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OpenAI's ChatGPT Work is actually two products: a cloud-based agent with internet access, a headless Chrome browser, and a persistent filesystem, and a desktop app for local file access. Available on…
After a burglary, Vivek installed a Blink video doorbell, but it made answering the door harder: guests rang it, but the chime was outside and his wife didn't keep her phone nearby. To fix this witho…
UC Berkeley's Berkeley International Office has indefinitely paused applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training (CPT), a work authorization that lets F-1 visa holders gain practical…
Following a formal update to the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Google Maps will reflect the new name "Lake America" for Lake Ontario within the United States. Canadian users will c…
Founded in 1976 by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić, Matrox started with a $198 video RAM board and grew into a graphics powerhouse. Their early S-100 bus cards offered four times the resolution of ri…
Wirewiki's creator describes how he achieved p99 0 ms autocomplete for 240 million domain names. The trick: prefetch suggestions on keyDown and render on keyUp, giving a ~121 ms budget. The API uses…
A hobbyist shares their experience building a detailed miniature cafe from the Rolife series, the most complex project yet. The post documents the intricate assembly, from individually glued tulips t…
OpenClaw's largest update ever, built by 933 contributors (569 first-timers) across 16,000 pull requests, ships after a nearly two-month pause. The release simplifies installation, rebuilds the brows…
Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, but applying them to text was long an open problem. This guide from the Kuleshov Group explains how masked diffusion works—training a bidirectio…
John D. Cook explores the challenge of inferring a number system from fragmentary evidence, using spreadsheet column labeling as a modern example of bijective base-26. He explains that distinguishing…
The yen weakened past the key ¥160-per-dollar level, extending a slide that has erased more than half of its intervention-fueled gains. The currency slipped as much as 0.5% to ¥160.16 after Federal R…
Network Address Translation (NAT) was introduced in 1994 as a short-term fix for IPv4 address exhaustion, but it has had a lasting, corrosive effect on the Internet's architecture. By hiding devices…
On August 29, 2026, the European Commission's AI Office sent formal requests for information (RFIs) to leading frontier labs, reportedly including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, under the EU AI Act.…
Connecting two computers directly with an Ethernet cable and a few IP commands can transfer files at speeds up to 900 Mbit/s, far faster than USB or cloud storage. This blog post explains the simple…
The CEO of Flock Safety, America's largest surveillance network, faced a situation mirroring his own company's tactics. The article details how the controversial leader encountered a taste of his own…
A Hacker News user asks why they lose passion and motivation when AI makes results readily available. Commenters discuss the psychological impact of lowered barriers to entry, the loss of craftsmansh…
Relm4 is a Rust framework for building native, cross-platform GUI applications with GTK. It combines a declarative, Elm-inspired architecture with Rust's type system for robust, maintainable code. Re…
In 1984, a program called Racter, written in BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM, generated an entire book of prose and poetry, 'The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed.' The book was proofread fo…
US-based SolarWindow Technologies has launched ElectroFlex, an ultra-thin, flexible solar film that sticks to flat or curved surfaces without frames or rigid glass. At just 0.85 mm thick and with a p…
This article explains the core ideas behind object-oriented programming (OOP) by telling the story of a college project where the author and his friend Tito build a library management system. It show…
CobaltC is a statically typed systems programming language designed as a potential successor to C, offering memory safety without garbage collection. It features explicit ownership, deterministic des…
K-Veritas is a CLI tool that creates cryptographically signed PDFs proving your code produced your claims, without requiring reviewers to rerun your experiments. It binds results to the exact code, h…
An interactive TSP solver demonstrates that adding a directional cost bias to a heuristic can lead to better local optima. By tweaking the heuristic's cost function to favor certain directions, the s…
After reading Nikita Prokopov's critique of syntax highlighting, the author realizes they've been blind to their default VSCode theme. Experimenting with a minimal, grayscale-only theme, they discove…