2025-08-02

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

Paul Bloom explores the promise and perils of A.I. companionship, discussing books by Sam Carr, Susan Cain, Kaitlyn Creasy, Fay Alberti, and others.

Google reCAPTCHA now passes, high refresh rate rendering, HTTP/3 support, Trusted Types progress, @property work and UTF-16 correctness fixes.

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious impact of this decision), on the grounds that UCLA was “failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias”. One can certainly debate whether these grounds were justified, or whether they merit the extremely draconian damage to the very research environment that this decision is claiming to protect, but if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature; for instance, there appears to have been no good faith effort by the administration to receive a response from UCLA to its allegations before implementing its decision.

The suspension of my personal grant has a non-trivial impact on myself (in particular, my summer salary, which I had already deferred in order to allow the previously released NSF funds to support several of my graduate students over this period, is now in limbo), and now gives me almost no resources to support my graduate students going forward; but this is only a fraction of a percent of the entire amount being suspended. A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/, which despite receiving preliminary approval earlier this year for a new five-year round of funding (albeit at significantly reduced levels) from the NSF, now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted. (1/4)

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

How I used a compressed trie data structure to encode Icelandic declension data.

Major Australian tech company Atlassian has terminated 150 staff with a pre-recorded video, as the company pushes its AI-embedded customer contact solutions.

After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortController to ensure only the most recent search query returns results, I made the search experience crisper and more responsive across their 30,000+ documentation

While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…

Cerebras Code：发布高速AI编程服务计划

Cerebras 推出两个全新计划，旨在提供更快速、更便捷的AI编程体验：Cerebras Code Pro（50美元/月）和 Code Max（200美元/月）。两项计划均提供对Qwen3-Coder的访问，该模型是世界领先的开源编码模型。

核心优势

• 极速生成：代码生成速度高达2,000 tokens/秒，显著减少等待时间，尤其在多步骤编辑、工具调用等代理式工作流中保持流畅。
• 强大模型支持：Qwen3-Coder是阿里云推出的旗舰编码代理模型（480B参数），在多项编码基准测试中表现优异，性能可与Claude Sonnet 4和GPT-4.1相媲美。
• 灵活兼容：支持任何兼容OpenAI API端点的AI集成开发环境（IDE）或工具，如Cursor、Continue.dev等，无需额外设置。
• 无限制访问：无IDE锁定，无每周使用限制。

计划详情

• Cerebras Code Pro（50美元/月）

  • 适用于独立开发者、简单代理工作流及个人项目。
  • 每日可发送最多2,400万 tokens（约支持3-4小时不间断编程）。

• Cerebras Code Max（200美元/月）

  • 适用于全职开发、IDE集成、代码重构及多代理系统。
  • 每日可发送最多1.2亿 tokens。

获取方式

两项计划即日起可用，无需等待列表。用户可直接注册，获取API密钥并集成到现有编程工具中即可开始使用。

*注：所有流量限制均可能调整。

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-taking-steps-to-open-sourcing-windows-11-user-interface-framework/

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technology/ai-researchers-nba-stars.html

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incredibly powerful.

Interview: We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations

Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes:

AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766771

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/01/trump-firing-bureau-labor-statistics-chief-jobs-report-00488960

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching.

This is a joint proposal from: @AaronBallman, @shafik, @Endill, and @cor3ntin (with helpful input from others!) Safety and security of C and C++ programs has been an important issue in the ecosystem for a while. Both WG…

My experience with my father's long-term care insurance company has not been an easy one. But I've learned quite a few lessons.

Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.

Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Yuxing Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

该项目展示了WebGPU技术如何在浏览器中实现本地大语言模型的推理，无需服务器支持。以下是核心要点：

技术原理与优势

• 本地运行：模型完全在用户浏览器中运行，无需将数据发送至后端服务器，增强了隐私保护。
• WebGPU加速：利用现代浏览器支持的WebGPU API进行硬件加速计算，相比WebGL或纯CPU执行，能显著提升AI模型的推理性能。
• 零服务器成本：所有计算负载均由客户端承担，开发者无需维护昂贵的GPU服务器。

演示站点功能

• AI聊天：提供交互式聊天界面，用户可直接与本地运行的LLM进行多轮对话。
• 模型选择：支持切换不同的本地模型（如Phi-2、TinyLlama-1.1B等），展示不同模型的性能差异。
• 性能指标：界面显示模型加载时间、每秒Token数等关键性能指标。

技术实现

• 前端框架：使用SvelteKit构建演示界面。
• 核心推理库：依赖Transformers.js库（由Hugging Face开发）来加载和运行模型。
• WebGPU后端：通过WebGPU后端执行矩阵运算，实现高效推理。

运行要求与限制

• 浏览器支持：需要支持WebGPU的浏览器，如最新版的Chrome（版本113+）、Edge或Opera。
• 硬件要求：用户设备需具备兼容WebGPU的显卡及驱动。
• 初始加载：首次使用需下载较大体积的模型文件（例如Phi-2模型约2GB），可能需要较长时间。

意义 该演示验证了WebGPU在浏览器端执行复杂AI任务（如LLM推理）的可行性，为构建完全本地化、隐私优先的Web应用开辟了新途径。

Coffeematic PC is an absurd, fully functional gaming computer built inside a 1980s GE coffee maker by artist Doug MacDowell. Discover its lineage, specs, and exhibition history.

Self-signed JWTs are the future of auth.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/researchers-map-where-solar-energy-delivers-biggest-climate-payoff

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766031

OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX

A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated, another potential tool in the fight against misinformation.

https://twey.io/hci/svalboard/

Build deep agents that plan and execute complex tasks over longer time horizons. Learn the architecture behind Deep Research and Claude Code.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

In a rare interview, a former North Korean IT worker reveals the secret scheme raising funds for Kim Jong Un’s regime.

John Hersey’s 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.

url.town is a web directory curated by the omg.lol community.

https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-or-microproses-last-hurrah/

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