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Why I don’t vibe code: the author argues against vibe coding and AI-driven development. He’s frugal, wary of perpetual fees; aging experience shapes skepticism about AI replacing skilled design. Essential complexity remains; friction is needed for learning and architectural decisions. Coding is a creative, collaborative craft he doesn’t want to hand to machines, which can’t care or be accountable. He cites misread data examples and ethical concerns around AI hype, and hopes for a humane, human-centered future of software.
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Hocuspocus is a plug‑and‑play WebSocket backend for real-time collaboration built on the Yjs CRDT, enabling conflict‑free editing in apps. It supports self-hosted setups (example shows a Node server using @hocuspocus/server with extensions like sqlite). Full docs are at hocuspocus.dev/introduction, with a cloud offering available. MIT-licensed and actively maintained, it integrates with Tiptap and the ProseMirror ecosystem.
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Sharla Perrine Boehm, a math teacher who coded at RAND in the early 1960s, built a computer simulation of a decentralized, packet-switched network to survive nuclear attack. Her hot potato routing let packets take multiple paths and reassemble at the end, proving a self-healing network and laying groundwork for ARPANET and the Internet. AT&T doubted it, the DoD didn’t fund it, and Boehm left RAND in 1965 to focus on family; ARPANET would later adopt packet-switching. She passed away in 2023, her contributions underpinning the Internet.
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Lance is a 3B-parameter native unified multimodal model for image and video understanding, generation, and editing. Trained from scratch within a 128-A100-GPU budget, it delivers competitive performance across t2i, t2v, image/video editing, and x2t tasks. The repository provides a unified CLI, demos, setup, and benchmarks comparing to other models; model weights available on Hugging Face; licensed Apache-2.0.
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WSJ 404 page: the requested page can’t be found; check the URL or email support if reached via the site. It features popular articles—These Parents Are Buying Homes for Their Kids—With Strings Attached; America’s Toxic Divide Reaches the Jury Room; U.S. Seized Iran-Linked Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean—and latest podcasts: TNB Tech Minute on Meta layoffs to offset AI costs; Massie loses GOP primary after Trump attacks; Massie joins list of GOP lawmakers ousted by Trump.
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tokenspeed is a local tool to feel LLM throughput in tokens per second across modes: code, text, think, and agent. It contrasts benchmark numbers (e.g., 47 tok/s on M3, 180 on a 4090, 500 on Groq) with the perceptual feel of streaming. The four render modes are code (syntax-highlighted pseudo-code), text (prose), think (reasoning with code), and agent (alternating tool calls and code). Start at 30 tok/s, then presets: 1 (5 tok/s), 5 (60 tok/s), 7 (200 tok/s), 9 (800 tok/s). Token counting follows rough BPE rules; code is denser, so 30 tok/s ≈ 23 words/s.
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Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to end its contract with surveillance firm Flock after residents protested the eight license-plate-reader cameras. In the wake of the vote, dissenting councilmember Jeff Flowers announced a push for a sweeping “Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence,” proposing a total ban on cellular and GPS-enabled devices for city operations, a ban on outward-facing cameras, and a complete termination of internet services and electronic records—returning the town to 1880 with paper ledgers. The controversy followed ongoing privacy concerns and vandalism of camera poles.
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Alex Selimov argues GitHub fragmentation is accelerating as developers move to Codeberg, Forgejo, GitLab, and others. He urges a trust-based system to curb AI-generated contributions, discusses Mitchell Hashimoto’s vouch approach, and advocates consistent cross-platform usernames plus self-hosted Forgejo as a safeguard. He built a Go/Hugo tool to generate a unified git activity heatmap across Forgejo and GitHub to improve engagement while retaining control. He also mirrors repos to GitHub for engagement, though PRs require manual review. Conclusion: establish a unified activity map and consistent identities across major forges while monitoring GitHub’s fate.
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Structural Backpressure Beats Smarter Agents argues that invariants enforced by structural gates are more reliable than chasing smarter models in AI coding loops. Behavioral gates (prompts, reviews) fail as code scales; structural gates (type checkers, tests, proofs) give a real refusal surface. Shen-Backpressure lowers invariants into guard types via Shen and shengen, so the model writes against a verifiable substrate. A multi-tenant auth demo shows the chain: jwt-token → authenticated user → tenant-access → resource-access, enforced by guards in Go/TypeScript. The Ralph loop drives backpressure with gates; costs include spec, generator, and audits. This yields certainty while complementing models.
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Paul Khuong demos a compact, fixed-stack VM inside SBCL to generate and run domain-specific machine code. The design uses an 8-slot stack with a modular top pointer, per-stack-pointer code pages holding primops, and a NEXT-like dispatcher that jumps to variant code. CL can enter/leave the VM, with a small set of primitives (swap, dup, add, sub, jmp, call, ret, etc.), immediate data, and conditionals. Early benchmarks show modest overhead vs. native, and the approach highlights SBCL’s strength for live machine-code generation and inspection.
