Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause.

Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted…

| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.

l3a0's Claude Code plugin marketplace — kindle-highlights: verbatim Kindle highlight extraction with truncation recovery - l3a0/claude-plugins

Something weird has been happening on China’s internet. One small and vocal corner has been claiming the country’s most famous historical dynasty never existed.

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After…

Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. - murerkinn/bookshelf

Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian thugs. His case is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian regime to silence its detractors.

3.8 million AI agent instruction files on GitHub, read by a model that speaks every language. So why are 85.3% of them in English, and what is changing?

Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters

Self-guided agents that think continuously

A menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you worked on. - dragthelake/ambient-context

World Journal of Pediatrics - Screen viewing time is associated with children’s academic and cognitive outcomes, but longitudinal studies are scarce, hindering identification of the most...

Tips are central to US dining culture but some eateries think that they are unfair.

The world's first quantum battery prototype is here and it has some bizarre properties. Could these devices one day power quantum computing – or even your phone?

The smallest possible complete Windows application - PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly

OpenAI announced today that it is restoring a five-hour limit on Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers. Here are the details.