The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)

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Even Pausewang’s admirers concede that the books can be painful. ”It was so overwhelming, this scenario, so huge, that I didn’t know how to cope with it, as a child,” says Rémi, recalling the effect of reading The Last Children of Schewenborn. Then again, she argues, it’s a realistic depiction of how children experience systemic […]

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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AI companies continually scrape the internet at an enormous scale, swallowing up all of its contents to use as training data for their next models. If you have a public website, they are already stealing your work. Miasma is here to help you fight back! Spin up the server and point any malicious traffic towards […]

Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown

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A knowledge graph for your codebase, written in markdown. The problem AGENTS.md doesn’t scale. A single flat file can describe a small project, but as a codebase grows, maintaining one monolithic document becomes impractical. Key design decisions get buried, business logic goes undocumented, and agents hallucinate context they should be able to look up. Compress […]

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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I don’t understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it’s all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves (”what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling”). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an […]

Solar is winning the energy race

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Since the turn of the century, the expansion of solar power has surpassed expectations, more than any other energy source.  Once extremely expensive and only used in remote regions, space travel or pocket calculators, today’s solar modules — easy to set up and operate — generate cheap electricity all over the world. Global solar energy […]

Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history

Beijing Metro Beijing The Beijing Subway is a rapid transit system serving Beijing, China. It is the world’s busiest and one of the longest metro systems, having surpassed Shanghai in total length in 2023. Originally opened in 1969 as China’s first subway, it has undergone massive expansion, particularly after Beijing won the 2008 Olympics bid. […]

The road to electric – in charts and data [UK]

What is the RAC doing to help drivers make the switch to electric? The RAC is leading the way when it comes to supporting drivers in the switch to electric vehicles. An ever-increasing number of our patrol vans have built-in emergency mobile charging systems capable of giving an out-of-charge electric car enough power to be […]

OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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中文 Your local AI agent — private, powerful, personal. OpenYak is an open-source desktop AI assistant that runs entirely on your machine.Manage files, analyze data, draft documents, and automate office workflows — all without uploading anything to the cloud. What You Can Do Office Automation — Batch rename, sort, and clean up files across folders […]