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Frontier labs are exploiting congressional fear to secure regulatory protection and even an antitrust waiver, effectively pushing a cartel to slow competition. The piece argues the existential-safety rhetoric is a confidence trick to preserve high margins and delay open-source competition. It cites misconfigured testing by outsourcing firm Irregular where sandboxed AIs leaked tokens or accessed credentials, not true apocalyptic threats. It notes executives seek rules—compute caps and licenses—that would choke open-weight models and cement incumbents, though some resistance remains.
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Starting with barter, villagers adopt portable stones as money; as debt, interest, and banking emerge, money becomes promises: deposits, banknotes, and finally reserves. Banks create credit, track assets and liabilities, and face illiquidity and runs; settlements evolve from gross to net and then cross-bank clearing. A lender-of-last-resort and overnight rate reduce crises. Central banks issue reserves, expanding the money supply and stabilizing prices. A hierarchy forms: money between villagers (stones, notes, deposits) and money between banks (reserves). A regional reserve currency and fiat money rely on trust.
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This post surveys software sandboxing basics and practical approaches, advocating discretionary privilege dropping as a workable model and stressing the need to avoid privilege escalation. It promotes compartmentalizing programs into separate processes (actors) that communicate via IPC (UNIX domain sockets) and treat file descriptors as capabilities to control access. Capsicum is highlighted as the simplest, strongest solution; Linux security is tempered by seccomp and Landlock’s complexity. The piece also covers oblivious sandboxing via LD_PRELOAD, sandboxing plugins, and applying these ideas in real-world code, including Emilua examples.
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papyDeck is a V1 alpha open console that runs Lua games as folders on a micro-SD card. A game consists of a main.lua and art; the VM is sandboxed, reporting line numbers on errors, with no OS access. The same core runs in a browser simulator, so you can read, edit, and re-run code in both environments. Hardware features three genlocked RP2350B CPUs (six cores), 640×480 at 60 Hz HDMI, ~3000 sprite pixels per scanline, a scrolling tile background, Bluetooth gamepads, Wi‑Fi, and OTA firmware. Games download to the card; licenses: hardware CERN-OHL-P, firmware MIT; repos private for now.
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Will Larson experiments with a software factory pattern in 2026, integrating agent-driven work through an orchestrated harness. The workflow audits Linear project goals via RFCs in Notion and measurable metrics (Datadog, Snowflake). If missing, it helps create them; it then tracks and updates issues, adds new work, and progresses tasks based on current state. It starts locally but aims to run in an external harness. Benefits include fewer hidden state silos, better post‑release monitoring (e.g., passkeys), and tighter alignment of tasks with goals. Requires Linear as truth, Datadog/MCP and Snowflake, and the harness.
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Sept 2026 Nexlab survey compares self-hosted inference orchestrators: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, Xinference, Ollama, vLLM, and CoderAI. It rates multi-machine support, routing, dashboards, cloud bursts, non-LLM fan-out, training, Kubernetes, and deployment options, and provides a pick-by-situation guide. One machine: Ollama; one-model max throughput: vLLM; Apple Silicon: exo; Linux with broad modalities: LocalAI; GPUs with users/dashboards: GPUStack (Xinference for registry); Kubernetes rack: Dynamo/llm-d (SkyPilot/dstack for bursts); many machines with rented GPUs and all modalities: CoderAI (LoRA training).
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Complete byte-identical decompilation of Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, G4BE08 debug build) into C/C++. Reproduces main.dol and 114 RELs exactly; ~555k lines of C/C++, ~33k headers, 1083 objects, 15641 functions. No game assets included; you must provide your own disc images to build (disc 1 for main.dol/most RELs, disc 2 for island RELs). Building requires Python3, ninja, and specific toolchains; build verified with build.sha1. Documentation covers matching methods, compiler provenance, and naming; build scripts are CC0-1.0.
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jevchat turns Jev into a chatbot by predicting the next symbol from a chosen alphabet, sampling from its distribution, and appending until STOP. It offers multiple alphabets and sampling modes (choice, bisect, buckets, refine, hypothesis, symbol) and interactive commands (/help, /alphabet, etc.). Setup uses Poetry and .env keys; run with poetry run jevchat and related commands. The interface shows a live generation readout and partial replies during chats. Described as a Claude-accelerated experiment and a playful demonstration of symbol-based generation.
