🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
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SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Big Tech is racing to replace today’s vulnerable RSA/ECC with post-quantum cryptography before “Q‑Day,” when powerful quantum computers can break them. Google and Cloudflare pulled their target forward to 2029, pressuring slower rivals as authentication—not just encryption—emerges as the real crisis.
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Creative software rivals are aggressively targeting Adobe’s dominance and pricing. Major tools like Autograph, Cavalry, Affinity, and DaVinci Resolve are going free or cheaper, while Apple and others offer lower-cost suites, making a professional, non‑Adobe workflow increasingly realistic and attractive.
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A hack called TagTinker lets the Flipper Zero rewrite retail electronic price tags, effectively enabling rickrolls or fake prices. Its creators claim it’s only for “educational research,” stressing that experimenting on real stores is banned, highlighting growing concerns about consumer-facing hardware security.
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Cerebras Systems, a rival to Nvidia in AI chips, has refiled for an IPO after resolving foreign investment concerns. Backed by huge funding and major deals with AWS and OpenAI, it’s profitable on paper and targeting a mid-May listing.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean was forced to invent asynchronous APIs one day when he optimized a function so that it returned before it was invoked.
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⭐ 2194, 🖖 262
Hermes WebUI: The best way to use Hermes Agent from the web or from your phone!
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⭐ 64, 🖖 5
Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU
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⭐ 3419, 🖖 252
Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk
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⭐ 3583, 🖖 448
Enterprise AI Platform with guardrails, MCP registry, gateway & orchestrator
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⭐ 2097, 🖖 315
Isaac Lab API, powered by MuJoCo-Warp, for RL and robotics research
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