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British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time. In March, they did the spring forward one hour with their clocks to UTC-7, but they won't fall back to UTC-8 in November. Going forward, the UTC offset for America/Vancouver timezone is permanently UTC-7.Let's use this as an opportunity to talk about date and time zone storage. In the most basic examples, the default is to store the UTC value, then calculate local time relative to UTC. However,…
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Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Posted on June 19, 2026 by Adam Wespiser Bebop, my 83lb, 33 inch tall, Greyhound, loves three things: running fast, following me around the house, and treats. Whether itโ€™s a chew treat, pizza out of a childโ€™s hand who strayed too far from a party, or a small tray of cat food, he has a nose for what he likes and the athleticism to give him a fair shot at getting it. Iโ€™ve watched him eat for years, so it was upsetting to realize I…
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Blogger Defeats Photographer’s Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm v. Messiah

Blogger Defeats Photographer’s Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm v. Messiah

โœจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™m blogging this case only because itโ€™s one of those โ€œwhat are we even doing here?โ€ lawsuits. Cases like this belong in the CCB or, better yet, should not be brought at all! * * * The case involves a photo called the โ€œParker Train Photo.โ€ It was taken in 1962, but it was first published in a book in 2000. The plaintiff claims it licenses the photo for fine art reproductions for up to $5k each. Messiah ran a blog initially entitled โ€œAsk Fashion…
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The text in Claude Codeโ€™s โ€œExtended Thinkingโ€ output is not authentic. โ€“ blog

The text in Claude Codeโ€™s โ€œExtended Thinkingโ€ output is not authentic. โ€“ blog

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Claude Code records each session to disk. Those logs include โ€œthinking blocksโ€ โ€” the modelโ€™s own reasoning as it works. I went to inspect that reasoning this weekend and found a signature (600 characters long) and no text. So I read the docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extended-thinking Some details worth being aware of: Claude encrypts its reasoning into that signature. Anthropic holds the key. Your machine doesnโ€™t receive it. The API hands back a SUMMARY of reasoning, NOT the reasoning itself. Getting the full thinking output requires an…
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GitHub – 0xroylee/ponytrail ยท GitHub

GitHub – 0xroylee/ponytrail ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every change, on the trail. Ponytrail is a small CLI and bundled agent skill for recording why files changed, showing those changes as a local history tree, and reverting files from a previous snapshot. It keeps the trail in .pony-trail/ inside your project. Treat that folder as local runtime state; it should stay out of git. Install the bundled pony-trail skill into your local agent tools: npx ponytrail skills install pony-trail With Bun: bunx ponytrail skills install pony-trail The installer records a local skill-install snapshot…
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Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Safety | NVIDIA Halos

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Safety | NVIDIA Halos

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: NVIDIA Halos is a full-stack, comprehensive safety system that unifies safety elements across vehicle architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure the safe development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) from cloud to car. The system covers the full development lifecycle with design-time, deployment-time, and validation-time guardrails that collectively build safety and explainability into AI-based AV stacks. These guardrails are implemented using three powerful computersโ€”NVIDIA DGXโ„ข for model training, NVIDIA Omniverseโ„ข and Cosmosโ„ข for simulation, and NVIDIA DRIVE AGXโ„ข for deployment.…
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window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside. Examples that have been thrown around are a local-first notes app, where you can grant it access to a folder full of Markdown notes, and you own the data rather than it being squirrelled away in some cloud service. The other day I was getting nostalgic about Appleโ€™s Aperture UI and wondered whether Claude could create a similarly-themed…
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Authentication, sharded tables, conversational search and faster vector search

Authentication, sharded tables, conversational search and faster vector search

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: layout instead of the cluster path. If you run replication clusters with a custom path, you may need to move or re-synchronize replicated tables after upgrade. Downgrade is only safe before the new layout is adopted. (Issue #4431 , PR #4598 )If you manage MCL separately from the daemon, upgrade it together with Manticore. This release line moves through several MCL updates, from vector-performance work to multithreaded HNSW builds and later stability fixes. Mixing an older library with a newer daemon is not recommended. (25.2.0…
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Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) on X

Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) on X

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AI DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO! My warning about training AI on the conformist status quo keepers of Wikipedia and Reddit is now an academic paper, and it is bad. โ€” Exposed: Deep Structural Flaws in Large Language Models: The Discovery of the False-Correction Loop and the Systemic Suppression of Novel Thought A stunning preprint appeared today on Zenodo that is already sending shockwaves through the AI research community. Written by an independent researcher at the Synthesis Intelligence Laboratory, โ€œStructural Inducements for Hallucination in Large Language…
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PowerFox Browser

PowerFox Browser

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: PowerFox Browser Security Security comes first. Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard haven't received security updates from Apple in years, yet PowerFox brings modern security features to keep you safe online โ€” from TLS 1.3 support to compliance with modern cipher suites and regular security patches. View Changelog โ€บ Language Packs We speak your language.ๆˆ‘ไปฌ่ฏดๆ‚จ็š„่ฏญ่จ€ใ€‚ PowerFox supports dozens of language packs to cater to users worldwide. Whether you're more comfortable browsing in English, Chinese, Spanish, or any other supported language, PowerFox has you covered. Download Language…
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