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The article discusses an experimental game called Slop Evader, which challenges players to navigate a virtual environment while avoiding obstacles that appear unexpectedly. The game explores the concept of 'sensory slop', where the player's inputs are intentionally distorted to create a more challenging and unpredictable gameplay experience.

The official APK for the SmartTubes app was found to be compromised with malware, putting users' devices at risk. The article advises users to uninstall the app immediately and take appropriate measures to secure their devices.

The article discusses the European Union's proposal to mandate interoperability between messaging platforms, which would require WhatsApp and other major messaging apps to be compatible with each other, allowing users to communicate across different platforms.

Accenture, the global consulting firm, is rebranding its employees as 'Reinventors' to reflect the company's focus on artificial intelligence and digital transformation. The article discusses Accenture's shift towards AI-driven solutions and how it aims to position its workforce as adaptable problem-solvers capable of driving innovation.

The article examines the water usage and environmental impact of data centers in Oregon, highlighting concerns over nitrate contamination and potential links to health issues like cancer and miscarriage. It explores the growing demand for data storage and the need to balance technological progress with environmental sustainability.

The article reports on the impressive performance of the iPad Pro M5 chip, which showcases significant advancements in neural processing capabilities compared to previous iPad models. The benchmarks highlight the chip's ability to handle advanced machine learning tasks efficiently, indicating the device's potential for powerful computational applications.

The article explores the concept of consciousness, examining various philosophical and scientific perspectives on the nature of subjective experience and the underlying mechanisms that give rise to it. It delves into the ongoing debate around the hard problem of consciousness and the search for a unified theory that can explain the phenomenon of conscious awareness.

Flowctl is a self-service platform that gives users secure access to complex workflows, all in a single binary. These workflows could be anything, granting SSH access to an instance, provisioning infra, or custom business process automation. The executor paradigm in flowctl makes it domain-agnostic.

This initial release includes: - SSO with OIDC and RBAC - Execution on remote nodes via SSH (fully agentless) - Approvals - Cron-based scheduling - Flow editor UI - Encrypted credentials and secrets store - Docker and Script executors - Namespaces

I built this because I needed a simple tool to manage my homelab while traveling, something that acts as a UI for scripts. At work, I was also looking for tools to turn repetitive ops/infra tasks into self-service offerings. I tried tools like Backstage and Rundeck, but they were either too complex, or the OSS versions lacked important features.

Flowctl can simply be described as a pipeline (like CI/CD systems) that people can trigger on-demand with custom inputs.

Would love to hear how you might use something like this!

Demo - https://demo.flowctl.net

Homepage - https://flowctl.net

GitHub - https://github.com/cvhariharan/flowctl

The article explores how Karl Marx's ideas from the 19th century can be applied to the current AI bubble, where speculative investments and hype around new technologies create an artificial sense of value. It highlights Marx's analysis of the mechanisms behind such economic bubbles and their potential for collapse.

The article discusses the ongoing conflicts and tensions in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon, and the need for a comprehensive ceasefire agreement to address the complex and interrelated issues in the region.

The article discusses the upcoming decision by the KDE project to drop support for the X11 display server protocol in favor of the Wayland display server protocol. This move is aimed at improving the overall user experience and taking advantage of the advanced features offered by Wayland.

The article discusses the impressive capabilities of ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, and examines the various factors that contribute to its strong performance, including its training data, model architecture, and the team behind its development.

It has been almost 10 years since I started the opencv-python packaging project. Scaling it to more than 100 million downloads as a side project showed me how much ease of installation and proper package distribution matter to users. It gave the computer vision ecosystem a noticeable boost. Now I have a new idea that I hope can help even more people across the broader software engineering world.

A while ago, I realized I kept giving the same advice to teammates and friends when they ran into a programming issue they couldn't easily solve: go to GitHub and look at how others solved it.

There is a huge pool of underused example material across open source. Most problems developers face are not that novel. With enough digging, someone has already solved the same issue in code or at least posted a workaround to an issue or discussion thread.

The trouble is that GitHub search is limited and works only when you already know the right keywords. You also need the time and patience to go through and read all the results, connect information across files, repositories, issues, discussions, and other metadata, and then turn that into a working solution. The same limitations apply to Stack Overflow and other search tools.

LLMs changed a lot, but they did not change this. They do not perform equally well across all programming languages, and their training data is always stale. They cannot reliably show how to combine multiple libraries in the way real projects do. For these and many other cases, they need a real, canonical code example rather than an outdated piece of documentation written for humans.

That is why I started building GitHits. It is designed to handle the work that humans and AI coding agents struggle with: finding real solutions in real repositories and connecting the dots across the open source ecosystem.

GitHits searches millions of open-source repositories at the code level, finds real code and surrounding metadata that match the intent of your blocker, and distills the patterns it finds into one example.

The initial product is in private beta, with MCP support to connect GitHits to your favorite coding agent IDE or CLI.

What makes it different from Context7 and other generic documentation search tools:

- It is built around unblocking, not general search

- It does not require manual indexing jobs

- It works for humans through the web UI and for agents through the MCP

- It clusters similar samples across repositories so you can see the common path real engineers took

- It ranks the sources using multiple signals for higher quality: the selected sources might be, for example, a combination of code files, issues, and docs

- It generates one token-efficient code example based on real sources

It is not perfect yet. Right now, GitHits supports only Python, JS, TS, C, C++, and Rust. More languages and deeper coverage are coming, and I would appreciate early feedback while the beta is still taking shape. If you have ever lost hours stuck on a blocker you knew someone else had solved already, I would love to hear what you think.

The article discusses a new study that suggests soda consumption may be linked to an increased risk of premature death, particularly from cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. The findings highlight the importance of reducing consumption of sugary drinks for better health outcomes.

The article analyzes OpenAI's financial situation, revealing that the company is operating at a significant loss despite its success with ChatGPT. It discusses the challenges of commercializing AI technology and the high costs associated with developing and maintaining such powerful language models.

Google has been caught using a stolen AI recipe infographic, leading to the deletion of the X post. The article discusses the controversy surrounding Google's use of the copyrighted material and the company's subsequent response.

The article explores the complex political landscape in the United States, examining the divide between the two major political parties and the challenges of bridging this divide. It discusses the need for greater understanding and compromise to address the country's pressing issues.

The article explores writing as a form of psychotechnology, a tool that can be used to shape consciousness and perception. It discusses the potential of writing to influence and manipulate human thought and behavior, and the implications of this power.

The article discusses how a type of fungus found in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site has evolved an incredible ability to absorb radiation, potentially paving the way for new applications in radiation protection and cleanup efforts.

The article explores the growing trend of people outsourcing their thinking and decision-making processes to artificial intelligence (AI) systems, examining the potential benefits and challenges of this shift in cognitive labor.