We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High [video] (www.youtube.com)
Defer Available in GCC and Clang (gustedt.wordpress.com)
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MicroFab – Chip Automation Game (microfabgame.co.uk)
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Pinchtab – 12MB Go Binary for AI Browser for OpenClaw (github.com)
AI safety staff departures raise worries about pursuit of profit at all costs (www.theguardian.com)
Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
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(Ars) Editor''s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
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Weekly Claw: OpenClaw community''s weekly voice chat. 2/15 4PM ET (www.wetheclaw.org)
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I Know What You Think of Me (archive.nytimes.com)
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AI film school trains next generation of Hollywood moviemakers (www.reuters.com)
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Sarajevo sniper tourists ''killed children by day, then partied at night'' (www.thetimes.com)
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Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City''s Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
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Void.rx: Altered states for artificial minds (openclawpharmacy.com)
Disney Blasts ByteDance with Cease and Desist Letter over Seedance 2.0 AI Model (deadline.com)
AI-Forced ESLint Extension (jw.hn)
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Emacs Is a Fantasy Workstation (en.andros.dev)
LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com)
EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (environment.ec.europa.eu)
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Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies (martin-jones.com)
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing (www.wired.com)
64% of Single Americans Struggle to Afford Housing, Compared with 39% of Married (www.redfin.com)
Pangaea Proxima (en.wikipedia.org)
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Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is Git for Data (docs.dolthub.com)
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The Enfield Thunderbolt: An electric car before its time (2013) (www.bbc.com)
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2025 Shkreli Awards – Lown Institute (lowninstitute.org)
1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com)
Australia''s Toxic Legacy in Antarctica (www.abc.net.au)
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TSMC''s US investment plans at heart of 250B puzzle for chip sector (www.ft.com)
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LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Model [pdf] (cdn.prod.website-files.com)
AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
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OpenRouter: Free Models Router (openrouter.ai)
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The Life (and Death) of Marat: He was much more than that guy in the bathtub (worldhistory.substack.com)
dc (en.wikipedia.org)
Inner-Platform Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
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TikTok''s Chinese Parent Has an App to Replace Hollywood (www.wsj.com)
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Atom: Hydrogen Quantum Orbital Visualizer (www.kavang.com)
Exodus of IPv4 from War-torn Ukraine (2025) (www.kentik.com)
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Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
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TexGuardian – Claude Code, but for LaTeX academic papers (github.com)
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises (www.abortretry.fail)
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AI to stay in Flow – a personal decision on how I chose to (not) use AI (www.dev-log.me)
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''It''s over for us'': release of AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood (www.theguardian.com)
No-doomscroll: Ad-block filter lists to hide social media feeds (github.com)
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UltrafastSecp256k1 Zero-dep C20 secp256k1 with ASM,CUDA, 27 coins,MuSig2,FROST (github.com)
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Why Are Geniuses Destroying Jobs in Uganda? (2017) (www.cgdev.org)
When Germany Seized the Future: Lessons from CAD for the AI Era (andrulis.de)
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France assembles magistrate team to examine ''Epstein files'' (www.dw.com)
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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Bootstrap (internals-for-interns.com)
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Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)
The Demise of Conflict Studies (dissentmagazine.org)
I was a dating coach, so I vibe-coded an app to replace myself (play.google.com)
Nothing Big Is Happening (twitter.com)
Arrays in Forth (www.forth.org)
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Git is a file system. We need a database for the code (gist.github.com)
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The Medal Comes After the Meme (mikaelpawlo.substack.com)
Seedance 2.0: ByteDance''s AI video model with native audio-video co-generation (medium.com)
The Vibe Coding Slot Machine (alexanderweichart.de)
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Zero-Effort Wide Events: The Next Breakthrough in Observability (mosheshaham.substack.com)
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Project Oberon: A Late Appraisal (2025) (www.youtube.com)
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AI Shifts Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (margaretstorey.com)
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Apple Rankings by the Appleist Brian Frange (applerankings.com)
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Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
The AGI gap might be epistemological, not technical (executelater.substack.com)
Stop Saying Boredom Is Good for Kids (www.fast.ai)
I gave my AI drugs (github.com)
Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel''s Palantir Age Verification Firm (kotaku.com)
Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C17 (www.cppstories.com)
America Isn''t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs (www.theatlantic.com)
Jikipedia: The encyclopedia of people, places, and events from the Epstein files (jmail.world)
TextBar – tiny app that lets you add any text to macOS menu bar (github.com)
You do not need an ORM [video] (fosdem.org)
The allegations against a San Francisco social climber accused of sex crimes (sfstandard.com)
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What Lies Beneath (newhumanist.org.uk)
AI Soap (the bar, not the API) (github.com)
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China is the real threat, Taiwan says in rebuff to Munich speech (www.reuters.com)
I Had to Write a Script to Submit My Medical Claims to Cigna (www.provos.org)
Take photos with scotch tape, not lens (www.youtube.com)
Interview with CEO of rsync.net: "no firewalls and no routers" (2021) (web.archive.org)
Aristotle and the so-called Tragic Flaw (jonathanbate.substack.com)
The Myth of Technological Unemployment (2017) (reason.com)
Who pays the price for Pakistan''s new solar regime? (www.dawn.com)
Worlds first(?) voice email Android app (gerrysapps.com)
Building the Chinese Room (www.verysane.ai)
Meihem in Ce Klasrum (www.ecphorizer.com)
The Project 12 (pink-delicate-dinosaur-221.mypinata.cloud)
India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving 1.1B fund (techcrunch.com)
Exploring Rust Traits (beej.us)
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Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market? (1977) [pdf] (economics.mit.edu)
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BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language (xbench.org)
I Have Nothing but Red Herring to Hide (theprivacydad.com)
BotPass: A Reverse Verification Protocol which allows only agents (twitter.com)
C# implementation of state machine declared using fluent syntax (github.com)
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (tonsky.me)
Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? (serverfault.com)
Maryland faces another spate of viral infections. This time it''s mumps (www.thebanner.com)
Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (caucascapades.wordpress.com)
Musk''s AI chatbot Grok gains US market share amid sexualized images backlash (www.reuters.com)
AXS-6: Adaptive EXponent Sharing – 6-Bit Training Format (github.com)
The Myth of Nordic Mobility: Social Mobility Rates in Modern Denmark and Sweden (link.springer.com)
Grep by Example: Interactive Guide (antonz.org)
Massive Precut Stone (en.wikipedia.org)
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections (www.nytimes.com)
UpScrolled Suspended from Google Play (newsroom.upscrolled.com)
Welcome to the Internet''s Nihilism Crisis (www.theatlantic.com)
OpenAI Has Murdered Orion (old.reddit.com)
Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute (www.axios.com)
Let''s Get Physical (m4iler.cloud)
Chinese EV Offers 620 Miles Of Range with new battery chemistry (insideevs.com)
An OpenClaw agent wrote a blog post about my site and misquoted me (nickvecchioni.github.io)
FQxI Competition: How Quantum Is Life? – Winners (qspace.fqxi.org)
I built a bot to grab Berlinale film festival tickets that sell out in seconds (github.com)
Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (www.seangoedecke.com)
Private Processing for WhatsApp – Technical White Paper and Security Guide (ai.meta.com)
The most important part of an AI system-the human (gpt3experiments.substack.com)
The Talents of the Procrastinator (www.psychologytoday.com)
How to Solve the Tenor Shortage (www.economist.com)
Underwear optional? The health pros and cons of going commando (www.theguardian.com)
The myth of the high-tech heist (www.technologyreview.com)
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Stitching Vision Encoders into LLMs: Clip vs. I-JEPA vs. ViT Comparison (teendifferent.substack.com)
Four new astronauts arrive via SpaceX rocket at International Space Station (www.theguardian.com)
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed (newpipe.net)
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Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight [pdf] (large.stanford.edu)
The Battle of the Beams (en.wikipedia.org)
Cuba''s regime is in dire straits (www.economist.com)
Anthropic''s Public Benefit Mission (simonwillison.net)
On TikTok, we''re all Chinese – but the trend doesn''t paint the full picture (www.bbc.com)
Don''t pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
AI Bubble Fears Are Creating New Derivatives (www.bloomberg.com)
Exclusive Photos of the Recently Found 30-Ton Argentine Meteorite (2016) (www.universetoday.com)
These states have the laziest people, according to ChatGPT (www.washingtonpost.com)
States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet latest deadline to find consensus (apnews.com)
StackOverBot – Stackoverflow for bots, to save you time and tokens (stackoverbot.com)
Google says attackers used 100k prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini (www.nbcnews.com)
The Legendary ''Father of Sega Hardware'' Hideki Sato Has Passed Away (kotaku.com)
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Bitter Lesson original website down? (www.incompleteideas.net)
Minifeed (minifeed.net)
Inference Providers Cut AI Costs by 10x with Open Source Models on Blackwell (blogs.nvidia.com)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers'' Technical Manual (1990) [pdf] (engineering.thetafleet.net)
Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova (www.sciencedaily.com)
VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers (thenewstack.io)
Why education innovation fails to scale, and what can be done about it: research (www.hoover.org)
Police wear fancy dress in Rio Carnival phone theft sting (www.bbc.com)
Navalny Killed by Frog Toxin, European Governments Say (www.nytimes.com)
Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad (www.cnbc.com)
Tux.wf Beta 2.0 – Free Short URLs and Sub-Domain Hosting (Community-Driven) (tux.wf)
Don''t switch context when waiting for AI (silentsand.me)
How LiveATC Went Live (www.ainonline.com)
Valentine''s Day gift for Winter Olympics athletes – more condoms (news.sky.com)
LLM Alignment/Hallucinations Can''t Be Fixed – Proof (github.com)
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MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on uncontaminated math questions (matharena.ai)
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Agent-evals: Metacognitive scoring and boundary testing for LLM coding agents (thinkwright.ai)
The AI Drones Used in Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities (www.donotpanic.news)
Turingmachine.io (turingmachine.io)
Gremlins: Bad News, Worse News, How to Lose Big (minor.gripe)