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Gdynia transformed from a Baltic fishing village into a modern Polish port (1921–1930s) to satisfy Wilson's call for Poland with sea access, symbolizing interwar modernization and national confidence, even as it was squeezed between Germany and East Prussia and unable to guarantee security. It became a hub of the Polish navy and Baltic trade, celebrated in art and film, and connected to emigration through a grand passenger hall; yet its utopian progress coexisted with poverty, political tensions, and looming conflict, making it a microcosm of Poland's hopes and insecurities.
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Timestral is Mistral’s family of time-series foundation models for probabilistic, multivariate forecasts. The four models (5M, 28M, 123M, 209M) deliver state-of-the-art accuracy with CPU-friendly inference and zero-shot forecasting, outperforming larger models on GIFT-Eval, TIME, and fev-bench. Core ideas: decoupled horizon forecasting, covariate-aware attention, synthetic-first data, and two-stage training, with domain adaptation via Mistral Forge. Supports past-only and known-future covariates, categorical covariates, and 21-quantile probabilistic forecasts. Deployable on-premises or air-gapped; a GitHub repo and technical report follow.
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Let's Encrypt is adding two remote perspectives for domain validation to boost security. Under BR 3.2.2.9 (effective 2026-12-15), the CA must implement Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration with at least five remote perspectives, located within two distinct RIR regions. Validation will use seven requests (one primary, six remote) requiring a quorum to prevent hijacking. Staging starts Oct 27, 2026; production rollout is planned for Nov 10, 2026; updates will follow.
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ClipJury analyzed 175 AI tools and found 105 (60%) changed monetization terms in 15 weeks (June–October 2026). Two re-reads (Sept 5 and Oct 3) showed 81 then 56 changes; 32 tools changed in both passes. Across changes, 31 factors moved toward more creator risk vs 6 toward less. Fifteen tools tightened free-tier rights; 41 no longer allowed monetization on the free tier. Examples: Lexica and PicLumen require paid plans for commercial use; Suno and Veo impose new restrictions; LOVO/PlayHT largely vanished. They fixed a data-quote error and urge screenshotting terms and re-checking before scaling.
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An in-depth HOL Light tutorial detailing practical use and background: installation (Windows via WSL/Cygwin, OCaml, package vs source), editor choices, and versions; OCaml top-level basics; loading HOL and compiling proofs; core HOL concepts (terms, types, theorems, substitution, instantiation, binding, currying); propositional logic tautologies; low-level rules, conversions and rewriting; tactics and tactical proofs; number systems (num, int, real) and arith/real_sos; induction (num_WF, INDUCT_TAC, SIZEOF) and recursive definitions; sets, relations, inductive datatypes, records; semantics of programming languages; shallow vs deep embeddings; modal logic; vectors and linear algebra; projective geometry; external tools (Maxima); and HOL’s historical development.
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Carrie Greif’s post details a three-week British Design History course with a field study in London, Stoke-on-Trent, and Bath, situating American material culture in a global context. It uses lant—the aged urine once used in tanning, dyeing, gunpowder, and other processes—to show how a mundane resource shaped multiple industries. The piece discusses how urine was gathered and distributed (Saltpeter monopolies, “Saltpeter men,” gong farmers), related artifacts (privies, pails, a Meissen Bourdaloue), and ongoing questions about historical resource flows.
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Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 Linux kernel; the merge window for 7.4 opens the next day. The release marks a record-breaking 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers, including 807 first-time contributors. Notable changes include binfmt_misc extensions, large-system group scheduling improvements, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() syscall, global per-CPU data for BPF, completion of sched_ext subscheduler, VM working-set tracking, ntfs3 data-stream enhancements, and many SMB server improvements. See LWN merge-window summaries and KernelNewbies 7.3 page for details.
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Guide to running Claude Code and other AI agents inside tmux, using a per-repo session model and worktrees. It explains session-per-project naming, window/pane layouts, and scripting agents with send-keys and capture-pane. Claude now supports claude --worktree --tmux to auto-create a worktree and a tmux session; set layouts (tiled or main-vertical) and a .tmux.conf delta for agent workloads; use status-line monitoring. It also covers limitations: tmux cannot report agent events or share state across sessions. Crystl augments this with floating approvals, an agent activity panel, structured history, and persistent, isolated shards backed by git worktrees for scalable, remote development.
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The piece surveys how scaling data and compute is driving robotics AI, tracing data sources from teleoperation (imitation learning) and reinforcement learning to real-world deployment, simulation, and synthetic generation. It explains domain randomization and Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR) to bridge the sim-to-real gap, and cheaper human-data approaches like egocentric video and Universal Manipulation Interfaces (UMI). It compares robot data scales to LLM datasets, notes a “100,000-year data gap,” and highlights costs. It concludes that massive, diverse, real-world data will be crucial to match AI-scale robotics, despite remaining challenges.
