popular bookmarks generated Thu Nov 27 13:41:37 2025 UTC
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
[https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie]
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
some market doom then cost of living doom
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{economy cost_of_living}
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
[https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay]
[heavily illustrated with images][via:"San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.phphttps://archive.ph/WhVT7 ]"Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.I say some because destination displays aren’t consistently used across the city’s transit system. In fact, SF has an unusually high number of independent public transit agencies. Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen. Each agency, with its own models of buses and trains, use different destination displays, creating an eclectic patchwork of typography across the city.Among them, one display in particular has always stood out to me: the LCD panel displays inside Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles. I remember first noticing them on a Saturday in October on the N-Judah, heading to the Outer Sunset for a shrimp hoagie. This context is important, as anyone who’s spent an October weekend in SF knows this is the optimal vibe to really take in the beauty of the city. What caught my eye was how the displays look mechanical and yet distinctly personal. Constructed on a 3×5 grid, the characters are made up of geometric modules: squares, quarter-circles, and angled forms. Combined, these modules create imperfect, almost primitive letterforms, revealing a utility and charm that feels distinctly like the San Francisco I’ve come to know.This balance of utility and charm seems to show up everywhere in San Francisco and its history. The Golden Gate’s “International Orange” started as nothing more than a rust-proof primer, yet is now the city’s defining colour. The Painted Ladies became multicoloured icons after the 1960s Colourist movement covered decades of grey paint. Even the steepness of the streets was once an oversight in city planning but has since been romanticised in films and on postcards. So perhaps it is unsurprising that I would find this same utility and charm in a place as small and functional as a train sign.To learn more about these displays, I visited the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Electronics Shop at Balboa Park. There, technician Armando Lumbad had set up one of the signs. They each feature one large LCD panel which displays the line name, and twenty-four smaller ones to display the destination. The loose spacing of the letters and fluorescent backlighting gives the sign a raw, analogue quality. Modern LED dot-matrix displays are far more efficient and flexible, but to me, they lack the awkwardness that makes these Breda signs so delightful.Armando showed me how the signs work. He handed me a printed matrix table listing every line and destination, each paired with a three-digit code. On route, train operators punch the code into a control panel at the back of the display, and the LCD blocks light on specific segments of the grid to build each letter. I picked code 119, and Armando entered it for me. A few seconds later the panels revealed my own stop: the N-Judah at Church & Duboce. There in the workshop, devoid of the context of the trains and the commute, the display looked almost monolithic, or sculptural, and I have since fantasised whether it would be possible to ship one of these home to Australia.Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Lite, Inc., a company based in Milford, Connecticut that specialised in transport signage from 1959 until its acquisition by the Nordic firm Teknoware in 2012. After lots of amateur detective work, and with the help from an anonymous Reddit user in a Connecticut community group, I was connected with Gary Wallberg, Senior Engineer at Trans-Lite and the person responsible for the design of these very signs back in 1999.Learning that the alphabet came from an engineer really explains its temperament and why I was drawn to it in the first place. The signs were designed for sufficiency: fixed segments, fixed grid, and no extras. Characters were created only as destinations required them, while other characters, like the Q, X, and much of the punctuation, were never programmed into the signs. In reducing everything to its bare essentials, somehow character emerged, and it’s what inspired me to design Fran Sans.I shared some initial drawings with Dave Foster of Foster Type who encouraged me to get the font software Glyphs and turn it into my first working font. From there, I broke down the anatomy of the letters into modules, then used them like Lego to build out a full set: uppercase A–Z, numerals, core punctuation. Some glyphs remain unsolved in this first version, for example the standard @ symbol refuses to squeeze politely into the 3×5 logic. Lowercase remains a question for the future, and would likely mean reconsidering the grid. But, as with the displays themselves, I am judging Fran Sans as sufficient for now.Getting up close to these signs, you’ll notice Fran Sans’ gridlines are simplified even from its real‑life muse, but my hope is that its character remains. Specifically: the N and the zero, where the unusually thick diagonals close in on the counters; and the Z and 7, whose diagonals can feel uncomfortably thin. I’ve also noticed the centre of the M can scale strangely and read like an H at small sizes, but in fairness, this type was never designed for the kind of technical detail so many monospaced fonts aim for. Throughout the process I tried to protect these unorthodox moments, because to me, they determined the success of this interpretation.Fran Sans comes in three styles: Solid, Tile, and Panel, each building in visual complexity. The decision to include variations, particularly the Solid style, was inspired by my time working at Christopher Doyle & Co. There, we worked with Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national theatre company dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. The equity of the Bell Shakespeare brand lies in its typography, which is a beautiful custom typeface called Hotspur, designed and produced by none other than Dave Foster.Often, brand fonts are chosen or designed to convey a single feeling. Maybe it’s warmth and friendliness, or a sense of tech and innovation. But what I’ve always loved about the Bell typeface is how one weight could serve both Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, simply by shifting scale, spacing, or alignment. Hotspur has the gravity to carry the darkness of Titus Andronicus and the roundness to convey the humour of Much Ado About Nothing. And while Fran Sans Solid is technically no Hotspur, I wanted it to share that same versatility.Further inspiration for Fran Sans came from the Letterform Archive, the world’s leading typography archive, based in San Francisco. Librarian and archivist Kate Long Stellar thoughtfully curated a research visit filled with modular typography spanning most of the past century. On the table were two pieces that had a significant impact on Fran Sans and are now personal must-sees at the archive. First, Joan Trochut’s Tipo Veloz “Fast Type” (1942) was created during the Second World War when resources were scarce. Tipo Veloz gave printers the ability to draw with type, rearranging modular pieces to form letters, ornaments and even illustrations.Second, Zuzana Licko’s process work for Lo-Res (1985), an Emigre typeface, opened new ways of thinking about how ideas move between the physical and the digital and then back again. Seeing how Lo-Res was documented through iterations and variations gave the typeface a depth and richness that changed my understanding of how fonts are built. At some point I want to explore physical applications for Fran Sans out of respect for its origins, since it is impossible to fully capture the display’s charm on screen.Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more efficient and easier to maintain. By the end of 2025 the signs that inspired Fran Sans will disappear from the city, taking with them a small but distinctive part of the city’s voice. That feels like a real loss. San Francisco is always reinventing itself, yet its charm lies in how much of its history still shows through. My hope is that Fran Sans can inspire a deeper appreciation for the imperfections that give our lives and our cities character. Life is so rich when ease and efficiency are not the measure.For commercial and non-commercial use of FRAN SANS, please get in touch: emily@emilysneddon.comWITH THANKSDave Foster, for being my go-to at every stage of this project.Maria Doreuli, for thoughtfully reviewing Fran Sans.Maddy Carrucan, for the words that always keep me dreamy.Jeremy Menzies, for the photography of the Breda vehicles.Kate Long Stellar, for curating a research visit on modular typography.Angie Wang, for suggesting it and helping to make it happen.Vasiliy Tsurkan, for inviting me into to the SFMTA workshop.Armando Lumbad, for maintaining the signs that I love so much.Rick Laubscher, for putting me in touch with the SFMTA.William Maley Jr, for opening up the TRANS-LITE, INC. archives.Gary Wallberg, for designing and engineering the original signs.Gregory Wallberg, for responding to a very suspicious facebook post.Reddit u/steve31086, for sleuthing the details of William Maley Jr."..."OUTSIDE MY LIFE,INSIDE THE DREAM.FALLING UP THE STAIRS,INTO THE STREET.LET THE CABLE CARCARRY ME.STRAIGHT OUT OF TOWN,INTO THE SEA.PAST THE DAHLIAS ANDTHE SELF-DRIVING CARS.THE CHURCH OF 8 WHEELS.THE LOWER HAIGHT BARS.THE PEAK HOUR SPRAWL.THE KIDS IN THE PARK.THE SLANTING HOUSES.THE BAY AFTER DARK.MY WINDOW, MY OWNSILVER SCREEN.I FOLLOW WHERE THEFOG TAKES ME.By MADDY CARRUCAN"
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{sanfrancisco emilysneddon muni breda sfmta typography fonts trains segmenteddisplays segmentdisplays 2025 graphicdesign design maddycarrucan}
Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid • Josh W. Comeau
[https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
[https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use]
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.We’ve added three new beta features that let Claude discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically. Here’s how they work.The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. An IDE assistant that integrates git operations, file manipulation, package managers, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines. An operations coordinator that connects Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Jira, company databases, and dozens of MCP servers simultaneously.To build effective agents, they need to work with unlimited tool libraries without stuffing every definition into context upfront. Our blog article on using code execution with MCP discussed how tool results and definitions can sometimes consume 50,000+ tokens before an agent reads a request. Agents should discover and load tools on-demand, keeping only what's relevant for the current task.Agents also need the ability to call tools from code. When using natural language tool calling, each invocation requires a full inference pass, and intermediate results pile up in context whether they're useful or not. Code is a natural fit for orchestration logic, such as loops, conditionals, and data transformations. Agents need the flexibility to choose between code execution and inference based on the task at hand.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{XDN Tech}
xkcd: Fifteen Years
[https://xkcd.com/3172/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{xkcd}
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/KJL16VY
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Native Secure Enclaved backed ssh keys on MacOS
[https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf]
Native Secure Enclaved backed ssh keys on MacOS . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs - Lalit Maganti
[https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{programming article}
microcad.xyz
[https://microcad.xyz/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{cad shrdlu}
Making Software: Shaders.
