🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
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🧪 On February 27, 1940...
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American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, which is now used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological and geological samples.
Read more on Wikipedia
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AirSnitch is a new Wi‑Fi attack that bypasses client isolation, enabling full man‑in‑the‑middle interception and modification of traffic—even across guest networks and multiple SSIDs—by abusing low‑level MAC/port mappings, threatening home, office, and enterprise Wi‑Fi security.
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NASA’s new Mars Telecommunications Network prioritizes relay and navigation services over science, with scientific instruments allowed but discouraged if they threaten schedule. A small related NASA study contract to Rocket Lab may fuel conflict-of-interest complaints in the upcoming hotly contested procurement.
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Pacific Fusion tested a cheaper fusion method using pulsed electricity instead of costly lasers and magnets. By redesigning fuel casings to let magnetic fields preheat fuel, they aim to simplify reactors, cut hundreds of millions in costs, and improve commercial fusion viability.
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AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini generate passwords that look strong but follow predictable patterns, drastically reducing entropy. This makes them easy to brute-force. Researchers warn LLMs are inherently unsuited for secure password generation; use real password managers instead.
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Gergely Orosz interviews HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto on HashiCorp’s rocky business path, why Terraform really won, the VMware near-acquisition, Ghostty and Zig, and how AI agents now drive his workflow, reshape open source trust, and may force a post‑Git tooling era.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
There is no `Ctrl` key on Jeff Dean's keyboard. Jeff Dean is always in control.
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⭐ 22429, 🖖 2574
Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot.
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⭐ 2425, 🖖 575
Open-source deep-learning framework for building, training, and fine-tuning deep learning models using state-of-the-art Physics-ML methods
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⭐ 10093, 🖖 872
[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.
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⭐ 11327, 🖖 1257
Go ahead and axolotl questions
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⭐ 2302, 🖖 105
A vector graphics application for structured SVG editing, available on all major desktop platforms and on web. Currently in late alpha.
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