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Awesome repositories are no longer awesome (erikgahner.github.io)
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The problem is digital things don't decay in the same way as physical objects. AI can shit out a webpage for an institute that doesn't really exist and make it sound awesome until you realize there's nothing there. A webpage with a vibrant community behind it that is actively maintained looks, at first glance, the same as a page that's been put out to the pasture. A physical store that's out of business will accumulate cruft, broken windows, vines everywhere. There's not really an equivalent for bitrot. Sure, my website from 1996 looks dated because I used frames and we don't do that no more, but eBay and Yahoo and Myspace are still around. Link rot does set in though. Links to pages that no longer exist because the person running it has passed. Archive.org has such a good purpose. Thing is though, for software, sometimes things can just be done. If a perfectly good piece of software hasn't been updated in years because it hasn't needed to be updated , then let it sit, ensconced in stone. The problem is it's hard to tell the difference between that, and something that needs maintaining but hasn't been.
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I found a few lists that I found genuinely useful, like self-hosted. But I also think the problem with them is they were gamed for some reason, maybe because of Github stars and the fact that Github attention is useful for other things. I think it would have been much more useful to have them almost on a different platform. IMBD lists for example seem to work better because there's not much reward in making them except a love of movies. Also I think another problem is that they were given high recognition on Github, and thus became a formulaic pattern rather that some individual who is really passionate about trying the stuff on the list, which also made most of the later ones generic and much less interesting...
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Disagree. Some material is just timeless or even just having a name is good to go on compared to knowing nothing before. AI is nice but never gives the same answer, will tunnel you if you have zero idea on the topic, and can be outright wrong or refuse to answer.
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I used to reach for an awesome list the first thing as i ventured in something new. Nowadays, i almost kinda forgot about them. Still I hold a fond memory of it, they usually contained some real gems (especially when they were relatively new).
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Never understood those repositories. Always viewed them as a collection of junk.
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They’re a kind of modern version of web directories, and they failed for the same reason the original web directories did (spam/self-promotion, and outdated stuff).
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I maintain 4 awesome lists and I agree: it takes a lot of time and some are more catalogs than curated lists. Curation takes time and is like gardening especially given the half-life of content on the web. My solution was to encode my editorial process in the form of contribution guidelines: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-iam/blob/main/.github/contributing.md
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Sometimes it's easier to let an AI agent write a small solution than add whole dependency. These libraries really need to rethink their strategy. Their audience is now AI not a programmer writing code.
Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza (bbc.co.uk)
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Do we have an update on the request for tuna ?
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"after a meeting with management who had a string of complaints about the chef's behaviour [...] Other concerns were raised about Tamburella using foul language, his communication style and "escalation of frustration in the workplace". Another case, like the "Arrested for a Facebook post" articles, where there's actually a string of other reasons, but the last straw is the only one that is highlighted.
this feels as entirely AI written
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In what way?
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Maybe. But if you were a BBC editor, would you both (1) assign a good writer to this story, and (2) tell him to take the time to write it really well?
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base (ernie.baidu.com)
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That's an interesting size, it will fit into 2x128GB at decent (≥4bpw) quantization.
> I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project. The current version is threatening to veto all my prompts.
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...and when it makes a mistake, it blames anything or anyone else but itself, or insists that what it did is perfect the way it is and that it's still the smartest model in the world?
TLDR: Ernie 5.5 Flash base 280B params 14B active A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions. Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
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Many others, e.g. Google and NVIDIA, have also released such BASE models. For those with the knowledge and resources to finalize the training, BASE models are much more useful than completely trained models. BASE models are the next best thing after truly open-source LLMs, where you would have access to the complete dataset used for training. Besides the fact that nobody who had used a really big dataset wants to show it, due to possible legal problems, having access to the original dataset would not be helpful for most people, because they would not be able to use it to make an LLM, due to its huge size and due to the vast resources required for pre-training. On the other hand, continuing training from a BASE model, which is greatly compressed in comparison with the original dataset, is feasible for many.
They're comparing it to Deepseek-v4-Flash, not 4.1 and not the 4.1 1017 update, so essentially two versions behind the latest version of Deepseek Flash.
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DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is twice the size of this and difficult to run locally. Makes more sense to compare it to DS4F.
Lemmings CSS Animation (markblah.github.io)
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this is awesome
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So cute!
Agreed - but what is shown on the webpage here, is not really lemmings.
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Duh
Love it! It is unfortunate that the scenery is positioned in such a way that lemmings end up falling by the side all the way to the bottom of the screen. Perhaps it would look better if you removed the padding from <body> and added more pits to the scenery.
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As the first paragraph says (“Drag one to carry it”) you can move them around to put them on/in the parts that you want to test their interactions with. Other than respawning them as you scroll around, so one starts in an appropriate place as a test comes into view, and resetting them automatically, perhaps on a timer, there probably isn't a better way to properly show it off than that.
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