Show HN: ServiceRadar – open-source Network Observability Platform
ServiceRadar is a distributed network monitoring system designed for infrastructure and services in hard to reach places or constrained environments. It provides real-time monitoring of internal services, with cloud-based alerting capabilities to ensure you stay informed even during network or power outages. Real-time Monitoring: Monitor services and infrastructure in hard-to-reach places Distributed Architecture: Components can […]
The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method (and Unix-Smalltalk Unification) [pdf]
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Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock […]
Results from blood test for 50 cancers
A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer could help speed up diagnosis, according to a new study. Results of a trial in North America show that the test was able to identify a wide range of cancers, of which three-quarters don’t have any form of screening programme. More than half the cancers […]
WebMCP
A proposal and code for websites to support client side LLMs WebMCP allows websites to share tools, resources, prompts, etc. to LLMs. In other words, WebMCP allows a website to be an MCP server. No sharing API Keys. Use any model you want. Here’s a simple website I built that is WebMCP-enabled It comes in […]
New Work by Gary Larson
Enter I don’t want to mislead anyone here. This corner of the website—“New Stuff”—is not a resurrection of The Far Side daily cartoons. (Well, not exactly, anyway—like the proverbial tiger and its stripes, I’m pretty much stuck with my sense of humor. Aren’t we all?) The thing is, I thoroughly enjoyed my career as a […]
US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans
Alarm bells are ringing on Wall Street. The recent collapses of Tricolor, a used car seller and sub-prime auto lender, and First Brands, an auto parts supplier, have put the finance industry on edge, almost two decades after problems in the sub-prime mortgage lending market set the stage for the global financial crisis. “When you […]
Code from MIT’s 1986 SICP video lectures
Motivation MIT lectures on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, as taught in 1986 by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson, are available online in youtube and MIT OCW’s website. The videos are available in 240p/360p: very poor quality for visualizing the code in the slides. In addition to that, the camera won’t fixate on the […]
The pivot
It’s my 61st birthday this weekend and I have to say, I never expected to get to be this old—or this weirded-out by the world I’m living in, which increasingly resembles the backstory from a dystopian 1970s SF novel in which two-fisted billionaires colonize space in order to get away from the degenerate second-hander rabble […]
Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
TL;DR – We just gave Skyvern the ability to write and maintain its own code, making it 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster. Give it a prompt (or a series of prompts), and the AI will generate and maintain playwright code while it runs. Try out the via Open Source or Cloud 💡 Recap: What is Skyvern? […]