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The findings could explain why some people are more susceptible to cancer than others in the same environment and suggest that future cancer prevention and screening strategies may need to account more carefully for inherited genetics and population diversity.The…

Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.

You have a large Parquet file and an API that has to return its contents, but responses have a size ceiling, so the caller pages through it. LIMIT/OFFSET is the obvious way to write that and it is the wrong one. I measured file_row_number against it: 2.53x…

From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.

Most tools that run AI coding agents in parallel give each one a git worktree. A worktree shares refs, config, stash and hooks with your real repository. Paste-and-run repros showing an agent can execute code in your main repo and rewrite your commit identity…

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

Three years ago, I gave an informal talk to my colleagues, suggesting that we were living in the Dumey microsecond when it would still be possible for the mathematical community to throw its weight

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.

Releasing pgrust v0.2. This is the fast version of pgrust, our Postgres rewrite from C to Rust. pgrust v0.2 is faster than Postgres and Clickhouse.
Performance
Measured on c8g.4xlarge (AWS Graviton...

Switch between isolated Claude Code accounts on Linux without logging in again. - hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account

Agents mostly avoid the interface — burning trillion-scale reasoning to work around clicks that don't generalize to real GUI work.

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a…

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.

This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.

When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more…

If an agent had a wallet, a computer, and 24 hours, could it run a profitable startup?

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…

Grafana AI SDK for Go — streaming, tool-calling AI backends that speak fluent @ai-sdk/react - grafana/ai-sdk

Lessons learned from scaling Postgres-backed durable queues for users running tens of billions of workflows per month.