When you’re first building an AI agent, a single, monolithic system prompt is usually fine. You have a few instructions, maybe a tool definition or two, and everything lives in one readable file. But as you start using...
We’re renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. It's the same standalone product, now doing more across the Google ecosystem and updated with a secure cloud computer. Your browser does not support the audio element...
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce ( https://www.traceforce.ai/ ). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes,...
Tech Workers Coalition / News / ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ / Climate action group Extinction Rebellion attacks Microsoft data centre construction site, amid growing worker...
This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the translation. TL;DR &...
Home / Experiments / Decoy Font A TTF font that hides what you're typing from AI. Type a message where each letter contains a decoy. Hidden message 11/48 Decoy message 11/48 Download Decoy Font Decoy Font is free to use...
The chat client that brought Comic Sans to the world is now on GitHub Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within...
Paper 2019/889 Securing DNSSEC Keys via Threshold ECDSA From Generic MPC Anders Dalskov, Marcel Keller, Claudio Orlandi, Kris Shrishak, and Haya Shulman Abstract Deployment of DNSSEC, although increasing, still suffers...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: South Korea's government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The "AI for everyone"...
Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over all the concepts and...
While going through the Go generics proposal, I got curious about how the compiler implements it. Compilers usually handle generics in one of two ways: With full monomorphization, the compiler turns generic code into...
Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic ’ s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the...
Accent Changer An online accent changer that adapts pronunciation toward clearer, more native English accents — while preserving your voice identity, timbre, and original language. Same voice identity Language unchanged...
A portion of the Alaska Military Telephone Line along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian border The Alaska Highway, built in 1942, was not the only World War II-era construction project linking Alaska with the rest of...
Everyone has a way of tracking what has left a mark on their life, whether it’s a book, a movie, a TV show, an anime, or a song. Sometimes it’s an online service with a massive catalog, but you’re always at the mercy of...
from the poof-it's-gone dept In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by the...
Find a state, a specific law or bill, your industry, or a compliance question — get the rules, deadlines, and penalties that apply. Free, in plain English. Landmark AI laws and the dates they bite, taken from our...
Guess the 7-letter word in 5 tries. After each guess, every letter gets a hint: Below each guess, a range bar (like F–Z) shows the letters still possible at that position. Narrow it down until you solve all seven. Hilo...
Unusual clocks are a common idea for electronics DIY projects. The difficulty is never the timekeeping part; it’s making the clock look presentable. For my own take on the theme, you can check out the article I posted...
Home › Blog › iPhone Lock Screen Workout Tracking By Musklr Team · Published 12 July 2026 · Updated 14 July 2026 Musklr shows your current set, what you lifted last time, and a running rest timer on the iPhone Lock...
Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act...
Homescale, PlanetScale at home. I worked for a database tools company many years ago and was lucky enough to build a few database cloning tools before PlanetScale was cool. Those tools were never destined to be as...
SpaceX stock dropped below its initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company. Shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for...
2026-07-15 I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, and I also feel like that sometimes because of this dissonance, but I don’t think I am alone...
fjo3 quotes a report from Agence France-Presse: Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the...
Foreword First and foremost, let me give credit to Ruslan Spivak's Let's build a simple interpreter blog post series on building a Pascal interpreter. I first read the beginning of the series a couple of years ago and...
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up
My latest paper, A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books, with the excellent Tim Groseclose, has just been published. The Coase Conjecture is another one of Coase’s little ideas — the original...
See where YC founders go after their startup is acquired or shut down Last updated: July 14, 2026. Swipe to explore the table Sam Altman OpenAI Still running OpenAI as CEO. Emmett Shear OpenAI former Steered OpenAI for...
After a long pause, there are two new Gecode releases. Gecode 6.3.0 is dated 7 July 2026, and Gecode 6.4.0 was released on 15 July 2026. The two releases play different roles. Version 6.3.0 records the changes that...
As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness ) would say “obviously you...
Collider brings modern package management to Meson's native wrap ecosystem. Rather than replacing Meson's dependency model, Collider extends it: automatic dependency resolution, lockfiles, and a streamlined day-to-day...
Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material (phys.org) 4 alternativeright shares a report from Phys.org: In a study published in Nature, LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum...
We're going to do a series of blog posts about some of the inner workings of CloudFlare. One of the questions we get often is what the names of our name servers mean. Here's the story. Two Names Enter When someone signs...
I like my new-to-me MacBook because it enables me to create more stuff compared to my now almost 8 year old Thinkpad I had before, mainly due to battery and screen reasons. There is one thing about it that I cannot wrap...
The recent end-of-financial-year sales were rather interesting – I found myself spending a lot more time browsing AliExpress than I did Amazon or eBay this year which is something I wouldn’t have envisioned in the past...