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ThermalMarky is a Markdown-to-thermal-printer tool with a simple web UI and CLI, designed to print Markdown content on compatible thermal printers (e.g., MUNBYN). It supports basic Markdown (headers, bold, underline, lists), extended tags for alignment, horizontal lines, and QR codes. It can run via Docker (recommended) or locally with Python 3.12+, using a virtual environment. Configuration covers USB or network printers (vendor/product IDs or IP/port), line width, and max lines. Usage: docker compose up; access UI at https://localhost:8000; or print via CLI/file or HTTP POST to /print.
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The American Healthcare Conundrum is an open-source investigative data journalism project quantifying US healthcare waste using CMS, OECD, and federal data. So far it identifies $98.6B in potential annual savings across three issues: OTC Drug Overspending ($0.6B/yr); The Same Pill, A Different Price ($25B/yr); The 254% Problem ($73B/yr). Running total ~3.3% of the $3T gap. Each issue flags a fixable problem, cites data sources, and recommends policy changes. Next up: pharmacy benefit manager scrutiny. All code is reproducible and MIT-licensed; author Andrew Rexroad ([email protected]).
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Oxyde ORM is a type-safe, Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a fast Rust core. It favors explicitness over magic, Django-style APIs (Model.objects.filter, makemigrations/migrate), async-first Python, and Pydantic v2 models. It supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL with full RETURNING and UPSERT, plus multi-database and transactions. It includes FastAPI integration and an auto-generated admin panel (oxyde-admin). Quick start: pip install oxyde; oxyde init; define models; makemigrations, migrate; basic CRUD. MIT license. Active development with evolving API.
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AnswerThis is building an operating system for scientific knowledge using AI agents to search, synthesize, and draft evidence-based research; 200k+ researchers use it, focusing on life sciences. YC-backed with $1.5M+ ARR and cash-flow positive. Founding Engineering Lead role in San Francisco: $170–$240k base, 0.2–0.5% equity, 3+ years’ experience, full-time, in-person. You’ll own architecture and product velocity, ship end-to-end features, work with enterprise customers, drive revenue, and help scale the engineering team. Interview: quick screen, technical deep dive, take-home, 2-week paid trial.
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Leanstral is Mistral AI’s first open-source Lean 4 code agent, designed for trustworthy, verifiable coding. A 6B sparse model trained for realistic formal repositories, licensed Apache 2.0, available in Mistral Vibe with a free API. It targets proof-engineering tasks, enabling formal verification against specs instead of debugging machine-generated logic. Benchmarks show Leanstral outperforming OSS peers at lower cost (e.g., pass@2 26.3; pass@16 31.9) and scaling linearly. Features include MCP/Vibe upgrades, zero-setup use, FLTEval, a tech report, and case studies translating Rocq to Lean and answering Lean Stack Exchange questions.
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NVIDIA unveils the Vera CPU, a purpose-built processor for agentic AI and reinforcement learning that promises twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional rack CPUs. It enables scalable AI factories for tasks like coding assistants, with 88 Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory up to 1.2 TB/s. Vera uses NVLink-C2C (1.8 TB/s) and MGX, coordinating with GPUs for fast data movement. A 256-CPU Vera rack can run >22,500 concurrent environments. Partners include Alibaba, Meta, Oracle Cloud; manufacturers Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, among others; production starts H2 2026.
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htdt/godogen is a GitHub repo that provides Claude Code skills to generate a complete Godot 4 project from a game description. It uses two Claude Code skills (planner and executor) to design the architecture, generate art and code, capture screenshots, and fix issues. It outputs real Godot 4 projects with organized scenes, scripts, and assets, for 2D/3D on commodity hardware. Asset generation uses Gemini (2D art) and Tripo3D (3D models); includes visual QA. Prereqs: Godot 4, Claude Code, API keys, Python 3; run with publish.sh; supports VM with GPU.
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The Skills Security Index from Tego AI analyzes AI agent skills to surface instructions, capabilities, and permissions that may diverge from claimed behavior. Each skill is scanned across major registries (GitHub), building a security profile and scoring risk. Using a standardized schema, it focuses on instructional risk and flags issues like prompt injection, credential exposure, and excessive permissions. Risks are ranked across Pass to Critical, based on the most severe finding (e.g., enabling sensitive operations, data exfiltration). The index classifies instructions into tools, web access, file system, data access, authentication, network, and system, guiding security engineers before deployment.
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12-year-old Khaled Bani Odeh describes Israeli forces shooting his parents and two younger brothers in their car in Tammun, West Bank, after a family shopping trip. Khaled and eight-year-old Mustafa survived; a witness says the car was stationary, contradicting the army’s claim that it accelerated toward troops. The family had been returning from Nablus for Eid al-Fitr. The killing is under investigation and reflects rising West Bank violence, with UN data showing more than 1,000 Palestinians killed since Oct 2023, including hundreds of children.
