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Phoronix reports on Debian’s challenge when volunteers quietly drift away without informing others, leaving packages unmaintained, bugs unattended, and security accounts unmanaged. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille says volunteers lack easy ways to declare changes in availability, causing responsibilities to drift. He outlines ideas to improve continuity, including an MIA (missing-in-action) team and clearer delegation. A proposed automated system would ping potentially inactive contributors after about six months and follow up monthly to confirm status. The goal is healthier, more reliable open-source collaboration.
sqldef is a CLI tool that diffs two SQL schemas to generate DDLs for migrations. It supports MySQL, MariaDB, TiDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and SQLite3. The online demo shows current vs. desired schemas and Up/Down migrations, using a WebAssembly build to diff schemas and generate DDLs. Source: https://github.com/sqldef/sqldef
Eric Jang argues that AI reasoning has shifted from prompt hacks to integrated, automated thinking. By combining deductive structure with inductive inference, and via DeepSeek’s R-1 framework (base model + on‑policy RL with explicit reasoning traces and staged fine-tuning), LLMs can solve math, coding, and complex problems beyond hand-written code. Automated research and coding agents will become standard, demanding vast inference compute and transforming software engineering, robotics, and science. The piece ends with practical advice to embrace automated research and scale compute.
TensorFrost is a static optimizing tensor compiler that blends NumPy-like high-level operations with shader-like control flow and automatic differentiation. It uses a custom IR (multilevel linked list) and kernel fusion to generate CPU/GPU kernels (C++, GLSL/HLSL) from Python-embedded tensor programs. It supports a Python frontend via Pybind11, modules, optimizers, and real-time visualization (GLFW/ImGui). Demos include fluid simulations, N-body, fractal path tracing, texture embedding with neural nets, and neural cellular automata. It is experimental with many TODOs (small-shape handling, groupshared memory, debugging, docs) and varying performance vs PyTorch/JAX depending on task.
An online collection of data poems and short stories that tell stories through numbers. It pairs poetic pieces with visualizations across diverse topics: war casualties (1914–2025); climate anomalies (1880–2025); real-time air quality; language families; protolanguage to modern; world trade networks and routes; trade density; rents; tree rings; Olympic medals (1896–2024); phyllotaxis and Fibonacci patterns; aurora and space phenomena; UFO sightings; Bigfoot encounters; and other cryptid mappings, with an about me page. It blends literature and data visualization to map histories, patterns, and phenomena.
The Codex desktop app isn’t a revolution, but it signals a broader shift in IDEs toward multi-agent, spec-driven development. Ben Shoemaker describes using Claude Code for the main feature work and Codex as a parallelization layer that creates isolated worktrees, enabling real parallel work. The article argues that the future of software tooling will center on managing systems that produce code, not reading the code itself. It outlines a spectrum from Code to Specs—with multi-agent orchestration and specs as the primary artifact.
Overview of experimenting with Remarkable Pro color output, including a basic color extraction method, a custom pen-color palette, and a soft-proof ICC profile to better preview colors on a PC (GIMP) before editing. The author provides downloadable files (ICC, GIMP palette) and sample images. They compare the Pro to Remarkable 2: color is bland and backlit; pen precision is still poor; display has glare but is more responsive; two tablets used for reference and writing; software UI across notebook management, mobile/web/Linux is clunky.
Litestream is a backup/restore system that keeps SQLite in sync with S3-like storage, enabling fast SQLite usage. The post introduces Litestream VFS, a library that lets SQLite query object storage blobs; it adds a writable VFS—read-write mode with a local write buffer and periodic sync for fast writes during Sprite boot, limited to a single writer. It also adds hydration: background hydration from object storage into a local file so reads proceed while the DB builds. Sprites rely on Litestream: each Sprite has a SQLite DB synced by Litestream and 100GB storage backed by object storage with NVMe cache.
CIA bids farewell to The World Factbook, one of its oldest publications. The Factbook began as The National Basic Intelligence Factbook in 1962, became unclassified in 1971, was renamed The World Factbook about a decade later, and went digital in 1997 on CIA.gov. It became a widely used reference for researchers, media, teachers, students, and travelers. CIA officers donated personal travel photos—over 5,000 images copyright-free. The Factbook is sunset; readers are encouraged to stay curious and explore the world in other ways.
Qodo released Code Review Benchmark 1.0 to measure AI-powered code reviews on both correctness and code quality within realistic PR reviews. It injects defects into 100 real merged PRs from active open-source repos, totaling 580 issues. A multi-stage process extracts best-practice rules, selects compliant PRs, and injects compliance violations plus 1–3 functional bugs. Seven tools were evaluated; Qodo achieved the highest recall and best F1 (60.1%), in Precise and Exhaustive configurations, outperforming others. The benchmark is public on GitHub.
