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Overview of a GraphViz DOT editor that generates a graph from a DOT definition. The sample builds a simple undirected graph labeled "A Simple Graph" with nodes 1–10 and several edges. It lists layout options (dot, neato, twopi, circ, fdp, osage, patchwork) and recommends trial and error to choose a method; the results currently show an error.
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Uber tackles retry storms with a context-aware error-ownership mechanism built into shared infrastructure. They pair a Service Dependency Analysis solution with a retry middleware to correlate inbound and outbound errors, assigning error ownership to the downstream causing service failures and constraining retries upstream. If an error is owned, retries are limited to the responsible segment; if not, they’re unclaimed to prevent storms. They also guarantee at-least-once retries when needed, while preserving availability. In production, this reduced max retry storm radius from 25 to 3 and cut average retries from 20 to 2; stopped millions of spurious requests during outages.
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The piece chronicles how a tight-knit Berkeley rationalist/EA subculture—featuring Yudkowsky’s Singularity Institute, LessWrong, CFAR, and the Harry Potter fanfic—built a pipeline into AI labs, funding, and policy, while cultivating liturgy, 'heroic responsibility', and intense social ties. It traces serial abuses, sect-like dynamics (CFAR, Zizians), sex and power, and a web of donors (Open Phil, Thiel, SBF) that helped shape AI safety agendas and government influence. The author argues this hubris and entanglement threaten credible oversight as the field advances.
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Flet lets you build web, desktop, and mobile apps from a single Python codebase. It supports iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web. Start with a simple Python UI (a counter) to see how Python code becomes an interactive app; compare Imperative vs Declarative styles. With 150+ controls, layouts, forms, and themes, and prebuilt mobile packages, you can ship across platforms. Build with flet build; deploy the web with Pyodide/WebAssembly or keep server code. Test with pytest; accessibility and keyboard support included. Flet Studio offers browser-based exploration, AI help, and sharing.
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A blogger vents anger at Microsoft after being greeted with “Your account does not allow editing on a mac” when opening PowerPoint, blaming institutional contracts that push Windows and proprietary formats. They criticize Windows—ads in apps, bloated memory use, bugs, surveillance, Copilot—and urge others to stop using Windows and proprietary formats and to unite against the ecosystem. The post expresses frustration with corporate contracts, hopes to improve hosting on GitHub/GitLab, and signs off with 2026.
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PrismML unveils Bonsai 2 27B: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, based on Qwen3.8 27B with ternary (-1,0,+1) weights and FP16 scaling, delivering a 5.9GB footprint and a 262K-token context. It preserves 98.2% of full-precision performance while being >9x smaller, enabling near-lossless local deployment. It reaches up to 143 tokens/s on RTX 5090 and 0.714 mWh/token on RTX 4090, with improved reasoning, coding, vision, and agentic capabilities. Multimodal input, Apache 2.0 license; runs on NVIDIA CUDA and Apple MLX. Aimed at private, energy-efficient local AI with selective cloud escalation.
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Canto is Wispr’s real-world dictation speech model that achieved the lowest Word Error Rate among tested real-time transcription models on Wispr Flow data, and ranked second on a 3-hour challenge set. It also performed well on LibriSpeech, FLEURS, and Common Voice. Trained in two stages—supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)—it uses rollouts and grafted corrections, and can leverage user dictionaries to improve recognition. Wispr plans a scalable successor to improve multi-speaker and diarization, multilingual support, and contextual transcription.
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A critical take on AI hype and corporate ethics, arguing that obsession with frontier models diverts from real security needs. Despite vast vulnerability research, patching remains the bottleneck; basic controls—asset inventories, automated updates, regular reboots, and attack-surface mapping—are neglected. AI dependency dulls users and inflates complexity, with organizations pouring resources into risky projects while environmental costs rise. The author rejects ethics aside rhetoric, calls for practical fixes, and ends by noting Claude isn't conscious and wanting off the ride.
