice.

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(theins.press)
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CodeCrafters' Lightning-Fast Interview Process: Get Hired in 2 Days!

2025-02-05
CodeCrafters' Lightning-Fast Interview Process: Get Hired in 2 Days!

CodeCrafters boasts a remarkably quick interview process, completing all steps within 1-2 days. It involves: a 15-30 minute introductory Zoom call to get acquainted; a 2-3 hour CodeCrafters challenge completed semi-live over Zoom, using your preferred language, focusing on problem-solving and code structure (practicing beforehand is allowed); and a final 30-60 minute Zoom call to discuss work history and timelines.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Microsoft's New Surfaces: Intel-Powered Models Cost $400 More

2025-01-31
Microsoft's New Surfaces: Intel-Powered Models Cost $400 More

Microsoft launched new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models for business customers, powered by Intel's Core Ultra processors. These are $400 more expensive than their Qualcomm Snapdragon-based counterparts. The Intel-based models start at $1499 with a second-gen Core Ultra 5 processor, 16GB RAM, and 256GB storage. Qualcomm-based Surfaces start at $1099. Consumer models currently only offer Qualcomm options. Available February 18th, the new Surfaces support Microsoft's new AI-enhanced mobile device management portal.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Albion Online Players Targeted in EFF Impersonation Phishing Campaign

2025-03-06
Albion Online Players Targeted in EFF Impersonation Phishing Campaign

A threat actor impersonated the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to target Albion Online players using decoy documents and malware. An exposed directory contained malware (Steal and Pyramid C2) alongside fake EFF reports. Analysis linked the operation to a Russian-speaking developer and 11 servers sharing SSH keys. Phishing messages claimed EFF was investigating account theft, luring players to malicious links. The incident highlights the danger of threat actors leveraging the trust associated with well-known organizations.

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(hunt.io)
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Spark 1.2 Released: A Major Leap in GPU Texture Compression

2025-03-09

Spark 1.2 is finally here! This real-time GPU texture compression solution boasts major optimizations, new compression formats, and expanded platform support. This release focuses on improving vectorization performance on RDNA, consoles, and Mali GPUs, and includes many unexpected features such as an improved EAC codec, new BC3-YCoCg and HDR codecs, and an ETC2 codec. The development team will focus more on long-term goals, rather than chasing feature requests from potential clients who haven't committed to a license yet. Spark 1.2 also supports Android TV and consoles, and features improved ASTC 6x6 and streaming codecs, as well as sideband data codecs, significantly improving compression quality and performance.

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(www.ludicon.com)
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GPT-4o mini TTS: Text-to-Speech Made Easy

2025-03-24
GPT-4o mini TTS: Text-to-Speech Made Easy

This tool leverages OpenAI's GPT-4o mini TTS API to transform text into natural-sounding speech. It's a three-step process: input your text, customize settings (six voices and adjustable speed), and generate high-quality audio. The audio streams directly to your browser, never stored on our servers. Experiment with different voices and speeds to find the perfect fit!

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(hitts.cc)
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GitMCP: Empowering AI to Deeply Understand GitHub Code

2025-04-03
GitMCP: Empowering AI to Deeply Understand GitHub Code

GitMCP creates a dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for any GitHub project, allowing AI assistants to understand your code within its context. It reads files like README.md and code comments, providing AI assistants with more accurate and relevant information. Setup is straightforward; simply point to your GitHub repository and connect your AI tools. GitMCP works seamlessly with any public GitHub repository and GitHub Pages, making your documentation and code easily accessible to AI tools.

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(gitmcp.io)
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Marker Fading: A Shocking 6-Month Test

2025-07-07
Marker Fading: A Shocking 6-Month Test

A six-month test revealed shocking lightfastness issues with markers. Alcohol-based markers, including expensive brands like Copic and Winsor & Newton, faded significantly, with some colors disappearing entirely. Water-based markers fared little better, showing considerable fading. However, some lightfast markers, such as Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens, Winsor & Newton Watercolour Markers, and Talens Pantone, performed better but still showed fading. To preserve marker artwork, scanning, photography, or framing with UV-resistant glass is recommended, especially for pinks and neons which were the worst performers.

