Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks | Discussion

It’s always nice to see Zola trending. Been using it for samwho.dev for years now. It basically never changes and I never worry about it. It never gets in my way. Extremely good software.

Here’s a photo I took a couple years ago, the first time I was exploring these patterns.

Three Inverse Laws of AI | Discussion

Code lens support lands in stable .... tomorrow! 🎉

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old | Discussion

2-D Mathematical Curves | Discussion

The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars | Discussion

ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is | Discussion

Context7 is a good example of the difference between context engineering & prompt engineering. I had issues with Claude using outdated API information when vibe coding an app yesterday. A follower suggested asking it to use Context7 as the source of truth for APIs. Same prompts, everything worked.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

Here’s a clip of me finishing up an 18-crossing braid link pattern on a 7-layer Rubik’s cube.

The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious | Discussion

Viscosity f2 c = C.xy / R.y*4+R, s = flr(c), i; @(9) c+=cos(++i * c.yx + .1/(s-c) + T) / i O = exp(-3*abs(sin(c.y+f4(,.4,.2,))))

Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example | Discussion

Russia Poisons Wikipedia | Discussion

New post on data centers and land use, where I go into my manifesto for why we should trust farmers less open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language | Discussion

I regularly read posts from people in tech who are burning out because they are tired of their coworkers who have outsourced all of their work including their thinking to AI. I generally have two simple rules of thumb for my team’s usage of AI (1/2)

Pentagons and triangles #tiling

Reverse Engineering SimTower | Discussion

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? | Discussion

Meta's Big Tobacco PR Tactics | Discussion

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Zed 1.0: Your last next editor.

Laws of UX | Discussion

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years | Discussion

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Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown | Discussion

We've shipped more than a thousand versions of Zed, but all of them began with zero. Today, that changes. zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

I won a championship that doesn't exist | Discussion

Here is an AI trained just using text from 1931 or earlier, which leads to a lot of interesting experiments: can the model independently develop later inventions? Can it learn to code from examples alone? You can talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat Details here: talkie-lm.com/introducing-...

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

Ubuntu has been making shady decisions for awhile now. From the looks of things it's only getting worse, not better. Here's a thread of 5 linux distros to try instead:

U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back | Discussion

Is my blue your blue? | Discussion

The reason fascists hate science is because scientists can call bullshit on their edicts. The government can claim “clean coal” exists or windmills cause cancer but science can easily debunk that. So the solution is to defund, discredit and destroy the pillars of science as much as they can.

The also-liked feed in the latest release of Skywalker is powered by de For You feed. It is a very nice feed to discover new posts and accounts. Its contents are based on your likes.

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What do you get if you have a lake on an island with an island on it? A recursive island. Canada, with its vast archipelagos and watery lowlands, seems to have an abundance of higher-order islands.

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski | Discussion

Quirks of Human Anatomy | Discussion

The complex plane colored by the argument of a polynomial. Each root drifts along a tiny orbit and the color vortices follow: every swirl is a zero. Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib in a @marimo.io notebook.

v4.33 is out! * OAuth support * Show session status on accounts page * Also liked feed (powered by For You) * Increase max image size to 2MB and 4000x4000 pixels * Mute author option in post menu * Copy link option in post, feed, list and profile menus * Upgraded to Qt6.10.3 * Bug fixes 🧵1/7

This is a useful image for thinking about the curve we are on and what likely comes next in an intuitively understandable way. (Roon is a long time member of the technical staff at OpenAI)