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2025-03-24

Website Cookie Policy Explained

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(9to5linux.com)

Misc

LangGraph: Building a Flexible, Opinionated AI Coding Assistant

2025-03-24

LangGraph: Building a Flexible, Opinionated AI Coding Assistant

Qodo built an AI coding assistant using the LangGraph framework, balancing flexibility with adherence to coding best practices. Initially, they used predefined workflows for coding tasks, but with the advent of more powerful LLMs like Claude Sonnet 3.5, they shifted to LangGraph's graph-based approach. LangGraph allows building agents ranging from completely open-ended to fully structured deterministic flows, enabling Qodo to adjust the structure of their flows based on LLM capabilities. The framework's clean API, reusable components, and built-in state management simplified development and support persistence, checkpoints, and branch points. While documentation and testing present some challenges, LangGraph provided a solid foundation for Qodo to build a robust AI coding assistant.

(www.qodo.ai)

Development

Transhumanism: A Cult for Our Times?

2025-03-24

Transhumanism: A Cult for Our Times?

This article explores whether the transhumanist movement exhibits cult-like characteristics. Using Robert J. Lifton's eight criteria for identifying cults, the author analyzes transhumanism's information control, mystical manipulation, purity demands, confession culture, sacred science, loaded language, doctrine over person, and dispensing of existence. The author argues that transhumanism displays similarities to cults in its closed-mindedness, exclusionary practices, and apocalyptic salvation narrative. While not geographically centralized, transhumanism's online communities foster strong group identity and suppress dissent, showcasing blind optimism towards future technologies and devaluation of non-believers. The article concludes that the future trajectory of transhumanism will depend on whether its technological predictions materialize and how its adherents react to reality.

(ewanmorrison.substack.com)

Misc Transhumanism

Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: Lessons in Industrial Policy

2025-03-24

Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: Lessons in Industrial Policy

This article recounts the story of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and his creation of the US nuclear navy, offering valuable lessons for America's current efforts to rebuild its industrial strength. Through rigorous personnel selection, continuous technical training, and strict project management, Rickover built the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the world's largest fleet of civilian nuclear reactors within a decade. His success wasn't solely reliant on legislation or funding, but rather on cultivating highly capable personnel, establishing a high-performance organizational culture, and navigating government bureaucracy strategically. Rickover's story highlights the critical importance of strong leadership and talent cultivation in industrial policy, crucial for America's strategic competition with China.

(www.chinatalk.media)

Tech industrial policy talent development

AMD Unveils Instella: A Family of Fully Open 3B Parameter Language Models

2025-03-24

AMD has announced Instella, a family of fully open, state-of-the-art 3-billion-parameter language models (LLMs) trained from scratch on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs. Instella outperforms existing fully open models of similar size and achieves competitive results against leading open-weight models like Llama-3.2-3B. AMD is open-sourcing all model artifacts, including weights, training configurations, datasets, and code, to foster collaboration and innovation within the AI community. The models leverage efficient training techniques and a multi-stage training pipeline.

(rocm.blogs.amd.com)

AI

Hobby Lobby, the Lost City of Irisagrig, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Evangelical Empire

2025-03-24

Hobby Lobby, the Lost City of Irisagrig, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Evangelical Empire

This article details how the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, amassed a vast collection of ancient artifacts, including tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets from the lost city of Irisagrig. Driven by their faith, the Greens channeled their profits into evangelical missions, viewing artifact acquisition as a means to this end. The article explores their acquisition methods and the ensuing controversy surrounding the artifacts' provenance and legality, prompting reflection on the complex interplay between commercial interests, religious beliefs, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

(meghanboilard.substack.com)

Misc artifacts

DoorDash Partners with Klarna for Buy Now, Pay Later Food Delivery – Controversy Ensues

2025-03-24

DoorDash Partners with Klarna for Buy Now, Pay Later Food Delivery – Controversy Ensues

Food delivery service DoorDash has partnered with buy now, pay later giant Klarna to offer a four-installment, interest-free payment option in the US. While DoorDash promotes this as enhancing user convenience and affordability, the move has sparked controversy. Critics argue that it encourages overspending and financial hardship for those who can't afford upfront payment, while proponents highlight the flexibility it offers. This collaboration reflects the growing trend of 'buy now, pay later' services expanding beyond retail into daily expenses like food delivery. The partnership will roll out nationwide in the coming weeks, potentially setting a precedent for similar integrations in the on-demand economy.

