2026-08-02
Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors
Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base....
The 10 best sci-fi movies released in 1986, ranked
Aliens, Highlander, The Fly, Star Trek IV, and more prove 1986 may have been science fiction's greatest year.
Quoting Greg Brockman
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be...
Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
I did not enjoy it. It was solely a professional obligation.
2026-08-01
Mathematicians may be worried, but AI-for-science is going to be great, recursively self-improving, and we’re going to learn loads
I have a new post on my experiments with 5.6-sol as a scientific agent; you can find the original post here. I've reproduced it below, as well. I'd be grateful...
10 expansions that were better than the actual game
Bigger isn't always better. Except for sometimes when it is.
datasette-apps 0.2a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent: New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaScript....
2D Shooter Bee With Gun Out Now On Consoles
Bee With Gun is a new 2D arcade shooter from developer Petite Games and retro publisher Ratalaika Games. It’s out now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation...
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts...
Confirming Claims of Superposition and Adversarial Examples in Toy Models
This is a replication of Adversarial Attacks Leverage Interference Between Features in Superposition, completed as part of the Second Look Summer Fellowship.tl;dr:We reproduce all three core claims of Stevinson et...
Bayeswatch: a Retrospective
Last year, in 2025, a team of forecasters published AI 2027, a science fiction story about how and AI future might evolve under an international treaty limiting the development of...
Open Source Stream Deck Targets Flexibility
Stream decks are very useful when you’re live on camera and you need to hit some complicated macro at a glance. However, there is sometimes a perception that commercial options...
86 Blog Posts To Learn About Framework
Learn everything you need to know about Framework via these 86 free HackerNoon blog posts.
The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene
It would be nice if somebody did something, for once.
Two Lost Atari 5200 Prototypes Recovered from Frank Cohen’s Archives
News of another fantastic preservation story to share, this time for the Atari 5200. Thanks to a collaborative effort between several members of the Atari community, two long-lost prototypes by...
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
"The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety." The post Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually...
Anime's most overlooked sci-fi masterpiece is streaming free on YouTube
Penguin Highway is still one of Colorido's best films, offering a heartfelt perspective on the coming-of-age tale, and it's streaming free on YouTube.
The Credential Problem Behind Agentic AI
AI-assisted commits leak secrets at 2X the baseline rate. A working credential architecture for agents: references, runtime resolution, scoped vaults, wrapper.
Block decomposition: how ClickHouse, Prometheus, and InfluxDB rediscovered the same fundamental algo
ClickHouse, Prometheus, and InfluxDB independently landed on the same idea: sqrt-decomposition. Here's where the model holds — and where it breaks.
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