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I feel the rapid progress of LLM capability means that building software is shifting away from implementation and toward discernment. The challenge is becoming less about how software is built, but about what is built and how it is presented.

It becomes a question of taste. LLMs create exceptionally generic and inconsistent designs in the absence of curated references.

FontofWeb grounds AI in real production websites. It draws from a crowd-sourced search engine of over 1,000 live sites, extracting proven color and typography combinations, along with layout and styling patterns that already work in context.

This is available through a free public MCP service.

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_injection

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Article URL: https://www.clawcloud.dev/

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Article URL: https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com

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Article URL: https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM

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I enjoy using Codeforces for competitive programming — the problems and community are great.

However, the site is often very slow:

- During contests, the site can become extremely slow or even crash.

- The rating page (filtering by country, organization, etc.) can be laggy and prone to crashing.

I’m curious whether this is mainly a scaling issue, an infrastructure limitation, or something specific to how Codeforces handles contests and ratings.

It’s understandable that contests can crash under high user load, but Codeforces has been around for over 16 years — why hasn’t this been improved?

Thanks!

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An inquest heard today that there were major issues with the system used to by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to record information reported by the public

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Feb. 17, No. 512.

Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Feb. 17 #982

Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for Feb. 17, No. 1,704.

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Feb. 17, No. 716.

This post is about the brute-force reverse engineering of binary (compiled) programs using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate this two-part problem: decompilation and conversion to a modern programming language.

The most interesting part for most will likely be the demonstration on how to use differential-property testing to automate the LLM feedback loop for the rewrite (translation) phase (in this case to rewrite to Rust).

This that I believe would solve the 'rewrite issues' discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954696

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Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12woq_BpFbzLkH4zHvVRJLPyiZGoDVDxA/edit

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Hi HN,

I’ve been building a small infrastructure tool called Provisioner: a per-board provisioning sidecar for SBC bring-up and lab automation. https://github.com/alessandrocarminati/provisioner

The model is simple: one instance per board. It sits next to the hardware, owns the serial console, exposes access over SSH, and serves boot artifacts (kernel, initramfs, rootfs) via TFTP/HTTP. It’s designed for the phase where networking is unreliable, storage is half-flashed, and UART is the only thing still telling the truth.

What it does

- Serial console ownership + SSH multiplexing - Monitor shell + serial tunnels - Scriptable boot interaction - Artifact provisioning (TFTP + HTTP) - In-band file transfer over serial - gzip/base64 hacks + XMODEM - Derived from my earlier send_console-ng utility https://github.com/alessandrocarminati/send_file-ng - Pluggable power control - SNMP PDUs, among others cheap ESP8266/Tasmota devices - Serial logging - Lightweight access control

Provisioner also embeds a minimal init runtime (goinit) inside the kernel initramfs, acting as its on-board provisioning agent, handling flashing, artifact retrieval, and reporting management state back over serial.

Routing & stream handling

Internally, Provisioner routes serial traffic through a pluggable router:

- Producers/consumers attach as components - Human vs machine clients handled differently - Unicast control sessions - Broadcast multiplexing to multiple observers

This allows several users or services to watch the same console without interfering.

Filters

A filter subsystem can intercept and modify serial streams on the fly.

Originally added to mitigate ANSI Device Status Reports (e.g. Cursor Position Report issues) when tunneling serial consoles, but it doubles as a general stream rewriting mechanism for automation and normalization.

Positioning

Not trying to replace large systems like LAVA.

This is aimed at:

- Homelabs - Bring-up benches - Kernel/BSP work - Small shared labs

Think lab automation you can deploy in an afternoon, not fleet orchestration.

Project is still evolving but already in daily use. Feedback and abuse welcome.

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Article URL: https://corbt.com/posts/a-pocket-guide-to-surviving-the-robot-apocalypse/

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11238

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Article URL: https://github.com/sunergos-ro/scrappy

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