🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
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Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Brooks’ “No Silver Bullet” still largely holds: no single tech, including AI, has delivered 10x gains in overall software productivity. Huge improvements came from many combined advances—version control, CI/CD, cloud, SRE, open source—rather than one decisive breakthrough.
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Chinese robotics firm Unitree unveiled the GD01, a $650,000 manned “mecha” that switches between bipedal and four-legged modes, can smash cinderblock walls, and carry a rider, though its real-world purpose, controls, and practicality remain unclear.
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OpenAI’s Codex has quickly overtaken Claude Code for the Every team, driven by GPT‑5.5 and a faster desktop app. They now use Codex for strategy documents, recruiting, and even migrating projects automatically, while arguing it’s fine to ignore some AI fads.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean never has the wrong number; you have the wrong phone.
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⭐ 2463, 🖖 76
Privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable.
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⭐ 3264, 🖖 169
The sandbox agent framework.
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⭐ 2658, 🖖 82
A full-featured download manager — rebuilt from the ground up
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⭐ 8789, 🖖 972
WinMerge 2.16.56 – A Windows tool for visual difference display and merging
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⭐ 2276, 🖖 138
Automatically detect and skip intro/credit sequences in Jellyfin
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