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This post is also available in νκ΅μ΄. Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app βan account, a way to pay, and an API token.
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**CARA 2.0 (05/01/2026)** **Prologue** On May 31st, 2024, I uploaded a video titled High Precision Speed Reducer Using Rope, where I built a niche speed reducer called a capstan drive. Little did I know that this video would go viral and brand me as the βcapstan guyβ. Roughly 2 years later, this is still my highest-viewed video, and I still get lots of emails...
Georgia Tech researchers have created battery-free metal tags smaller than a penny that emit unique ultrasonic fingerprints when struck. These tags can detect door openings, count gym reps, or track bathroom use for elderly relatives β all without batteries, at a cost of just a few cents each. The shape of each disk determines its ultrasonic frequency, enabling unique identification with near-perfect privacy since the sound only travels about a meter.
The contribution graph nobody asked for. Each red square is a day GitHub broke; the darker the square, the longer it stayed broken. 35.1 days of GitHub downtime in the last year Across 170 days with at least one incident Β· worst day Thu, Nov 20, 2025 (1.1 days) data fetched live A satire of GitHub's contribution chart.
In what follows, βbullshitβ is used very much in the sense that Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt describes in his seminal essay, _On Bullshit_ (1986; 2005). For Frankfurt, bullshit is an utterance with βa lack of connection to concern with truthβ and an βindifference to how things really are.β From the off, Frankfurt tells us, it is important to understand that bullshit is, in its peculiarly execrable nature, materially different to a...
**May 5, 2026 23:28 CEST May 5, 2026 21:28 UTC** **INVESTIGATING** Frankfurt am Main, 5 May 2026 β DENIC eG is currently experiencing a disruption in its DNS service for .de domains. As a result, all DNSSEC-signed .de domains are currently affected in their reachability. The root cause of the disruption has not yet been fully identified.
May 1, 2026 After 10 years of on-and-off work, Iβm releasing a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server: https://github.com/draxinar/ouo. About 5,000 functions disassembled from MSVC x86 and translated into portable C99, with each function compared instruction-by-instruction against the binary. UoDemo.exe For those who donβt know, Ultima Online is a 1997 MMORPG developed by Origin...
Google is releasing Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 family, enabling up to 3x inference speedup through speculative decoding. The lightweight drafter predicts multiple future tokens at once, which the target model then verifies in parallel β accepting the entire sequence in a single forward pass. This addresses the memory-bandwidth bottleneck in standard LLM inference, delivering dramatically improved responsiveness for on-device AI, chat applications, voice interfaces, and agentic workflows.
We would rather use the feeds you offer for each of your channels. You know, the ones you're hiding? Well, your relationship with these feeds has gone from neglectful to borderline hostile, and we're tired of pretending otherwise.