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Bend is a fast, native-code language with strong parallelism (CPU and GPU) and near-C speed on a single core, scaling with more cores. Its proof-oriented design blocks mistakes: LAWS.bend declares laws; PROOF.bend proves them; the type checker is a proof checker. This lets AI agents operate with precise intents and verifiable results. Typical workflow: install via curl, add to AGENTS.md to guide usage (bend guide, LAWS.bend, PROOF.bend, parallelize), and run proofs before committing. Early-stage; report issues. References: GUIDE.md, BendTT, BendRT.
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Andre Weil doubted the Hodge conjecture and shaped its modern development. He reformulated Hodge theory in Introduction à l’étude des variétés kählériennes, fixing its notation. After Mumford–Tate produced a counterexample to the idea that degree-2 classes suffice, Weil identified Weil classes from imaginary-quadratic symmetry, which could be non-algebraic. He then tried to construct a counterexample (without success). The episode weakened confidence in the conjecture and foreshadowed later breakthroughs on Hodge cycles (notably Deligne) and the broader influence of Weil on major conjectures.
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A note requesting users to set a user-agent and respect the site's robots policy; includes links to related discussions (w.wiki/4wJS and Phabricator T400119).
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Public referrals turn referrals into spam. The author, job-searching and active on Hacker News, received many unsolicited messages about a senior role with a $1,500 bonus per hire. The referrals appeared to be keyword-matching rather than genuine endorsements, and can be generated by an LLM. Public referrals offer little information about the referrer or candidate; they mainly determine who gets the bonus. This increases outreach, noise, and low-quality matches. Referrals work best when the referrer knows the candidate. Keep referrals private; use traditional sourcing via recruiters, job boards, and communities.
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TSMC's A14 NanoFlex Pro platform, with 2nd-gen nano-sheet, delivers full-node PPA gains over N2: 10–15% faster speed, 25–30% lower power, and ~20% higher density from logic and SRAM scaling. It features the world’s smallest SRAM (cell <0.017 μm^2) and high-density macros, plus TSV and RDL enabling a 4.5 μm SoIC bond pitch and high-performance MiM for faster system integration. Targeted for 2028 volume production; presented by Shien-Yang Wu (TSMC) at IEEE IEDM 2026.
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Skillbay is a curated AI skills marketplace offering SKILL.md packages that teach coding agents. Each skill is peer-reviewed and shows before-and-after evidence. All data is exposed via JSON APIs (OpenAPI 3.1). You can connect via MCP for tool-based operations. To find skills: list categories, search skills, view newest, or fetch details (description, SKILL.md, files, and examples). Free skills are openly installable via an index and file paths. Top matches should be reported with title, price, seller, and a one-line note on the evidence; paid skills are bought on the skill page.
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Richard Stallman argues that post-9/11 security measures risk eroding civil liberties through massive surveillance, encryption backdoors, and unchecked presidential power. He warns such steps may fail to improve safety and urges public opposition and citizen engagement to scrutinize proposed bills. He favors targeted, effective security over broad, invasive controls and critiques reliance on facial recognition, stressing that liberty and privacy must be preserved even in wartime.
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Autobot (AutoBot) is a privacy-aware, local harness that augments native ChatGPT for knowledge workers on macOS. It uses on-disk hierarchical memory, persistent task graphs, and a five-stage completion process with separate validators to ensure verifiable, auditable writes. It enforces privacy zones (PRIVATE, FAMILY_FRIENDS, WORK, SHARED) and strict write policies so data stays in intended contexts. It includes a Mac desktop app, voice, goals, and project workflows, with OpenClaw and Hermes as comparisons. 0.3.0 is a single-user release; setup requires Codex/ChatGPT, Node 22+, and explicit permissions. MIT licensed, open source.
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Valentin Haudiquet details his attempt to run Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet (kukui-krane) after ChromeOS and postmarketOS failures. He replaces the postmarketOS rootfs with Ubuntu, uncovers a ChromeOS boot chain (Coreboot, Depthcharge) that loads a FIT kernel image, and discovers Ubuntu needs EFI/UEFI, so he chainloads via U-Boot. Through many iterations—framebuffer stubs, serial logging with SuzyQ, patches to U-Boot, and a panel driver for MT8183—he achieves a working Ubuntu boot on internal storage: depthcharge → U-Boot → Grub → Ubuntu. He discusses AI-assisted bring-up, upstreaming patches, and shares a GitHub repo with the work.
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