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Nimic is a pure Python module that lets you write AOT-compilable code in a subset of Python (a DSL) and transpile it to Nim for near-C performance. Built on ctypes, it emulates native types, pointers, and operations, with dispatch, operator overloading and templates. Nimic code is valid Python that runs natively and is transpiled to Nim code. Its architecture includes a core type system, an AST-based Python→Nim transpiler, a template inliner, and Nim/standard-library shims. DSL conventions mix runtime Python with Nim semantics via annotations and keywords like @dispatch, @template, const/let/var. MIT license.
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Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered — source code repo (Poseidon) for the engine and game. Code licensed GPL-3.0-or-later (with additional terms); game data is separate under APL-SA. Trademarks not granted. Modernized to C++20, built with CMake/Clang, cross-platform Windows/Linux. Repo is locked; PRs not accepted; issues relate to official builds; forks may continue community development. Quick start: cmake presets; layout includes engine/tools/tests; dependencies via vcpkg.
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British Wikipedia workers at the Wikimedia Foundation became the first to seek union recognition, submitting a letter on June 24 requesting representation by the United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW) section of the CWU. The move aims to secure transparency, accountability, and participation amid WMF leadership changes. UK staff, WMF’s largest non-US employment base, have broad volunteer support—over 1,000 signatories under Wiki Workers United. CWU welcomed the move, urging good-faith negotiations to uphold workers’ rights to organize.
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Markdy is an open-source, zero-dependency animation DSL engine (like Mermaid, but for motion). It uses MarkdyScript to define scenes with actors, timelines, and interactions, rendered via the Web Animations API and CSS transforms (no Canvas, no GSAP). It ships lightweight packages: @markdy/core (parser/AST ~12 KB), @markdy/renderer-dom (~22 KB), and @markdy/astro (island component). Features include framework-agnostic usage, Astro integration, an interactive playground/editor with autocomplete, and AI-friendly DSL that can be generated and validated by AI. Examples cover fights, dialogues, sequences, and more.
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Open-weight models are far cheaper than frontier models from OpenAI/Anthropic, argues James O'Claire, noting roughly a 50x per-token price gap and questioning whether incumbents can or will cut prices. He attributes cheapness to open access and broad hardware testing, contrasting with closed models built on scarcity and premium branding. He fears government or geopolitical moves to restrict open-weight access. The post advocates true open-source training pipelines (e.g., Allen Institute’s OLMO) and public funding partnerships (NSF–NVIDIA) to enable fully open AI, referencing Google Gemma 4, Llama, and Claude/ChatGPT tech stacks.
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Brain Frog is a fast punching game where you tap left or right while a frog blocks by predicting your next hit from your last three punches. Land 50 hits before you run out to win a ranked match; it costs 100 coins to play and pays 200. Practice mode shows the live read (Coach); press C to toggle. New accounts get 500 coins; sign in with an email one-time code and pick a username for the leaderboard.
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An IGN 403 Forbidden (IFW-U01) error says the request looked suspicious and was blocked, with a 'Back to IGN' link and a placeholder 'Another Quote'.
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Slow rebuilds of sqlx tests stem from the macro-expansion embedding all migrations into generated code, turning 30 migrations into huge byte arrays and bloating the binary (≈32 MiB) and compile time. Reducing migrations to a single one or moving migration loading to runtime dramatically helps; using a shared migrator variable (const or static) and annotating tests with migrator = "..." cut rebuilds from ~7.5s to ~5s, and cargo expand output from 32 MiB to ~6 MiB. A default migrator in sqlx.toml would ease this solution. Takeaways: prefer runtime loading or shared migrator; measure code-size.
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LinkedRecords is a BaaS NoSQL database designed for web apps, permitting direct use from a single-page app with no backend code. It emphasizes simple, flexible API with built-in, serverless-style authorization and real-time collaboration, decoupled from frontends. Data access is controlled per-record by the inserter. It can be configured via environment variables (PostgreSQL backend, CORS, storage quotas, OpenID Connect, optional S3 for blobs). Supports public and confidential client modes, plus a browser SDK. A load test shows core operations (createDocument, fetchDocuments, fetchDocument) scale predictably as data grows. MIT licensed.
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Footer-style YouTube links (About, Press, Copyright, Contact, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms, Privacy Policy & Safety, How YouTube works, Test new features) and a © 2026 Google LLC notice for NFL Sunday Ticket.
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Jim Montgomery argues that most LLM production cost comes from writing non-native boilerplate rather than leveraging native Web APIs. Using native APIs (URL, URLSearchParams, FormData, AbortController, fetch, etc.) drastically cuts output tokens and reduces bugs. Examples: manual URL parsing ~140 tokens vs native ~12; form data handling ~200–250 tokens vs ~14; boilerplate Deno handlers far heavier than native equivalents. The performance gain also improves reliability since native implementations are spec-compliant. He recommends prompting the model to use native Web APIs, semantic HTML, and to emphasize design intent in comments, while avoiding stale commentary.
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Cloudflare now offers self-managed OAuth to all customers, enabling standard OAuth flows for API access with clearer consent, revocation, and app ownership. To scale securely, they upgraded Hydra in two phases (1.x then 2.x) using a blue-green strategy with careful migrations, minimizing writes and adding a revocation replay queue to preserve revocations. They adjusted token handling (longer expiry during upgrade, refresh-token coalescing, and a refresh-grace period). The upgrade improved performance (lower latency, memory, CPU) and enables broad SaaS integrations; developers can start via the OAuth apps page.
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This piece revisits Matt Wright’s 1990s Matt’s Script Archive, whose WWWBoard and other CGI scripts helped launch early forums and guestbooks but were riddled with security flaws (notably CVE-1999-1479). As the scripts spread, Perl experts pushed for replacements (nms) and stressed that CGI-era tools are unsafe by today’s standards. The author argues Wright wasn’t malicious—just early to a democratizing but risky trend called “vibe coding.” A revived domain now explains the legacy (not spam), with pointers to rip.so and a Verge take on vibe coding.
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Rosa Montero traces how writers have turned to drugs and alcohol—from coffee and opium to cocaine, ergot, LSD, and amphetamines—and how this 'chemical muse' often wrecks both craft and life. While substances sometimes heighten emotion and spur creativity, they also accompany addiction and decline, as seen in Fitzgerald, Coleridge, Shelley, Huxley, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bukowski, and many Nobel laureates. Alcohol is singled out as the most destructive, though some authors quit; others insist drinking fuels art. The piece notes studies and anecdotes that the paradox persists: inspiration tainted by ruin.
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Pangram 3.3.2 is an AI-detection model; the authors probe its internal representations via activations from every even layer, reducing with PCA, UMAP, t-SNE, and using linear probes. They find strong early-layer binary AI detection accuracy (0.83 after layer 2) rising to 1.0 by layer 24. They observe emergent clustering by the originating model family (91% top-1 in a model-family probe) and that this emergence varies across versions (3.1/3.3.2 stronger than 3.2). Humanizers occupy distinct regions in activation space, and a three-way probe (AI/human/humanized) reaches 98%. Conclusion: representations are structured beyond the final score; interpretability work continues.
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Intercept is a $500M philanthropic initiative to slash respiratory infections by funding two tracks: broad-spectrum preventatives (BSPs) and air cleaning technologies (ACTs). BSPs aim for safe, broadly protective countermeasures with ~75% efficacy and ~60% uptake, delivering Phase-2 data in 3–4 years. ACTs—air filtration, far-UVC, antimicrobial vapors—seek large, uptake-led reductions in transmission with Phase-3–equivalent evidence. The fund uses equity investments and grants, plus a Customer Advisory Board and regulator engagement, to accelerate scalable adoption and lower R_e below 1, reducing global productivity losses (~$600B/year).
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A Cross Canon scripture search interface lets users search passages by theme across all indexed Bible books. It lists books from Genesis to Revelation and shows UI hints like Matches and loading messages, with results appearing when ready.
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