1. Jellyfin LLM/“AI” Development Policy
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The Jellyfin project warns that AI tools have increased contributions and scrutiny, and they’ve issued guidelines to preserve code quality. LLM output may not be used for direct communication in official contributions; translations with LLMs are allowed only if disclosed. LLM-assisted coding is permitted only when the result is your own clear work; “pure vibe coding” will be rejected and poor code will be discarded. Rules cover all official Jellyfin projects; LLMs may be used for non-official projects but must be shared under the rules. The golden rule: don’t commit LLM-generated code as-is.
2. How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
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- Main point: The comment argues that the content feels like marketing and that there are better alternatives elsewhere.
- Concern: The concern is that it may be marketing in disguise, which could mislead readers or undermine credibility.
- Perspectives: The perspective expressed is skeptical of marketing tactics and favors other options.
- Overall sentiment: Skeptical
3. Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
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Mousefood is an embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui designed for no-std environments. It supports fonts (default uses embedded-graphics-unicodefonts for a wide glyph set; fonts can be disabled to save space; ibm437 is an alternative). Bold/italic are available via EmbeddedBackendConfig; fonts must be the same size. Colors can be remapped with color_theme, with ANSI as the default palette. It includes ready-made color themes and can run in a simulator (embedded-graphics-simulator). EPD support for Waveshare and WeAct Studio is available via epd-waveshare and epd-weact. Build with opt-level=3 for speed. Docs on docs.rs; contributions welcome; dual Apache 2.0/MIT license.
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- Main point: The discussion centers on bringing Ratatui to embedded hardware via a no-std embedded-graphics backend (Mousefood) and evaluating hardware support and cross‑platform viability while noting font/display limitations.
- Concern: A key worry is that embedded-graphics bitmap fonts lack sufficient glyphs (box-drawing, Braille, etc.), making many Ratatui widgets unusable on embedded displays.
- Perspectives: Opinions range from excitement about a Rust-only embedded solution and live demos to questions about performance, comparisons to C/C++, async compatibility, and specific display support.
- Overall sentiment: Cautiously optimistic
4. Airfoil (2024)
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Aircraft fly due to lift generated by air flowing over wing airfoils; the wing’s shape and orientation steer the airflow to keep the plane aloft. Since air is invisible, the article uses visual tools: bending grass blades, arrows showing local flow speed and direction, and lightweight markers carried by the wind. A gray cube experiment with time sliders demonstrates how velocity fields vary in space and time. The goal is to build intuition about how air moves around flying objects and how visualization reveals the underlying physics.
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- Main point: AeroSandbox is highly praised for powerful aerodynamic simulations and optimization, along with acclaimed educational explainers and the potential of AI to democratize aerodynamics learning.
- Concern: The main worry is accessibility for non-experts, since the tool targets aerodynamics specialists rather than general programmers.
- Perspectives: Viewpoints range from enthusiastic endorsements of AeroSandbox and Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explanations to calls for more funding and more such educational content, with optimism about AI-generated explainers.
- Overall sentiment: Extremely positive
5. Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby’s poisoning?
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In 2005 Toronto, 11-day-old Tariq Jamieson died from codeine/morphine poisoning via breast milk after his mother, Rani, took Tylenol-3 (codeine/acetaminophen). Pediatric toxicologist Gideon Koren of the Motherisk program linked the death to maternal genetics: Rani had three copies of the gene that converts codeine to morphine, causing high morphine levels in milk. Tariq’s blood contained 70 ng/mL morphine and his mother’s milk 87 ng/mL. The case revealed pharmacogenetic risks of codeine in breastfeeding and prompted reevaluation of guidelines. Tariq’s death was ruled non-accidental.
6. Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
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The article reviews Oban-py, the Python implementation of Elixir’s Oban, comparing OSS and Pro. Like Oban, it uses the database for jobs, supports transactions, cron, and stores completed jobs. OSS has limits lifted in Pro, which adds workflows, relay, unique jobs, and smart concurrency. How it works: inserting a job puts it in oban_jobs with state ‘available’ and triggers NOTIFY. Nodes wake Stagers; producers fetch with FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED to avoid duplicates, then dispatch jobs as async tasks (or multiprocessing pools in Pro). The executor runs the worker, then completion triggers an ack. Loops and leader election coordinate clustering.
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- Main point: Discussion centers on Oban, a PostgreSQL-backed job queue for Elixir, its Pro features, and how it compares to multi-language approaches like Faktory/Sidekiq, including OSS vs paid features.
