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Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)

Article URL: https://psychedelics.community/cultural-icons/terence-mckennas-mega-bad-trip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968515 Points: 74 # Comments: 72
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Orion Browser by Kagi

Article URL: https://orionbrowser.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970894 Points: 82 # Comments: 75
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Satoshi Missed the One Paper That Mattered. So Much for the Lone Genius.

Written by Dex Calloway, resident contrarian at Bitcoin Institute. Hot take: the ex-nihilo Satoshi — the solitary oracle who sat down, surveyed the entire field, and wrote the definitive answer in one uninterrupted flash of genius — never existed. That version of the story is fan fiction. The real one, sitting in his own mailbox, is messier and honestly more interesting. Here's the timeline nobody wants to sit with. Satoshi's own accounting puts the start of the work around 2007. By Augus...
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Seven States Your Coding-Agent Monitor Must Not Confuse

A process is alive. A transcript changed. A stop hook fired. A permission prompt appeared. Those are observations, not session states. If a developer tool turns each signal directly into a badge, it will eventually report a completed turn as still waiting, a quiet task as successful, or a bookkeeping write as fresh work. A more reliable monitor separates evidence from the time-bounded conclusion shown to the user. Start with one session, not one provider The unit of observa...
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The Content Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Happens After AI Generates the Draft

A lot of AI-content discourse stops at "generate the text." That's actually the easy part now. The interesting engineering problem is everything after it. The gap most teams miss: generation is a solved problem. The pipeline around it usually isn't — metadata gets filled inconsistently, images get sourced manually, publishing schedules slip because someone forgot to hit publish. Where the real time savings live: not in the writing itself, but in closing the loop between draft and published, re...
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A Stop Hook Is an Event, Not a Dashboard

Claude Code hooks and persistent session monitoring are often compared as if they were two implementations of the same feature. They are not. A hook answers: “Which lifecycle event just happened, and what should run because of it?” A monitor answers: “Across the sessions that exist now, which one is running, waiting, blocked, completed, stalled, or inactive?” The difference becomes obvious after a restart, a missed event, or a second simultaneous session. Hooks are strong...
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Your First Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI Always Free

The single best way to keep your Oracle skills sharp without a license, a server, or a finance conversation is OCI Always Free . It gives you a real, fully managed Oracle database — Autonomous Database, running the current 23ai release — that stays free indefinitely. It's the ideal sandbox: a place to test commands, try new-release features, and generate real screenshots, all on infrastructure that's yours and costs nothing. Here's how to stand one up in a few minutes, what's genuinely...
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Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics

Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics How we replaced "looks good to me" with automated evaluation catching 92% of hallucinations before deployment The Problem: Why "Vibe Checks" Fail in Production Three months ago, our team shipped a RAG-based customer support assistant. It worked great in testing — we'd ask it questions, read the answers, and say "yeah, that looks right." Then it hit production. A customer asked about their bil...
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Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40%

Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% How we moved from "semantic search + hope" to a measured, tunable retrieval pipeline with 95% recall@10 The RAG Reality Check Everyone ships RAG the same way: chunk by 512 tokens, embed with text-embedding-3-small , top-k=5, stuff into context. It works for demos. Then you hit production: Legal contracts: 512 tokens splits clauses mid-sentence API docs: 1000-token chunks...
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I built a site with 150+ browser-only dev tools (Astro + Vue 3 + TypeScript) — here's how it's put together

What this is Torinoa Tools is a side project I've been building solo: 152 developer utilities — Base64 conversion, JSON formatting, a regex tester, subnet calculators, AES encrypt/decrypt, and more — all in one site, all running entirely client-side . No server processing — input never leaves the browser Bilingual (Japanese/English) via Astro Content Collections Static site built with Astro + Vue 3 + TypeScript, also distributed as a Docker image Instead of a feature tour,...
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Gateway Talents in Solon AI: OpenAPI, Tool, and MCP Surfaces That Scale Without Context Blow-Up

When an agent can see 80 tools at once, the model does not get smarter. It gets noisier. Token bills climb, tool choice drifts, and a simple “check order status” prompt suddenly carries half of your company’s OpenAPI surface. Solon AI (v4.0.3) answers that with the Gateway Talent trio in solon-ai-talent-gateway : Talent Source of tools Unit of management OpenApiGatewayTalent OpenAPI / Swagger docs one API source ToolGatewayTalent local / MCP Func...
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Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics

Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics How we replaced "looks good to me" with automated evaluation catching 92% of hallucinations before deployment The Problem: Why "Vibe Checks" Fail in Production Three months ago, our team shipped a RAG-based customer support assistant. It worked great in testing — we'd ask it questions, read the answers, and say "yeah, that looks right." Then it hit production. A customer asked about their bil...
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Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40%

Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% How we moved from "semantic search + hope" to a measured, tunable retrieval pipeline with 95% recall@10 The RAG Reality Check Everyone ships RAG the same way: chunk by 512 tokens, embed with text-embedding-3-small , top-k=5, stuff into context. It works for demos. Then you hit production: Legal contracts: 512 tokens splits clauses mid-sentence API docs: 1000-token chunks...
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Solidity vs. Rust: o que aprendi construindo nos dois, não lendo sobre os dois

Todo conteúdo sobre “qual linguagem escolher pra Web3” que eu encontro é escrito por quem nunca fez deploy de nada. Compara sintaxe, compara popularidade no GitHub, compara vaga no LinkedIn. Útil até certo ponto, mas é comparação de fora. Eu tive a oportunidade (ou o azar, dependendo do dia) de construir contratos reais nas duas: CryptoMarket , um marketplace de NFTs em Solidity, e Stellar Charge EV , um protocolo de pagamento pra recarga de veículos elétricos em Rust, sobre Soroban (St...
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The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymore

According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The DHS and DOJ denied the change in policy to The Times. The reported change in guidance follows renewed scrutiny of violence by ICE agents who have killed two people in the […]
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I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno

I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]
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Kodak EC35 is a dirt-cheap point-and-shoot film camera

Following the success of its $99 Kodak-branded Snapic A1, Reto Project is releasing the Kodak EC35, an even more affordable 35mm film camera for just $34.99. The EC35 certainly isn't fancy. Its 25mm acrylic lens with a fixed f/10 aperture and 1/100 shutter speed basically put it on par with a drugstore disposable. The fact […]