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Mark Hendrickson argues that token-financed crypto ventures corrupt product feedback loops. Once a token prices the future, validation comes from market narratives before delivery, shifting emphasis from real signals (active users, retention, developer feedback) to proxies (GitHub commits, grants, press). Early adopters remain the only empirical signal; later feedback is discounted or dismissed. The 'moment of value' is pushed 12–18 months out and reset at each milestone, as liquidity and token prices dominate. After seven years at Blockstack/Stacks, he left to ship Neotoma without a token to preserve real feedback.
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AutoKernel is an autoresearch tool that optimizes GPU Triton kernels for PyTorch models. You provide a model, it profiles to find bottlenecks, extracts top kernels into standalone Triton kernels, then autonomously edits, benchmarks, and either keeps or reverts changes. An orchestrator applies Amdahl's law to decide next kernels; each experiment runs ~90 seconds, enabling ~40 experiments per hour. It ships with self-contained GPT-2, LLaMA, BERT models and 9 kernel types, plus a fixed benchmark with correctness checks. It requires NVIDIA GPUs and Python 3.10+. MIT-licensed.
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piclaw is a Docker-based sandbox to run Pi Coding Agent (PiClaw) in an isolated Debian environment. It exposes a web-first orchestrator with a streaming UI, a workspace explorer, and a built-in CodeMirror editor, plus persistent SQLite storage and tools for debugging, scheduling, web search, and charts. Authentication is optional (WebAuthn/TOTP) with an optional WhatsApp channel. It runs on OCI runtimes (Docker/Podman) and is configured via env vars. Start with make build && make up; open http://localhost:8080. Chat history is stored at /workspace/.piclaw/store/messages.db. Inspired by agentbox and nanoclaw.
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Open-sourcing TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment) from Hume AI, a one-to-one text-token to acoustic-frame tokenizer that synchronizes text and speech in the LM, enabling fastest LLMB-based TTS with competitive quality and virtually no hallucinations. Achieves real‑time factor 0.09 (≈2–3 frames/s) and about 5× faster than peers; zero hallucinations on 1000+ LibriTTSR samples; voice quality: 4.18/5 speaker similarity, 3.78/5 naturalness (EARS). Suitable for on‑device use, long-form dialogue, and regulated environments. Limitations: occasional long-form drift, modality gap; future work: Speech Free Guidance. Open-source release: 1B English and 3B multilingual models; audio tokenizer and decoder; URLs provided.
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A GitHub issue requests driver support for Aquantia AQC113 and AQC113C Ethernet controllers in FreeBSD. Currently, the aquantia-atlantic-kmod driver only supports AQC107; AQC113/113C are detected but unassigned in pciconf/dmesg. The submitter suggests adding support (or a new driver), cites OpenBSD and Linux drivers, and offers to help with testing on FreeBSD 14.1, for NAS/servers and 10G networking use cases.
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Road-trip exit selection is hard; current map apps show too few, poorly aligned options. Pike presents upcoming exits with 'exit cards' and options within 5 minutes of each exit. The piece traces development through five iterations: v1 directional POIs; v2 non-directed interstate graph; v3 directed graph for both directions; v4 precomputed exit sequences; v5 driving-time search using OSRM and OSM, precomputed on AWS. Result: accurate POI times per exit, no heuristics. Future features include dog parks. Lesson: fix data, not heuristics; leverage cloud compute.
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AI isn’t a magical leap but a continuation of progress in search and optimization; it will improve but isn’t recursive magic. Layoffs and stock moves reflect big players consolidating rent-seeking, not AI itself. If you create value for others rather than chasing zero-sum returns, you’ll fare better; avoid doom narratives and Red Queen race.
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Mazed Tales is a Cornwall-based collection of traditional folk stories retold for modern audiences. The site hosts over 150 tales, each tied to a map location for story adventuring, featuring witches, wreckers, saints, mermaids, giants, and piskeys—the Cornish fairy folk. Mazed honors wandering balladers and folklorists, bringing tales to life through animations, illustrations, puppets, and community performances. Some tales are scary, with a bedtime option; all stories are meant to be retold and made your own.
