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There is way too much serendipity - by Malmesbury
If you add the history of LSD to the history of artificial sweeteners, it follows that chemistry researchers are constantly tasting everything they touch, and I will believe that until someone gives me a better explanation. If you are a chemist, explain yourself.
A scraper runs every 12 hours and searches Hacker News for new Show HN game posts using the Algolia API. When it finds a game that isn't already in the directory, it creates a submission issue on GitHub for review.
Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
Pi is interesting to me because of two main reasons: First of all, it has a tiny core. It has the shortest system prompt of any agent that I’m aware of and it only has four tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash. The second thing is that it makes up for its tiny core by providing an extension system that also allows extensions to persist state into sessions, which is incredibly powerful.
List as many animals as you can
XSS-Leak: Leaking Cross-Origin Redirects
When two requests have the same priority, Chrome will sort by port, then scheme, then host. So if two request have the same priority, port and scheme, Chrome will prioritize the one whose host is lexicographically lower...
This quirk gives us an oracle.
Every James Cameron Movie, Explained by James Cameron (video)
Video. Pulling out a quote is hard.
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades.
Heartbeat runs periodic agent turns in the main session so the model can surface anything that needs attention without spamming you.
How We Prevented Cursor, Windsurf & Google Antigravity from Recommending Malware
They can't use Microsoft's extension marketplace. The license explicitly prohibits non-Microsoft products from accessing it. So they use OpenVSX, the open-source alternative maintained by the Eclipse Foundation.
But when they forked VSCode, they inherited its extension recommendation list, a list that points to extensions on Microsoft's marketplace. Extensions that don't all exist on OpenVSX.
Shock as bar added then removed from Ilkeston's 'NatWest hole'
Locals have been left stunned after a metal bar was added to a hole in a wall that famously became a town's most highly-rated attraction thanks to a flood of spoof reviews.
The Coming War on Car Ownership
VC-type investors have unlimited appetite for risk, and all 26 of the basically identical companies will pitch with projections claiming they will own the entire market... It will look like scooter companies, which were also only capital constrained, and the streets will be blanketed by these robotaxis in a throwback to the scooter era.