I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
The article discusses LinkedIn's new identity verification feature, which aims to improve platform authenticity by requiring users to verify their identities. It explores the potential benefits and privacy concerns surrounding this update, highlighting the challenges of balancing user trust and individual data protection.
Keep Android Open
This article discusses the latest updates and developments in the F-Droid open-source app repository, including new app releases, improvements to the platform, and discussions within the community.
macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
The article discusses a researcher who found a vulnerability in a company's software and reported it, only to be met with a legal threat from the company. It highlights the challenges researchers can face when trying to responsibly disclose security issues.
Turn Dependabot off
The article discusses Dependabot, a tool that automatically opens pull requests to update dependencies in software projects, helping to keep them secure and up-to-date. It covers how Dependabot works, the benefits it provides, and some considerations for using it effectively.
Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
The article discusses the development of a new tool called Claws, which is a command-line tool that allows users to interact with Elasticsearch and Solr search engines using natural language queries. The tool aims to provide a user-friendly interface for querying and exploring search data without requiring extensive knowledge of the underlying search engine technology.
AI uBlock Blacklist
This article discusses the creation of an AI-powered uBlock blacklist, which aims to automatically and regularly update a blacklist for the uBlock Origin browser extension to block malicious and unwanted content on the web.
Facebook is cooked
The article discusses Facebook's recent struggles, including declining user engagement, revenue challenges, and the company's rebranding efforts as Meta. It highlights the challenges Facebook faces in adapting to changing market conditions and user preferences.
Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
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How far back in time can you understand English?
The article explores how far back in time modern English speakers can understand the English language, discussing the evolution of the language and the limits of comprehension for earlier forms of English, such as Old English and Middle English.
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
Coccinelle: The Linux kernel's source-to-source transformation tool
Coccinelle is a program transformation tool that can automatically apply complex collateral evolutions to source code. It is designed to handle the evolution of the Linux kernel and other large-scale software projects, making it easier to maintain and update codebase over time.
Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore
Padlet is a collaborative online platform that allows users to create, share, and discuss digital content in a virtual workspace. The website offers features for team collaboration, project management, and classroom learning.
The bare minimum for syncing Git repos
This article discusses the pros and cons of using a 'bare' Git repository, which is a repository without a working directory. It explains the use cases for bare repositories and how they differ from regular Git repositories.
Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI
The article discusses Lean4, a powerful theorem prover that is gaining traction in the AI community. It highlights how Lean4's advanced capabilities in proving mathematical theorems and verifying complex systems can provide a competitive edge for companies and researchers working on AI and machine learning problems.
CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
The article discusses the growing popularity of mobile gaming in South Korea, with mobile games now accounting for nearly 60% of the country's gaming market. It explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gaming industry and the increasing engagement of Korean gamers with mobile-based titles.
Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
The article argues that companies building AI assistants are essentially advertising companies, as their primary goal is to collect user data and serve targeted ads, rather than provide a genuinely helpful and ethical AI experience.
What Is OAuth?
JWasm: Masm Compatible Assembler
JWasm is a free, open-source assembler for the x86 and x86-64 architectures. It supports a wide range of features, including macro support, conditional assembly, and support for different object file formats, making it a versatile tool for low-level programming tasks.
DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly
The article chronicles the cryptographic journey of Daniel J. Bernstein (djb), a renowned cryptographer and computer scientist, exploring his contributions to the field of cryptography, including the development of the ChaCha20 cipher and the Curve25519 elliptic curve.
Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
The article discusses two approaches to keeping a journal: the 'two-sentence journal' and the 'daily journal'. It highlights the benefits of each method, such as the conciseness of the two-sentence journal and the depth of the daily journal, while emphasizing that the best approach depends on the individual's needs and preferences.
Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17
The article discusses the shared_mutex class introduced in C++17, which allows for concurrent read access and exclusive write access. It explains the differences between shared_mutex, shared_lock, and unique_lock, and how they can be used to manage concurrent access to shared resources in a thread-safe manner.
When etcd crashes, check your disks first
This article explores etcd, a distributed key-value store used for managing and configuring distributed systems. It covers etcd's architecture, use cases, and the benefits it provides for building highly available and resilient applications.
Index, Count, Offset, Size
This article explores the concepts of index, count, offset, and size in the context of data structures and algorithms. It explains how these elements work together to efficiently manage and access data, providing insights into optimizing performance and storage requirements.
Gitas – A tool for Git account switching
Gitas is an open-source tool that allows users to easily create, manage, and share Git repositories from the command line. It simplifies common Git operations and provides a user-friendly interface for managing multiple repositories.
Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
The article discusses the effectiveness of blue light filters, which are often used to reduce digital eye strain. It concludes that there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that blue light filters improve sleep or reduce eye strain, and that the benefits are largely placebo effects.
Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
The article explores the advancements and challenges in making artificial intelligence (AI) ubiquitous, discussing the importance of improved training data, hardware capabilities, and ethical considerations to enable widespread adoption and integration of AI systems into various aspects of society.
OpenScan
The article showcases a collection of scans from the OpenScan Gallery, featuring a variety of 3D models and digital artworks created using open-source scanning technologies and tools. It highlights the diverse range of applications and creative potential of accessible scanning solutions.