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Postgres DELETE can scale with MVCC-aware optimizations. In a durable workflow system, deletes create dead tuples; using ON DELETE CASCADE caused cache churn. By removing foreign keys and deleting data in phased batches, with anti-joins to avoid removing active workflows, retention became fast. A rare 20-minute index lookup was fixed by manual VACUUM around retention passes. Partitions offer faster deletion but are inflexible for long-running workflows, so they’re not used. Result: deletion performance improved by an order of magnitude for tens of thousands of workflows per second.
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Yves Auxier argues that Flatpak is unfairly labeled a security nightmare, tracing its roots in containerization, portals, and the Freedesktop SDK to provide a stable, sandboxed desktop platform. Older apps shipped with unconfined permissions existed before these APIs, so cherry-picking them doesn’t prove Flatpak isn’t a sandbox. New apps can use stricter permissions; static permissions reflect evolving APIs, not inherent insecurity. Malware examples show traditional packaging is vulnerable. The future lies in more sandbox-friendly Linux desktop tooling (Wayland, PipeWire, Portals).
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An open directory of agent skills—small, single-purpose files that teach AI to do one task well (e.g., drafting a PRD, launching a product, or generating a slide deck). The site curates skills from Anthropic, Stripe, Notion, Figma, Hugging Face, OpenAI, and others, rewritten in plain English for non-developers. Skills span categories such as Automation, Design & Creative, Documents, Writing, Marketing & Growth, Product Management, Business Operations, Productivity, Knowledge & Research, and AI Tools. Built on the open agent-skills standard; source on GitHub.
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Sanity's Edge was a 1994–1997 dial-in, voice-only BBS in Tampa, run on a 286 PC with a Talking Technology telephony card. Co-created by Max "Xela" Rathbone and his father (Dr. Null), it used BigmOuth to navigate menus by keypad with no screen. It logged over 26,000 calls and 46,000 messages across nine bases in three years; about 60 callers registered. In 2026 the audio was decoded and preserved as WAVs, enabling remakes (Museum Edition, 2026 remake) and an Audio Archive of 2,254 files and 24h24m. The project preserves these community voices for posterity.
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A 400 Bad Request indicates the server blocked the request under its security policies; if this is an error, contact support.
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Yila AI is a research platform that streamlines the scholarly workflow: multi-database literature search, paper triage, deep reading with evidence cards and matrices, and draft-writing with citations. It formats manuscripts to journal templates and generates figures, posters, slides, and presentation decks. It supports data analysis from CSV/XLSX, basic statistics, and publication-ready outputs. Features include chat with PDFs, broad citation generation (2,800+ styles), templates, and task-based workflows for labs, theses, and conferences. Built for researchers to deliver verifiable, source-backed results.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) is an open-weights, multimodal (text+image) reasoning model released Oct 2026. It has 552B total parameters with 16B active during inference (MoE), supports a 1M-token context window, and outputs text. MIT-licensed for self-hosting. It scores highly on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (45) and is fast (230.4 tokens/s) but very verbose (210M output tokens). Pricing: $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens (blended ~$0.18/1M). Available via API from five providers.
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A Cloudflare block prevents access to hbsslaw.com, citing security protection triggered by the user’s action. It notes that certain inputs (specific words, SQL commands, or malformed data) can trigger the block. To resolve, email the site owner with details of what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID and your IP.
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STROT is a compile-time LLM code-synthesis framework that generates a deterministic, self-routing NLU runtime. It compiles an intent+schema into a frozen artifact that classifies, scores, and routes records as typed JSON with confidence, then executes actions locally. It offers two surfaces: run() to route records and decide() to answer typed questions. It avoids runtime generation and supports multiple backends (Julia-1, hosted APIs, OpenAI/Anthropic). Typical use: triage tickets into workflows. MIT licensed; arXiv:2505.01636.
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Lombok remains highly relevant despite Java Records. The author notes Lombok rarely causes real issues—one post-mortem was misattributed—and argues that data modeling mistakes and missing tests, not Lombok, caused problems. Records cannot replace Lombok’s boilerplate needs: projects still rely on annotations like @RequiredArgsConstructor, @Slf4j, @Builder, and dependency-injection code. Lombok’s compile‑time generation is transparent, unlike runtime ‘dark magic’ in Jackson or Hibernate. If a future JDK breaks Lombok’s hacks, you can delombok, commit generated boilerplate, and upgrade separately. Pragmatism beats purity.
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