[https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders]
graphics
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{gpu shader cpu}
"Good engineering management" is a fad
[https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Fifty Shades of OOP | Lesley Lai
[https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{oop programming}
Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{programming career projectmanagement it management culture interesting}
The Letter — Stop Hacklore!
[https://www.hacklore.org/letter]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{security best-practices technology reference advice}
MAKING SOFTWARE
[https://www.makingsoftware.com/]
A reference manual for people who design and build software.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Build a Compiler in Five Projects
[https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/11/23/build-a-language/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/KJL16VY
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
[https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024773
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{books calculus mathematics}
World's Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management - Austin's Nerdy Things
[https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/11/24/worlds-most-stable-raspberry-pi-81-better-ntp-with-thermal-management/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{rasberrypi ntp}
Gibberifier
[https://gibberifier.com/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ml-bots tryme}
Best Free Fonts
[https://bestfreefonts.com/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{fonts free resources Typography}
RuBee
[https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{input_bwia}
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
[https://www.ystrickler.com/whats-the-difference-between-an-artist-and-a-creator/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{interesting art work quadrant thankskottke viakottke}
A Very Fast 64–Bit Date Algorithm: 30-40% faster
[https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{algorithm}
GitHub - onyx-dot-app/onyx: Gen-AI Chat for Teams - Think ChatGPT if it had access to your team's unique knowledge.
[https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx]
Gen-AI Chat for Teams - Think ChatGPT if it had access to your team's unique knowledge. - onyx-dot-app/onyx
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{GPT GPTOptimize RAG LAS LocalGPT opensource}
gemini-cli-tips
[https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ai}
I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search
[https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/i-put-a-real-search-engine-into-a]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{#hacking java lambda serverless}
GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France amid police intimidation claims
[https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-france-amid-police-intimidation-claims/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{android privacy security graphene-os}
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
[https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns]
via @nedbat@hachyderm.io boost of https://infosec.exchange/@yossarian/115588225552391270but see https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/115594249569373842
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{security}
karpathy/llm-council: LLM Council works together to answer your hardest questions
[https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council]
The idea of this repo is that instead of asking a question to your favorite LLM provider (e.g. OpenAI GPT 5.1, Google Gemini 3.0 Pro, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, xAI Grok 4, eg.c), you can group them into your "LLM Council". This repo is a simple, local web app that essentially looks like ChatGPT except it uses OpenRouter to send your query to multiple LLMs, it then asks them to review and rank each other's work, and finally a Chairman LLM produces the final response.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{lup}
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/designing-for-stress-emergency/]
via Smashing Magazine https://bit.ly/3gZh8S2
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{.commentsenseTwitter}
An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week
[https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{GenAI audio podcast media}
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
[https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{fake-news misinformation algorithm}
Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo
[https://alienseries.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/space-truckin-the-nostromo/]
https://alienseries.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/space-truckin-the-nostromo/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&s=09
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{film scifi}
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s | Neuroscience | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/brain-human-cognitive-development-life-stages-cambridge-study]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{brain Science neuroscience}
Shirt Pocket Watch - SuperDuper Security Update v3.11
[https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/superduper_security_update_v311/]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hRo8uqd
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
[https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html]
I personally don’t touch LLMs with a stick. I don’t let them near my brain. Many of my friends share that sentiment.But I think it’s important to acknowledge that we’re in a priviliged situation to be able to do so. People are forced to use these systems — by UI patterns, bosses expectations, knowledge polution making it increasingly hard to learn things, or just peer pressure. The world adapts to these technologies, and not using them can be a substantial disadvantage in school, u...