(www.newsweek.com)

Startup Buy Now Pay Later

Building a Cloud from Scratch: Automation at Scale

2025-03-24

Building a Cloud from Scratch: Automation at Scale

This blog post details Railway's journey in building their own cloud infrastructure from the ground up. Their first hurdle was mapping physical hardware to OS-visible device names. They leveraged the Redfish API to gather hardware information and automated configuration using MetalCP and Temporal workflows. For OS installation, they cleverly combined Pixiecore, the Debian Installer, and Claude AI for one-click deployment. Finally, they built a highly reliable L3 network using BGP unnumbered and FRR, achieving scalability and automated management.

(blog.railway.com)

Tech

Internet Archive: Guardian Against Digital Purges

2025-03-24

Internet Archive: Guardian Against Digital Purges

Housed in a former San Francisco church, the Internet Archive (IA), a non-profit organization, is a digital library safeguarding internet history. It daily archives massive amounts of web data, including government websites and news articles. During recent purges of US government websites, IA played a crucial role, archiving over 73,000 deleted pages, including vital historical records like the interactive timeline of the January 6th Capitol attack investigation. Facing threats from copyright lawsuits and cyberattacks, IA continues its fight to preserve the internet's cultural heritage, appealing for public support against digital censorship and for the maintenance of open information access.

(www.npr.org)

Tech Digital Preservation Web Censorship

Groundbreaking: iPS Cell Therapy Restores Movement in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

2025-03-24

Groundbreaking: iPS Cell Therapy Restores Movement in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Japanese scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the world's first clinical trial using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) to treat spinal cord injuries. Two out of four patients showed significant improvement in motor function, with one now able to stand unaided and begin walking practice. The study primarily focused on safety, and future clinical trials are hoped to bring this promising treatment to more patients.

(medicalxpress.com)

Tech iPS cells stem cell therapy

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

2025-03-24

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!

(hitts.cc)

AI

Autology: A Self-Modifying Lisp Interpreter

2025-03-24

Autology: A Self-Modifying Lisp Interpreter

Autology, a functional Lisp interpreter written in Clojure, offers a unique approach to metaprogramming by providing access to its own interpreter. By rebinding the variable *i* (which points to the interpreter function), programs can dynamically alter Autology's syntax and behavior at runtime. This allows for adding functions, changing evaluation strategies, and more. While not particularly performant, Autology provides a fascinating exploration of Lisp metaprogramming and runtime language modification.

(github.com)

Development

Apidog MCP Server: Powering AI with Your API Docs

2025-03-24

Apidog MCP Server: Powering AI with Your API Docs

Apidog MCP Server connects your Apidog API documentation to AI-powered IDEs like Cursor. This allows AI assistants to directly access and utilize your API specs, boosting development speed and efficiency. Generate code, search documentation, and more – all powered by your API definitions. Setup involves adding a JSON configuration to your IDE with your Apidog access token and project ID. Supports Apidog projects and Swagger/OpenAPI files. Currently in beta – your feedback is welcome!

(www.npmjs.com)

Development API Documentation

Command-line Tool: OSGInt – A Powerful GitHub User Information Retriever

2025-03-24

Command-line Tool: OSGInt – A Powerful GitHub User Information Retriever

OSGInt is a powerful command-line tool that retrieves GitHub user information using either a username or email address. It fetches basic details like username, avatar, bio, and digs deeper to uncover email addresses and GPG keys. OSGInt uses multiple methods, including analyzing public commits, GPG keys, and the GitHub user API. Inspired by the Zen project, it's under active development, with features like spoofing commits to get email addresses in the works.

(github.com)

Development user information retrieval

Dennis Ritchie's Primeval C Compiler: A Blast from the Past

2025-03-24

Dennis Ritchie's Primeval C Compiler: A Blast from the Past

This post shares the source code of the earliest known versions of the C compiler, written by the late legend Dennis Ritchie. These are not compilable with modern C compilers like GCC, but represent the spark that ignited a soon-to-be trillion-dollar industry. Links to Aiju's PDP-11/Unix emulator (for attempting compilation) and the Research Unix repository are provided for those wishing to delve into the history of computing.

(github.com)

Development

The Rise of Privacy-Friendly European Tech: A Plausible Analytics Deep Dive

2025-03-24

The Rise of Privacy-Friendly European Tech: A Plausible Analytics Deep Dive

Data from Plausible Analytics reveals a surge in demand for privacy-friendly tech tools built in Europe. 2025 saw an 1100% year-over-year traffic increase, reaching nearly 2 million unique visitors. Reddit surpassed Google as the top traffic source, highlighting the active discussion and recommendation of these tools in online communities. The top five categories were email providers, search engines, cloud computing platforms, navigation apps, and web analytics services. Demand extends beyond Europe, with significant interest from the US and other countries. Germany, the Netherlands, and France lead in adoption. The article concludes by highlighting top privacy-focused tools and noting the booming demand for privacy-friendly web analytics.

