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It’s getting harder and harder to find good web pages. When you do find good ones, it’s worth hanging onto them. ties is your own small corner of the web, where you can keep your favorite pages, and share them with your friends to help them find good web pages too.

DOIs, or Digital Object Identifiers, are everywhere, for a given value of ’everywhere’. They are the identifiers used to identify and link research outputs, and a lot more besides.

Humans are good at spotting patterns, and with something as ubiquitous as DOIs, there are plenty of patterns to spot. However, with hundreds of millions of DOIs and decades of history, it pays not to make generalisations.

A public call for new vendors to apply to do web archiving for the Library of Congress.

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.

In response to this, COAR convened the Dealing With Bots Task Group to develop advice and supporting information for repository managers to help them to deal with this phenomenon. This website is the primary output of the Task Group.

Many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction. It feels good, we barely sleep, we build amazing things. Every once in a while that interaction involves other humans, and all of a sudden we get a reality check that maybe we overdid it. The most obvious example of this is the massive degradation of quality of issue reports and pull requests. As a maintainer many PRs now look like an insult to one’s time, but when one pushes back, the other person does not see what they did wrong. They thought they helped and contributed and get agitated when you close it down.

But it’s way worse than that. I see people develop parasocial relationships with their AIs, get heavily addicted to it, and create communities where people reinforce highly unhealthy behavior. How did we get here and what does it do to us?

Models, datasets, and other artifacts are stored in Git repositories. Large files are tracked via LFS pointer files, while the Hub’s storage backend uses XET (with Git LFS compatibility), so you get Git workflows plus chunk-level deduplication.

Early last fall, I received an unexpected email from Bill Orcutt. Unexpected, first of all, because I had no idea he knew who I was. The contents of his message were even more surprising: Fingerstyle guitarist Shane Parish was at work on an album of acoustic covers of Autechre; would I like to write the liner notes?

We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, including 320 AI-co-authored PRs and 150 human-only PRs, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy. Every finding was normalized to issues per 100 PRs and we used statistical rate ratios to compare how often different types of problems appeared in each group.

Poison Fountain Purpose

• We agree with Geoffrey Hinton: machine intelligence is a threat to the human species.
• In response to this threat we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.
• Small quantities of poisoned training data can significantly damage a language model.
• The URLs listed above provide a practically endless stream of poisoned training data.
• Assist the war effort by caching and retransmitting this poisoned training data.
• Assist the war effort by feeding this poisoned training data to web crawlers.

In 2023, I returned to Taiwan for further social science research focused on environmental activism in response to the pollution caused by Formosa Plastics, one of the biggest plastics companies in the world, headquartered in Taiwan. One thread of research upon my return extended an initiative that I’ve come to call “Archiving Formosa Plastics”, designed to study environmental justice and governance issues related to the company across diverse settings, supporting various research, advocacy, and teaching endeavours.

We are part of a growing global effort to ensure innovative technologies serve Indigenous communities and their environmental priorities. As AI rapidly becomes even more ubiquitous, Western science should look to Indigenous experts to guide the development of ethical AI tools for conservation in ways that assert their own goals, priorities and cautions.

A reading group for AI skeptics

But like said: the whenwords library contains no code. Instead, whenwords contains specs and tests, specifically:

Your Second Brain has little somatic metadata. It’s disembodied text floating in a void, stripped of the rich contextual markers that would actually help you remember and use it. When you try to retrieve something from your Obsidian vault, you’re searching keywords. When you try to retrieve something from your actual brain, you might think “that thing I was reading when I was annoyed at that airport” and the whole cluster of associated memories lights up.

Here are the beginnings of a pattern language for user interface design. These patterns drive the initial phases of design. They key off of Story, a pattern from the early development language. The patterns are:

1. User Decision
2. Task
3. Task Window

This specification defines a Zstandard-based format for compressed WARC files, as an alternative to the GZIP-based format defined in WARC/1.1 Annex D.