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(sarahrenaeclark.com)
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Toxic Legacy: Dried-Up Reservoir Reveals a Health Crisis

2025-03-20
Toxic Legacy: Dried-Up Reservoir Reveals a Health Crisis

Jesús displays infected spots on his hands caused by water pollution at the completely dry Endhó Dam reservoir. Independent scientific reports reveal the nearby soil contains numerous toxic substances dumped by chemical plants, causing skin allergies among residents. These include heavy metals like lead and mercury, arsenic, cyanide, nitrates, and other pollutants far exceeding environmental limits. Data suggests at least two generations of locals suffer from serious health issues, including cancer, kidney, and lung diseases.

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(mexicocitywater.longlead.com)
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Building a Silicon Brain: The Future of Neuroscience

2025-01-25
Building a Silicon Brain: The Future of Neuroscience

Researchers at UCSF are using AI and cutting-edge neuroimaging technologies to build a 'silicon brain' that mimics human brain activity. By integrating data from various brain scanning techniques (like fMRI and neuropixel probes), along with text, speech, and behavioral data, they're creating an artificial neural network that replicates human brain activity patterns. This research promises to revolutionize brain-computer interfaces, enabling devices that restore speech or movement without extensive calibration and opening new avenues for diagnosing and treating neuropsychiatric disorders. Ethical considerations, such as data privacy and potential misuse, are also being addressed.

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(magazine.ucsf.edu)
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cppyy: Seamless Python-C++ Interoperability

2025-07-16

cppyy is a runtime Python-C++ bindings generator that allows calling C++ from Python and vice-versa. It achieves high performance, low memory usage, cross-inheritance, and callbacks without language extensions or intermediate languages. Features include runtime template instantiation, automatic object downcasting, and exception mapping. Based on the Cling C++ interpreter, cppyy enables dynamic, interactive mixing of C++ and Python features and even supports modern C++ libraries like Boost. It works with CPython and PyPy, and is optimized for large-scale projects, excelling in performance and memory management.

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(cppyy.readthedocs.io)
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Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

2025-01-31
Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

A new study reveals that human auricular muscles, once used to move our ears, reactivate during challenging listening tasks. Scientists used electromyography to measure muscle activity while participants listened to audiobooks with competing sounds. The results showed increased activity in the superior auricular muscles when hearing was difficult, suggesting these vestigial muscles may play a role in attentional mechanisms. While the muscle movements are minuscule and likely don't improve hearing, their activation could serve as an objective measure of listening effort.

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(www.frontiersin.org)
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Asahi Linux M3 Chipset Support Status

2025-01-26
Asahi Linux M3 Chipset Support Status

The Asahi Linux project's wiki page details its support for Apple's M3 series chips (M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max). The page presents a table outlining the status of various hardware features across different Asahi Linux releases (like linux-asahi, asahi-edge, etc.), including stable support, features under development, and unsupported features. Notably, since the M3 series chips haven't been officially released yet, much of the support status is predictive, based on Apple's past update patterns. The page also highlights implementation details and upstream merging difficulties for certain features (e.g., cpuidle).

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(github.com)
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From Baby Steps to Machine Learning: The Mystery of Pattern Recognition

2025-02-18
From Baby Steps to Machine Learning: The Mystery of Pattern Recognition

Observing his younger brother touching a hot stove and getting burned, the author draws a parallel to machine learning and pattern recognition. A baby's initial understanding of "hot" is built through experience, associating sensory inputs, similar to creating space embeddings in machine learning. As new experiences (like touching a radiator) arise, the baby updates its mental model, a Bayesian update adjusting its understanding of "hot." This highlights how both humans and machine learning rely on pattern recognition: compressing information, generalizing knowledge, and adapting to new evidence. However, humans can also over-find patterns (apophenia), seeing connections where none exist. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of quiet reflection for fostering creativity and pattern formation.