(plausible.io)

Tech European tech

GCC 15.1's Rust Front-End Gets Major Boost

2025-03-24

The upcoming GCC 15.1 release will feature significant improvements to its Rust front-end, gccrs. Arthur Cohen of Embecosm merged a third patch set adding support for Rust's "if let" statements, massive changes to internal AST/HIR representations, and full implementation of Clone and Copy. Further improvements, including support for PartialOrd and PartialEq, are expected before the release, making gccrs a more viable alternative to rustc.

(www.phoronix.com)

Development

Deduce: An Educational Functional Program Proof Checker

2025-03-24

Deduce is an automated proof checker designed for education, helping students learn to prove the correctness of functional programs, deepen their understanding of logic, and improve their mathematical proof-writing skills. It's aimed at students with basic programming skills (Java, Python, or C++) and some exposure to logic from a discrete mathematics course. Deduce provides resources ranging from installation and code writing to a reference manual and cheat sheet, with an example proof of a linear search algorithm to illustrate its use.

(jsiek.github.io)

Development program verification educational tool

Millions Help Fish Migrate via a Quirky 'Fish Doorbell' Livestream

2025-03-24

Millions Help Fish Migrate via a Quirky 'Fish Doorbell' Livestream

Utrecht, Netherlands, has installed a 'fish doorbell' – a live stream showing fish attempting to migrate through a city lock. Viewers can click a button to alert authorities when fish are spotted, prompting them to open the lock and aid the fish's journey to their spawning grounds. This unique blend of slow TV and ecological activism has garnered millions of viewers worldwide, proving a simple idea can make a big difference in conservation efforts.

(apnews.com)

Tech ecological activism slow tv

Automating Steam Game Publishing with GitHub Actions

2025-03-24

This post details how the author automated their Steam game publishing pipeline using GitHub Actions. By simply creating a new tag, the workflow automatically compiles the 2D hide-and-seek game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and WebAssembly, creates a GitHub release, and finally deploys to Steam. The author provides a detailed walkthrough including build scripts, Steam API usage, and necessary configurations such as generating Steam keys and setting up GitHub Actions variables. This is a great example of leveraging automation to streamline the game release process and is highly valuable for indie game developers.

(nullonerror.org)

Game

Beyond the Big Eight: A More Complete Map of Chinese Cuisine

2025-03-24

Beyond the Big Eight: A More Complete Map of Chinese Cuisine

This article challenges the popular 'Big Eight' categorization of Chinese cuisine, arguing that it's an incomplete and biased representation. The author meticulously explores the vast diversity of Chinese regional cuisines, going beyond the commonly known eight. The piece presents a far more comprehensive map, including detailed breakdowns of regional variations within provinces like Guangdong (six cuisines, including Macau and Hong Kong), Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. It further delves into the fascinating evolution of Chinese food in Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, and Southeast Asia, highlighting the interplay of geography, culture, and history. This isn't just a list; it's a captivating journey through the rich tapestry of Chinese culinary traditions.

(chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com)

Misc Chinese Cuisine Regional Food Culinary Map

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

2025-03-24

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

Nvidia's CUDA platform, celebrating its 18th anniversary, is far more than a programming language or API; it's the core of Nvidia's software ecosystem, powering numerous "embarrassingly parallel" computing tasks from AI to cryptocurrency mining. CUDA's success stems from Nvidia's consistent long-term investment and steady updates, a stark contrast to competitors like AMD. The success of AlexNet highlighted CUDA's early influence in deep learning, and today, it's the de facto standard in AI, forming a strong competitive moat for Nvidia.

(thechipletter.substack.com)

AI

Bootc: Build Your Own Atomic Linux Distro

2025-03-24

Tired of complex Linux distro configurations? Bootc lets you build an OS like an application! Using container technology, you can easily create atomic distros, ensuring consistent system operation. The article uses Nginx as an example to showcase Bootc's simplicity and introduces the Universal Blue project, which uses Bootc to build a desktop experience comparable to SteamOS. Bootc opens up new avenues for building stable and user-friendly Linux desktops, making it worth learning for all Linux enthusiasts.

(sean.thrailkill.cloud)

Development Atomic Linux Container Technology

beeFormer: Bridging the Semantic and Interaction Gap in Recommender Systems

2025-03-24

beeFormer: Bridging the Semantic and Interaction Gap in Recommender Systems

The beeFormer project introduces a novel approach to recommender systems designed to tackle the cold-start problem. It leverages language models to learn user behavior patterns from interaction data and transfer this knowledge to unseen items. Unlike traditional content-based filtering which relies on item attributes, beeFormer learns user interaction patterns to better recommend items aligned with user interests, even with no prior interaction data. Experiments demonstrate significant performance improvements. The project provides detailed training steps and pre-trained models, supporting datasets such as MovieLens, GoodBooks, and Amazon Books.

