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DePIN is Dead. Long Live Infrastructure-as-a-Service. ยท Konstantin Tkachuk

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every infrastructure sector in modern history developed using the same playbook. Someone builds raw capacity ahead of demand. The raw resource commoditizes and gets cheaper forever. And the money moves to whoever sells guaranteed, contracted service on top of it. So far, cloud ran it, telecom ran it, even chip makers did it to an extent. Crypto infrastructure is attempting to repeat it right now.Motivation to continue this research came from a news article a couple of weeks ago. Storj, one of the actually working…
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pg83/solo: Portable Linux binaries, solved ยท GitHub

pg83/solo: Portable Linux binaries, solved ยท GitHub

โœจ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Ship one musl-linked executable. At runtime, load the user's existing glibc-linked GPU driver. No container, no AppImage, and no second libc in the process. Static binaries are a wonderfully boring way to deploy software on Linux: one file, no dependencies, nothing to break. We build ours with IX, a source-first build system for producing fully static Linux binaries. The boredom ends the moment the application needs the GPU: Vulkan and OpenGL drivers are supplied by the host as shared objects, usually built against glibc,…
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The Rebrand Forecast ยท The Rebrand Registry

โœจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Statistics, speculation and stationery What can several decades of Microsoft naming history tell us? Mostly that a product name is less a permanent identity and more a medium-term tenancy agreement. Analysis uses the registryโ€™s reproducible โ€œas ofโ€ date. Days since last rename โ€”days The nameplates have remained still Measured against the registryโ€™s reproducible โ€œas ofโ€ date. Forecast status: recreational. This is playful extrapolation from public historyโ€”not reporting, a leak, financial advice, or evidence of Microsoftโ€™s future plans. No roadmaps or functioning crystal balls were consulted.…
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DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly: A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome ยท GitHub

DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly: A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop โ€” driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses. The fly's brain window: 23,210 real neuron soma positions from FlyWire v783, with live spikes flashing at real neuron locations. The two glowing yellow markers are the Giant Fibers โ€” the escape command neurons. Click any region to stimulate it. 23,210 neuron…
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IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections

IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections

โœจ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A recap and summary of the first ever Homebrew Website Club: Asia Pacific IndieWeb event.PrefaceI havenโ€™t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago! Hereโ€™s a post about my experience being a first-time organizer of such an event.BackgroundHaving attended this meetup in the US time zones for the last eight months, I have been thoroughly inspired and captivated by the awesome individuals in the IndieWeb communityโ€”participant and organizers alike. Seeing the gap…
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Norway Should Buy OpenAI – by Zachary Jones

Norway Should Buy OpenAI – by Zachary Jones

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AI capabilities are advancing at a faster rate than our institutional response. Soon, a transformative technology will crash into the capitalist political economy, presenting risks to humanityโ€™s survival, autonomy, and democratic order. Especially concerning is the possibility that vast amounts of power and wealth are concentrated into the class that owns the AI systems, or uses those systems to override democratic control. Silicon Valley talks flippantly of a โ€˜Permanent Underclassโ€™ - and they intend for you to belong to it.Upon the automation of most, and…
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Trending Subreddits for 2021-06-10: /r/spreadytoes, /r/KittenMittens, /r/toebeans, /r/murdermittens, /r/jellybeantoes

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Trending Subreddits ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: trendingsubreddits โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Over 6 years ago, when reddit was the equivalent of a toddler we launched trending subreddits on the front page. This was truly one of the very few ways to discover new communities. Now we have many ways for you to find the spaces you love - including a leader board, personalized recommendations, improved onboarding for new users and others on the way. With all of that, and with the site continuing to grow, weโ€™ve decided itโ€™s now time to retire this community and…
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biw/keychain-store: Secure storage for signed Electron and Node apps, backed by the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain ยท GitHub

biw/keychain-store: Secure storage for signed Electron and Node apps, backed by the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain ยท GitHub

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Secure storage for signed Electron and Node apps, backed by the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain. Protect items with code-signing access groups; share only with explicitly entitled apps (no security CLI access) Restrict package access to item names your app declares Optionally require device-owner authentication (Touch ID or password), or Touch ID only Store UTF-8 strings and binary values import ๐Ÿ”ฅ from "keychain-store"; const store = openKeychainStore({ // touch ID only authentication: { accessControl: "biometrics-only" }, // build in iCloud sync iCloudSync: true, // support…
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Claude Status – Degraded performance for multiple models

Claude Status – Degraded performance for multiple models

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Degraded performance for multiple models via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda…
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shoehorn โ€” make any language model fit your machine

shoehorn โ€” make any language model fit your machine

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Make any language model fit the memory you actually have. Preset quantizations ignore your hardware: pick one that fits and you either waste hundreds of megabytes of quality headroom or find out at load time it didn't fit after all. shoehorn starts from the memory you actually have, subtracts what inference itself needs, and solves a per-tensor mixed-precision assignment that lands within a rounding error of the remainder โ€” routinely using 99.99% of the budget, sometimes to the byte. $ shoehorn fit unsloth/Qwen3-4B-GGUF --serve weights:…
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