AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

Hang in there while we get back on track Borrowing Disesdi’s logic in their arithmetic (which is hard to argue against), after four years of open source LLMs, we should have three AirBnBs,1two Stripes,2and three Dropboxes3thanks to the power of AI. Or else admit this is a dopamine game that makes you feel like The … Devamını oku

GPU World

In our story contest, we ask people to imagine the future, evenly distributed.The AI revolution has only just begun to affect humanity, and billions of humans have yet to so much as talk to a frontier LLM like Fable or Sol. This is in large part because compute limitations make it impossible to serve the … Devamını oku

Fastpotify

A lightweight Spotify client with local playback, library access, and Spotify Connect controls for Linux, macOS, and Windows. A native binary with no embedded browser engine. It starts in well under a second and uses little memory while it runs. Play locally, gapless and at up to 320 kbps, or control playback on a speaker, … Devamını oku

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

The/boostslash command activates an on-demand multi-agent reasoning pipeline designed for challenging software engineering tasks. When standard single-turn coding assistance falls short on complex bugs, race conditions, or intricate refactoring,/boostbreaks down the problem, delegates focused workstreams to specialized subagents, and independently verifies solutions across iterative rounds. Modern software development involves problems spanning a wide spectrum of … Devamını oku

Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale

Today we’re releasingtailcat,a remix of pieces of Tailscale that gives you a way to use the open-source Tailscale data plane (WireGuard® + NAT traversal + DERP) without the Tailscale control plane, written by the people who made Tailscale. It’s Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale. Specifically,tailcatis both an open-source Go package and a CLI tool using … Devamını oku

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

Added correction regardingCtrlkey. In early versions this was “force run”, in a later update it was changed to “invert movement mode”. In 2004 I played too muchRuneScapeon a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen … Devamını oku

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A new paper inPsychological Science(.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment.” The original study, published inPsychological Sciencein 2002 (.htm), found that people performed better on a set of tasks when each task had its own externally imposed deadline than when … Devamını oku

Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Google today reached thefinal milestonein a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store. Among them is uBlock Origin, one of the most capable and widely respected content blockers ever built for the web. Google also noted that, “Manifest V2 extensions installed … Devamını oku