What if reality is a simulated dream?
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What if reality is a simulated dream?

Can your brain distinguish reality from a dream? Explore the psychology of lucid dreaming, déjà vu, and the possibility of simulated reality.
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Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel

Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led […]
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Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75

Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
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Estimating Browser Frame Cadence with requestAnimationFrame—Without Overclaiming

A number such as “144 Hz” looks authoritative. In a browser, the important question is: what produced that number? A JavaScript animation callback, an operating-system display setting, and a physical panel measurement describe different parts of the rendering pipeline. Treating them as interchangeable produces misleading diagnostics. Disclosure: this article is published for the DisplayCheck project and was generated with AI assistance. The examples below are educational code, not a clai...
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48-Hour Field Notes: I Replayed a Generated Migration Twice and the Row Counts Moved

48-Hour Field Notes: I Replayed a Generated Migration Twice and the Row Counts Moved A generated backfill script looked clean in review on Monday morning, and by Wednesday it had already been applied twice against a staging copy of real shapes. The first pass rewrote 412,318 rows, and the second pass rewrote the same rows again on top of the result. Nobody had lost production data, but only because that staging database was scheduled to be destroyed that same afternoon. So I blocked two days...
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How TokenCap Turns Scattered TODO Comments into an Actionable Debt Ledger

Almost every production codebase is littered with comments like // TODO: handle error retry or // FIXME: memory leak under load . Over time, they become invisible noise. In TokenCap, we built src/debt/ledger.js to catalog and prioritize technical debt automatically. How the Debt Ledger Operates Tokenizer Scan: Scans source lines for standard debt prefixes ( TODO , FIXME , HACK , DEBT , OPTIMIZE ). Git Metadata Anchoring: Runs local git blame to capture the origina...
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Building a Smart Task Management REST API with Node.js and Express

Building a Smart Task Management REST API with Node.js and Express Introduction REST APIs are an important part of modern web development because they allow applications to communicate with servers and exchange data efficiently. One practical way to understand backend development is by building a task management REST API using Node.js and Express. This project demonstrates how to organize backend functionality, manage tasks, authenticate users, and handle HTTP requests. ...
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Nginx reverse proxy + HTTPS in 5 minutes (video + every command)

I recorded a short walkthrough of putting Nginx in front of an app and getting a free Let's Encrypt certificate onto it. Everything in the video runs on a real Ubuntu server, nothing is staged. Below are the exact commands used, so you can copy them instead of pausing the video. What you need A Linux server. I used Ubuntu 24.04 , which ships Nginx 1.24 . A domain or subdomain whose A record points at the server . If it's on Cloudflare, keep the record DNS onl...
Chumsak: a local Gemma 4 grader for Korea's 2%-pass-rate engineering exam
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Chumsak: a local Gemma 4 grader for Korea's 2%-pass-rate engineering exam

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Korea has an IT certification called 정보관리기술사, the Professional Engineer exam in Information Management. The written part is four 100-minute sessions of handwritten essays, and you need 60 out of 100 to pass. In 2025, 1,824 people sat it and 41 passed (2.2%) . I'm a backend developer four years into my career, .NET first and Python now, and this exam is my long game. I can...