Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Update introduces two ways for the fridges to show ads.
The AirPods Pro 3 Flight Problem — Basic Apple Guy
Testing Apple’s latest noise-cancelling earbuds at 39,000 feet reveals a potential flaw most users won’t notice, until they fly.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
AI can code, but it can't build software
AI can write code, but it can’t build real software. Software engineering remains human work because AI can code, not engineer.
The Role Of Vitamin D Supplementation In The Prevention Of Acute Respiratory Infections: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
<p><strong>Background: </strong>Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) remain among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in children, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals. Emerging evidence suggests that vitamin D, ……
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
Creating characters, objects, and scenes for "Return of the Obra Dinn" from 2015-2018 *CONTAINS HOURS OF SPOILERS AND DRONING NARRATION* This timelapse shows all my 3D-related work on Obra Dinn, from May 2015 (one year after development started), up to the ga…
Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated)
Full Narrated! Song here by popular request: https://soundcloud.com/switch_angel/coding-trance-full-narrated my music etc: https://linktr.ee/switchangel #trance #electronicmusic #algorave
Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.
eurollm.io
Large language model made in Europe built to support all official 24 EU languages
Matt Rosenberg (@nthmonkey) on Threads
My brother in law died in June. Heart attack. Four hours in the hospital and gone. And then the bills came. He’d let his insurance lapse two months prior. Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few there for the ER docs, a bit for the rad…
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
Your data, their rules
The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud
.NET Libraries Are Beyond Saving
Check out my courses on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I want to talk about the .NET Library ecosystem, focusing on open-source libraries specifically and talking about t…
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch
OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how it's addressing them.
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Thoughts after learning touch typing | Mikołaj Biernat
How practice makes perfect (if done right).
Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization
You’ve probably seen it in analytics dashboards, server logs, or privacy documentation: IP addresses with their last octet zeroed out. 192.168.1.42 beco...
autistic recursion elasticity hypothesis | Isaac Bowen
consciousness has a recursion limit for itself
The Only Important Technology Is The Internet
Although progress in AI is often attributed to landmark papers – such as transformers, RNNs, or diffusion – this ignores the fundamental bottleneck of artifi...
On having a data object
Here's a common pattern: People this pattern. Everyone likes the (apparent) simplicity of , and many engineers also think that those objects bring abs...
building for the future - icy takes
on tangled's existence and direction
The Risk, Effort, Reward System
Let the little guys in: Towards a context sharing runtime for the personalised web | Arjun Khoosal
Arjun's website :)
Notes on where seat-based pricing is going - Arnon Shimoni
Everyone (mostly me) keeps saying seat pricing is dead, and some people are arguing with me online. I think that’s cool, but it’s because they don’t understand why it’s dying. For twenty years, SaaS revenue scaled with headcount.More humans = more seats.That l…
Why We Need More Programmers, Not Fewer
TL/DR The conventional wisdom is that AI will reduce the demand for programmers. I manage engineering teams and program with LLMs every day, and I am seeing something different. Programmers who know how to work with LLMs can be 3-10x faster for specific tasks.…
Dependencies, Inputs, Outputs: My Shortcut To Write Tests
I often struggle with writing unit tests. Sometimes, everything is clear before I even start coding: I can see the structure, and writing tests from the start feels natural. Those are good days.
Lessons learned from 2 years of operating a teensy-tiny news archive
I began running Andrew’s Selkouutiset Archive almost exactly two years ago, with a simple goal: Create a straightforward way for Finnish language learners to access the simple news broadcast by YYYY-MM-DD. It has basically accomplished that goal, with only a f…
What I want from a National Data Library – Andreas Varotsis
I built a tool to fix my local police engagement problem in an hour of café coding. But that was only possible because of a fading public data API from years ago…let’s revive the open data dream with the National Data Library!
Overwhelmed by Gun Violence
I remember shooting a .22 rifle as a kid sometime age 10-14, probably at Camp Minikani or Manito-wish. Also once I fired a shotgun at skeet, but I'm pretty sure I missed every clay pigeon...the details are a bit fuzzy. For the first time shooting as an adult …
How to Make Software for Hardware Engineering
The singular passion of my career has been increasing the broad competency of engineering hardware-based systems. My degree in mechanical engineering - though seemingly less relevant to my daily activities with each passing year - reveals my hardware-centric w…
My Experience Using Claude Code with Rolldown
Blog post by Yunfei He
Generalized Consensus: Governing Rules | Multigres
As we solve the problem of durability, we will realize that there is a simple set of governing rules that we will be applying repetitively. We will develop these as we progress in our design. However, we will share their entirety upfront.
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs! | End Point Dev
A word to the wise: Do not set any cron jobs for 2:00 am or 3:00 am on Sunday morning! Or to be safe, on other mornings besides Sunday as well, since jobs originally set to run on some particular day may eventually be changed to run on another day, or every da…
Stop Caring So Much About Your People
Yeah, I said it. Stop caring so much about your people. Not stop caring. Stop over-caring. Stop acting like your team’s happiness is the company’s primary KPI. Because it’s not. You’ve been told fo…
live public transport routing
We've all used a public transit router to find a quick route from A to B, such as Google Maps or CityMapper, but how do they actually work? In this post I will discuss how I tried to build my own public transport routing system for London that supports buses, …
Ivan Codes & Takes Photos
Personal website and photoblog of Ivan
JetKVM - Control any computer remotely
Next-gen open-source KVM over IP with ultra-low latency, free cloud access, and unlimited hackability. Professional remote server management for IT pros and developers.
A Thank You to YC
thoughts on garry tan's talk