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An experimental stress test of Django LiveView by running ViZDoom inside Django to render DOOM frames as DOM divs. ViZDoom produces 100x100 frames at 60 FPS; Django converts each frame into 10,000 divs, LiveView broadcasts updates to all connected users, achieving about 600,000 divs per second. The result: Django LiveView survives the rush, demonstrating the framework's ability to handle extreme, real-time rendering tasks. Source code on GitHub; licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Written by Andros Fenollosa, December 28, 2025.
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AI coding is industrialising software: automation lowers cost and scales production, turning software into a disposable, rapidly produced commodity. This “vibe-coded” software risks low quality as output expands, a pattern echoed by Jevons paradox where efficiency spurs demand. Progress depends on balancing industrialisation with ongoing innovation, aided by reusable components and cloud tools. The core challenge is stewardship: who maintains software no one owns, as dependencies, maintenance, and technical debt proliferate in mass-produced ecosystems.
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A rare convergence of true, magnetic and grid north—the “three norths” alignment—began in Langton Matravers, Dorset, in Nov 2022 and has slowly moved north. It left England at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 13 Dec 2025, heading into the North Sea, after ~576 km in 1127 days (about 511 m/day, 5.9 mm/s). Predictions place a reappearance at Drums, Scotland, in Oct 2026, then leaving Fraserburgh mid-Dec 2026 and continuing into the North Sea for years before magnetic north separates. The shifts are driven by changes in Britain’s magnetic field; navigational impact is unlikely.
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ExoPriors Alignment Scry provides public access to a large alignment-research corpus with SQL and vector-embedding search over ~60M documents (posts, papers, comments). It offers API endpoints for query, estimate, schema, and embed, plus semantic and BM25 lexical search. Start with small result sets; alignment.search() is capped at 100, or use alignment.search_exhaustive() for full results. Data sources include arXiv, LessWrong, Hacker News, community_archive, and more. A public read-only API key is available; private namespaces require signup.
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TiXL is open-source software to create realtime motion graphics, combining real-time rendering, graph-based procedural content generation, and linear keyframe animation. It enables audio-reactive VJ content, advanced parameter exploration interfaces, and shader-based development (fragment/compute shaders) with inputs from MIDI, OSC, sensors, and Spout. TiXL v4 is actively developed but stable enough for high-end visuals, prioritizing usability and flexibility. Installation is guided, with documentation and tutorials; community support via Discord. MIT-licensed; built with C# and HLSL for DirectX 11; community-driven project.
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SCAMP is a Python-based framework for computer-assisted music composition that acts as a hub linking a composer-programmer with playback and notation resources. It handles musical time, can playback notes via SoundFonts, MIDI, or OSC to external synths, and can export results to MusicXML or LilyPond. The 0.9.2 docs include setup guides for beginners and experienced users, testing steps, and optional components (FluidSynth, LilyPond), plus learning resources (tutorials, videos, a paper, forum). API reference covers core scamp modules and extensions, with packages like clockblocks, expenvelope, pymusicxml, and more.
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Odin's core:os is being redesigned to unify cross-platform APIs and reduce technical debt. The upcoming transition (Q1 2026) will replace core:os/os2 with a new core:os. The new design requires explicit allocators for all memory-returning procedures, uses ^os.File instead of raw os.Handle, and returns os.Error instead of booleans/Errno. It introduces a more generic, interceptable interface, new path/process APIs, a consistent OS-wide API, and an improved directory walker. The transition aims for better consistency and memory efficiency, with notice given in advance.
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Since its 1999 peak, the S&P 500 has been in a bear market. In gold terms it fell about 85% (168g to 20–25g). Post-2009, dollar gains reflect Fed QE; in gold terms, prices were flat until 2011 and then about 15% below the 2009 low. By early 2012 it was 16% above the 2009 low but 50% below the 2008 high. A gold-based CAPE around 9.2 in 2012 suggests cheap valuations. The piece argues to value investments in gold and expects further gold-priced declines before new highs.
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LLVM proposes a "human in the loop" policy for AI-assisted contributions: contributors may use AI tools but must personally review all outputs, remain the author, and be ready to answer questions during review; they should label tool-generated content and avoid offloading validation to maintainers. Automated agents are banned unless an opt-in human-in-the-loop review is used. AI-generated docs are allowed if a human reviews. The policy introduces "extractive contributions" and prioritizes worth-to-review time; it encourages small, incremental contributions and a path for future exceptions, based on community feedback.
