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Danish privacy activist says masked police raided his home after he doxxed the PM

Lars Andersen, a self-described libertarian privacy activist and former police officer in Denmark, says masked, armed officers broke down his door without warni

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Deno's new 'desktop' command turns any web project into a native app

Deno is taking aim at Electron and Tauri with a built-in `deno desktop` command, shipping in canary build v2.9.0. It compiles a Deno project — from a single Typ

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Fine-tuning a 600M-parameter Qwen model into a reliable question classifier

A hobbyist building a household RAG chatbot needed a cheap way to route questions into metadata categories (pool, car, HVAC, cooking) so vector searches only sc

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GLM-5.2 vs. Opus 4.8: cheap open weights, but Opus still ships the better game

Z.ai's new GLM-5.2 is an open-weights (MIT-licensed) flagship aimed at long-horizon agentic coding, with a 1M-token context window and High/Max thinking tiers.

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Hashimoto pledges another $400K to Zig, defends its no-LLM contribution policy

Mitchell Hashimoto and his family are committing an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, paid as $200,000 per year over two years and mirroring t

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tech-cultureai

JSON-LD for Personal Sites: Structured Data That Boosts SEO and LLM Citations

JSON-LD lets you embed machine-readable structured data in a webpage via a `<script type="application/ld+json">` block that browsers ignore but crawlers like Go

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Logarithms as Vectors: Rethinking Bases, Bits, and Nats

A math blog post proposes treating the logarithm as a coordinate-free object. Instead of writing log_b(x) with a fixed base, the author introduces a "baseless l

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Mexico debuts Olinia Uno, a state-backed EV aiming for an $8,500 price tag

Mexico's government has shown off the Olinia Uno, a domestically designed electric car that President Claudia Sheinbaum drove onstage at an Air Force hangar nea

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Minecraft Java 26.2 adds Vulkan 1.2 backend, splits chat/command spam limits

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2 is the first build to run on Vulkan 1.2 alongside the existing OpenGL path, and the renderer now uses a reversed depth buffer to cu

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Moebius matches 10B inpainting giants with under 2% of the parameters

Researchers behind Moebius argue that image inpainting doesn't need an 11.9-billion-parameter behemoth like FLUX.1-Fill-Dev to produce high-quality results. The

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Norvig's Lispy: a working Scheme interpreter in ~100 lines of Python

Peter Norvig's classic tutorial walks through building a functioning interpreter for a subset of Scheme—nicknamed Lispy—in roughly 100 lines of Python. The pitc

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NSF guts basic-science budgets to bankroll $1.5B tech-commercialization push

The National Science Foundation is quietly cutting this year's budgets for hundreds of traditional basic-research programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though th

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