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by wxw 3mo ago
Some more interesting bounties they offer: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv... > Purchase all Library of Congress MARC datasets — $3,000 bounty > English Wikipedia pages about relevant
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by wxw 3mo ago
Slow clap… matches my experience in startups. And honestly, big tech as well. I think you can consider an enterprise to simply be a collection of many startups with shared revenue as funding.
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by wxw 3mo ago
I agree that local LLMs are the likely future and worth investing in… but at $40k for possible-SOTA right now, this isn’t worth it for the average consumer. I’m pretty bullish that Apple will deliver something very competitive for the avera
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by wxw 3mo ago
CarPlay is great. Generally much better than the interface offered by traditional manufacturers. But Tesla and Rivian both have excellent UIs. I don’t find myself missing CarPlay in a Tesla.
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by wxw 3mo ago
> On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce issued a directive (DAO 216-26) > DAO-216-26 bans differential privacy and other modern (and not so modern) techniques. It restricts disclosure avoidance techniques to “coarsening,” &g
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by wxw 3mo ago
> Surprising detail is a near universal property of getting up close and personal with reality. > As you learn, notice which details actually change how you think. Lovely article. The older I get the more I appreciate this. One point
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by wxw 4mo ago
I don't quite understand -- what is it about this technique that makes the trees grow perfectly straight and why is > the lumber produced in this method is 140% as flexible as standard cedar and 200% as dense/strong, ?
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by wxw 4mo ago
If you’re ever in NYC, many of the hole-in-the-wall takeout Chinese restaurants have awesome 2000s era menu aesthetics. Word art, clip art Lamborghinis next to the takeout number, all kinds of coloring. I love them.
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by wxw 4mo ago
> It's a sleep podcast wherein we read you the boring documents essential to our jobs, in the hopes we might lull you into slumber. What a great idea, I feel li... zzz
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by wxw 4mo ago
> A non-mathematician can't even speak the language of mathematics. But in a lot of fields, people can evaluate your work with their own senses. They don't need any other apparatus. This is an interesting point, but I think the
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by wxw 4mo ago
Apple’s swipe to text is so good that I forget there’s still work to be done in the space. Great stuff FUTO.
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by wxw 4mo ago
The actual bill in question: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... It seems more precise to say that 3D printers sold/transferred in California would need built-in anti-firearm-printing c
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by wxw 4mo ago
> The entire process is driven by instructions on a card drawn from a special deck created by the artist. I like this. I like that his system pushes the creative process forward without relinquishing the actual creative part of it (makin
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by wxw 4mo ago
I haven't noticed anything personally. What are you seeing?
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by wxw 4mo ago
So I started biking recently and was hunting for helmets. And turns out Virgina Tech does a bunch of helmet impact testing and maintains a ranking list https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/ . The latest helmets have a releasable l
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by wxw 4mo ago
This seems to be the middle ground between 1) omit all reasoning to protect “trade secrets”/prevent distillations and 2) show all reasoning. I do miss the days when reasoning was visible. Another point for open source models!
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by wxw 4mo ago
TIL wigglegram! Lovely article, thanks. I’ve only seen the effect before on those old film cameras with 4 lenses.
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by wxw 4mo ago
Eagerly awaiting the steam engine release.
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by wxw 4mo ago
Great article. I'll be following along. Would like to learn more about the robotics space. - I've heard the advantage of ROS besides the architecture is the ecosystem (driver integrations, etc). Is that not an issue because the ar
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by wxw 4mo ago
Unfortunately not really. I scripted something to hit Fastmail’s API + 1Password API to generate emails and make accounts in these scenarios. But it’s still annoying.
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by wxw 4mo ago
Awesome work. The second video is great. I don’t know enough about medical science to consider viability and shortcomings, but I’m impressed by the dream. Keep cooking. And even if the device fails, I’m sure the spa will be nice.
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by wxw 4mo ago
This title is not how I'd actually interpret the results. Glad to see more sane takes in the comments. All these articles on their current financials are missing the point. OpenAI is doing pretty well. Capital expenditure is required t
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by wxw 4mo ago
https://epicgames.github.io/lore/explanation/system-design/#... Helpful page that gets closer to the details
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by wxw 4mo ago
> OpenAI 2025 financials versus 2024 Revenue: $13.07 billion up from $3.7 billion. Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion up from $2.65 billion. Research and Development: $19.18 billion up from $7.81 billion. Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
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by wxw 4mo ago
I pay for Fastmail just for masked email and its integration with 1Password.
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by wxw 4mo ago
> Starting this week, the Ocean Observatories Initiative will lose a network of more than 900 ocean sensors from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. > By 2027, the National Science Foundation will have
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by wxw 4mo ago
> The whole concept of “application wallpapers” essentially allows foreign code to be run directly on your computer. Cybercriminals took note of this feature and started embedding malware right into these types of wallpapers. > Becaus
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by wxw 4mo ago
There are plugins in the app. Haven’t tried Cowork, interesting. Isn’t it just the same agent minus the git worktree based UI? Frankly, neither Claude nor Codex are as good as hype entails.
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by wxw 4mo ago
> Today, SPECS are available for pre-order at SPECS.COM for $2,195, with a $200 refundable deposit. Dayum. I do buy into the AR glasses future. They’re insanely cool tech. Meta makes a great one.
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by wxw 4mo ago
I’ve been using Codex w GPT 5.5 more than Claude Code recently. I think Anthropic won the marketing game because Codex is quite good, even better IME.

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