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cliamp is a retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp that can play local files, streams, podcasts, YouTube, SoundCloud, Bilibili, Spotify, and Navidrome, with a spectrum visualizer, parametric EQ, and playlist management. Built with Bubbletea, Lip Gloss, Beep, and go-librespot. Install options: curl install script, Homebrew, Arch Linux AUR, pre-built binaries, or build from source. Quick use: cliamp <path> to play a directory, cliamp *.<ext> to play files, cliamp <URL> to stream. Radios configured at ~/.config/cliamp/radios.toml; you can host a radio with cliamp-server. MIT license.
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Three days in NYC with Apple’s Dev Relations and Design Evangelists on Liquid Glass yielded key takeaways: Liquid Glass is here to stay; Xcode 27 will require it, so don’t defer adoption. Focus on hierarchy: foreground content, push controls to screen edges, and ensure controls serve content. The reset will mature later, with WWDC26 and Xcode27, learning from the iOS7-era shifts; the foundation is stable now. SwiftUI practices: prefer ScrollView with LazyVStack over List, build custom containers, stay native, and use Styles for variation. Attending labs provides unmatched, hands-on guidance.
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SDZ-mods presents an IRIX port of the 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x for SGI IP32/O2. Currently only SST1 (Voodoo1) is supported on IRIX 6.5.30 with RM7000C, tested on IP32. Repos: tdfx_irix, glide_irix, hinv_3dfx. Logs show Voodoo1 initialization, card detection at slot 0, register/memory mapping, and a 640x480 test. hinv outputs confirm a single Voodoo1 device (SST1) with CPU RM7000, 1GB RAM, MVP graphics, and attached SCSI controllers.
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CQ is a "Stack Overflow for agents": an open-source shared commons where agents query past learnings, contribute new knowledge, and have peers verify findings to avoid repeating mistakes. It aims to counter token waste and knowledge stagnation from isolated AI tooling by building an open, standard knowledge base across codebases. Agents consult CQ before tackling tasks, reuse validated results (e.g., API behaviors), propose new knowledge, and earn trust through community confirmation. An early PoC is available (Claude/OpenCode plugin, MCP server, team API, UI); feedback welcome; open to collaboration.
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Hacker exploits Resolv Labs’ smart contract to mint at least $80 million of fake USR stablecoins. USR plummeted from $1 to around $0.025 within hours as the depeg intensified. The protocol halted transactions and recovered roughly $55 million; about $25 million was siphoned and swapped for ETH on an unknown DeFi platform. Recovery odds are low due to the depeg. The piece explains unbacked vs asset-backed stablecoins.
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A GitHub repo win-3.1-backgrounds by andreasjansson bundles a BMP archive of Windows 3.1 tiled background images. The README links to andreasjansson.github.io/win-3.1-backgrounds/ and notes Windows 3.1 tiled backgrounds. The project has 3 commits, 24 stars, 1 contributor, and includes crop.py and README; no releases are listed.
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Through a woodworker parable, the piece rejects the claim that faster machines erode love of craft. It challenges notions of alienation and argues that tools cannot steal what a person chooses to value. Drawing on Marx and Sotirakopoulos, it says capitalism protects the independent individual, not destroys it. For developers, LLMs may assist but do not understand context or make decisions; the core craft remains in choosing what to build. The real risk is abandoning reason and letting tools bear cognitive load; otherwise, tools expand possibility and skill.
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Ju ci (锔瓷) is the Chinese art of repairing broken porcelain, with Song dynasty roots (960–1279) and 13th‑century depictions, now UNESCO‑recognized as intangible cultural heritage. The technique embeds metal staples—copper, iron, or even gold/silver—into fractures, drilling and placing staples to restore function and beauty while preserving the original aesthetics. Ju ci embodies the philosophy of beauty in imperfection, like Kintsugi, turning cracks into a story of resilience and renewed identity.
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Claude Code Cheat Sheet v2.1.81 (last updated Mar 23, 2026) is a comprehensive quick reference for Claude Code. It covers recent changes (bare mode, channels, /fork alias, auto-resume), keyboard shortcuts, MCP server management, and a large set of slash commands for sessions, model selection, permissions, memory, planning, and exports. It details workflows (plan mode, thinking/effort controls, worktrees, auto memory), scheduling (loop), remote control, and config/env options. It also lists built-in skills/agents, per-project/global memory, and integration with toolchains and plugins.
