General AI News

Average rice price in Japan fell to ¥3,920 per 5 kg in mid-June.

The price dropped by ¥256 from the previous week, marking the fourth consecutive weekly decline.

The drop is the first to exceed ¥100 since March 2022.

Chris Crawford pursued computer games as genuine art from 1982, starting with Gossip and Excalibur games.

He built Erasmatron and later Storytron, software tools for creating interactive storyworlds, but neither gained users due to complexity and lack of market interest.

His Deikto technology allowed developers to create custom “toy languages” for character interaction in storyworlds.

Hooks are customizable shell commands that run at key points in Claude Code’s lifecycle to enforce deterministic behaviors.

Common use cases include notifications, automatic code formatting, command logging, feedback enforcement, and custom permission controls.

Hooks execute with full user permissions and can block or modify tool calls using exit codes or structured JSON output.

Daniel Xu discovered a large model train setup beneath his new Melbourne home.

The extensive hobby network was hidden in the undercroft and was not mentioned during the sale.

Xu is a train engineer and enthusiast who plans to restore and upgrade the vintage layout.

Datadog disclosed a non-recurring $65M upfront bill from Q1 2022, which was linked to a crypto customer.

The mystery customer was confirmed to be Coinbase, which incurred the $65M Datadog bill for its 2021 usage.

After cutting costs in early 2022, Coinbase built a Grafana/Prometheus/ClickHouse observability stack but returned to Datadog with a more favorable contract.

The goal is to build a local self-hosted photo library with automatic face recognition, AI-generated captions, and natural language semantic search while preserving privacy.

Immich is widely recommended for its mature open-source stack with Docker support and built-in AI features.

Photoprism offers good face recognition but suffers from performance and contributor bottlenecks.

Context Engineering extends beyond prompt engineering by supplying comprehensive context for LLM tasks.

The quality of context, not just model capability, determines the success of AI agents.

Context comprises system prompts, user requests, conversation history, long-term memory, retrieved data, tools, and output formats.

Proton has joined a class-action lawsuit against Apple to challenge its App Store policies harming developers and consumers.

The lawsuit seeks to end Apple’s anti-competitive 30% fees, restrictive payment rules, and censorship powers by enforcing policy changes.

Apple’s App Store practices force high fees on privacy-first apps, limit links to external sites, and degrade user and developer experience.

Introduces a novel method to implement type-safe generic data structures in C using unions to embed compile-time type information.

Outlines four levels of generic programming: macro-based header inclusion, void pointer storage, inline flexible array storage, and union-based type checking with __typeof__.

Demonstrates a union-based List(type) macro that enforces element type safety without runtime overhead.

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a spinning barrel control bug in the ZSNES emulator.

ZSNES fails to emulate SNES open bus behavior, causing reads from unmapped addresses to return zero.

The game code mistakenly uses an absolute AND $2000 read instead of an immediate AND #$2000.