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🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
📅 This Day in History
☄️ On July 23, 1995...
Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
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📰 News
Meta is piloting StoryKit, an AI app for personalized children’s stories. The article criticizes it as outsourcing imagination and parent-child bonding, arguing bedtime storytelling’s human silliness, connection, and creativity shouldn’t be replaced by predictable AI-generated scripts.
Physicists propose “chopping” a single photon by switching a mirror mid-reflection. The abrupt change could create extra photons across many frequencies—a quantum rainbow. Experimentally difficult, but related ultrafast optics suggest it may soon be observed.
The US Army’s “unlimited” AI access hit token limits after heavy use of Ask Sage. The episode highlights a broader problem: generative AI costs scale quickly, and rushed adoption can outpace budgets, controls, and proven usefulness.
🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #14: Decline the meeting with "conflict." Post lunch photos at that exact time.
👨‍💻 Repositories
⭐ 2825, 🖖 152
An open source design system that's fully customizable and agent ready
⭐ 2357, 🖖 207
A persistent, unified memory layer for all your AI agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex), backed by Markdown and Milvus.
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TypeScript AI agent orchestration framework with dynamic workflows. Describe the goal, not the graph: a coordinator plans the task DAG at runtime and runs it on any LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or local models).
⭐ 2558, 🖖 332
Unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (formerly the Codex app), built locally from OpenAI’s official macOS app. Includes Chat, Work, and Codex. Packages for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/openSUSE (.rpm), Arch (pacman), Nix/NixOS, and AppImage, with Wayland and X11 support.
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A small Huffman tree implementation in Clojure
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