I decompiled the White House’s new app
The White House released an app on the App Store and Google Play. They posted a blog about it. ”Unparalleled access to the Trump Administration.” It took a few minutes to pull the APKs with ADB, and threw them into JADX. Here is everything I found. What Is This App? It’s a React Native app […]
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they’re right
AI can lead mentally unwell people to some pretty dark places, as a number of recent news stories have taught us. Now researchers think sycophantic AI is actually having a harmful effect on everyone. In reviewing 11 leading AI models and human responses to interactions with those models across various scenarios, a team of Stanford […]
Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
If you lose a life, you can kiss that cool gun goodbye (unless you saved, that is). Credit: id Software If you lose a life, you can kiss that cool gun goodbye (unless you saved, that is). Credit: id Software The difficulty balancing could use some work as well. The lowest setting, “Can I Play, […]
Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins
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You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
Way back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, memorialized in a photograph of him striding to the stage past rows of men with the Oculus Rift VR headsets strapped to their faces: Fast forward a decade and now the founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, runs a […]
Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers
About this Role We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction on our engineering team, mentor other engineers, and partner closely with product and design to deliver fast, reliable, and magical user experiences. This role is deeply hands-on. You’ll be writing and reviewing code daily, shaping architecture, and helping […]
I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit
Legislación española como repositorio Git. Cada ley es un fichero Markdown, cada reforma un commit. Más de 8.600 leyes del API de datos abiertos del BOE, con historial completo de reformas desde 1960. Parte del proyecto Legalize. Inicio rápido git clone https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es.git cd legalize-es # ¿Qué dice el Artículo 135 de la Constitución hoy? grep […]
I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
The energy transition Between 12th January 1882, when the world’s first coal-fired power station opened at 57 Holborn Viaduct in London, and 30th September 2024, when Great Britain’s last coal-fired power station closed, the country burnt 4.6 billion tonnes of coal, emitting 10.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. In 2001 the European Union updated the […]
Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets Source: Yahoo Finance Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a deadline that would expire Monday evening in Washington. Specifically, he announced that the U.S. would begin bombing power plants — […]