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SSHTron: A Multiplayer Lightcycle Game Over SSH

2025-06-14
SSHTron: A Multiplayer Lightcycle Game Over SSH

SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game playable via SSH. Simply connect to sshtron.zachlatta.com and start playing. Use WASD or vim keys to control your cycle. Seven colors are available. Built in ~20 hours at BrickHack 2, the code quality is a work in progress. The project is open-source and supports Docker and Raspberry Pi deployments. A security warning notes potential vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-0777) related to SSH clients; updating your client is recommended.

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(github.com)
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ChatGPT Gets Absolutely Wrecked by a 46-Year-Old Atari 2600

2025-06-14
ChatGPT Gets Absolutely Wrecked by a 46-Year-Old Atari 2600

An engineer pitted ChatGPT against a 46-year-old Atari 2600 running Video Chess. The result? A resounding victory for the retro console. ChatGPT repeatedly made blunders, confusing pieces and losing track of the board, ultimately requesting restarts. This highlights the limitations of large language models in complex strategy games, showcasing their strengths lie in language processing rather than strategic computation. It's a stark contrast to Deep Blue's 1997 victory over Kasparov, underscoring the ongoing evolution of AI.

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(www.cnet.com)
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Open Source Software: Utopia's Ideal and Reality's Struggle

2025-06-14
Open Source Software: Utopia's Ideal and Reality's Struggle

This article reviews the history of open-source software, from early academic sharing to the rise of commercial software, and the free software movement championed by Richard Stallman and the subsequent open-source movement. The author points out that while open-source software has fueled the growth of the tech industry, its development faces many challenges, such as insufficient funding, lack of diversity among contributors, and failure to fully realize its original social ideals. Open-source software is not a panacea; its success stories rely more on corporate support than purely community contributions. The author uses their own experience founding the open-source social networking platform Elgg to illustrate the limitations and opportunities of open-source software in practical applications.

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(werd.io)
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LLMs and the End of Remainder Humanism: A Structuralist Approach

2025-06-14
LLMs and the End of Remainder Humanism: A Structuralist Approach

Leif Weatherby's new book, *Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism*, examines how Large Language Models (LLMs) have decoupled cognition from language and computation, echoing earlier structuralist theories. Weatherby critiques the prevalent 'remainder humanism' in AI research, arguing it hinders a true understanding of LLMs. He contends that both AI skeptics and enthusiasts fall into the trap of simplistic comparisons between human and machine capabilities. He proposes a structuralist framework, viewing language as a holistic system rather than a mere cognitive or statistical phenomenon, to better comprehend LLMs and their impact on the humanities.

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(www.jhiblog.org)
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Apple's Tech-Savvy Response to LA Riots: Tracking Stolen iPhones

2025-06-14
Apple's Tech-Savvy Response to LA Riots: Tracking Stolen iPhones

During anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that escalated into riots, thieves looted the Apple Tower Theatre store, stealing several display iPhones. Apple swiftly responded by remotely locking and tracking the stolen devices. The phones displayed a message: “Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted,” along with a loud alarm. This high-tech deterrent proved effective, leading to the arrest of at least three suspects. The incident highlights Apple's innovative approach to theft prevention and underscores the violence and unrest during the Los Angeles protests.

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(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Automating Daily Weather Text Messages

2025-06-14

Tired of opening the weather app every morning? The author explored two methods: First, a Zapier automation sent a daily weather text message around 7 AM. However, lacking customizability and relying on a third party, he built a more flexible system using TypeScript, Twilio, and GitHub Actions. Open-Meteo API provides weather data, Twilio sends SMS messages, and GitHub Actions triggers the task at 6:45 AM daily (accounting for timezones). While the custom summary is less detailed than Zapier's, he gained control and cost-effectiveness, planning improvements to the summary's detail.

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(bensilverman.co.uk)
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miniDiffusion: A Minimal Stable Diffusion 3.5 Reimplementation in PyTorch

2025-06-14
miniDiffusion: A Minimal Stable Diffusion 3.5 Reimplementation in PyTorch

miniDiffusion is a streamlined reimplementation of the Stable Diffusion 3.5 model using pure PyTorch with minimal dependencies. Designed for educational, experimental, and hacking purposes, its concise codebase (~2800 lines) covers VAE, DiT, training, and dataset scripts. The project provides scripts for both training and inference. Users need to install dependencies and download pretrained model weights. This open-source project is licensed under MIT.

