🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.
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☄️ On February 9, 1913...
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A meteor procession was observed along a great circle arc from Canada to Brazil, leading astronomers to conclude that its source was a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Substack disclosed an October 2025 breach exposing user emails, phone numbers, and internal metadata, but not payment data or passwords. The flaw was only found in February. Scale, cause, and attacker motives remain unclear; users are warned to watch for phishing attempts.
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Ursa Wright built a functional Star Trek–style LCARS control panel using Home Assistant, ESPHome, LVGL, and a Waveshare ESP32 touchscreen. It controls lights and scenes in her living room—impractical but delightfully accurate to the Star Trek aesthetic.
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Researchers showed a language-trained bonobo, Kanzi, could track “pretend” juice and grapes in fake tea-party–style tasks. He distinguished imaginary from real items, choosing correctly above chance, suggesting great apes can use imagination and secondary representation, once thought uniquely human.
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Former crypto hackers are warning Manchester students against cybercrime, showing how gaming skills can easily slide into illegal hacking. Backed by Co-op and The Hacking Games, the programme steers talented young gamers into well-paid ethical cybersecurity roles instead.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Errors treat Jeff Dean as a warning.
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⭐ 2297, 🖖 81
Compile Cargo project with zig as linker
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⭐ 2320, 🖖 169
Reliable model swapping for any local OpenAI/Anthropic compatible server - llama.cpp, vllm, etc
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⭐ 3398, 🖖 203
🐸 Read Frog - Open Source Immersive Translate | 🐸 陪读蛙 - 开源沉浸式翻译
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⭐ 2262, 🖖 193
Optimize prompts, code, and more with AI-powered Reflective Text Evolution
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⭐ 691, 🖖 31
The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
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