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond | All Things Distributed
[https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{trends technology future}
CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
[https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs234/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{learn ml rl}
flowglad/flowglad: Open source payments + billing infrastructure
[https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{payments money stripe js}
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/818380/college-students-news-sources-tiktok-instagram-newsdaddy]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/TeLGvgn
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
farphone - how to repurpose your old phone into a web server
[https://far.computer/how-to/]
how to repurpose your old phone into a web server
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Grid Paper
[https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/]
grid papaer pattern generator
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{grid tools}
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/]
On September 17, 1982, the next day after the misunderstanding on the CMU bboard, Swartz made the first concrete proposal: “Maybe we should adopt a convention of putting a star (*) in the subject field of any notice which is to be taken as a joke.” ... Two days after Swartz’s initial proposal, Fahlman entered the discussion with his now-famous post: “I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways.” He added that serious messages could use :-(, noting, “Maybe we should mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.” ... Fahlman synthesized the best elements from the ongoing discussion: the simplicity of single-character proposals, the visual clarity of face-like symbols, the sideways-reading principle hinted at by Hamey’s {#}, and a complete binary system that covered both humor :-) and seriousness :-(.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{humor !publish}
s&box
[https://sbox.game/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{gamedev game-engine}
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience
[https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{python r}
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away]
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{AI chatgpt fraud}
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
[https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{JaydenMilne 2025 YouTube read funny}
Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
[https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-guide-to-nvidia/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{AI economics investing}
Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack: a viral trojan on npm
[https://www.wiz.io/blog/shai-hulud-2-0-ongoing-supply-chain-attack]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{virus npm security}
16 Statistical Process Control in Python | System Reliability and Six Sigma in R and Python
[https://timothyfraser.com/sigma/statistical-process-control-in-python.html]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/solars-growth-in-us-almost-enough-to-offset-rising-energy-use/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Google AI Studio on X: "Complete Developer Tutorial for Nano Banana Pro" / X
[https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1992267030050083091]
Complete Developer Tutorial for Nano Banana Pro
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ai llm google nanobanana}
A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work
[https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Issue 45 - Markdown is Holding You Back • Buttondown
[https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{markdown}
Evidence suggests early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world - News
[https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
The Unexpected Joys Of Hacking An Old Kindle | Hackaday
[https://hackaday.com/2025/11/24/the-unexpected-joys-of-hacking-an-old-kindle/]
Unlock hidden Kindle features and repurpose old hardware. Essential guide for breathing new life into e-readers with custom hacks and software.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{kindle hacking hardware amazon-modding e-reader-teardown display-reverseengineering}
What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project ~ andrej acevski
[https://andrej.sh/blog/maintaining-open-source-project/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Requiem for early blogging
[https://www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-early-blogging/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{blogging writing}
Recommend | book.sv
[https://book.sv/?ref=DenseDiscovery-366]
Great book recommendations.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{books recommendation}
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
[https://www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-interview-backlash-analysis/]
Tech CEOs are not used to talking like this. They probably do a lot of safety stuff. But they are also surprised by getting grilled about it all the time. Also, a lot of this stuff is about safetyism.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{toblog}
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors - The Atlantic
[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=aQyUJR7AIw1mJWdQ6Ed6yNCQTQ5Vv7a5JJp811uMNXE]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hRo8uqd
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Python is not a great language for data science | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{python programming datascience science research}
FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
[https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2]
Today, we release FLUX.2, our most capable model to date.FLUX.2 is designed for real-world creative workflows, not just demos or party tricks. It generates high-quality images while maintaining character and style consistency across multiple reference images, following structured prompts, reading and writing complex text, adhering to brand guidelines, and reliably handling lighting, layouts, and logos. FLUX.2 can edit images at up to 4 megapixels while preserving detail and coherence.Black Forest Labs: Open CoreWe believe visual intelligence should be shaped by researchers, creatives, and developers everywhere, not just a few. That’s why we pair frontier capability with open research and open innovation, releasing powerful, inspectable, and composable open-weight models for the community, alongside robust, production-ready endpoints for teams that need scale, reliability, and customization.When we launched Black Forest Labs in 2024, we set out to make open innovation sustainable, building on our experience developing some of the world’s most popular open models. We’ve combined open models like FLUX.1 [dev]—the most popular open image model globally—with professional-grade models like FLUX.1 Kontext [pro], which powers teams from Adobe to Meta and beyond. Our open core approach drives experimentation, invites scrutiny, lowers costs, and ensures that we can keep sharing open technology from the Black Forest and the Bay into the world.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{XDN Tech}
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time: Critics' Pick
[https://variety.com/lists/best-comedy-movies-all-time/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{fun movies lists}
Making Crash Bandicoot :: All Things Andy Gavin
[https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{Bookmarks_bar Cool_Shit Video_Games}
Leaked document reveals David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/829179/david-sacks-ai-executive-order]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/IQ1R4DK
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors - The Atlantic
