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A pep talk in the face of despair. “Things can always get better, but it doesn’t happen via inertia. It happens because a lot of people tried.”

Claude Code doesn't know anything about the "users' perspective." Part of the software we're working on is totally fenced off, I only use it, I don't read code in there. This is an important technique. I'm thinking I'm the first person coming through here with my codebase and product mix.

This post isn’t about the ActivityPub plugin. ATmosphere is a separate plugin from the same small team, for the other half of the open social web: the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. We’re posting about it here because the audience overlaps and the mission is the same. If there’s enough interest, we’ll spin […]

Seeing coverage of Congress as a young man in Indiana, I remember watching Barney Frank run circles around bad-faith arguments with his formidable intellect and unique political style.

Nathan Wrigley interviews Leo Losoviz, focusing on translating WordPress sites using AI-powered tools, including his Gato AI Translations for Polylang plugin. They cover the evolution from manual, costly translations to efficient, high-quality AI solutions, the legal and business cases for multilingual websites, and UI advancements relating to collaborative editing with WordPress 7.0. Leo stresses the importance of preparing content before translating and discusses SEO benefits and plugin integration. The conversation highlights translation as both a growth opportunity and a necessity to remain competitive as AI lowers the barriers.

Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live. Among the buildings are a school in Mass., a hospital in Rwanda, a prison in Norway, and a lighthouse in Maine. Intriguing!

"I can’t take it anymore. The threats," the treasurer said. The planned data center is part of OpenAI and Oracle's Stargate initiative.

A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and"a total termination of all internet services."

Commencement speeches, poop images to train AI, and cameras stuck to preschool teachers also to train AI.

How everything feels important when nothing is prioritized.

India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury Breaches 48 Degrees Celsius Mark. “After 10am, Banda becomes deserted. At first, you see one or two people outside. Then, as the day rises, there is only silence.” (48C = 118F)

I couldn't not say anything about the Knicks win last night in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. The Knicks were losing, then winning big, then fell apart, and by midway through the 4th quarter they were down by 22, and the Clevelands were completely in ...

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.

We’re open sourcing Resident, our library for running AI-authored code on microcontrollers – with no compile step and no firmware flashing. It’s our twist on vibe coding firmware, built for instantly loading new device functionality coded by end users. It’s aimed at device d...

This lightweight commuter ebike feels a lot like a regular bike would feel if I had bionic legs. I wish there were more mechanics for it.

Picture making a lasagna with noodles, peanut butter, and pears. You’ve got the base right, but the ingredients don’t quite

The post LLMs were trained on an inaccessible web — AudioEye data shows AI is still building one appeared first on The New Stack.

Cursor announced this week that Composer 2.5 is available in Cursor, only two months after the release of Composer 2,

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With its clever new algorithm, the latest Hypershell exoskeleton powers your legs without making you feel like a puppet on a string.

It's normal now to pass off other people’s ideas as your own. Even Google is doing it.

SCENE 1. EXT. A BOULEVARD. MIDNIGHT. POE drops his frock coat, loosens his cravat, and tears open his shirt, buttons flying, to reveal his body, which is totally jacked. His nipples glisten in the moonlight. A BLACK CAT, in the process of killing a RAT, spies POE’s lithe, fr...