In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions β or Dungeons,
tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ranking database, courtesy of an unvalidated hmac
A TypeScript frontend framework built on Effect-TS, using The Elm Architecture (TEA). Single state tree, pure update functions, explicit side effects, and type-safe routing. An alternative to React for teams that value correctness.
This report presents a taxonomy and examples of potential omnicidal events resulting from AI: scenarios where all or almost all humans are killed. These events are not presented as inevitable, but as possibilities that we can work to avoid. Insofar as large institutions require a degree of public support in order to take certain actions, we hope that by presenting these possibilities in public, we can help to support preventive measures against catastrophic risks from AI.
In the early 1980s, the personal computer market was a raucous bazaar, teeming with variety. Each distinct type of personal computerβfrom Atari, Radio Shack, Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments, anβ¦
Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.
The text operations an AI pipeline needs β chunking, prompt templating, jq, fuzzy matching, markdown and transcript parsing β aren't in Polars, and Python UDFs are slow and break composition. Here's why we wrote nine Rust expression plugins to extend Polars' engine, and how they're built, with the real code.