Daily Content Summary 2025-07-30 #188
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📰 Daily Content Summary - 2025-07-30
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The author explores the capabilities of the new GLM-4.5 Air model from Z.ai, running it on a 2.5-year-old laptop. The model, a 3bit quantized version for MLX, successfully generated HTML and JavaScript code for a Space Invaders game. The author also tested the model with a pelican benchmark, generating an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. The author notes the increasing focus on coding capabilities in recent models and expresses amazement at the progress compared to previous models like LLaMA.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is legally challenging the UK's Online Safety Act Categorisation Regulations in the High Court of Justice in London. The foundation argues that the regulations endanger Wikipedia and its volunteer contributors by potentially imposing stringent Category 1 duties. These duties could undermine contributor privacy, expose the encyclopedia to manipulation, and divert resources. The legal challenge is supported by a volunteer Wikipedia editor and aims to protect the accessibility and integrity of free knowledge.
The article discusses the trend of AI companies offering "unlimited" access to their services, only to later impose limits, particularly affecting power users. It highlights how this bait-and-switch tactic damages trust within the developer community, causing them to hedge bets and delay AI adoption. The author contrasts this approach with Kilo Code's transparent pay-per-use model, advocating for honesty and predictability in AI pricing. The article encourages developers to seek transparent alternatives and for companies to be upfront about costs and user control over limits.
The article explains why smartphone photos are rarely printed and framed by comparing them to photos taken with a real camera. It highlights key differences such as distortion caused by the iPhone's fish-eye lens, less flattering jawlines due to inaccurate shadow capture, and the lack of bokeh. The author emphasizes how these seemingly small differences significantly impact our perception of the subjects, making real camera photos more visually appealing and accurate.
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The article discusses using URL parameters as the primary source of application state in HTMX to manage filters, sorting, pagination, and search. It outlines a pattern where the server reads URL parameters to render views, forms preserve state with hidden fields, and HTMX automatically updates the URL. This approach offers bookmarkable, shareable states without complex client-side management, enhancing shareability, SEO, and debugging. The article suggests considering the URL for state management before resorting to state management libraries.
Following the implementation of the UK's Online Safety Act, which mandates age verification for adult content sites, there has been a significant increase in the use of VPNs and other circumvention tools in the UK. Experts anticipated this trend, drawing parallels to similar occurrences in other countries with age check laws. The act requires websites with adult content to implement robust age checks, leading to increased demand for VPNs and creative workarounds. While proponents see progress in age verification, digital rights advocates caution against normalizing such mechanisms, highlighting potential consequences for online freedom and the risk of escalating government control.
This article from the Netflix Technology Blog outlines a methodology for quickly diagnosing Linux server performance issues using standard command-line tools. It focuses on the first 60 seconds of investigation, recommending ten commands to check system resource usage, errors, and saturation. The commands include uptime, dmesg, vmstat, mpstat, pidstat, iostat, free, and sar. The article emphasizes the importance of identifying bottlenecks by examining utilization, saturation, and error metrics for various resources, following the USE Method.
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This article introduces a taxonomy of system design principles distilled from various domains in computer systems. It addresses the challenge of fragmented knowledge across different domains like operating systems, databases, and computer architecture, where similar design principles appear in different forms. The goal is to establish a shared vocabulary that aids students, researchers, and practitioners in reasoning about system structure and trade-offs. The article presents a "periodic table" of recurring system design principles to bridge the gaps between seemingly disparate domains, promoting a more coherent understanding and clearer communication of design choices.
A new study in mice reveals how the brain efficiently increases blood flow to active areas by using specialized channels in the lining of blood vessels to communicate where blood is needed. The brain uses endothelial cells connected by gap junctions as a signaling highway to coordinate blood vessel dilation and contraction. These findings could improve the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and the interpretation of brain imaging tests like fMRI. The research highlights the importance of blood supply regulation for brain health and its potential breakdown in neurodegenerative conditions.
The article discusses the Swiss film "Late Shift" (Heldin), directed by Petra Volpe, which highlights the challenges faced by nurses due to underfunded healthcare systems. The film follows a nurse named Floria, played by Leonie Benesch, as she navigates an overwhelming shift, showcasing the emotional and physical demands of the job. Volpe was inspired by her roommate and a book by a former care worker, aiming to depict the bravery and self-sacrifice of nurses. The film has sparked debates about healthcare policy and has been praised for its realistic portrayal of the nursing profession, with nurses themselves finding it deeply moving and relatable.
The author details the creation of a stable reinforcement learning training infrastructure capable of scaling across multiple GPUs for training long-horizon terminal-based coding agents. This project led to the development of Terminal-Agent-Qwen3-32b, which achieved the highest score for a Qwen3 agent on the terminal-bench benchmark without training. The project builds upon the rLLM framework, incorporating custom environments and infrastructure tailored for terminal-based agent training, and includes details on action-based architecture, reward design, and training configurations.
The author has been using XMPP with Snikket for all calls and chats with his wife, Sandra, for the past month. They switched from Matrix due to unreliability with audio and video. XMPP has proven to be reliable for voice, video, and messaging, including photo sharing. The author appreciates that their communications are encrypted and self-hosted on an Intel NUC.
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The article discusses a security check on raspberrypi.com. It seems the website needs to verify the user's connection before proceeding. The verification process involves ensuring the user is human. Enabling JavaScript and cookies is required to continue browsing the site.
In this article, the author discusses the inaccessibility of video games to newcomers and suggests four games as good entry points: Baba is You, Stardew Valley, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Balatro. The author provides descriptions of each game, explaining why they are fun and culturally meaningful, and includes a bit about each game's historical context. The author also touches on the genres of each game, such as Sokoban-style puzzles, farm sims, deduction games, and roguelikes, and recommends similar games for those who enjoy the featured titles. The author emphasizes that these games are enjoyable for non-gamers and showcase the creativity and storytelling potential of the medium.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to building effective SDKs, emphasizing their importance in simplifying API usage and improving developer experience. It explores the benefits of SDKs, such as conciseness, better documentation, robust error handling, and enhanced language feature utilization. The article also discusses various approaches to SDK development, from manual coding to using general-purpose generators, and highlights the significance of open-source SDKs for community collaboration and transparency. It touches on how SDKs can be leveraged by LLMs and the day-to-day responsibilities of an SDK maintainer.
OpenAI has introduced a new ChatGPT feature called "study mode," accessible via /study or chatgpt.com/studymode. This mode uses custom system instructions developed with educators to encourage active learning, manage cognitive load, and foster curiosity. The author explored the system prompt behind study mode, revealing guidelines for the AI to act as an approachable teacher, guide users through questions, and reinforce learning without doing the user's work. The author highlights the power of system prompts in creating new platform features.
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This article analyzes the collapse of Terra, confirming findings across exchanges and emphasizing the need for improved DeFi regulation. It highlights the risks stablecoins pose to systemic financial stability, particularly due to inadequate collateral and dependencies on liquidity providers. The research uses quantitative analysis and network analysis to understand the dynamics of the collapse, identifying key breakpoints and the role of Bitcoin. The findings suggest the necessity for global stablecoin standards and updated regulations to ensure transparency and risk management.
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