(github.com)

AI Recommender Systems Cold-Start Language Models

The Rise of ESM-Only: Is the JavaScript Ecosystem Ready?

2025-03-24

The Rise of ESM-Only: Is the JavaScript Ecosystem Ready?

This post explores the current state of ESM (ECMAScript Module) adoption in the JavaScript ecosystem and argues for a transition to ESM-only packages. The author revisits a previous post advocating for dual CJS/ESM formats and explains the shift towards ESM-only. The rise of modern build tools like Vite and frameworks like Nuxt and SvelteKit has made ESM the dominant module system. Node.js's support for `require()`ing ESM modules further removes interoperability hurdles. While dual CJS/ESM packages served as a transition mechanism, they introduce significant maintenance overhead and interop issues. The author recommends ESM-only for new projects and provides guidance for different project types (browser, CLI). A new tool, Node Modules Inspector, is introduced to help analyze ESM adoption in project dependencies.

(antfu.me)

Development JavaScript Modules

Bird Flu Pandemic? Seasonal Flu Immunity May Offer Some Protection

2025-03-24

Bird Flu Pandemic? Seasonal Flu Immunity May Offer Some Protection

While bird flu has ravaged the animal kingdom, human cases remain relatively low. However, scientists fear a potential pandemic if the virus mutates. New research suggests that immunity from seasonal flu might offer some protection against H5N1 bird flu. Studies using animal models and blood tests indicate that prior exposure to seasonal flu could lessen the severity of bird flu. This is due to shared traits between the viruses. However, this protection is not absolute and varies depending on individual immunity and other factors. While offering a glimmer of hope, scientists stress the need for continued research and vaccination efforts to prepare for a potential pandemic.

(www.npr.org)

Tech bird flu immunity seasonal flu

Saying Goodbye to `podman generate systemd`: Quadlet Simplifies Podman Container Systemd Management

2025-03-24

This blog post introduces Quadlet, a superior method for managing Podman containers as systemd services, replacing the deprecated `podman generate systemd` command. Quadlet uses concise `.container` files for configuration, offering features like automatic updates, dependency management, and automatic restart after server reboots. It's presented as a more flexible, powerful, and maintainable alternative to the previous shell scripting approach. The author provides a detailed comparison of both methods, highlighting Quadlet's advantages, including single configuration files, full systemd feature utilization, and simpler dependency management. The post also mentions `podman auto-update` and the `podlet` migration tool.

(mo8it.com)

Development

Tenerife Lunar Eclipse Shoot: A Battle Against the Odds

2025-03-24

Tenerife Lunar Eclipse Shoot: A Battle Against the Odds

Two photographers planned an ambitious shoot to capture a total lunar eclipse in Tenerife, using the Teide crater as a unique foreground. However, equipment malfunctions, severe weather, and even a car break-in threatened to derail their plans. Despite facing seemingly insurmountable challenges, their perseverance paid off, resulting in stunning images and timelapses of the lunar eclipse captured under extreme conditions. This story is a testament to the photographers' determination and passion for their craft.

(lrtimelapse.com)

Misc lunar eclipse Tenerife

The Pope's Latinist: Reginald Foster's Extraordinary Life

2025-03-24

The Pope's Latinist: Reginald Foster's Extraordinary Life

Reginald Foster, an extraordinary American priest, served as the Pope's Latin secretary at the Vatican for forty years. More than just a master of Latin, his unique teaching methods cultivated thousands of Latin enthusiasts and profoundly impacted the Church's Latin legacy. This article recounts his legendary life, from being plucked from his order by a powerful cardinal to his unconventional teaching style that fused Latin learning with Roman history and culture. Foster's legacy lives on through the numerous scholars and teachers he trained, breathing new life into the ancient language.

(newcriterion.com)

Misc Latin Vatican

Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools: A Retrospect of Unix Utilities

2025-03-24

This article presents a curated collection of lesser-known yet fascinating tools for the X Window System. From a 3D rendition of Pong to Free42, an HP calculator emulator, and from the filesystem visualizer FSV2 to XLennart, a modern twist on the classic XBill game, this compilation offers a nostalgic journey through Unix utilities. Installation instructions, GitHub links, and even compilation guides are provided for each tool. Whether you're a nostalgic programmer or an X11 enthusiast, this article is a worthwhile read.

(cyber.dabamos.de)

Development Unix tools

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