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Wire is moving AI context containers from Cloudflare Durable Objects to a self-hosted runtime on Fly Machines. Four limits—external vector index, multi-stage compute off-object, fixed placement, and no self-hosting—motivated the change. The new system gives each organization a Bun host and per-org containers (SQLite with embedded vector index via sqlite-vec). Retrieval happens in-process; model calls still go to inference; snapshots go to object storage; a per-region router places containers near callers; control plane uses signed requests. Benefits: faster warm starts, steadier recall (78.1%→89.1% at top5), and portability; beta now, open-sourcing planned.
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79 infants and adults listened to music vs shuffled music and high- vs low-pitch versions while EEG and markerless video tracked neural and movement responses. Neural results showed music elicited stronger responses than shuffled across ages; P1 in all, with P2 only in 12 months and adults; ASSR matched the beat and was higher for music. Movement: only 12-month-olds moved more to music, mainly upper-body actions; no beat-synchronous coordination. Granger causality indicated music predicted movement with about 160–200 ms delay; pitch had limited effects on movement. Conclusion: early neural encoding of music; beat-related movement emerges gradually, by 12 months.
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An email-writing guide focused on speed, clarity, and judgment. Start with the point; put bad news first; use as few words as possible; be literal and specific with names, numbers, and dates. One email should do one job; make the next step obvious; separate facts, judgment, and recommendation. Write for forwarding; use AI only if edited to be specific and human. Respect time—aim for one-screen emails; do not save face at the expense of clarity; keep threads clean with clear subject lines; follow a default structure and avoid unnecessary politeness.
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Bending Spoons is a Milan-based tech group that owns AOL and Vimeo and went public on Nasdaq with a roughly $25B market cap. It buys popular digital brands—Meetup, Eventbrite, WeTransfer, Evernote, Issuu, Brightcove, among others—and aggressively overhauls them, aiming to hold forever. Born from Evertale’s Wink, it bootstrapped for years before raising equity; backers include Eric Schmidt, Mike Krieger and Xavier Niel. 2025 revenue: $1.31B; March 2026: 500M MAU and 9M paying users. About 620 Spooners; continued acquisitions and AI-driven scaling.
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LazyPi is a one-command setup for Pi that auto-configures 60+ skills, 67 themes, MCP/sub-agent integration, Claude Code CLI, memory, and more. It provides a curated, install-all or interactive package catalog so Pi is ready to use immediately with minimal research. It can install Pi if needed, then set up everything; packages are hand-picked (pi-subagents, pi-memory-md, pi-mcp-adapter, 67 themes, 60+ skills, etc.). Run 'pi' to start. Built by Earendil / Mario Zechner and Rob Zolkos.
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Alan Bellows explains that after years juggling part-time engineering work with Damn Interesting, the changing job market and the rise of AI have made sustainable funding difficult. He launches a one‑off GoFundMe to raise the amount he used to earn part‑time, aiming to devote the next 12 months to writing, editing, and running the site. The goal is to resist AI slop and produce more long‑form content; the fundraiser is separate from the existing Give a Damn donations. The post also features a Magic 8 Ball anecdote and related trivia.
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Context.dev provides one API to scrape, crawl, extract, and enrich live web data for AI agents. It delivers Markdown/HTML, sitemaps, images, and structured brand data (logos, colors, fonts, styleguides, descriptions, socials, addresses), plus product listings, screenshots, and transaction identifiers. Features enable grounding LLMs with fresh web context, AI-driven onboarding autofill, theming, and automated brand kits. Real-world usage includes Mintlify, SiteGPT, and Sourcely. Backed by Y Combinator, it offers Free, Developer, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise plans with API credits and a Logo Link service. SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP; subdomains supported.
