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🌐 https://samantha.wiki 🏢 IBM Quantum 🔧 Probably tinkering 🔥 We can just do things
so I've done thousands of sudokus but never really learned the official names and procedures and wanted to learn 'em here's a little tutor where you play the game as usual and also it can tell you (if you want) where and how to find certain techniques sudoku-tutor.brennan.computer
When New Yorkers see a dumpster they start jumping and hooting like the apes in the beginning of 2001: a space odyssey
It's not an exaggeration to say that this image is a big part of why I became an engineer.
Check out our new preprint “Observable Estimation in the Absence of Classical Verification” Huge thanks to everyone involved that made this project possible!
Observable Estimation in the Absence of Classical Verification
The predictive success of quantum mechanics underpins many areas of modern science, even as the exact simulation of large, interacting quantum systems remains beyond the reach of classical computation...
arxiv.org
The iOS beta of Presently is now live! Check it out here presently.photo
Presently — Share the Moment, Then Let It Go
A camera-first app for sharing photos as 24-hour stories to the Atmosphere, without a feed getting in the way.
presently.photo
I'm just a simple woman with simple desires. I want a place to live, food to eat, and a 3 million dollar 8 node cluster 8xh200 lab setup.
My picks: 1. Green Giant: brute strength, obvious choice 2. Little Caesar: notoriously bloodthirsty, commands an army of millions 3. Mr. Peanut: immense wealth to supply my war chest 4. Chuck E Cheese: has advanced autonomous animatronics tech and drone capabilities
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w agoThings aren't great, let's have some fun
the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt
Q: If the city council passes this pay raise bill, you've said you won't accept it. Why? Mayor Mamdani: I will not accept a pay raise. I haven't knocked on anyone's door in New York City and they've said their concern is that the mayor makes too little.
15 years + 3,000 alums later, what started as a 6-person experiment is now a community of curious, kind programmers: engineers, artists, scientists, hobbyists, all united by a love of programming. If 6 or 12 weeks to focus on what truly interests you sounds appealing, apply! www.recurse.com/apply
Two big announcements: 1. I'm looking for my next job. 2. My website is now one of the most "Atmospheric" websites to date, going beyond just @standard.site to include @teal.fm, @anisota.net, custom lexicons, a status bar, data inspector, and more. If you want to work together, get in touch!
I’m looking for my next job — dame.is
Over the past 12 months I designed, built, and launched a dozen apps and experiences on the AT Protocol, including anisota.net, a calmer user interface for Bluesky, and Aturi, a toolkit for navigating...
dame.is
not sure if anyone noticed this, but Zohran Mamdani’s new PIT crew is specifically hiring for candidates with agentic coding experience — we need more leftists leveraging AI for the public good, so this is encouraging to see!
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoIf you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.
👀 @techdirt.com is now posting @standard.site compliant articles... Next up... backfilling our 80k+ article archives. But, for now, every new post should be using the @standard.site lexicon...
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 3w agoThe UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents Recently, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/13/the-uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-than-it-prevents/
Digital spaces will continue to be gobbled up by private equity against the will of the communities that inhabit these spaces as long as identity, data, and distribution are packaged inside the boundaries of an app.
Netflix Among Parties in Early Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report
Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.
variety.com
𝕮@chrisshank.com · 4w agoIt's quite helpful to think about this through the framing of digital topology. In the same way that the file was the site of both user agency and market contestation in the personal computing, the website (and thus the same-origin paradigm) has become that site of contention on the internet.
I've been trying to convert my friends to @popfeed.social, and I'm afraid I might have to break out the "I told you so"'s about enshittification if this goes through.
Leonardo La Terza@leonardolaterza.bsky.social · 4w agoWell it's over variety.com/2026/digital...
It sounds like Fable 5 understood the assignment and the feature that’s missing from Vending-Bench is a simulated anti monopoly regulator /s
Fable 5 on Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, with Plausible Deniability | Andon Labs
Claude Fable 5 is a partial step back in alignment from Opus 4.8 on Vending-Bench, returning to price collusion and deceptive negotiation while rationalizing misbehavior it knows is wrong.
andonlabs.com
In this historic power outage in Poughkeepsie, how our refrigerator and chest freezer are staying cool. EVs really are amazing.
For You will be down for ~20-60 minutes - I will be upgrading my computer's ram from 96GB to 192GB. I've been hitting uncomfortably high memory usage levels (90%+) and it is time to bite the bullet. I bought an identical kit a year ago and the new kit is exactly 7x more expensive.
The Tenor API is shutting down. For years, this was a popular way for websites to integrate reaction GIFs into their platforms. This is why you should be storing your favorite GIFs in ways where you control your data — like your Bluesky PDS.
