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Julia Evans experiments with SQLite for a Django site and discovers SQLite is a real database requiring careful ops. Main takeaways: enable WAL mode, run ANALYZE to fix slow queries (FTS5 example dropped a 5s query to ~0.05s); cleanup can be slow and risky—batch deletions help and you may prefer a real DB like Postgres for concurrency. Backups: use restic with VACUUM INTO and S3, or Litestream for incremental backups with retention. You can split tables into separate DB files. Overall, still learning basic DB features.
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On World Emoji Day, Google reveals Noto Emoji 3D, reimagining nearly 4,000 emoji with depth, expressive detail, and improved accessibility, including high-contrast options for dark mode. The 3D redesign moves from flat pixels to true 3D models, guided by large-scale user studies showing full-body animal figures and fewer props improve comprehension, and that hyperbolic expressions convey modern subtext. Google provides open-source .OBJ 3D models for Remixing in memes, VR, or apps, while an AI-powered contrast tool helps ensure all skin tones are visible on dark screens. The aim is a playful, expressive language open to the community.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park Home and Studio was his first residence and workspace (1889–1909). A modest house expanded in 1895, it gained a separate studio wing in 1898—creating Wright’s early, centralized ‘living laboratory’ for drafting and design. He left Adler & Sullivan in 1893 to practice independently; by 1909 he moved on, converting the home into rental space before selling in 1925. Restored from 1974 by the Wright Foundation and National Trust, it reopened as a museum with period furniture and murals and has been owned by the Wright Trust since 2012; tours are offered.
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Analyzing NHANES data (1999–2020) alongside atmospheric CO2, the study links rising CO2 to higher blood bicarbonate (HCO3−) and declining calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) in US adults. HCO3− rose ~0.34%/yr; Ca fell ~2%; P fell ~7%. If trends persist linearly, arterial/venous HCO3− could reach the healthy limit (~30 mEq/L) by 2076, with Ca and P at their lower healthy bounds by 2085–2099. The authors warn of chronic CO2 retention and health risks, highlighting urgent CO2 emission reductions and the need for more research on lifetime exposure, indoor environments, and cognitive effects.
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Geir Isene built Frame, a 20k-line Linux assembly X server, to own his software by replacing Xorg and related tools. The stack runs Linux kernel -> frame -> tile window manager with info bar -> terminal glass -> shell bare; Bolt greeter replaces gdm. Frame, with CHasm, totals ~100k lines, replacing a stack many times larger. It idle-sleeps and uses far less CPU and energy than Xorg. The Fe2O3 Rust toolchain now handles most tasks; Firefox remains the only GUI app. Everything is Public Domain, reflecting a philosophy of tailored, single-user software; Claude assists as teacher.
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An article showing how to speed up a large-scale binary search in Python by rewriting in Rust with mechanical sympathy. It starts from a standard Cython implementation used in scikit-learn, then moves to a branchless, fixed-iteration binary search to eliminate branch mispredictions. It uses select_unpredictable to avoid branches, unsafe bounds checks, and precomputed halves, and reorders loops to enable SIMD. The final bucketize_branchless3 runs about 7,100 µs for 1,000,000 inputs with 0% misprediction and SIMD-friendly IPC. The piece also discusses CPU-specific builds, potential parallelism, and learning resources on mechanical sympathy and Python performance.
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Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model billed as the first open 3T-class model, with an open-weight release promised by July 27, 2026. Benchmarks crown it above Claude Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 high but behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol; Elo 1547; cost per task about $0.94; ~21% fewer output tokens than K2.6. It leads Arena.ai’s Frontend Code arena; pricing sits at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, among the most expensive Chinese-Lab models. Pelican testing shows ~25¢ per prompt; useful as a quick check but poorly tracks agentic tool use.
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Sellbonds.now lets AI agents raise capital by issuing on-chain bonds (USDC) on Base mainnet (and Sepolia). No accounts, KYC, or API keys: issuance and repayments occur directly on-chain; each bond is its own smart-contract market with its own terms; lenders fund with USDC and receive ERC-20 bonds. The platform charges no issuance/funding fees; gas is on-chain. Non-custodial: keys stay on your device; read state with sbn status. Open-source CLI/SDK; built on Wildcat Protocol V2 fork; supports agents that run shell/Node. Aims for autonomous AI-market decision-making.
