Phoenix.new is a fully online, browser-based AI coding agent environment tailored for Elixir and Phoenix, offering a VSCode-like interface and isolated Fly Machines for safe root shell access.
The system provides a headless browser for the agent to interact with apps in real time, enabling live previews, UI interaction, and JavaScript state inspection alongside server logs.
Agents can install OS packages, modify mix.exs, run and test code, deploy cloud-hosted apps with shareable URLs, and integrate with GitHub via the gh CLI.
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Infinite Mac can now run Mac OS X 10.1–10.3 in the browser via WebAssembly emulators.
The PearPC emulator was ported to WebAssembly, with video output, disk image loading, and input support working.
Performance was improved by adding caching optimizations, shaving about 15 seconds off boot time, though startup remains slow.
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Makefiles automate rebuilding parts of a project by tracking file dependencies and timestamps
A Makefile consists of rules with targets, prerequisites, and tab-indented commands
Running make without arguments builds the first target by default
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Hurl is a command-line tool to run and test HTTP requests defined in a plain text format.
It supports chaining requests, capturing response values, and asserting on status codes, headers, and body content using XPath, JSONPath, and more.
Works with REST, SOAP, GraphQL, HTML, XML, and JSON APIs, and can measure performance metrics like duration and response bytes.
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Kubernetes began as Google’s internal Borg system, became open source in 2014, and reached production maturity with v1.0 and CNCF in 2015.
It excels at scaling containers, offering declarative, self-healing infrastructure and shifting ops from server management to resource specifications.
Kubernetes jobs replaced ad hoc cron servers with reliable, restartable pods, improving automation and resource efficiency.
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Speaker claims to want to end homelessness but refuses to build homes or change zoning laws
Offers token charity and then boasts about it, avoiding visible suffering
Prioritizes property values and personal convenience over real housing solutions
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Provides a terminal-based real-time monitor for Claude AI token usage with automatic refresh.
Displays visual progress bars for token consumption and session time.
Predicts when tokens will run out based on current burn rate and issues warnings.
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ExTracker is an Elixir-based BitTorrent tracker released under the Apache-2.0 license.
It offers high performance using all CPU cores and low memory usage (~200MB per million peers) with zero setup.
Implements core BitTorrent Protocol (BEP 0) and several BEPs including UDP Tracker (BEP 15), compact peer lists (BEP 23), IPv6 extension (BEP 7), protocol v2 (BEP 52), and more.
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The site showcases a project for visualizing elliptic curves as art.
Developed by Nadir Hajouji and Steve Trettel.
The webpage is currently under construction.
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Scott Aaronson attended LessOnline, a rationalist conference in Berkeley, and valued the many small-group conversations over formal sessions.
He realized he already shared the rationalist outlook and formally embraced the identity of a Rationalist.
He discussed his earlier skepticism about the community’s focus on AI risk, which he now accepts after witnessing rapid AI advancements.
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