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(github.com)
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Solar Orbiter Captures First-Ever Images of Sun's Poles

2025-06-14
Solar Orbiter Captures First-Ever Images of Sun's Poles

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, thanks to its newly tilted orbit, has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane. This unique perspective will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun's magnetic field, solar cycle, and space weather. Images reveal a complex magnetic field structure at the Sun's south pole and detailed movements of solar material, crucial for understanding the Sun's magnetic field reversal and solar wind generation. With further orbital tilting in the coming years, Solar Orbiter promises even more groundbreaking discoveries, ushering in a new era of solar science.

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(www.esa.int)
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Cray-1 vs. Raspberry Pi 5: A Half-Century of Computing Revolution

2025-06-14

This article compares the Cray-1 supercomputer, costing $8 million in 1977, to the present-day Raspberry Pi 5, priced at just $120. The Cray-1, weighing 5 tons and consuming 115kW, boasted a processing speed of 160MFLOPS. In contrast, the lightweight Raspberry Pi 5, with a power consumption of only 12W, achieves an astounding 30GFLOPS – nearly 200 times faster. This stark contrast highlights the incredible advancements in computing technology over the past half-century, prompting the author to reflect on the future of AI and humanity's place within it.

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(www.aardvark.co.nz)
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arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

2025-06-14
arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations participating share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners who adhere to them. Got an idea for a valuable project for the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Netflix's Unified Data Architecture: Model Once, Represent Everywhere

2025-06-14
Netflix's Unified Data Architecture: Model Once, Represent Everywhere

Netflix's exploding content offerings — films, series, games, live events, ads — have created a complex web of supporting systems. To tackle duplicated models, inconsistent terminology, and data quality issues, Netflix built the Unified Data Architecture (UDA). UDA is a knowledge graph enabling teams to define models once and reuse them consistently across systems. Leveraging an internal metamodel called Upper, UDA translates domain models into various technical data structures (GraphQL, Avro, SQL, etc.), automating data movement and transformation between containers. This boosts efficiency and data consistency. Two production systems, Primary Data Management (PDM) and Sphere, showcase UDA's power, handling authoritative reference data and self-service operational reporting respectively.

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(netflixtechblog.com)
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Solidroad: Revolutionizing Customer Experience with AI

2025-06-14
Solidroad: Revolutionizing Customer Experience with AI

Solidroad is a startup leveraging AI to revolutionize customer experience. From humble beginnings and investor rejections, they've grown to analyze hundreds of thousands of conversations monthly, delivering significant time and cost savings for clients like Crypto.com, Podium, and ActiveCampaign, all while experiencing substantial revenue growth. They're seeking fast-iterating, customer-obsessed individuals who embrace direct feedback and possess a strong drive to join their team and build the future of customer experience.

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(solidroad.com)
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Seagrass Ecosystem Research: A Literature Review

2025-06-14

This review compiles numerous research papers on seagrass ecosystems, covering aspects such as seagrass growth, live-dead assemblages, species diversity, and the impact of human activities. Researchers employed various methods, including morphometric comparisons, stable isotope analysis, and paleobiological techniques, to investigate seagrass ecosystem changes and resilience. Findings reveal significant threats to seagrass ecosystems posed by climate change, nutrient pollution, and overfishing, highlighting the crucial need for enhanced seagrass conservation and restoration efforts.

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(www.int-res.com)
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Google Cloud's Massive API Outage: A Null Pointer Exception's Ripple Effect

2025-06-14

On June 12th, Google Cloud and Google Workspace products suffered a widespread outage due to a surge of 503 errors in external API requests. The root cause was a new feature in the Service Control system lacking proper error handling and feature flag protection, leading to a null pointer exception that triggered a cascading failure. A policy change containing invalid fields activated this flaw, resulting in a global service disruption. Google swiftly mitigated the issue, but some regions (like us-central-1) experienced prolonged recovery due to infrastructure overload. The incident highlighted issues in Google's error handling, feature flag usage, system architecture modularity, and monitoring and communication, prompting a commitment to implement comprehensive improvements to prevent recurrence.

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(status.cloud.google.com)
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AI Takes Flight: Saab's Gripen E Successfully Integrates Helsing's Centaur AI

2025-06-14
AI Takes Flight: Saab's Gripen E Successfully Integrates Helsing's Centaur AI

Saab, in collaboration with Helsing, announced the successful completion of three test flights integrating Helsing's AI agent, Centaur, into a Gripen E fighter jet. These flights, part of Saab's 'Project Beyond', demonstrate a significant leap in bringing AI capabilities to military aircraft. Centaur autonomously executed complex maneuvers in a Beyond Visual Range (BVR) combat environment and cued the pilot to fire. The project, funded by the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV), is a key component of Sweden's Future Fighter Systems concept program.