[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/]
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{elon musk twitter x bias social media politics .teaching filter bubble}
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
[https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/]
To summarize the theme of this newsletter recently: Use AI, not too much, mostly to connect with the intelligence of other human beings, not AI. Previously I’ve discussed using AI to discover books and articles in the library, and artworks in the museum; in this newsletter, how AI can help us work with the letters and manuscripts in archives and special collections.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ai history transcription oegconnect}
How LLM Inference Works
[https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/how-llm-inference-works]
When you enter a prompt into an LLM, the model converts your text into numbers, processes them, and returns a response one token at a time. In this article, we go through the journey of LLM inference and see how it works.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{llm-inference}
The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data
[https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/]
via XDA https://ift.tt/ONAu7da
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{IFTTT Feedly}
Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Computer and Video Monitors
[https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/monfaq.htm]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{repair monitor screen display}
General principles for the use of AI at CERN | CERN
[https://home.web.cern.ch/news/official-news/knowledge-sharing/general-principles-use-ai-cern]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ml-ethics}
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 | Ethan Mollick
[https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini]
Gemini 3 should be available free for UMBC users soon
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ai llm gemini snr}
SVG.js v3.2 | Home
[https://svgjs.dev/docs/3.2/]
The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{svg design}
vert.sh - Open source and self hostable/private file converter
[https://vert.sh/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663865
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{onlinetools free audio video graphics multimedia opensource selfhosted}
Slop Evader
[https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader]
browser extension
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{tools technology dissent internet}
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
[https://jmail.world/]
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{#mailbox}
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5. (Anthropic | Nov 24 2025)
[https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5]
Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use. It’s also meaningfully better at everyday tasks like deep research and working with slides and spreadsheets. Opus 4.5 is a step forward in what AI systems can do, and a preview of larger changes to how work gets done.Claude Opus 4.5 is state-of-the-art on tests of real-world software engineering:
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{XDN Foundation-Models}
My ‘I’m Not Enron’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions… | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/business/828047/nvidia-enron-conspiracy-accounting]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/KJL16VY
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
[https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{scifi}
Game design is simple, actually – Raph Koster
[https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{gaming design how_to}
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work | Off by One
[https://justoffbyone.com/posts/math-of-why-you-cant-focus-at-work/]
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{deepwork}
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
[https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data]
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{XDN Tech}
6 Winning Figma Makes—and What You Can Learn From Them | Figma Blog
[https://www.figma.com/blog/6-winning-figma-makes-and-what-you-can-learn-from-them/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{ai design prototypeing}
Kids in China Are Using Bots and Engagement Hacks to Look More Popular on Their Smartwatches
[https://www.wired.com/story/kids-in-china-are-scheming-and-buying-bots-to-win-clout-on-their-watches/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{Safety kids children china social-media development}
5 Pixel Art Tips for Programmers
[https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/5-pixel-art-tips-for-programmers-3d6]
Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{wikipedia trust}
Pro Color Harmonies – Demo
[https://meodai.github.io/pro-color-harmonies/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027216]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Antimatter Development Program
[https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/antimatter-development-program/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
Universal consciousness as foundational field: A theoretical bridge between quantum physics and non-dual philosophy | AIP Advances | AIP Publishing
[https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/11/115319/3372193/Universal-consciousness-as-foundational-field-A]
causal
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{consciousness paper}
System Reliability and Six Sigma in R and Python
[https://timothyfraser.com/sigma/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055421
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{python rlang programming statistics datascience tutorial learning books free}
The Top 3 LiveView Form Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) - John Elm Labs
[https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{phoenix blog}
ChatGPT merges chat and voice with option to switch back to separate mode - 9to5Mac
[https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-voice-with-option-to-switch-back-to-separate-mode/]
via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press
[https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner - Bloomberg
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/ai-slop-recipes-are-taking-over-the-internet-and-thanksgiving-dinner?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDA4MzUxMCwiZXhwIjoxNzY0Njg4MzEwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkFGNzVLR1pBSlowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.zVeH6d7ceqUngdCBCfynlfmG4wiYTU-Dv8BjiwikQsU&leadSource=uverify%20wall]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{fail artificial-intelligence}
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ | Techdirt
[https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new-feature-reveals-why-trust-safety-work-was-never-about-the-censorship-industrial-complex/]
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{twitter social.media}
xleak: A fast terminal Excel viewer with an interactive TUI. Features full-text search, formula display, lazy loading for large files, clipboard support, and export to CSV/JSON. Built with Rust and ratatui.
[https://github.com/bgreenwell/xleak]
https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/1ouz0lc/xleak_a_fast_terminal_excel_viewer_with_an/
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{rust shell spreadsheet csv json toolkit opensource simplicity minimalism productivity}
Good Enough Is a Strategy
[https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/good-enough-is-a-strategy]
Take on debt when it accelerates learning. Avoid it when it creates real risk.
2025-11-27T05:47:02Z
{coding strategy web}