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GitHub issue reports Codex Desktop on macOS endlessly generates Crashpad pending dumps, swelling to many gigabytes (examples up to 137 GB; hundreds of thousands of files). The growth occurs in Crashpad/pending under ~/Library/Application Support/com.openai.codex/web/Crashpad or Codex/Crashpad; a browser_crashpad_handler crash loop produces repeated .dmp and _sidecar.json pairs. The app remains usable, but cleanup offers only temporary relief. Proposed fixes include size/TTL caps or crash-reporting loop repairs; some later builds/macOS versions help, but the issue persists in others.
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Things To Do API is a fast, localized events API for AI agents and apps, covering shows, talks, markets, and festivals. It offers a free API key, docs, and plain-language instructions. Example: a search for comedy in San Francisco returns Drag-Up Comedy at Cobb's Comedy Club (SF) on Oct 18, 2026. It supports REST and MCP, with SF Bay Area live and NYC/LA coming. Pricing includes a free tier (0–1,000 calls/mo), pay-as-you-go, and enterprise; 50 queries daily without a key. Docs: pricing, OpenAPI, terms, privacy.
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Courk builds a budget Laser Fault Injection Platform to defeat RP2350 Secure Boot on Raspberry Pi Pico 2. He exposes the backside RP2350 die, mounts a two-QSPI-flash I/O board, and employs a 1064 nm IR laser, a custom laser driver, FPGA gateware, and an OpenFlexure/ Glasgow-based positioning system to align pulses with QSPI activity. By faulting the Boot ROM between a RAM copy and the SHA-256 check (s_varm_crit_mem_copy_by_words before sb_sha256_update_32), he bypasses Secure Boot and can run arbitrary firmware to access OTP secrets. Results are slow and timing-sensitive; the setup is inexpensive but functional.
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Microsoft and CMU launched PRAISE (Preceptorship for AI-accelerated Software Engineering) to train early-career Microsoft engineers for AI-driven software development. Selected preceptees work full-time at Microsoft with senior mentors while taking CMU online courses (Machine Learning in Production; AI-Augmented Software Engineering I; later DevOps: Engineering for Secure Development and Deployment) and can apply the work toward a CMU master’s degree. Initiated after Mark Russinovich’s Oct 2025 visit, the program aims to expand to more students and additional industry partners.
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An experienced systems administrator tests his Kubernetes skepticism against facts, outlining core concepts (pods, nodes, clusters, services, namespaces) and the controller-based model of continuous desired-state management. He explains service networking via kube-proxy, compares manual Pod creation with ReplicaSets/Deployments, and reviews storage options (Ephemeral Volumes, PersistentVolumes, StatefulSets). While impressed by the control-loop and services, he questions stability guarantees and design choices (out-of-tree storage, cloud-provider bias) and criticizes heavy YAML/text templating (Helm, KEDA).
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AI accelerates code but raises bugs, review load, and incidents; automated software verification is needed to preserve speed without sacrificing quality. The piece surveys current approaches: Superpowers for disciplined agentic development; RoboRev for continuous AI code review; and AI reviewers from Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, noting model diversity caveats. It then outlines a comprehensive AI-enabled CI/CD pipeline: code quality, unit, integration, and E2E tests, SAST, secret and dependency scanning, agentic bug/security reviews, architecture checks, and deployment tests. GitHub Actions can orchestrate staged checks to balance cost. Spec-driven planning, multi-model reviews, commit-by-commit work, and human gatekeeping.
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Narratives often mislead bets; legibility bias makes legible stories attractive but unreliable in a complex, multi-causal world. Instead, trust pattern matching, like a chess engine: combine intuition with data, identify 10–20 key attributes that separate wins from losses, and score bets objectively. At Spellbook this yielded a framework between legible story and intuition, boosting hit rates; in investing, switching from headlines to pattern matching (data soak, charts, predictions) produced ~20x better returns than passive over ~9 years. Independent thinking matters; avoid overfitting to trending narratives. Pattern matching can outperform storytelling in decision making.
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Parin is a delightfully simple 2D game engine for the D language. It sits between a small library (raylib) and a large engine (Godot), offering code-driven design, optional garbage collection, and a modular base built on Joka. Features include pixel-perfect physics, a flexible dialogue system, atlas-based animation, tile maps, and a lightweight UI, plus extras like Box2D, Steamworks, ENet, and microui. Cross-platform (Web, Windows, Linux, macOS). Install via DUB or manual setup; hot reload isn’t supported; contributions welcome.
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tsc-ts is an experimental TypeScript compiler port written in TypeScript that compiles to native code via scriptc. It recreates TypeScript 7.0.2’s tsc, exposing a CLI and an API server (tsc-ts --api) for tooling. The project is a Turborepo with packages/tsc-ts and packages/tsgo, offering per‑platform binaries, npm install -D tsc-ts, and build/test scripts. It aims for parity with tsgo and TypeScript’s test corpus, providing a native build, language service capabilities, and integration for tooling and workflows.
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IVXV online voting system is a public GitHub repository containing the Estonian online voting code. The project is kept up to date for use in elections but is not under active development; the code here is the code used for elections. Development of the Estonian I-voting system and I-vote verification is supervised by the State Electoral Office of Estonia. The repo invites public review and points to valimised.ee for more information.
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Surging U.S. gold exports have overtaken all other exports since Oct 2025, with Feb 2026 possibly a record tonnage. Most shipments go to Switzerland for refining, then to Hong Kong (for China) and the UK (LBMA). The U.S. government reports no change in reserves; exports likely derive from current mine output and recycling. The author speculates foreign buyers and central banks seek gold as a dollar alternative, noting China has reduced Treasuries and increased gold holdings, and suggesting much U.S. gold may ultimately fund China—though this remains unproven.
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Researchers showed that in Pocillopora damicornis, a bleached coral fragment could be fully revived within eight weeks by touching it to a healthy fragment from the same genet. The healthy partner transfers algal symbionts through a tissue bridge; the symbiont population doubled about every four days in the bleached fragment. Recovery required contact with a genetically matching fragment; fusion and nursing did not occur between different species or genets, suggesting a potential genotype-restricted approach to reversing bleaching in controlled settings.
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OpenCode announced a security breach linked to a large-scale distillation attack affecting 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. Affected users were notified by email this morning. The incident is ongoing; further details aren’t being shared yet as OpenCode works with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to remediate.
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Pele is a zero-dependency library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, themed with CSS variables. Write Mermaid syntax and Pele outputs an SVG, with color and font changes applied via CSS variables without re-rendering. It offers Light and Dark themes, supports all Mermaid 12.1.0 diagram types, and is ~6× smaller and up to 500× faster than Mermaid.js. API: render() returns the SVG to insert into your page. Install via npm/pnpm/yarn/bun. Open source under MIT, developed for Obsidian; named after the volcano goddess Pele.
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Vintage Cassettes is a database and gallery cataloging thousands of sealed compact cassettes by brand and year (US/Europe/Japan). It lists major brands (Agfa, BASF, Denon, Fuji, Maxell, Memorex, Philips, Sony, TDK, Yamaha, etc.) with counts and production years, and provides brand-specific lineups (Maxell, Sony, TDK) by Type I–IV. The site covers both US/Europe/Japan markets, includes Reel-to-Reel, OEM cassettes, and a detailed update history (through 2016) with community contributions; buyers are advised to use Ebay for acquisitions.
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