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(www.saab.com)
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Erik Satie: A Paradoxical Genius

2025-06-14
Erik Satie: A Paradoxical Genius

Most people only know Erik Satie's Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, frequently used in commercials and film soundtracks. But Satie's musical world is far richer. He composed the avant-garde ballet Parade, the comical Christian allegory Uspud, and film scores. Satie's life was full of contradictions: founder of a church and a habitué of low dives; master of classical forms and lover of popular songs; impoverished yet impeccably dressed. His music, like his life, appears simple yet harbors profound contradictions and charm, continuing to influence contemporary music.

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(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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From Cognitive Decline to AI-Assisted Coding: A Programmer's Redemption

2025-06-14
From Cognitive Decline to AI-Assisted Coding: A Programmer's Redemption

A programmer recounts a five-year battle with severe cognitive decline, including memory loss and social difficulties. Diagnosed with a frontotemporal dementia phenotype, he thankfully avoided worsening. This essay details his journey, from initial panic to adaptation, and finally, rediscovering his passion for programming with AI-assisted tools. He compares his experience to the novel *Flowers for Algernon*, reflecting on cognitive abilities and life's value, ultimately finding a new direction and meaning.

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(tidyfirst.substack.com)
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Antarctic Detector Picks Up Bizarre Radio Pulses Defying Physics

2025-06-14
Antarctic Detector Picks Up Bizarre Radio Pulses Defying Physics

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment has detected unusual radio pulses seemingly originating from below the ice, contradicting current particle physics understanding. These signals, unlike expected cosmic ray reflections, appear to come from beneath the horizon. Researchers have ruled out known particles like neutrinos, suggesting the possibility of new particles or interactions, potentially even hinting at dark matter. A larger detector, PUEO, is being developed to investigate further.

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(phys.org)
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Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Brains: A Novel Paleoproteomic Method

2025-06-14
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Brains: A Novel Paleoproteomic Method

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a groundbreaking method for extracting and identifying proteins from ancient soft tissues, like brains. Using urea to break down cell membranes, they've successfully analyzed 200-year-old human brain samples, identifying over 1200 proteins—the most diverse paleoproteome ever reported. This technique opens up exciting possibilities for studying ancient diseases, diets, and evolutionary relationships, offering unprecedented insights into the health of past populations.

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(phys.org)
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From Quant to BCI: A 2025 Self-Learning Roadmap

2025-06-14

A seasoned engineer with a background in quantitative finance and software development is transitioning into the exciting field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). He's embarked on a 12-24 month self-learning journey, structured around three phases: foundational hardware (building a digital clock, amplifying bioelectric signals), intermediate systems (analog/digital radio, FPGA-based signal processing), and advanced topics (closed-loop neural stimulation, wireless data transfer). This ambitious plan combines self-study, hands-on projects, and community engagement, aiming to eventually secure a role in academia, a startup, or industry within the BCI space.

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(www.study-from-here.com)
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Recent Advances in Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

2025-06-14

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research, thanks to the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers. These solvers can now find globally optimal solutions in seconds for problems previously intractable a decade ago. This versatility has led to successful applications across transportation, logistics, supply chain management, revenue management, finance, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Despite this success, many challenges remain, and MILP is a vibrant area of ongoing research. This article surveys the most significant advancements in MILP solution methods, focusing on computational aspects and recent practical performance improvements, emphasizing studies with computational experiments. The survey is structured around branch-and-cut methods, Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition, and Benders decomposition, concluding with a discussion of ongoing challenges and future directions.

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(inria.hal.science)
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Crafting the Worst Possible Python Code: A How-To Guide

2025-06-14
Crafting the Worst Possible Python Code: A How-To Guide

This humorous guide teaches you how to write the most incomprehensible and frustrating Python code imaginable. Through a series of negative examples, such as using cryptic variable names (like `data1`, `temp`) and complex nested loops, the author demonstrates how to create truly terrible code. The ultimate goal is to highlight the importance of writing clean, understandable code and avoiding the creation of unmaintainable technical debt.

