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635 points by vrganj · 296 comments
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pj_mukh: As someone who works in this space, the headline is a bit of a stretch. The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?).
ccppurcell: If you are looking for something to channel that energy into, you could help improve open street map using streetcomplete: https://streetcomplete.app/
relyks: I stopped scanning pokestops because the effort has outweighed the rewards. A lot of the time, the requests show up as "research tasks" for a point of interest that I quickly passed by and have no interest in returning to, besides the tasks related to taking pictures of your budd...
adrianhon: This article is based on reporting from Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/redactie/PokemonGo/ I was interviewed for the Trouw piece and briefly quoted. This isn't to detract from the DroneXL piece, which adds its own angle.
566 points by mikemcquaid · 138 comments
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvemen...
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hk__2: Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!
PufPufPuf: I have switched my full OS-level dev env to https://mise.jdx.dev/ from Homebrew+pipx+npm, initially as an experiment but found out that it actually works amazingly well. Many things get installed directly from GitHub releases or a corresponding package manager (uv, pnpm, go get .
vitorsr: Thanks for all the hard work. We are not many [1], but Homebrew has been a great way to quickly bootstrap an environment in immutable Linux distributions. Note that certain operating systems such as Universal Blue's Bazzite (1.28%), Bluefin (0.49%) and Aurora (0.
petetnt: Homebrew 6.0.0 seems to be the first major version of brew that is heavily written using AI. There’s new document at https://docs.brew.sh/Responsible-AI-Usage that was added 11 hours ago. Do you think that these guidelines have been followed consistently since 5.0.0?
332 points by apeters · 180 comments
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tdesilva: Good, coding harnesses should be open source and LLMs should be treated as commodities. Minimize switching costs for consumers, and let people understand how they're interacting with the context and the LLM outputs.
GodelNumbering: > MiMoCode is built as a fork of OpenCode. It keeps all core OpenCode capabilities (multiple providers, TUI, LSP, MCP, plugins) and adds persistent memory, intelligent context management, subagent orchestration, goal-driven autonomous loops, compose workflows, and self-improvemen...
adi2907: What a transformation by Xiaomi to build almost frontier level models. Five years back, when I was in the data science team, they dint really bother about AI models and were using Baidu for NLP and vision under the hood of their APIs
Alifatisk: Xiaomi have been cooking a lot in recent times. Their model, especially the pro series, is underrated in my opinion. It haven't received the attention it deserves while it is pushing higher and higher in benchmark scores (looking at artifical analysis), and this was before Deepse...
309 points by RyeCombinator · 203 comments
A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.
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getnormality: This weird trend reached an apex in a Feb 2026 OpenAI blog post [1], recently on the front page [2], which describes the process for building... something... written 100% by agents. There is no description of what the thing is, no indication of what value it provides its users.
sunaurus: I'm constantly thinking about that Microsoft guy who posted something like "we want 1 million LoC per engineer per month", which basically read as satire to most engineers I talked to, except apparently it was not satire at all, and indeed seemed to reflect the position of many C...
hbn: > When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, I want to see the evidence - and I don’t believe it exists today. Because they're bullshitting and using AI as an excuse to correct from their covid era over-hiring while simultaneously making them...
SCdF: It is endlessly... amusing (?) to me, that we as a community spent decades trying to make it clear that our productivity is not easily measured because what we're doing is complicated and long running, only for AI to come along and suddenly LoC, Nx multipliers, tickets / week etc...
305 points by neilfrndes · 133 comments
Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
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xnx: +1 to the Guardian for mentioning their data source, but -1 for not linking to it. +2 for EMBER for having a data source AND being able to link to the parameters that show solar overtaking coal for the month in the US. https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent.
SoftTalker: This is more from a lot of coal power plants being converted to gas over the past 20 years than solar overtaking the outputs of those power plants. Coal output shrinking, solar output rising, the lines have crossed.