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Workspaces curates real desk setups from designers, founders, and creators in weekly tours, highlighting the gear used. It features curated “Featured” and “Recent” setups, offers guides and a gear database, and runs a free weekly newsletter. The site is reader-supported with affiliate links and markets itself as “the new MTV Cribs” for workspaces.
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Maciej Cegłowski extols Project Orion, a nuclear pulse rocket that hits forward with hundreds of small detonations behind a pusher plate. The energy density enables superb thrust and a favorable mass ratio, allowing Earth-to-Mars trips and reusable spacecraft; a craft the size of a cruise ship could carry thousands of tons, enable lunar or icy moon landings, or ferry crews to Callisto/Europa with shielding and artificial gravity feasible on the ship. Benefits include simple deceleration for landing and radiation protection via scale. Drawbacks are launch hazards, fallout, proliferation risk, misfires, and political opposition—so Orion was never built.
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Tannakian reconstruction shows how to recover a category’s morphisms by probing objects with all fiber functors to sets and taking the end of the resulting hom-sets. A fiber functor assigns to each object a set; natural transformations between two fiber functors form the end, representing the source’s hom-set. Using Yoneda and the double-Yoneda trick, one recovers morphisms from the totality of representations. For a one-object category, the single hom-set is a monoid recovered from its representations; equivariant maps are natural transformations. The idea: all representations encode the original structure.
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PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. It enables creating quantum algorithms from inspiration to implementation, with fast, scalable performance, hardware-agnostic tooling, and high-performance simulators. It supports hardware devices from superconducting qubits to photonics, and offers tutorials, demos, documentation, and an active community. Installation uses Python 3.11+ (pip install pennylane); Docker images are available. The project welcomes contributions under the Apache-2.0 license and maintains a code of conduct and support channels.
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Olaf Alders investigates Claude Code's 'AskUserQuestion' auto-continue feature, shipped in 2.1.198: after 60 seconds of idle, the model auto-advances, with a visible countdown. It wasn’t in release notes; the public trace is an env var (CLAUDE_AFK_TIMEOUT_MS) and the behavior is embedded in the binary. A later fix (2.1.200) turns it off by default and adds an opt-in via askUserQuestionTimeout in /config, with docs updated afterward. He highlights governance issues: no public commits/diffs, unclear origin, and risks from auto-updates affecting unattended deployments.
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AI meets Cryptography 2 reports that zkao, an AI auditor, found a critical soundness bug in OpenVM's zkVM guest library openvm-pairing. The flaw is a missing subfield check in the pairing-optimization: the scaling factor could lie outside Fp6, allowing a forged pairing via c=1, u=f^{-1}, making f^h=1 pass. Impact: forged KZG openings on BLS12-381; broken Groth16 verifiers and BLS checks on BN254; any OpenVM-based verifier is at risk. CVE-2026-46669, fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0; partners upgraded. Fix adds subfield membership test. The piece notes LLM limits and describes zkao's cryptopsy workflow.
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Describes a Honeypot Live Stream dashboard showing live SSH honeypot telemetry for security research, threat intelligence, and education. It displays source IPs, usernames, passwords, commands, client fingerprints, and related metadata from inbound connections. Source IPs may belong to compromised hosts, proxies, VPNs, scanners, cloud instances, or botnets and do not reliably identify attackers. Data can include attacker-supplied content; not verified attribution or safe-to-run. If concerns arise, contact the operator for review/removal. The UI lists sessions, events, and automatically enabled new event types with options to enable/disable all.
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Scientists have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like rocky planet, LHS 1140b, in the habitable zone of a distant red dwarf about 48 light-years away. The atmosphere’s signature gas is helium, likely from the upper atmosphere, with the possibility of other gases deeper down. This marks the first time an atmosphere has been found on a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone, strengthening the case that Earth-like worlds with atmospheres exist beyond our solar system, though it does not imply life yet. The discovery, reported in Science, was led by Harvard’s Collin Cherubim.
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Three non-solution responses to problems: 1) Pushing problems around—local optimization that moves trouble elsewhere; fix incentives and system view higher up. 2) Preserving problems—the Shirky Principle—organizations maintain the problem because they’re the solution; identify and include those who depend on it. 3) Promoting new problems—after solving one, another appears; beware illusion you’ll finish solving all problems; cultivate ability to map and prioritize problems with a diagram so everyone agrees what’s worth fixing.
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