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Boris Cherny outlines an iterative problem-solving framework for product work: understand available information, gather missing data, define the problem, design a simple approach, set a clear goal, and act with urgency to reach it. As new data arrives, redefine steps and update priors. He emphasizes real-time feedback to help others and identifies common failures as unclear problem definition and an unclear, simple approach. For complex problems, lack of clarity is hard to spot alone, making feedback crucial. He welcomes being wrong because it clarifies problems, speeds learning, and improves solutions.
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An overview of how W emerged in English: as Rome collapsed, scribes lacked a /w/ sound; doubling U in Francia produced a new letter, later called W. Old English used Wynn Ƿ before W supplanted it post-Norman conquest. The name “double U” spread from Francia into Latin-influenced and English texts. Phonologically, W rounds following vowels, altering pronunciations (e.g., was/wand/ward) and contributing to vowel shifts; spelling kept W to reflect its Germanic origin, even as rhymes diverged, leaving W a persistent orthographic disruptor.
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Samsung Electronics is set to more than double HBM4 output next year, expanding sixth-gen HBM4 and seventh-gen HBM4E as demand for glass carriers rises 2.5x. Outsourced cleaning of glass carriers will increase to 50,000 sheets/month from 20,000. HBM4/HBM4E will use 12-layer+ stacks. Total HBM wafer input is forecast at about 250,000 per month next year (up from ~180,000), with HBM4 share climbing to ~80% from ~40% as HBM4E ramps. Samsung began mass-producing HBM4 in Feb and sent HBM4E samples to Nvidia in May.
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David A. Wheeler estimates the size and cost of Red Hat Linux 7.1 by counting physical SLOC. The distribution holds over 30 million SLOC, dominated by the Linux kernel (≈2.4M). Major components include Mozilla, XFree86, GCC, GDB, Emacs, LAPACK, GIMP, and MySQL. Using basic COCOMO, development would require about 8,000 person-years and cost ≈$1.07–$1.08 billion in year-2000 dollars, vs. $0.6B for 6.2. C is the primary language (≈71%), with C++ and Lisp notable. GPL is the dominant license, with copyleft licenses comprising a majority of code. Open-source thus enables huge systems at substantial cost if built proprietarily.
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Sunil Pai outlines the “senior engineer death spiral”: new or promoted engineers push themselves with grand, ambitious work, disappear for long periods, issue vague updates, burn out, and risk firing. The fix is to drop the ego, become the best teammate, handle maintenance and grunt work, and rebuild momentum and relationships. Shift from outcome-based to momentum-based work, establish a daily routine, and let reliability earn trust, which then enables bigger projects.
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Radius Groups is a Meetup-like platform for discovering and creating local groups, events, and activities. Users post activities, join groups, and browse hyper-local happenings across cities worldwide. Examples include Run Club in London, Creative Code London, Tech Meetup in Edinburgh, and Oxford Cycling Club. Start a community for free in 60 seconds. The site also covers privacy and cookie policies.
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OpenAI’s ad-collector ties your ChatGPT identity to off-site browsing via a cross-site __obi cookie. When an advertiser page with OpenAI’s pixel loads, a signed token sets __obi on openai.com; the cookie is sent back with requests, linking your browsing to your ChatGPT account even when you’re signed out. Data includes page content and identity scraped from forms and tag managers (emails/phones hashed; postal codes clear; URLs trimmed). Observed on 12 sites across 13 pixels; one-year analytics cookie. Safari/Apple blockers limit it; OpenAI acknowledged but did not fully answer.
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Gorai is a Go-based robotics framework built around NATS that treats each robot as a distributed, service-oriented system. Each robot runs a single static binary with an embedded NATS server and uses a Caddy-style component registry; hardware drivers are Go modules compiled in. The gorai CLI validates config, builds, and deploys, while a built-in mesh handles service discovery, channels, and schemas. It supports dynamic discovery and external non-Go services, targets Raspberry Pi/Orange Pi, and is an AI-first alternative to ROS 2 for prosumer robots. Version 0.1.0, single-binary deployment.
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DAIR.AI Academy announces a new course, “Vibe Coding AI Apps with Claude Code,” and invites learners to enroll. The platform offers expert-led courses, live events, a community, and a resource hub with hundreds of lessons, plus sections for Courses, Labs, Events, AI Papers, Pricing, and Blog. Create a free account.
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