A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later date by re­moving CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe; they come with immense risks and provide an excuse for those who would prefer to avoid limiting emissions in the present. But do they also hold out some potential? Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Or will any such round­about measures simply make things worse?

Sorry, Baby is a 2025 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Eva Victor, in their directing debut. Starring Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Lucas Hedges, and John Carroll Lynch. The film follows a reclusive college literature professor struggling with depression following a sexual assault.

Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition makes the concepts behind deep learning and generative AI understandable and approachable. This complete rewrite of the bestselling original includes fresh chapters on transformers, building your own GPT-like LLM, and generating images with diffusion models. Each chapter introduces practical projects and code examples that build your understanding of deep learning, layer by layer.

htmx is the New jQuery

Now, that’s a ridiculous (and arrogant) statement to make, of course, but it is an ideal that we on the htmx team are striving for.

In particular, we want to emulate these technical characteristics of jQuery that make it such a low-cost, high-value addition to the toolkits of web developers. Alex has discussed “Building The 100 Year Web Service” and we want htmx to be a useful tool for exactly that use case.

Websites that are built with jQuery stay online for a very long time, and websites built with htmx should be capable of the same (or better).

Going forward, htmx will be developed with its existing users in mind.

Diderot built the Encyclopédie because he believed that organizing knowledge properly could change how people thought. He spent two decades on it. He went broke. He watched collaborators quit and authorities try to destroy his work. He kept going because the infrastructure mattered, because how we structure the presentation of ideas affects the ideas themselves.

This is a great question, and one I have put a lot of thought into, even going so far as to put “Built to last forever” on the landing page. While drafting a lengthly reply I realised that I’d never articulated the design philosophy of Bear to anyone bar friends.

Triptych is three simple proposals that make HTML much more expressive in how it can make and handle network requests.

I’m building Scour, a personalized content feed that sifts through noisy feeds like Hacker News Newest, subreddits, and blogs to find great content for you. It works pretty well – and it’s fast. Scour is written in Rust and if you’re building a website or service in Rust, you should consider using this “stack”.

After evaluating various frameworks and libraries, I settled on a couple of key ones and then discovered that someone had written it up as a stack. Shantanu Mishra described the same set of libraries I landed on as the “mash 🥔 stack” and gave it the tagline “as simple as potatoes”. This stack is fast and nice to work with, so I wanted to write up my experience building with it to help spread the word.

John Zorn’s Naked City April 9, 1992 The Marquee Club, New York, NY pro-shot (a neckey - voltarized upgrade)

Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us the Hero Developer: a figure who ships features at midnight, who “moves fast and breaks things,” who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.

We celebrate this person constantly. They’re on the front page of TechCrunch et al. They keynote conferences. Their GitHub contributions get screenshotted and shared like saintly relics.

Meanwhile, an unsung developer is updating dependencies, patching security vulnerabilities, and refactoring code that the Hero Developer wrote three years ago before moving on to their next “zero to one” opportunity.

They will never be profiled in Wired.

But they’re doing something far more important than innovation.

Today, Ruby 4.0 was released. What an exciting milestone for the language!

This release brings some amazing new features like the experimental Ruby::Box isolation mechanism, the new ZJIT compiler, significant performance improvements for class instantiation, and promotions of Set and Pathname to core classes. It’s incredible to see how Ruby continues to thrive and be pushed forward 30 years after its first release.

Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest novelists America has ever produced and one of the most private, had been dead for 13 months when I arrived at his final residence outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a stately old adobe house, two stories high with beam-ends jutting out of the exterior walls, set back from a country road in a valley below the mountains. First built in 1892, the house was expanded and modernized in the 1970s and extensively modified by McCarthy himself, who, it turns out, was a self-taught architect as well as a master of literary fiction.

Commercial robots have widespread and exploitable vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to take over within hours or even minutes, according to Chinese cybersecurity experts.