Torkel: The growth of solar is astounding. I dug into data a while back and tried to do some visualizations of it, mainly for my own understanding: https://torkeldanielsson.se/solar-energy-forecasts/ Solar is already by far our cheapest source of energy.
harmmonica: Question for those in the know... See lots of press about balcony solar in Germany, and California recently introduced a bill to allow it (I'm guessing other states already allow it; not sure if the CA bill has a chance of becoming law).
254 points by Sukram21 · 79 comments
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wiseowise: > I also believe that being too helpful leaves you vulnerable to predators. Tech companies are full of people who want to extract uncompensated work from software engineers4.
singpolyma3: This is mostly all true. At my last corporate job I definitely did this and it was very good for my career. It also made me hate my life.
hintymad: > Second, preventing or mitigating an incident early (even by just knowing the right feature flag to turn off) can save huge amounts of money: both immediate lost revenue during the incident and future lost revenue from customers who would have pulled their business or refused to...
macNchz: I’ve had a half-written blog post in this vein for a while now using a fantasy RPG analogy: if you play a character that uses mana in any of these games, you’ll learn fairly quickly that using it all up all the time on trivial battles and running around empty leaves you with none...
214 points by hmokiguess · 79 comments
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fidotron: While deeply unlikely to change anything it really is important as much noise is made about this as possible. On top of this will be C-34 which is just full no privacy anymore territory https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/everything-all-at-once-b...
EmbarrassedHelp: There will be a SECU Committee meeting on C-22 later today, where the committee will be performing a clause by clause review of Bill C-22, and voting on amendments. It may be the final meeting.
theeyescanner: I made my petition in April 2025. I was genuinely surprised that my riding was fooled by Liberal lies, but I'm not surprised about the result. Liberal, Tory, same old story.
208 points by rarisma · 235 comments
Anthropic said users ‘should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why.’
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Sol-: This has dampened my opinion on Anthropic quite a bit. It's difficult to take their marketing for AI as an empowering technology seriously when they are quite clear in their new deployments that they do not mean empowering for you, but empowering for them and organizations that a...
Avicebron: I like Claude Code a lot, I think it sets a dangerous precedent to put guardrails in that return a response from a prompt that was modified by the system in real time in order to subvert the original intent. Fail cleanly. Anything else makes it too difficult to rely on.
HarHarVeryFunny: I suppose it's an improvement, but it doesn't make the model any more useful. Anthropic are now being quite explicit that they'll choose what you can and can't use their models for, and most importantly that's not limited to any safety concerns - it includes not allowing you to w...
accelbred: I don't think they can convince me they have actually reversed course on this. Its invisible so we wouldn't know if they kept on doing it secretly. It required building out technical capability which is unlikely to remain forever unused while conveniently available to them.
170 points by GTP · 37 comments
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pwnguide: This is genuinely one of the best tools to emerge in the OpenStreetMap ecosystem in recent years. If you've ever tried to onboard a non-technical person to OSM, you know the struggle.
nisiddharth: I use this app fairly regularly to locate public toilets (I walk 15-20 km daily in random directions after getting down a random bus stop in my city) and have contributed some locations as well.
voidUpdate: I opened this up, and immediately saw a contribution I could make. Created an OSM account and fixed it =)
pietervdvn: Hi all! MapComplete creator here! If you have any questions, shoot!
160 points by yogthos · 15 comments
Fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1. Contribute to huggingface/open-r1 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tiberium: Last update over a year ago, so I hope (2025) gets added to the title: > [2025/05/26] (Step 1 completed!) We release Mixture-of-Thoughts--a curated reasoning dataset of 350k verified traces distilled from R1.
aesthesia: If you really want to see fully open training pipelines for modern LLMs, Olmo and to a lesser extent Nemotron are what you should look at. https://github.com/allenai/OLMo https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron
madiator: Check out OpenThoughts. It has a widely used dataset, a model that beats the deepseek's smaller reasoning models, and a paper that talks in detail about the data curation methodology. https://www.open-thoughts.ai/
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