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phantomathkg
an hour ago
Norton Neo Browser
The first safe AI-native browser. Smart navigation, conversational AI, and search to help boost your productivity. Download Norton Neo today....
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DSUBBURAM
Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
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GONC_CC
Gonc – Netcat with P2P Nat Traversal
13 HOURS AGO
LUMPA
P(doom)
3 DAYS AGO
HYPERVS
Durable execution without history replay
17 HOURS AGO
BETELBUDDY
Will there be a 7G?
7 HOURS AGO
WGLB
A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run
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MIKEMCQUAID
Homebrew 7.0.0
3 HOURS AGO
JOOZIO
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
2 DAYS AGO
CAIERO
Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World
4 DAYS AGO
FAGNERBRACK
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026
A DAY AGO
1E1A
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
4 DAYS AGO
FAGNERBRACK
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026
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WGLB
JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars
taubek
2 hours ago
JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.
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NaOH
4 days ago
Apple iPod Engraver (2019)
Making the iPod engraver page for Apple’s online store...
throwaway81523
7 hours ago
After Math
[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School...
pepys
7 hours ago
A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)
Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered....
lopopolo
7 hours ago
Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?...
xena
10 hours ago
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Xe Iaso's personal website....
petalmind
4 days ago
Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX
Twenty LuaLaTeX and MetaPost (fiziko) examples of the old scientific-paper aesthetic: engraved plates, star charts, computed log tables, knots, telescopes - Foadsf/vintage-latex...
jonifico
9 hours ago
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, es...
https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
beardyw
3 days ago
The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London
A late-night crash in New Bond Street in 1897 gave London cabbie George Smith the dubious distinction of becoming Britain’s first convicted drink-driver....
datakan
3 days ago
LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
TVs were also said to be recording, scanning local area networks, logging data, and recording audio while in standby....
apsec112
20 hours ago
We must pace the frontier
surprisetalk
4 days ago
Liesegang Rings
Trying and failing to make patterns with chemical networks...
lalitmaganti
19 hours ago
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: W...
pwg
18 hours ago
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating......
sbulaev
2 days ago
I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
The agricultural machine manufacturer has a subscription service that lets owners repair their own equipment. Why is barely anybody using it?...
classichasclass
8 hours ago
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith
Australians! They walk among us ! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! They might be your parent! They might sleep in the same bed......