🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.
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Bandcamp is banning AI-generated music and prohibiting any use of its catalog to train AI models. Unlike rivals that mainly target impersonation, Bandcamp disallows songs substantially made with AI and encourages users to report suspected AI-heavy tracks.
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Rice University chemists replicated Edison’s 1879 lightbulb experiments and found that bamboo carbon filaments, heated to 2000–3000°C, partially converted into turbostratic graphene. Edison couldn’t have detected it then, but the work suggests historic technologies may hide overlooked advanced materials.
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Google is expanding “Personal Intelligence” in AI Mode, letting Gemini use Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history to give ultra-personalized answers. It’s opt-in, pitched as convenience (travel, shopping, planning), but raises privacy concerns about deep data integration across Google services.
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Brooklyn startup PopWheels is repurposing its swappable e-bike batteries to power NYC food carts, replacing noisy, polluting gas generators. Using existing charging cabinets and a subscription model, it aims to cut vendors’ energy costs while improving air quality and street experience.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
When your code has undefined behavior, you get a seg fault and corrupted data. When Jeff Dean's code has undefined behavior, a unicorn rides in on a rainbow and gives everybody free ice cream.
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⭐ 14873, 🖖 1274
CLI tool for configuring and monitoring Claude Code
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⭐ 102, 🖖 3
TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)
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⭐ 2, 🖖 0
Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range
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⭐ 7615, 🖖 1076
Ultra-high-performance, secure, all-in-one acceleration engine for developer resources
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⭐ 5425, 🖖 313
Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
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