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(effective-programmer.com)
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Denmark Ditches Microsoft, Embraces LibreOffice

2025-06-14
Denmark Ditches Microsoft, Embraces LibreOffice

Denmark's Minister for Digital Affairs, Caroline Olsen, announced that her department will phase out Microsoft software in favor of LibreOffice, starting with replacing half of the ministry's computers within the first month. This follows similar moves by Copenhagen and Aarhus, and reflects a growing European focus on digital sovereignty. While challenges like macros and customizations exist, many staff lack advanced usage skills. The shift highlights the rise of open-source office suites and cloud services like Collabora's CODE and Google Workspace, but also concerns about reliance on US tech giants, leading countries like France to explore independent alternatives.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Linux Kernel 6.16 Patches Core Dump Vulnerabilities: Saying Goodbye to a 'Stupid' API

2025-06-14

The Linux kernel 6.16 release significantly improves core dump handling, addressing long-standing security vulnerabilities. Previous API designs had flaws, such as core dump handlers running with root privileges, making them attractive attack targets, and race conditions leading to vulnerabilities. The new improvements introduce pidfd to ensure handlers operate on the correct crashed process and allow handlers to bind to a socket for receiving core dumps, reducing privilege escalation risks and effectively preventing attacks.

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(lwn.net)
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Knossos Unearths Potential Ancient Roman Wine Scam

2025-06-14
Knossos Unearths Potential Ancient Roman Wine Scam

Archaeological investigations at the Knossos site on Crete have uncovered evidence suggesting that Roman-era Cretan winemakers may have been cutting corners in their production of the prized sweet wine, passum. Excavations at wine production and shipping facilities revealed an abundance of artifacts including amphorae, filling stands, large mixing bowls, and beehives. While Crete has a long history of winemaking dating back to 2170 BCE, Roman conquest led to a surge in production, with Cretan sweet wines highly sought after for their reputation and supposed medicinal properties. However, the findings at Knossos suggest winemakers may have added honey to speed up and cheapen production, potentially deceiving consumers. Despite this, the sheer volume of Cretan wine imported into Rome suggests the Roman populace was less concerned with authenticity than modern consumers.

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(phys.org)
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YC's Spring 2025 Batch: 70 Agentic AI Startups Emerge

2025-06-14
YC's Spring 2025 Batch: 70 Agentic AI Startups Emerge

Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch saw a surge of 70 startups focused on agentic AI, each receiving $500,000 in funding. These companies leverage AI agents to innovate across various sectors, including healthcare (automating insurance appeals), fintech (streamlining mortgage processes), and cybersecurity (simulating attacks). This highlights the accelerating adoption of agentic AI across industries.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
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The Builder.ai Debacle: Separating Fact from Fiction in the AI Hype

2025-06-14
The Builder.ai Debacle: Separating Fact from Fiction in the AI Hype

The recent bankruptcy of Builder.ai and the viral claim that it used 700 Indian engineers to fake AI sparked controversy. This article debunks the myth, revealing that Builder.ai actually leveraged LLMs and other technologies to build a code generation platform called Natasha, developed by a team of 15 engineers. The '700 engineers' narrative likely stems from the company's extensive use of outsourced developers. Builder.ai's downfall was ultimately attributed to accounting fraud, not its technology. This article serves as a cautionary tale about misinformation on social media and highlights the unfortunate impact on the talented engineers who worked at the company.

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(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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Volumetric Lighting in React Three Fiber: Raymarching with Post-Processing

2025-06-14
Volumetric Lighting in React Three Fiber: Raymarching with Post-Processing

This article delves into creating realistic volumetric lighting effects in React Three Fiber by combining post-processing and volumetric raymarching. The author meticulously explains coordinate system transformations, reconstructing 3D rays from screen space, and utilizing depth buffers for performance optimization. Advanced techniques like light shaping using SDFs, shadow mapping, and light scattering are covered, culminating in a dynamic volumetric lighting effect with shadows and fog. Multiple demos showcase the technique in archways and space scenes, while also exploring multi-light sources and omnidirectional shadowing.

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(blog.maximeheckel.com)
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The $100 Hamburger: A Pilot's Excuse for a Flight

2025-06-14

The '$100 hamburger' is aviation slang for a short flight (under two hours) to a nearby airport, grabbing a bite at the airport restaurant, and returning home. The name originated from the approximate cost of operating a small plane like a Cessna 172 for such a trip. However, with rising fuel prices, the cost is now significantly higher. A similar concept, the 'Rotto Bun Run' in Perth, Australia, sees pilots flying to Rottnest Island for hot cross buns, now an annual charity event.

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(en.wikipedia.org)
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