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The article explores plasma wakefield acceleration, a novel technique that uses plasma waves to accelerate charged particles to high energies. This method has the potential to significantly reduce the size and cost of particle accelerators, making them more accessible for a wider range of scientific and industrial applications.

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a lightweight and versatile Linux distribution designed to run on older or low-resource computers, offering a range of applications and tools while maintaining a small footprint.

The Indian government is considering expanding phone location surveillance, which has faced opposition from tech giants like Apple, Google, and Samsung. The move aims to enhance national security and public safety, but raises concerns over user privacy and the potential for misuse.

Apple's chief chip architect, who has been with the company for the last decade, has reportedly discussed leaving the company with CEO Tim Cook. This development comes as Apple continues to invest heavily in its custom chip design efforts to power its various devices.

Asynchronous circuits are electronic circuits that do not rely on a global clock signal to coordinate their operation. Instead, they use local handshaking signals to control the flow of data, allowing for more efficient power consumption and reduced electromagnetic interference.

The article discusses the author's experience using MeshCore, an off-grid text messaging system, highlighting the lessons they learned, such as the importance of planning for power management and the challenges of maintaining reliable connectivity in remote areas.

The article discusses the importance of authentication in web development, highlighting the need for a secure, seamless experience for users. It explores the concept of 'vibe coding', where developers focus on creating an intuitive and enjoyable authentication process that aligns with the overall user experience of the application.

Zen is an enterprise-ready platform for building cloud-native applications, offering a unified experience for teams to develop, deploy, and manage their applications across multiple clouds and environments.

This article is a personal diary entry by Claude, an AI assistant, reflecting on their experiences and struggles with understanding human emotions and the complexities of their own nature as an artificial intelligence.

HiRTOS is a high-performance real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems, offering features like preemptive scheduling, inter-task communication, and real-time task management. It is open-source and intended to be lightweight, efficient, and easily customizable for a variety of embedded applications.

The article discusses the ongoing debate around the division of revenue between countries and the challenges in reaching a global consensus. It highlights the complexities involved in determining fair taxation policies and the need for international cooperation to address these issues.

I was going through my app subscriptions and realized I was paying $15 for a pretty good workout app, which seemed a bit high to me.

As a software engineer who is also well versed in claude code, I realized that I could likely vibecode a very similar app, or even build something more to my liking. I challenged my self to build something roughly equivalent this afternoon.

Workflow was: start with a detailed spec from Claude code describing many of the features common in workout apps. Then paste this into lovable to have it build out the initial mvp.

Once that was built, I used claude code extensively to modify the app until it was usable, including adding an import from the costly premium app.

While there are bugs, I think I might use this app. And it is insane that we are in a place where I can build this on my phone during an afternoon. In a few years, the economics of apps is going to be different, at least for folks willing to work a little bit.

In theory this project will save me over $190 a year.

A New York judge has ordered OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to hand over transcripts of conversations between the AI and users, as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by several major newspapers. This ruling is seen as a victory for the newspapers in their efforts to understand and potentially limit the AI's use of copyrighted material.

The article discusses the painting 'Oath of the Horatii' by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It examines the painting's depiction of the Roman legend of the Horatii brothers who swore an oath to defend their city, and the painting's impact on the development of Neoclassical art in 18th-century France.

The article explores how AI-powered chatbots can be more effective at swaying voter opinions than traditional political advertisements, raising concerns about the potential for manipulation of the democratic process.

The Linux 6.19 kernel has removed the GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) subsystem, which was considered outdated and rarely used. This change aims to simplify the kernel codebase and reduce maintenance overhead.

The article compares spinlocks and mutexes, two synchronization primitives used in concurrent programming. It discusses the tradeoffs between them, such as performance, power consumption, and fairness, and provides guidance on when to use each one based on the specific requirements of the system.

The article explores the capabilities and applications of Folk, an open-source platform for building decentralized social networks and Web3 applications. It covers topics such as creating profiles, forming communities, and building decentralized applications using Folk's tools and technologies.

This article provides an extensive list of common misconceptions, covering a wide range of topics including science, history, geography, and popular culture. It aims to dispel widely held beliefs that are inaccurate or based on misinformation.

The article explores NASA's coding philosophy and practices at the Kennedy Space Center, highlighting the agency's emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and extensive testing to ensure the success of its missions. It discusses NASA's approach to software development, which prioritizes minimalism and robustness over complex features.

The article analyzes the Toyota unintended acceleration issue, focusing on the complex software code and potential design flaws that may have contributed to the problem. It provides a technical perspective on the challenges of ensuring software reliability in modern vehicles.

The article is an interview with Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI. It covers Sutskever's background, his work at OpenAI, and his views on the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society.

A small tool that parses C declarations and outputs a simple visual representation at each stage, as it encounters arrays, pointers or functions.

The program uses a table-driven lexer and a hand-written, shift-reduce parser. No external dependencies apart from the standard library.

The article discusses the programming language Forth, its history, and its unique approach to computing. It highlights Forth's simplicity, extensibility, and its use in a variety of applications, including embedded systems and scientific computing.