Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use (www.thegamer.com)
10 hours ago
A game recently won Game of the Year and Debut Game at the Indie Game Awards but subsequently had these awards revoked. This action followed confirmation that generative AI art was utilized in the game's production, despite representatives initially ...
Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
22 hours ago
An initiative was undertaken to create the largest, truly open preservation archive for music by backing up Spotify's metadata and music files, resulting in a distribution of approximately 300TB across bulk torrents. This release features the world's...
Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study (www.facs.org)
1 day ago
A recent study analyzing deceased drivers in fatal motor vehicle crashes found that nearly 42% tested positive for active THC in their blood, with average levels significantly exceeding typical impairment limits. This high prevalence of recent cannab...
I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) (www.apalrd.net)
22 hours ago
The author conducted a week-long experiment using only IPv6 to assess transition mechanisms. A core insight is the need to abandon legacy IPv4 thinking, such as Network Address Translation (NAT), which is deemed an address exhaustion fix, not a secur...
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks (metr.org)
13 hours ago
A key metric for assessing AI performance is the length of tasks agents can autonomously complete, measured by the time human professionals require. Current frontier models show near 100% success on tasks taking humans under 4 minutes, but less than ...
Go ahead, self-host Postgres (pierce.dev)
1 day ago
The common narrative that self-hosting is inherently dangerous compared to cloud managed services is being challenged. Many managed offerings use standard open-source database engines with added operational tooling, and abstraction can hinder perform...
OpenSCAD is kinda neat (nuxx.net)
23 hours ago
The author explored using a code-based CAD tool to recreate a parameterized battery holder previously designed in a traditional CAD program. This involved writing code to generate a 3D object, serving as an introduction to the new tool's basics.
Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level (www.ucsf.edu)
11 hours ago
Research Dec. 12, 2025 UCSF Study Finds a Better Way to Screen for Breast Cancer
Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 days ago
The page explains why a user is encountering a block message, indicating their browser is flagged as suspicious, often due to being outdated. This measure is a temporary experiment to mitigate high-volume crawling activity prevalent in early 2025, mu...
Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal (blog.jcz.dev)
5 days ago
A head-to-head comparison demonstrated a significant performance gap between two language model versions playing a long-horizon game. The superior model won the game without any losses, while the predecessor lagged substantially, becoming trapped in ...
Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US) (www.ycombinator.com)
23 hours ago
The platform offers resources related to startup acceleration, including application processes, interview guides, directories of companies and founders, and job listings across various functional areas. There is a focus on connecting founders with ta...
From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries (www.abc.net.au)
5 days ago
Devastating bushfires in 2019-2020 unexpectedly led to the discovery of numerous subterranean environments. The clearing of dense vegetation following the inferno allowed researchers to use aerial imagery to spot depressions indicating potential open...
Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011) (norvig.com)
5 days ago
The discussion centers on a critique of purely statistical methods in machine learning, particularly in linguistics, where the emphasis is on empirical success over underlying explanatory principles. A core argument against these methods is that engi...
When a chatbot runs your store (www.aiweirdness.com)
1 day ago