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RamBnB markets RAM rental by the day as a joke, claiming to offer verified, no-download memory from hosts worldwide with pay-as-you-go pricing and instant access after installation. It riffs on the 2025 RAM market crisis, browser memory bloat, and the Electron tax, then showcases over-the-top listings (e.g., 1TB DDR5 for $3,999.99/day; other multi-hundred- to thousand-dollar rigs) with humorous descriptions. The page ends by reiterating it’s a parody and not a real service.
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GitHub repo for the Rain project’s L1TF Reloaded exploit. It shows a VM-based attack that leaks data from the host or other VMs via transient execution vulnerabilities (L1TF and Half-Spectre). The package includes the exploit and reproduction steps, with demonstrations on Google Cloud and a local Skylake server, including a recording of leaking a private TLS key from an Nginx on the same host. Mitigations: patched gadgets in KVM; affected Intel kernels require older stable releases; recommends blanket mitigations and awareness of microarchitectural attacks. Includes dependencies, setup, src, and references to papers and blogs.
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Animated AI produces neural-network tutorials and animations, covering convolution basics, padding (valid/same), stride, groups and depthwise/separable convolutions, and pixel shuffle/unshuffle loops. Companion YouTube videos accompany each topic; Patreon and YouTube channel linked. MIT license.
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Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (the Red Book) is an editor-curated collection presenting opinionated surveys of classic and cutting-edge data-management research. Editors Bailis, Hellerstein, and Stonebraker include chapters on background; traditional RDBMS; essential techniques; new DBMS architectures; large-scale dataflow; weak isolation and distribution; query optimization; interactive analytics; languages; web data; and biased takes on complex analytics and data integration. The volume provides HTML/PDF access, is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed, with notes for comments to pbailis.
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2026 Airline Water Study assesses onboard drinking-water safety under the EPA Aircraft Drinking Water Rule for Oct 1, 2022–Sept 30, 2025, across 21 airlines. Water Safety Scores: Delta 5.00 (A) and Frontier 4.80 (A) top; American 1.75 (D) and JetBlue 1.80 (D) bottom among majors; GoJet 3.85 (B) top regional; Mesa 1.35 (F) bottom regional. Among 35,674 sample locations, 949 (2.66%) were total coliform positive; 32 were E. coli MCL violations. Regional carriers generally poorer; EPA enforcement limited. Safety tips: drink sealed bottles, avoid onboard tap water, use hand sanitizer, and flush taps before use.
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Access to www.benkler.org is blocked by the site's security system. The block may occur when requests trigger protections (certain words/phrases, SQL commands, or improperly formatted data). If mistaken, contact the site owner and include the Request ID cf175fe6-e16f-4494-84a4-c645fd82cca5 to help investigate and restore access.
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Diatone D-160 is a 160 cm cone woofer (PW-1600), released in 1985 and made-to-order (~¥30,000,000). It uses a honeycomb diaphragm (aluminum core, CFRP skin) weighing 3 kg and a 400 kg field-coil magnet; the 600 kg unit is assembled from four bolted parts. The steel bass-reflex enclosure with wood finish brings total system weight to about 1,500 kg. Specs: 1-way, 8 Hz–500 Hz, 98 dB/W/m, 3,000 W max, 2,372×2,312×1,375 mm. Outdoor tests caused vibrations; it was used at Kobe Portpia Miraikan, in a TBS quiz, and in university laboratories.
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Ben Edelman’s post reports that Honey not only violates affiliate-network stand-down rules but hides those violations by simulating compliance when testers are likely watching. The company allegedly detects testers by checking cookies for login to affiliate-management consoles and then adjusts behavior to maximize rule-breaking without being caught.
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Japanese researchers are advancing a tooth-regrowth medicine into human trials. If successful, the therapy could become available around 2030 for people with tooth loss. The approach targets USAG-1, an antibody that inhibits tooth growth, by blocking its interaction with BMP signals to promote regrowth. The ongoing 11-month study administers the drug intravenously to 30 men (ages 30–64) missing at least one tooth; no side effects reported in animals. Pending results, trials will later test in children (ages 2–7) missing four teeth.
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