- Concern: The main worry is that gating core features behind a paid Pro tier could deter adoption, hinder OSS accessibility, and complicate production decisions.
- Perspectives: Views range from praise for Oban’s database-backed durability and Elixir fit to criticism of Pro-tier gating, plus interest in language-agnostic designs like Faktory and comparisons with Celery/Temporal.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
7. Android’s desktop interface leaks
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Google’s Chromium bug report leaked Android’s first desktop interface for Chrome, shown running on an HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook (Brya/Redrix) with Android 16 and Aluminum OS (ALOS) build ZL1A.260119.001.A1. Chrome dev builds shown are 145.0.7587.4 (before) and 146.0.7634.0 (after). The UI features a taller, large-screen–optimized status bar (time with seconds, date, battery, Wi‑Fi, notifications, language, Gemini, screen recorder), a desktop taskbar, a modified cursor, split-screen multitasking, and ChromeOS-like window chrome; Extensions appear desktop‑only.
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- Main point: Discussion about ChromeOS/Android convergence for desktop use, weighing potential affordability and cross-device usability against privacy, ownership, and openness concerns.
- Concern: Privacy invasion and loss of software freedom due to a locked-down, data-driven ecosystem.
- Perspectives: Views range from hopeful that Android on a big screen could replace laptops for budget users and education, to skeptical that it will diminish desktop freedom or become a surveillance-heavy platform.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
8. Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection
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Computer History Museum launched OpenCHM, a digital portal providing global access to its archive, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and other donors. Built with KeepThinking on the Qi collection management system, OpenCHM accompanies ongoing digitization and adds digital storytelling and discovery tools to bring the history of technology to scholars and the public. CHM President Marc Etkind says OpenCHM aims to inspire discovery and accessibility, while Janet Coffey of the Moore Foundation praises the design and openness as a model for sharing collections.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The thread is a broadly positive discussion about the Computer History Museum (CHM), its online portal, and its exhibits, with attendees sharing personal experiences.
- Concern: A concern raised is that CHM’s collection and framing are heavily Silicon Valley-focused and may underrepresent alternative architectures and broader historical perspectives.
- Perspectives: Viewpoints range from enthusiastic praise and personal anecdotes to thoughtful critique about bias and representation.
- Overall sentiment: Mostly positive with caveats
9. Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
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Trinity Large is a 400B sparse MoE with 13B active parameters per token, using 256 experts and 4 active per token; dense layers were increased to 6 for routing stability. Trained on 2048 Nvidia B300 GPUs, the 17T-token pretraining finished in about 33 days across 10T/4T/3T phases, with over 8 trillion synthetic tokens curated by DatologyAI. Three variants are shipped: Trinity-Large-Preview (lightly post-trained, chat-ready), Trinity-Large-Base (best pretraining checkpoint after the 17T recipe), and TrueBase (early 10T checkpoint without instruct data or LR anneals). Frontier-level performance and 2-3x faster throughput via sparsity and optimized routing.
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- Main point: Discussion evaluating a 400B sparse MoE model, hardware feasibility, openness of the release, and progress relative to other LLMs.
- Concern: Whether sparse MoE truly reduces RAM requirements or still requires the full model in memory, and what “open” actually entails.
- Perspectives: Viewpoints range from skepticism about Maverick in comparisons, to excitement about a true-base model for research, to admiration for rapid training and progress, and to questions about the scope of openness.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed, with cautious optimism.
10. The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory
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Glowforge CEO argues that as software costs deflate, teams should defer human hours to cheaper AI, but real value comes from moving beyond basic AI-assisted coding. He maps five automation tiers to coding, inspired by driving automation levels: Level 0 manual (your code is still your responsibility); Level 1 AI handles discrete tasks (tests, docs); Level 2 AI-native pairing (collaborative coding, high velocity); Level 3 AI as manager (human reviews countless diffs); Level 4 AI-driven PM (specs, plans, testing); Level 5 dark factory where AI turns specs into software with minimal human involvement.
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- Main point: The discussion centers on the viability and hype of AI-generated code and dark software factories, stressing concerns about long-term maintenance, reliability, and real-world usability versus initial promises.
- Concern: The primary worry is that without sustained maintenance and credible funding, AI-driven projects will be unreliable or abandoned, rendering early work wasted.
- Perspectives: Some argue that AI code only gains real value after years of maturation and stable stewardship, others point to small, capable teams producing convincing demos while doubting overall reliability and business viability, and a subset finds the dark factory idea fascinating but criticizes hype and practicality.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed