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tare reads Claude Code session logs on your machine to audit token usage and diagnose limits without sending data off-device. Install with a single command (npx skills add kelviq/tare -g -y --copy --agent claude-code); then ask in plain English. It explains why you hit a limit, where tokens went, which projects or models drove costs, and how to reduce waste. Outputs include a shareable HTML report and per-task summaries; commands include /tare full diagnosis, window status, usage at a glance, week compare, and more. Everything runs locally under MIT license.
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Engineered yeast consortia designed to convert plastic and biomass-derived compounds into valuable food additives, presented as ACS Fall 2026 Poster Board #1081.
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An article presenting examples of reaction networks.
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Unofficial Linux port of Grok Bot desktop app by jakob-bu. Mirrors the official Electron app for macOS/Windows, running as a native Linux app with no Wine. Includes Linux build/install steps (Ubuntu/Debian: apt, Node 20+, dependencies; clone, make build, dpkg -i) or AppImage/tarball options. Targets Grok Bot 0.29.0 on Electron 42.1.0 (x86_64). Bots run on Cursor’s cloud computer; sign in with Cursor account. Community port; official installer/app.asar not included. MIT license; Linux-native sources in repo; Cursor/xAI own the product.
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Cloudflare reduced 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache memory by ~56% per entry and freed ~100 TB across the fleet through five optimizations: 1) replace Vec/String with Box<[T]> and Box<str> to remove wasted capacity; 2) store sections with a single data buffer and 2-byte offsets; 3) drop the owner when it matches the queried domain; 4) box large enum variants to shrink padding; 5) store record data as a single Box<[u8]> with length prefixes for fast copying. Results: per-entry footprint 953B → 420B; allocations 1.1 KB → 461B; inserts +43%; lookups −19%. Fleet memory down ~100 TB.
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Calvin French-Owen argues that small, fast models like gpt-5.6-luna are shockingly capable and cheap—roughly $0.10 per inquiry with tens of tps—making them practical for business and consumer use. This challenges the notion that only large, costly models matter; consumer AI remains constrained by inference costs, explaining why consumer AI startups are scarce. In business, most work is 'token spewer'—being ultra-responsive and moving many tasks forward—while deep 'IQ 180' problem solving remains essential. Demand for fast/cheap/good-enough models will grow, but will require new harnesses, safety, roles, and permissions.
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The piece argues Hollywood’s current wave of video game adaptations could surpass past comic-book cinema, citing the 1993 Super Mario Bros. flop vs Illumination’s $1.3B Mario and shows like The Last of Us and Fallout as proof. It notes gaming’s massive, age-diverse audience (roughly $60B annual spend) and social-media-driven discovery, with creators like Garland and McQuarrie attached to major titles. The author believes games offer richer, more varied storytelling than comics and predicts a lasting, profitable, adult-friendly era for film and TV.
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Snowboard Kids for the Nintendo 64 is now 100% decompiled, with all functions having matching C implementations that reproduce the original machine code. Led by the author and aided by inspectredc, Bl00D4NGEL, queueRAM and others, the project reached completion in 84 days—far faster than Snowboard Kids 2 (596 days)—thanks in part to AI-assisted workflows but not reliance on automation alone. The post details challenges of emulating IDO, multi-workspace work with four Git trees, and library matching (libultra and libmus), plus tools like N64 Decomp Workbench. Future plans: documentation, recompilation, PS version of Snowboard Kids Plus; contributions welcome.
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Nvidia projects 70% fiscal 2028 revenue growth, about $673 billion, surpassing Apple and Alphabet and second only to Amazon; however, the forecast hinges on supply catching up with demand amid memory shortages. Q2 FY2027 showed strong results: revenue $96.2B, data-center $89B. The company is broadening its customer base beyond hyperscalers to regional AI firms, neocloud providers, startups and enterprises (ACIE), selling more than GPUs and aiming to be a broader data-center infrastructure partner. It finances AI growth via OpenAI/Anthropic ties, neoclouds, and up to $500B in data-center financing, raising circular-financing concerns.
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Peter Cullen, the Montreal-born actor who voiced Optimus Prime across Transformers films, TV, and games, has died at 85 in Los Angeles. A theatre-trained veteran, he also voiced Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh projects, King Kong (1976), and Predator’s creature sounds, among other roles. He began in Canadian radio and TV before moving to Hollywood. Cullen first voiced Prime on The Transformers (1984–87) and later returned for big-screen installments, including the 2007 film and sequels. He said he channeled his older brother for Prime’s voice, leaving a lasting legacy in animation and sci-fi.
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Dave Kiss explains reproducing the squeezeback broadcast layout with CSS Grid and WebVTT cues in a React/Video.js setup. Placing the video in the center cell of a 3×3 grid and shrinking surrounding tracks via grid-template-columns/rows reveals sponsor panels, extra angles, or a studio desk as cues fire. Cues come from a WebVTT file attached to the video; cuechange updates a data-layout attribute to reflow the UI without per-frame animation. The article covers file-based cues, cross-origin constraints, gradient ambient lighting, CSS gotchas (grid totals, @property), focus handling, and historical context.
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Keenable introduces NEEDLE, a live, open-source benchmark for agentic web search. Unlike static benchmarks, NEEDLE updates daily/hourly and uses fresh News, Finance, Scholar, AgenticRare, and Legal queries drawn from real agent logs. It compares engines (Google, Bing, Brave, Tavily, Parallel, Exa) and reports an upper-bound via a synthetic reranker. NEEDLE measures how search quality evolves and highlights that owning an index enables lower latency and better optimization for agents. The article argues agentic search requires different metrics than human search and presents Keenable’s progress toward independent indexing.
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Groundbreaker argues the AI boom resembles the 2007–08 mortgage teaser-to-reset cycle. Frontier labs and hyperscalers signed vast take-or-pay compute commitments, with 24–36 months of construction before payments begin. That creates a teaser period where backlog inflates and revenue isn’t billed. At commencement (2027–28) the obligations flip to full pay, likely exceeding projected revenue, turning commitments into debt-like liabilities. OpenAI and Anthropic anchor much of the exposure, with private funding masking leverage. The piece warns of a looming reset wall unless revenue grows fast enough or capital markets refinance, renegotiate, or sublease capacity.
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UEFA says it is prepared to bring criminal proceedings against FIFA president Gianni Infantino over the scrapped plan to privatize FIFA’s commercial rights via a new entity, Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE). Documents show UEFA seeking evidence in Switzerland and Florida-based FIFA units to back charges of criminal mismanagement, accusing Infantino of engineering a multi‑billion‑dollar scheme to enrich himself and a small circle at an off‑market valuation of about $4.2bn. The plan, announced in July 2026 without UEFA consent, drew widespread backlash and was quickly dropped.
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Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist famed for polka dots, pumpkins and Infinity Mirror Rooms, has died at 97 in Tokyo. After years in a psychiatric hospital, she continued to paint and create, turning personal struggles into art. She rose from near obscurity in 1960s New York to international fame, becoming Japan's first solo Venice Biennale representative in 1993 and later achieving record prices for a female artist. Major retrospectives at Tate Modern and a 2025 Basel show highlighted her enduring impact.
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