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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk reportedly admitted at a Poznań event that she used AI in her latest novel—asking the model what songs the characters would listen to and using it to develop scenes—arguing AI can expand creative horizons and be advantageous in literary fiction. Her publisher later issued a statement denying she used AI in her writing beyond research, and Tokarczuk clarified remarks; she also suggested this might be her last project and lamented the loss of the old literary ways.
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Victory: Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee law enforcement officer, spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme and won an $835,000 settlement from Perry County, Sheriff Nick Weems, and Investigator Jason Morrow in a First Amendment lawsuit. Represented by FIRE and Phillips & Phillips, Bushart dismissed the suit in exchange. Weems admitted he knew the meme referred to a distant shooting but omitted that context from the warrant. The case underscores First Amendment protections; Bushart lost his job and missed milestones during detention.
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Distributed-system-testing is a GitHub repo by shenli offering AI-agent skills to design and execute plan-driven tests for distributed/stateful systems. It provides two Markdown-skills—designing-distributed-system-tests and executing-distributed-system-tests—that produce structured plans (plan.md) and per-scenario artefacts (session logs, findings) with a 9-state verdict. The workflow starts from product claims, binds scenarios to an abstract model, checker, and nemesis, and ends with an adequacy argument and confidence delta. It promotes claim-driven testing to reveal production bugs (partitions, non-determinism), reuses the SUT toolbox, and outputs a findings report. Includes installation instructions and templates; MIT licensed.
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The piece argues that the 1950 revocation of Qian Xuesen’s security clearance and deportation was not a mere misstep but a structural failure of the U.S. threat-detection system. Qian, founder and architect of postwar U.S. air-power program, carried long-cycle, systems-engineering methodology—Toward New Horizons—that China would inherit and apply, building aerospace-defense complex. While the U.S. later pursued a similar doctrine, its long-range forecasting core eroded after 1975, whereas China sustained it. The result: China’s forty-year compounding advantage in missiles, space, and AI, with Qian’s method as the through-line. A parallel with Oppenheimer frames the costs of logic versus external outcomes.
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SFHformer is an image-restoration framework that integrates Fast Fourier Transform with a Transformer. It uses a dual-domain hybrid structure: spatial-domain modeling for local details and frequency-domain modeling for global context, with FFT-guided processing. It introduces frequency-aware positional coding and frequency-dynamic convolution for each frequency component to enrich features. Evaluated on 31 restoration datasets across 10 tasks (dehazing, deraining, desnowing, denoising, super-resolution, motion/defocus deblurring, raindrops, low-light, underwater), it achieves state-of-the-art results with a favorable accuracy–efficiency trade-off. Also notes SWFormer extension and open training/weights.
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An observational UK Biobank study of 17,088 adults over 7.8 years found that 150 minutes/week yields ~8–9% cardiovascular risk reduction, while 560–610 minutes/week is needed for >30% risk reduction; only 12% reached this level. Those with the lowest fitness require about 30–50 extra minutes weekly to gain comparable benefits (e.g., 20% risk reduction at 370 minutes vs 340 minutes for the most fit). Authors note limitations and suggest guidelines differentiate minimal safety margins from higher volumes.
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L'Europe se dote d'un réseau de paiements souverain pour concurrencer Visa et Mastercard. Cinq champions nationaux—Bizum (Espagne), Bancomat (Italie), MB WAY (Portugal) et Vipps/MobilePay (Pays nordiques)—s'allient à Wero pour connecter 13 pays et 130 millions d'utilisateurs via un hub d'interopérabilité central, dès 2026. Les virements P2P seront opérables en 2026; les paiements en ligne et en magasin suivre en 2027. L'alliance EuroPA vise 72 % de la population UE et Norvège; un prototype lié à l'EPI gère déjà 6 millions d'euros en un an.
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Firefox 148 disables SpiderMonkey’s asm.js optimizations by default and plans to remove the code in a future release. asm.js content will keep running because it’s standard JavaScript, but WebAssembly offers faster execution and smaller binaries, so sites are encouraged to recompile. asm.js originated to achieve near-native web performance via a strict subset of JavaScript and helped enable early ports like Epic Citadel; it shipped in Firefox 22 (2013). WebAssembly superseded it, reducing maintenance and attack surface. OdinMonkey is the asm.js compiler; BaldrMonkey is WebAssembly’s optimizing compiler.
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A BBC investigation shows AI chatbots can be fed misinformation by posting crafted content online. Tests with ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI overviews showed they could repeat lies, even about health or finances, after a single blog post. Experts warn the problem is systemic and dangerous as AI tends to give one confident answer. Google says its spam-policy update is a clarification, and firms are tightening defenses, like removing self-promoting sources or adding caveats. Still, whack-a-mole dynamics persist; the best defense is scepticism and verification from independent sources, since big AI tools aren’t foolproof.
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