EpsteIn is a Python tool that lets you see which LinkedIn connections appear in Epstein court documents. After exporting your LinkedIn Connections.csv, run EpsteIn.py with --contacts to generate an HTML report (EpsteIn.html by default). The report lists a summary, per-contact cards (name, current position, company), total mentions, and document excerpts with links to source PDFs on justice.gov. Mentions are found via exact full-name phrase matching and may yield false positives. Requires Python 3.6+, with dependencies from requirements.txt.
Oracle reports a site-wide technical outage and is working to resolve it, apologizing for the inconvenience. For assistance, contact Oracle sales at 1-800-ORACLE1, Corporate Headquarters at 1-650-506-7000, or US technical support at 1-800-633-0738. Incident number: 0.5094d817.1770240349.79b53516.
Meter is a web-scraping platform that detects real content changes while ignoring ads, timestamps, and layout shifts. It offers diff-only processing, AI-assisted strategy generation, anti-bot and rotating proxies, and automatic handling of Cloudflare/PerimeterX/DataDome. Webhooks deliver updates only when meaningful changes occur. Use cases include job boards, news aggregation, price monitoring, and RAG pipelines. It requires no infrastructure; it maintains a rotating proxy pool and handles retries with exponential backoff. Pricing: Free tier; Pro $29/mo with more strategies and features; 7-day free trial; Enterprise custom.
Argues that the technological singularity is not a discrete future event but an ongoing, exponential transformation of the "technium." Extrapolations (e.g., Kurzweil) misrepresent progress; any exponential curve on a linear chart makes a "singularity" look imminent, yet it’s a phantom, visible only in hindsight. Voices include that immortal AI is not guaranteed, bootstrapping minds may be limited, and transitions are gradual and imperceptible while occurring. The piece concludes that the singularity is always near, always present, but never arrives as a clear cut point; visualization supports this view.
Technocracy 2.0 traces the 1930s technocracy movement—from Veblen and the Technical Alliance to Howard Scott’s mass campaigns and its 1933 collapse—while arguing the core idea survives in today’s Silicon Valley. Modern technocrats seek to govern via measurable social processes, centralized expertise, and energy-based economics, aided by state contracts with Palantir, OpenAI, and DOD. Figures such as Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Balaji Srinivasan push technocratic or secessionist projects, often while preserving capitalism. The article warns that twenty-first-century technocracy is less about anti-democracy and more about data-driven power concentrated in elite platforms.
Reading Statistics 2026 aggregates 50+ data points (2025–2026) on books, reading habits, formats, markets, and literacy, with sources. Key themes: heavy readers drive most activity (top 19% account for 82% of books); print remains strong while ebooks and audiobooks grow rapidly; demographic, income, and education gaps in reading; literacy challenges persist (14% functionally illiterate; 65% of fourth graders not proficient); reading reduces stress (up to 68%); and library use remains significant (about half of Americans have library cards).
The article explains how to bypass Claude Code quotas by running a local open-source model when the quota runs out. It recommends checking /usage and suggests GLM-4.7-Flash (Z.AI) or Qwen3-Coder-Next (or smaller quantized versions). It describes two paths: 1) LM Studio: install, run a local server, set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to localhost:1234, start Claude pointing to the server, and use /model to switch. 2) Directly using Llama.cpp without LM Studio. Conclusion: a workable backup—slower, but easy to switch between local OSS and Claude.
Mean people are rare among the most successful; meanness correlates with failure because it hard‑to attract the best talent and distracts from real problems. In startups and non-zero-sum environments, success comes from building ideas and collaborating, not fighting. Benevolence and a drive to improve the world help founders recruit, endure, and succeed. Intellectual cultures are influencing business, shifting the path to success away from ruthlessness. The author urges parents to teach kids not to be mean, since it undermines lasting achievement.
Fluid.sh creates sandboxes from VMs to test and audit infrastructure changes in isolation. It detects host OS and tools to adapt, logs every command for a full audit, and auto-generates Ansible playbooks from sandbox activity for reproducible setups. In the example, a sandbox SBX-demo1234 on 192.168.122.50 runs Ubuntu 22.04, installs Apache, serves a custom index.html, and outputs an Ansible playbook httpd-setup with four tasks: update apt, install Apache, create index.html, and start/enable Apache. The playbook can reproduce the setup on any Ubuntu server.
Ruth Marcus argues that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post to save it but, through years of losses and two waves of buyouts, reduced it to a diminished shadow. In 2023 and 2025 the newsroom shed hundreds more, with sports, foreign, and the Books section ending; about 300 newsroom staff were laid off in 2026. Critics, including former editors, blame top management and Bezos’s stance—especially killing the Harris endorsement—for eroding readership and morale. The Times thrived by expanding, while the Post’s print has shrunk. The piece proposes turning the Post into a nonprofit endowed by Bezos to sustain it.
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