π Useless Fact of the Day
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
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β’οΈ On August 12, 1945...
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An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Bumble is dropping its women-message-first rule and extending reply time to 72 hours. The shift aims to reduce dating-app pressure and revive growth as revenue falls, user fatigue rises, and Bumble experiments with more flexible, Gen Z-friendly features.
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OpenAI launched a preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, supporting major distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. The release expands ChatGPT and Codex across all major desktop platforms, responding to strong demand from open-source developers.
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Wisconsin police used Flock license-plate cameras to track a man buying legal marijuana in Michigan, then arrested him at home. The article argues this shows surveillance overreach and highlights repeated abuses of police camera networks for personal tracking.
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Blueskyβs post-2024 surge is fading, with mobile monthly users down 52% from its peak. Loyal users remain active, but growth has shifted toward AT Protocol apps. Meanwhile, Threads is gaining strongly, while X also shows modest decline.
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π΅οΈ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #28:
Send a calendar invite instead of answering the question.
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β 115, π 2
Token-efficient MCP CLI client. 97% less tokens on tool discovery, 40-60% on results. Zero deps. Cross-platform. Works with every AI agent.
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β 7, π 1
An open-source cost controller for AI agent loops β stops a loop when it's actually converged and rolls back before it degrades, instead of running to a fixed max_iterations cap. Real-time loop-gain (AΞ²) bands + best-so-far rollback. Adapters for LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangChain, OpenAI Agents, and Claude Agent SDK; raw API for custom stacks.
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β 2212, π 173
A Python framework for self-hosted LLM tool-calling and multi-step agentic workflows
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β 5035, π 212
One SQL interface over APIs, files, and live sources β built for agents.
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β 3894, π 334
CC GUI Client (VibeCoding Platform Designed for Developers)
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Cua reports a Metal capability shim for macOS VMs on Apple Silicon that lets llama.cpp use faster GPU kernels, delivering 7β16Γ LLM inference gains and near bare-metal speeds. Itβs a research release for reproducible benchmarking.
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Bug report alleges Claude Code v2.1.212 on macOS sent the userβs real email in the User-Agent header without explicit consent, raising privacy concerns and claiming this is a regression from a previous version.
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