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Pangram launched a Chrome extension to flag AI-generated social posts and, with user opt-in, collect research data. Analyzing 1,002,627 posts across LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, X/Twitter, and Reddit with Pangram 3.3 (0.01% false positives), the report finds AI content is widespread and strongest in longform. The overall AI rate is 13.8%; longform posts (>250 words) are ~25.7% AI-generated, with LinkedIn exceeding 40% fully AI-generated. X/Twitter and Reddit show substantial AI presence; Substack ~21–22%. Conclusion: AI writing affects all platforms; transparency helps users reclaim attention.
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Anthropic launches Claude reflection (beta) to help users assess and refine AI use. The reflection dashboard in Settings tracks Claude usage over 1–12 months, shows patterns and tasks, and will soon show time spent. It invites users to reflect on Claude’s role, with optional quiet hours and nudges. Built on the 4D AI Fluency Framework—Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence—the tool summarizes activity and offers practical prompts. Privacy: no incognito chats or source files are used; data stays in the reflection. Available in beta for Free/Pro/Max with memory on; memory off may block reports; Cowork coming soon.
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The article argues that Lisp is powerful and worth learning, thanks to extensibility via macros and its homoiconicity (code as data). It explains how macros add new constructs (e.g., while) and how macro expansion preserves arguments, enabling code-as-data manipulation. It emphasizes a live, REPL-driven workflow with hot-reloading, allowing programs and even the language to evolve in place. It shows how Lisp enables internal DSLs (HTML, math DSL) and broadly extensible software, with Emacs and AutoCAD cited as prominent examples, and reflects on the Blub paradox and Lisp’s unique, powerful combination of features.
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Footer of YouTube with links to About, Press, Copyright, Contact, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms, Privacy Policy & Safety, How YouTube works, Test new features, NFL Sunday Ticket, © 2026 Google LLC.
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Helium Browser prioritizes privacy, transparency, and consent. All source code is public under copyleft; commits and PRs are open and well-documented; no restrictive CLAs. Builds originate from public repos, with transparent, reproducible processes and signed, immutable releases. The browser has no ads or tracking, requires user consent for new services, and allows self-hosted endpoints. Its ad-blocker is unbiased, avoids dark patterns, and discourages Chromium-derived privacy regressions. Legal docs are on GitHub with full history. The project urges users to help build a privacy-first internet.
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LastShelf helps families prepare for emergencies by turning scattered documents, passwords, and bills into a single, organized plan. Through step-by-step “discover, organize, guide” workflows, it automatically surfaces important bills from connected emails and banks, stores trusted contacts, and provides instructions for what to do and whom to call. Sensitive data is handled with privacy: it can read data but never moves money, and password sharing stays in your password manager. It offers a preparedness quiz and a $99/year plan with trial.
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TLS for internal services can be done cleanly with split-horizon DNS, VPN DNS resolution, and a central WAF instead of self-signed certs on every client. Configure public DNS to point grafana.tuxnet.dev to a public IP while VPN DNS resolves it to an internal 10.x address. Use acme.sh with the standalone mode to obtain Let’s Encrypt certificates, bound to Nginx behind a WAF; cron renewals copy new certs and reload Nginx. For multiple internal services, use SAN/CNAMEs (e.g., internal.tuxnet.dev, grafana.tuxnet.dev, analytics.tuxnet.dev) on a single certificate, avoiding wildcards.
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analog.watch is a game that tasks players with reading three analog clocks as fast as possible.
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PostHog FOSS is a read-only mirror of PostHog with proprietary code removed, synced automatically from the main repo; raise issues/PRs there. PostHog is an open-source platform for building products, offering product analytics, web analytics, session replays, feature flags, experiments, error tracking, surveys, data warehouse and pipelines, AI observability, and workflows, with a generous free tier. Sign up for PostHog Cloud or self-host via a one-line Docker hobby deploy; self-hosting scales to ~100k events. MIT license (ee directory excluded).
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IERS Bulletin C72 states that no leap second will be added at the end of December 2026. Since 2017-01-01 0h UTC, UTC−TAI = −37 s. Leap seconds may be introduced in UTC at the ends of June or December, depending on UT1−TAI. Bulletin C is issued every six months to announce a potential time step or confirm none.
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