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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Weird Expressions in Rust
Rust has a very powerful type system, but as a result it has some quirks, some would say cursed expressions. There’s a test file, weird-expr.rs , in the rust repository that tests for some of these and makes sure there consistent between updates. So I wanted to go over each of these and explain how it’s valid rust.
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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s…
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Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
QWEN CHAT DISCORD Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability to understand image content. Today, we are excited to…
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The Effect of Noise on Sleep
Using Apple Watch noise and sleep stages to quantify the effect of noise on sleep
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Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule
C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year. The same struct defined in different translation units (TU) has always been compatible — essential to how they work. Until this rule change, each such…
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Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.
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Touching the back wall of the Apple store
Here's a dumb story. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it ...
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Kea 3.0, our first LTS version
ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.0.0! This is a major release, and is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Kea.
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Matrix v1.15
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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AI Is Dehumanization Technology
A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.
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Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share.
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The time is right for a DOM templating API
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
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Introducing Gemma 3n
Learn how to build with Gemma 3n, a mobile-first architecture, MatFormer technology, Per-Layer Embeddings, and new audio and vision encoders.
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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools.
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AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
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Learnings from building AI agents
How cubic reduced noisy AI code review comments with reasoning logs, fewer tools, specialized agents, and evaluation before changes reached production.
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Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper
The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste e…
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The Hollow Men of Hims
An admittedly partial - but deeply troubling - case against America's most brazen medical grift, involving Chinese knockoffs, subscription traps, and prescription gas station sex pills.
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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual . Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this…
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-2000 Lines of code (2004)
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They devised a…
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MCP in LM Studio
New in LM Studio 0.3.17: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Host support. Connect MCP servers to the app and use them with local models.
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Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
Build and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude. Update: Now available on Team and Enterprise plans. (July 31, 2025) Update: Upload PDFs, images, and more into your artifact.
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Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience
Transit time of 6,600 years; that long ago, around 4,600 BCE, the state of human civilization was devoid of technology. Hard to imagine what would happen back home on Earth during a journey of that length.
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Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet
Behavioral and cognitive patterns distinguish humans from bots. Explore interactive demos and a practical framework for invisible Proof of Human.
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Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
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Gemini CLI
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.