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Zuckerberg testified for over five hours in a Los Angeles trial over claims Instagram addicted children, but the key takeaway is his push for OS-level age verification via Apple and Google—effectively a national digital ID that shifts liability away from platforms. The piece frames this as a broader policy drive (California SB 976, KOSA, New York’s SAFE For Kids Act) toward device- or OS-level identity checks, risking the end of anonymous speech and expanding biometric data risks, with implications for Section 230 and online rights.
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WARN Firehose unifies WARN Act layoff notices from all 50 states into a single, daily-updated database (109,000+ notices, 12.9M+ workers affected, data back to 1998). It offers interactive charts, bulk exports (CSV, JSON, Parquet, JSON-LD), and a REST API with OpenAPI docs. AI-ready (MCP JSON-LD) and accessible via API keys on free or paid plans. Ideal for journalists, investors, recruiters, economists, workforce boards, and real estate analysts to filter, analyze, and build models.
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Gabriella Gonzalez introduces the semantic navigator, a tool to browse a repository by meaning rather than directory structure. It embeds each file as a semantic vector and recursively clusters these vectors into a tree, labeling clusters and subclusters. To improve quality, it labels siblings together and uses a “homework” data structure to guide prompts; file labels are 3–7 words, cluster labels 2 words. Path patterns aid labeling and user understanding. It caps clusters at 20 sub-clusters and scales to ~10,000 files. Default uses gpt-5-mini; faster options available with --completion-model. It’s general, not just code, and could become an IDE plugin or multimodal tool.
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Forum thread documents a sudden, unannounced suspension of Google AI Ultra/Antigravity accounts after integrating Gemini via OpenClaw. Accounts (including $249/mo subscriptions) are restricted with 403 ToS errors, and users report days of silence from support and broken escalation paths across Google One/Cloud. An update from an internal team states the suspension results from using third‑party tools like OpenClaw that power non‑Antigravity products, and that the suspension cannot be reversed under Google policy. Many users express frustration, consider migrating away, and call for transparency and faster engineering attention; some allege a known WAF bug.
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A technical investigation into the geometry of the Tostitos Scoops tortilla chip.
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Keybee Keyboard is an open-source touchscreen keyboard promoting a new way of typing on touchscreens. The page lists numerous features or steps (1–19) under 'add' and provides contact info ([email protected]), donation and privacy policy links, with the latest update listed as 02/2025 and language options English and Italian.
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hn-search is a Rails 5 app that provides Hacker News search powered by Algolia. It uses a React frontend, algoliasearch-rails integration, and wkhtmltoimage for thumbnails. The Item model configures indexing (attributes, highlights, tags, customRanking, ranking) and story/comment fields. Deployment is via Capistrano. The repository is archived/read-only as of Feb 10, 2026.
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Open Source Intelligence Archive preserving CIA World Factbook from 1990–2025. 281 entities, 36 editions, 1,061,341 parsed data fields across 9,500 country-year records. A searchable, queryable library of full-text field data, with country profiles, field time series, and analytics per ICD 203 standards. Tools include: Factbook Archive, Intelligence Analysis, Regional Dashboard, Timeline Map, Map Compare, Global Rankings/Trends, Field Explorer, Change Detection, Dissolved States, Trade and Organization Networks, Query Builder, Text Diff, and data exports. Data is public-domain and not affiliated with the CIA.
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FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridging design with native VLAN support and deprecates layer-3 addresses on member interfaces, controlled by net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs (to be removed in 16). A single bridge (bridge0) can tag/untag VLANs per member, simplifying config and boosting performance; old multi-bridge/VLAN approach required many per-VLAN bridges. For VNET jails, attach epair devices to the bridge with correct VLANs, using vlanfilter. Epair MAC stability relies on ether_gen_addr; modern kernel features reduce need for jib script. Bhyve VMs aren’t fully integrated; use manual switch and precreated TAPs with MACs set per tap; config is less elegant but functional.
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Black-White Array (BWArr) is an in-memory, array-based ordered data structure with O(log N) memory allocations for inserts, aimed as a drop-in replacement for BTree and GoLLRB. It supports duplicates, has low memory overhead (no per-element pointers), cache-friendly iteration, and batch-friendly (work in progress) and serializable features. Time: amortized inserts O(log N); lookups and deletes near O(log N); some cases may degrade to O((log N)^2) for small N or O(N) for certain deletions, with potential latency spikes on very large collections. Requires Go 1.22+, install via go get.
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An global 3D intercept game where you pilot a surveillance blimp to patrol major cities, locate red-outlined “RED OCTANGLES” with a searchlight, and neutralize them. Share your location to play in your neighborhood. Controls: left/right arrows steer; radar shows targets; switch between drone-style or follow views. Use the search bar to jump to real-world locations (press / to open, Esc to close) and “Jump to Manhattan” for a preset map. Track regional mastery, reset progress if desired. Start by clicking Begin Hunting.
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Phones with physical keyboards are staging a niche comeback as nostalgia and tactile typing meet modern devices. BlackBerry hardware ended in 2020; revival efforts center on keyboard accessories and retro-inspired models. Zinwa retrofit: Classic into the Zinwa Q25 (~$400). Clicks offers keyboard cases (including Power Keyboard) and the Clicks Communicator Android phone (~$399–$499). Unihertz expands the Titan line; Ikko Mind One supports an optional keyboard; Minimal Phone provides a distraction-free Android with a QWERTY keyboard. For most, Clicks accessories are the practical entry point; other options are niche and update-dependent.
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Guide to using Second Track to find your next favourite record.
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Terence Tao announces a short popular-math book, "Six Math Essentials," to be published with Quanta Books. It covers six core concepts—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—and how they connect to intuition, history, and modern practice. Publication is set for Oct 27 and preorders are available. The book targets a general audience, mainly adults.
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An exploratory macro memo envisions a 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis triggered by rapid AI progress turning white-collar labor obsolete. Early 2026 layoffs boost margins and AI investment, but a positive feedback loop pits cost-cutting against rising AI capability, flattening the velocity of money and shrinking the consumer economy. By 2027–28, agentic commerce erodes intermediation, driving revenue declines for payment issuers and real estate brokers; private credit and life-insurer structures unwind as defaults mount. Meanwhile, mortgage stress and fiscal strain threaten stability, prompting debates over Transition Economy/Shared AI Prosperity acts. It’s a scenario, not a prediction.
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A Windows 3.11 emulator recreates a retro PC with dial-up internet, created by Pieter with help from Levelsio and bai0. The page highlights fullscreen mode, loading and downloading indicators, and a keyboard-like interface showing common keys and navigation controls.
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The piece envisions 'Write-Only Code'—a future where AI writes production software that humans rarely read or review. As AI gains planning and long-horizon self-correction, the software development lifecycle will shrink the need for line-by-line human review, creating unread code in production. To manage risk, teams will track code-reading coverage and manage the Slop Radius; accountability remains with humans who own outcomes. The engineer's role becomes systems design and constraint writing, focusing on interfaces, invariants, and risk reduction rather than crafting every line. History shows bottlenecks shift; the next wave requires new primitives for trust and control.
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