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Source maps let debuggers map code from transformed bundles back to original sources. While a standard was lacking for years—leading to feature gaps—Revision 3 in 2011 reduced map size but kept ecosystem fragmented. Bloomberg’s pasta-sourcemaps introduced function-name mappings and inspired cross-browser tooling (ignoreList). In 2023, Bloomberg helped form a TC39 task group; in 2024 ECMA-426 became the official standard for source maps. 2025 proposals introduce Scopes (embedding binding information) and Range Mappings (mapping text ranges with per-line precision).
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Julia Snail is an Emacs development environment for Julia that connects to a Julia REPL via a local server (JuliaSnail) and uses high-performance terminals (libvterm or Eat). It supports remote REPLs (SSH/Tramp or Docker), multiple Julia versions/REPLs, and module-aware navigation with CSTParser and xref. Features include code-cells (notebook style) support, plotting/multimedia display, and optional extensions (REPL history, formatter, Ob-Julia, Debug). Install from MELPA; configure with use-package. Requires Emacs 26.2+ with vterm or Emacs 28+ for Eat; Unix-like by default, Windows via WSL.
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Frustrated with editors like Howl, the author built a personal, terminal-based text editor and now uses it daily. Key features: SSH-friendly TUI with an integrated terminal, a fast file browser with instant fuzzy filtering, a homegrown, highly optimized regex engine, on-demand, chunked syntax highlighting, and multi-threaded project search. The dogfooding approach—edit with the tool, document issues in README, fix them—has driven ~10k new lines in 6 months. Result: tighter alignment with personal workflow, higher productivity, and rekindled programming passion. The post ends with a call to others: go build your own tools.
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In Palo Alto, a downtown office building’s underground megawatt transformer was surrounded by about 2000 gallons of molten used deep-frying grease, heated by the transformer and not solidifying. The grease came from nightly dumping by nearby restaurants, mistaken for storm sewer discharge. The resulting risk of a massive grease fire prompted power shutdown, pumping out the grease, vault cleaning, and a transformer replacement. No one was harmed.
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Devlog: Zig main 2026 updates include a type-resolution redesign that lazily analyzes unused fields and improves incremental builds, plus clearer dependency-loop errors. Experimental std.Io implementations (io_uring and GCD) via std.Io.Evented, with caveats. Package workflow tweaks: local zig-pkg storage alongside build.zig and a new --fork to override dependencies. Windows API shifts: prefer native APIs over kernel32, with improvements in entropy and IO. zig libc progress: phasing out vendored C in favor of Zig wrappers via the ZCU. Personal note on local protests.
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The post shows how to convert recursive code into stack-safe iterative code by simulating the language call stack with explicit mutable frames. It scales from simple lists to complex mutually recursive trees/forests, culminating in a full iterative fold built with defined frame types (FoldTreeFrame, FoldForestFrame, ExternalCaller). It uses a loop to simulate recursion, including manual memory-management considerations. The approach is validated via property-based testing to prove equivalence with the recursive reference, and benchmarked to show iterative is slower but provides stack safety. Limitations include polymorphic recursion; open questions and references are discussed.
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bippy is a small JS toolkit that lets you inspect and manipulate React fibers from outside components by monkey-patching window.__REACT_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__. It supports React 17–19, requires importing before React, and provides utilities to traverse the fiber tree and props/state/contexts, identify host/composite fibers, and override values at runtime. It includes functions like instrument, secure, traverseFiber, traverseRenderedFibers, setFiberId/getFiberId, getDisplayName/getType, getNearestHostFiber, getTimings, getFiberSource, and more. Caveats: development-only, fiber access varies by React version; best used for experimentation or advanced tooling (e.g., React Scan).
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Cursor Cloud Agents risk credential exposure from baked-in snapshots, hardcoded env.json, no rotation/audit, and long-lived tokens. Infisical proposes using a machine-identity credential in the Cursor Secrets UI and fetching all other secrets at runtime. Steps: 1) create a scoped Infisical machine identity and store its client ID/secret in Cursor. 2) Use infisical run to inject secrets as environment variables at startup (no disk writes). 3) or use infisical export to write secrets to files (dotenv/json/yaml). Isolate access per environment; enable rotation and audit trails.
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