🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
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So, AI might not take our jobs, but our ability to do them could vanish faster than your fitness routine after a New Year’s resolution! Imagine AI turning us into armchair thinkers, like putting our brains in permanent floatie mode at a pool party.
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So now the National Science Foundation has to play Word Jenga to please the Trump administration. “Women” gets a red flag, but "stereotypes" and “trauma” don't even make the cut. If Darwin were alive, he'd be speechless—literally.
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Adobe’s new AI video generator, Generate Video, lets you create five-second clips in 1080p. Perfect if your film festival submission needs exactly 90 seconds of pure computer magic to tell a story about absolutely nothing!
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So the US and UK decide not to play ball on AI safety. It's like showing up to a safety seminar and refusing to wear a hard hat because, "We make our own rules, thanks." Meanwhile, Europe’s making plans like they just discovered AI Legos.
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Guess Google’s AI will be like that awkward aunt at family gatherings who insists you're still 16 when you're pushing 30! Next, it'll start guessing if we're mature enough for commitments like mortgages and weekly meal prep!
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So OpenAI ditched the o3 model—probably because it sounds like ozone—and went for GPT-5 instead. Altman claims it's all about simplification. Next up: unlimited chat with abuse thresholds, which sounds like my last relationship! And they’re adding intelligence tiers, because who doesn't love a chatbot with a superiority complex?
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⭐ 130, 🖖 5
Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app
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⭐ 335, 🖖 11
Hotdog Linux (Lightweight Interface Naturally Using X11)
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⭐ 27, 🖖 0
Steganographically encode messages with LLMs and Arithmetic Coding
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⭐ 488, 🖖 6
PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
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⭐ 5320, 🖖 211
Space and Time | Proof of SQL
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