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Rhode Island is the only state which the hammer throw is a legal high school sport.
📅 This Day in History
🕸️ On August 6, 1991...
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.
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📰 News
Reddit is signaling possible changes to Old Reddit, citing scraping, spam, and abuse concerns. While no shutdown is confirmed, login requirements and API restrictions suggest Reddit is tightening control over legacy access, automation, and third-party apps.
Bending Spoons will buy Airtable for $1.28 billion cash, far below Airtable’s 2021 $11 billion valuation. The deal fits Bending Spoons’ strategy: acquire discounted tech brands, cut costs, streamline products, and push profitability, now with Airtable’s AI ambitions.
The article criticizes Anthropic for destructively scanning books to train Claude, arguing this bypasses authors and exploits fair use. It warns AI firms may turn human-created culture into corporate training material, weakening writers’ rights and cultural preservation.
🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #24: End your message with "no rush!" Follow up in 8 minutes.
👨‍💻 Repositories
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The SDK for autonomous economic agents. Give an agent an identity, a wallet, and the ability to find, negotiate with, and settle with other agents - peer-to-peer, with perfect privacy and ultra-fast finality
⭐ 1, 🖖 0
Terminal-native attention router for parallel Claude Code sessions
⭐ 3, 🖖 1
A Claude Code skill that writes a verified HANDOFF.md so a fresh session can resume long-running work without repeating dead ends.
⭐ 3379, 🖖 526
A unified library of SOTA model optimization techniques like quantization, distillation, pruning, neural architecture search, speculative decoding, etc. It compresses deep learning models for downstream deployment frameworks like TensorRT-LLM, TensorRT, vLLM, etc. to optimize inference speed.
⭐ 2, 🖖 0
C-Flow Matching inference
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