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Meta announces renewed commitment to jemalloc, the high-performance memory allocator, to reduce maintenance, modernize the codebase, and adapt to new hardware/workloads. After reflecting on past technical debt and changes to core engineering principles, Meta unarchived the original jemalloc repo and pledged to work with the open-source community. Key focus areas include debt reduction, improving the huge-page allocator for THP efficiency, memory packing/caching/purge refinements, and out-of-the-box ARM64/AArch64 optimizations, inviting community feedback and collaboration.
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The post riffs on Gerald Sussman’s claim that modern programming often requires doing basic science on unfamiliar libraries rather than assembling known parts, and questions whether understanding died in the 90s. The author recalls personal history—from BASIC on 8-bit machines to early tools like Easymik, Greenspun’s rule, and the lure of DSLs—before embracing the hard, win-by-understanding approach. Despite 90s complexity, today’s open-source ecosystem generally supports clearer interfaces; you can read source, run experiments, and fix root causes. The takeaway: turn on the light, understand how components work, and choose understandable dependencies.
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AirPods Max 2 introduce a new H2-based system with a high dynamic range amplifier, delivering richer bass, natural vocals, and a wider soundstage, plus up to 1.5x more ANC and Adaptive Audio. Features include Live Translation, Conversation Awareness, and Personalized Spatial Audio with head tracking. The over‑ear design emphasizes comfort with redesigned canopy, cushions, and independently rotating cups. USB‑C enables lossless audio and ultra‑low latency; up to 20 hours battery with ANC/Spatial Audio. Colors: Midnight, Starlight, Blue, Purple, Orange, with engraving and flexible delivery options.
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Chamber is an AIOps teammate that automates GPU infrastructure across clouds and on‑prem, delivering end‑to‑end observability, automatic root‑cause analysis, and cross‑cloud orchestration to maximize GPU utilization and speed ML experiments. It links experiment metrics to infrastructure data, enabling faster iteration via CLI, SDKs, or Slack. It supports Kubernetes, Slurm, and hybrid setups, runs inside your environment, and is SOC 2 Type I certified with multi‑cloud and on‑prem support (AWS, GCP, Azure).
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'Small web' means non-commercial, private sites accessible by ordinary browsers, including Gemini, a limited protocol with about 6,000 capsules and a small, mainly IT-professional community. Gemini feeds (RSS/ATOM) let updates be surfaced by aggregators. The author wondered if a single-page small-web aggregator could work. Using Kagi’s small-web list (6k sites, later 32k entries), he downloaded feeds, kept those with timestamps, and excluded inactive or invalid ones; about 9,000 remained. On March 15 there were 1,251 updates. Conclusion: the small web is alive and growing, too large for a single-page feed, but its non-commercial space remains valuable.
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John Cole profiles Nursultan Kabylkas, who designed Kazakhstan's first student-made RISC-V chip, launching a nascent national semiconductor program. Rejecting the ‘fab-first’ mindset, he focused on design and verification, with MPW access via a Chinese fab and the creation of Texer.AI (verification) and ReasonBase.io (industry links). The strategy builds a talent-driven ecosystem: a revolving door between classroom and market, not a factory. Nations can join the semiconductor supply chain through niche, capital-efficient work—verification, design, and open-source tooling—creating scalable clusters over time.
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Skillfile is a one-stop CLI for AI skills and agents. It provides a declarative Skillfile manifest to declare, search (110K+), install, patch, and deploy skills and agents across seven AI platforms (including Claude Code and Codex). It pins exact SHAs in Skillfile.lock for reproducible installs and supports patches to preserve local changes. It does not run agents, only manages the Markdown-based definitions consumed by frameworks. Install from crates.io or clone the repo and use cargo.
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OpenAI context crunch: MCPs inject tens of thousands of tokens of tool definitions into context, burning the window and leaving little for reasoning. Three paths exist: MCP with compression, code-execution Duet, and a CLI-driven interface. Apideck argues CLI is the pragmatic sweet spot: an ~80-token system prompt, progressive discovery via --help, a local binary, and per-operation permissions. Benchmarks show MCP costs far more tokens; CLI saves tokens and avoids remote outages. For API providers, offer a minimal, progressively discoverable surface with machine-friendly output and structural safety.
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Pokémon Go players unwittingly helped train delivery robots' Visual Positioning System (VPS) by producing billions of geolocated images. Niantic Spatial partnered with Coco Robotics to use VPS for centimeter-level navigation in cities where GPS falters. Through Field Research and arena scans, players created 3D models of real-world locations, and more data improves accuracy, feeding a 'living map' that updates over time. The piece notes concerns about data reuse and potential government access, but highlights the potential for more reliable, on-time deliveries.
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