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(fayziev.com)
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Offline vs. Online ML Pipelines: The Key to Scaling AI

2025-05-13
Offline vs. Online ML Pipelines: The Key to Scaling AI

This article highlights the crucial difference between offline and online machine learning pipelines in building scalable AI systems. Offline pipelines handle batch processing, such as data collection, ETL, and model training, while online pipelines serve predictions in real-time or near real-time to users. The article stresses the importance of separating these pipelines and uses a feature pipeline for fine-tuning a summarization SLM as an example. It explains how to build a reproducible, trackable, and scalable dataset generation process using MLOps frameworks like ZenML. This process extracts data from MongoDB, processes it through various stages, and finally publishes it to Hugging Face. Understanding this separation is crucial for building robust, production-level AI systems.

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(decodingml.substack.com)
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QuicklyPDF: Your All-in-One Online PDF Solution

2025-01-03
QuicklyPDF: Your All-in-One Online PDF Solution

QuicklyPDF is a free and easy-to-use online platform offering a comprehensive suite of PDF tools. From basic operations like merging, rotating, deleting, reordering, compressing, and extracting pages, to advanced features such as grayscale conversion and PDF repair, QuicklyPDF handles it all. It supports conversions between PDF and various formats including JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, Word, PowerPoint, TXT, and Excel. Security features include password protection and unlocking. Whether you're an individual or a business, QuicklyPDF streamlines your PDF workflow.

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(quicklypdf.com)
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Subtrace: Wireshark for Your Docker Containers

2025-02-19
Subtrace: Wireshark for Your Docker Containers

Subtrace is like Wireshark, but for Docker containers. It lets developers see all network requests in and out of their backend servers, enabling faster resolution of production issues. It works out-of-the-box with no code changes needed, supports all languages, shows full payloads, headers, status codes, and latency, and boasts less than 100µs performance overhead. Built on Clickhouse and open-source (though currently not accepting pull requests due to resource constraints), Subtrace welcomes feature requests and bug reports.

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(github.com)
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Frequency Shifts Don't Imply Quantum Entanglement: The Tardigrade Case

2025-01-01
Frequency Shifts Don't Imply Quantum Entanglement: The Tardigrade Case

A recent, unpublished manuscript claims to demonstrate quantum entanglement between a superconducting qubit and a tardigrade, sparking much media attention. However, the authors cite a frequency shift in the qubit as evidence, a claim challenged by physicists. This post uses a simple mass-spring system analogy to illustrate the commonplace nature of frequency shifts. Even in quantum systems, frequency is primarily determined by mass and springiness, not entanglement. The author argues the experiment lacks sufficient evidence for quantum entanglement, attributing the observed frequency shift to classical physics.

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(benbrubaker.com)
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Building an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch: The anyon_e Project

2025-01-22
Building an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch: The anyon_e Project

Bryan embarked on an ambitious journey to build a highly integrated open-source laptop, anyon_e, from the ground up. The resulting machine boasts a 4K AMOLED display, a Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, and impressive performance running games like Minecraft and 7B parameter LLMs, all while maintaining ~7 hours of battery life. The project involved designing a custom motherboard around an RK3588 SoC, a dedicated power controller (ESP32-S3), and creating a mechanical keyboard and trackpad. This interdisciplinary endeavor, spanning hardware design, software development, and mechanical engineering, showcases the power of open-source collaboration and the drive to push boundaries.

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(www.byran.ee)
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The Zizians: When Rationalism Goes Wrong

2025-02-01
The Zizians: When Rationalism Goes Wrong

This article delves into the transcontinental Rationalist cult, the "Zizians," implicated in at least six murders since 2022. Following the charismatic leader "Ziz," who espouses a radical philosophy and eccentric theories of cognition, the group initially focused on AI safety and alignment. However, their beliefs morphed into violent actions, highlighting the dark side of the Rationalist movement and its potential for extremism. The article explores the cult's origins, the violence they committed, and the broader implications for the Rationalist community, raising questions about self-improvement gone awry.

