🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army. G.P. for `General Purpose` vehicle.
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The failure of the St. Francis Dam (pictured) northwest of Los Angeles resulted in a flood that killed 400 people.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Researchers found “KadNap,” a 14,000‑device botnet mainly on unpatched Asus routers. It uses a Kademlia-based peer‑to‑peer design with distributed hash tables, making takedown difficult, and powers a paid proxy service. Fix: factory reset, update firmware, disable remote access.
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RevenueCat data shows AI apps earn more initially—better trial conversion, higher lifetime value—but lose subscribers faster, churn more, and get more refunds than non‑AI apps. Conclusion: AI boosts short‑term monetization, yet struggles to deliver lasting user value and retention.
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Zoox is expanding autonomous vehicle operations to Dallas and Phoenix, first mapping with human-driven SUVs, then testing self-driving and later robotaxis. It’s opening depots and a Scottsdale command center, adding jobs, but still needs key federal and local approvals for full commercial service.
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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A will soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere uncontrollably, with debris likely surviving. Its casualty risk (1 in 4,200) exceeds the US 1-in-10,000 guideline, so NASA granted a waiver, citing scientific benefits and overall still-low danger.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
When Jeff Dean fires up the profiler, loops unroll themselves in fear.
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⭐ 3152, 🖖 86
PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.
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⭐ 2076, 🖖 128
A Vue 3 renderer specifically built for AI-powered streaming Markdown: Monaco incremental, Mermaid progressive, and KaTeX formula speed, with real-time updates and no jitter, ready to use out of the box.
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⭐ 238, 🖖 6
Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
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⭐ 30, 🖖 3
Lobster.js – Extended Markdown with layout blocks and footnotes
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⭐ 2155, 🖖 103
Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, for Wayland and X11
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