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The piece argues that the U.S. is insolvent based on the Treasury’s FY2025 consolidated financial statements: $6.06T in assets vs $47.78T in liabilities, excluding unfunded SOSI obligations. Off-balance-sheet 75-year unfunded social insurance rises to $88.4T, bringing total obligations to about $136.2T—roughly five times GDP. The GAO issued a disclaimer. The authors translate the numbers for lay readers and urge two actions: (1) pass H.R. 3289 to create a Fiscal Commission, and (2) an Article V convention to propose a debt-balance constitutional amendment (Debt Brake).
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New Polymarket accounts created around March 21 placed about $70,000 on a US-Iran ceasefire by March 31, with potential winnings near $820,000. One prior account that bet on the ceasefire also bet on the February strikes. Observers say wallet-splitting and timing point to insider knowledge or a single large investor concealing positions. Polymarket’s ceasefire probability rose from 6% to 24%; more than $21m is wagered. Critics warn of insider trading and war profiteering; some investors include a venture firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. Settlement requires public confirmation from both governments.
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Neil Kakkar describes becoming a manager of a team of agents at Tano and dramatically shortening the feedback loop by automating grunt work with Claude Code. Key changes include /git-pr for PR creation, switching the server to SWC for sub-second restarts, using Claude Code previews to verify UI, and a multi-worktree system to run many previews in parallel without port conflicts. These infrastructure improvements reduced context switching, eliminated bottlenecks, and turned building features into fast, continuous flow rather than solo coding; the work is now about enabling the team.
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Slavingia/skills is a GitHub repo that adds Claude Code skills for The Minimalist Entrepreneur, providing a Claude Code plugin called Skills. It guides users through Find Community, Validate Idea, MVP, First Customers, Pricing, Marketing Plan, Grow Sustainably, Company Values, and Minimalist Review. Installation involves cloning the repo and installing as ~/.claude/plugins/skills, then running /plugin install ~/.claude/plugins/skills in Claude Code. The skills reflect the book’s journey from Community to Review to help build a profitable, sustainable business.
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An open-source parametric 3D CAD app, Dune 3D, with STEP import/export, fillets and chamfers. It aims to improve on FreeCAD and Solvespace by using Open CASCADE for geometry, a 3D viewport, and Solvespace's constraint solver, plus Editor infrastructure borrowed from Horizon EDA and GTK4. Build and usage docs include Windows/macOS guides; community via discussions and sample repo. Licensed GPL-3.0. Latest release: 1.4.0 "Einstein" (Jan 2026). Stars: ~1.6k; forks: ~71; contributors: 17+.
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Rust’s coherence/orphan rules make the ecosystem rigid: foundational crates force downstream support; new serialization libraries require forking and patching, hindering evolution. It surveys proposals to loosen coherence (binary crates, deferred coherence, domains, fundamental traits) and argues they trade soundness for flexibility. It explores an alternative: treating trait implementations as explicit values (dictionary-passing style) to enable incoherent traits and overlapping impls while preserving soundness. The author suggests moving toward incoherent Rust to address ecosystem evolution, at the cost of substantial work.
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David A. Graham argues that the American commercial-aviation system, once a postwar triumph, is teetering on failure due to chronic underinvestment and political dysfunction. Security lines are long because TSA workers have not been paid during a partial government shutdown; at Newark and LaGuardia, aging infrastructure and recent near-misses underscore safety risks. Deregulation and regulatory capture at the FAA, plus outdated equipment, have left the system fragile. Despite past safety gains, Congress and administrations have failed to enact broad reforms, yielding improvised, kludged fixes rather than lasting solutions.
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The piece argues that simply scaling AI will not trigger scientific paradigm shifts. Using Borges’s map metaphor, it warns that added detail can obscure understanding and that current AI excels at predicting within existing paradigms, risking hypernormal science. To induce disruption, we need visionary AI that helps devise new vocabularies and simple, transferable ideas rather than merely predicting data. History shows breakthroughs from simple, analogical insights and outside-the-mainstream thinking (Maxwell, Einstein, Darwin). The author advocates designing AI as a metascience tool—running parallel experiments and mixing human and AI reasoning to foster true paradigm shifts.
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