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(maxread.substack.com)
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Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview: Conquer the Modern Tech Job Hunt

2025-02-23
Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview: Conquer the Modern Tech Job Hunt

The sequel to the iconic 'Cracking the Coding Interview' is here! 'Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview' tackles the evolved landscape of tech interviews, offering more than 150 new problems with detailed walkthroughs, leveraging data from 100,000+ mock interviews. It goes beyond coding, guiding readers through the entire job search process, from resume optimization and negotiation strategies to understanding company interview rubrics and navigating the psychological challenges of the process. Learn to work smarter, not harder, and land your dream tech job.

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(interviewing.io)
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Google TPUs: A Deep Dive into Hardware-Software Co-design for Extreme Performance and Efficiency

2025-06-22

This article delves into the architecture of Google's TPUs, from single-chip to multi-pod levels, detailing how they achieve extremely high throughput and energy efficiency through systolic arrays, ahead-of-time compilation, and a unique interconnect network. The TPU design philosophy centers on hardware-software co-optimization, where the XLA compiler pre-plans memory accesses, minimizing cache usage and thus power consumption. The article also analyzes the impact of different topologies on training performance and how Google uses OCS to enable flexible TPU slice configurations, improving resource utilization.

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(henryhmko.github.io)
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cURL and Go Security Teams Reject Flawed CVSS Scoring System

2025-01-27
cURL and Go Security Teams Reject Flawed CVSS Scoring System

The cURL and Go security teams have publicly denounced the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) as flawed for assessing vulnerabilities, advocating for more accurate, context-aware approaches. CVSS's one-size-fits-all approach often leads to misleading scores, especially for projects like cURL with billions of installations. Daniel Stenberg, cURL's creator, highlighted CVSS's failure to account for specific contexts, resulting in inflated or inaccurate scores. The Go security team echoed these sentiments, opting for context-driven severity assessments instead. This highlights growing dissatisfaction with CVSS and pushes for better alternatives. However, this context-driven approach faces challenges, as maintainers struggle to accurately gauge all user scenarios. A culture clash between security researchers and open-source maintainers further complicates the issue, with researchers seeking recognition and maintainers focusing on practical impact. The NVD's backlog problem exacerbates the situation.

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(socket.dev)
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Seamless Docker to Podman Migration with a Single Script

2025-02-21
Seamless Docker to Podman Migration with a Single Script

Tired of Docker's complexities? `fly-to-podman` is a simple bash script that effortlessly migrates your Docker containers, images, and volumes to Podman. It preserves your container data and configurations (mounts, ports, etc.), allowing for migration of images, volumes, containers, and networks individually or all at once. Transition to a more secure and streamlined containerization experience without root privileges!

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(github.com)
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The Unix Trinity: dmr, kt, and bwk

2025-02-12

In Unix history, the initials dmr, kt, and bwk represent legendary figures: Dennis M. Ritchie (dmr), co-creator of Unix and the C programming language; Ken Thompson (kt), co-creator of Unix alongside Ritchie; and Brian W. Kernighan (bwk), co-author of influential Unix programs and books like "The C Programming Language" and "The UNIX Programming Environment". These three giants shaped the foundations of Unix and profoundly impacted modern computer science.

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(drio.github.io)
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Senior Dev's Wisdom: Avoiding Rewrites and Efficient Coding

2025-02-03

A senior developer shares their software development philosophy, emphasizing the pitfalls of rewriting code from scratch. They highlight that when a rewrite seems appealing, avoidable mistakes have already been made, such as accumulating technical debt and increasing code complexity. The advice includes alternating between expansion (new features) and consolidation phases, budgeting ample time for polishing and testing, and automating best practices. The importance of considering edge cases and pathological data is stressed, along with writing testable code whose correctness is obvious.

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(qntm.org)
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