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## 6 Best NotebookLM Alternatives in 2025: AI-Powered Research & Note-Taking Tools Compared
By @zakyboy69 [ 5 Min read ]
Discover the best NotebookLM alternatives in 2025. Compare 6 AI-powered research and note-taking tools to boost productivity, learning, and workflow. Read More.
Building a CBIR Benchmark with TotalSegmentator and FAISS 
By @imagerecognition [ 4 Min read ]
Exploring FAISS, HNSW, and ANN methods for fast, metadata-free image retrieval using the TotalSegmentator medical dataset. Read More.
Celebrating Digital Nomad Day 2025! 
By @socialdiscoverygroup [ 4 Min read ]
With a fully remote team spread across continents, Social Discovery Group took this year’s celebration global! Read More.
One Is Eager, Another Is a Bootlicker, and the Other Is Unhinged: Decoding the Personalities of AI 
By @hackercm7vboi4k0000356q3bkj7c9i [ 5 Min read ]
What happens when you put ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok through the Big Five personality test? Spoiler: they’re eager, brown-nosing, and unhinged. Read More.
🚨 The Last Human Bastion Fell: GPT-5 Just Redefined Discovery with Original Math 
By @ronnie_huss [ 2 Min read ]
GPT-5 solved original math, ending humanity’s monopoly on discovery. Ronnie Huss breaks down what this means for AI, science, and the frontier ahead. Read More.
From Metrics to Meaning: Why Customer Satisfaction Is the Ultimate Measure of Quality 
By @noda [ 4 Min read ]
Why QA metrics should go beyond bugs: how integrating customer satisfaction scores helps deliver truly high-quality products. Read More.
Is This AI’s Linux Moment? Inside 0G’s Labs Push for an Open, Verifiable Stack for AI 
By @ishanpandey [ 8 Min read ]
Can decentralized AI beat cloud lock-in? 0G’s “Solana for AI” aims to deliver fast data, cheaper storage, and trustless compute for real-time ML. Read More.
The AI Bubble and Big Tech’s Bid to Dominate the Economy 
By @linked_do [ 12 Min read ]
Whether we like it or not, and despite tales of its powers being greatly exaggerated, the AI genie is out of the box. What does that mean, and what can we do? Read More.
How SocialFi Crowdfunding is Replacing VCs in Crypto: Interview with SeedList Co-Founder 
By @johnwrites [ 4 Min read ]
Discover how SocialFi crowdfunding platforms like SeedList are disrupting traditional VC funding in crypto. Read More.
The 5 Stages of LLM Systems: From Playground Hacks to Real Architecture 
By @maxnechaev [ 7 Min read ]
Discover the LLM maturity model: from simple prompts to orchestrated systems. Why spaghetti flows fail – and how real architecture wins. Read More.
What is AGENTS.md? 
By @proflead [ 2 Min read ]
AGENTS.md is a simple, open-source format that guides AI coding agents on how to interact with your project. Read More.
How Mavryk Is Setting the Stage for $10B in Tokenized Real Estate With Fireblocks Custody 
By @ishanpandey [ 3 Min read ]
Mavryk integrates with Fireblocks to power secure, compliant tokenized real estate trading for MultiBank.io’s $10B RWA platform. Read More.
Hedera’s Network Growth May Outlast Its Market Volatility 
By @malvimops [ 4 Min read ]
A potential BlackRock ETF and new Binance and Swarm partnerships clash with high volatility and a speculative narrative. Read More.
16 Failure Modes of RAG and LLM Agents and How to Fix Them With a Semantic Firewall 
By @PSBigBig [ 6 Min read ]
A practical AI Problem Map: 16 failure modes in RAG and LLM agents with minimal repros and fixes via a model-agnostic semantic firewall (WFGY). Read More.
If You’re a Facebook User, You’re Being Monitored by Thousands of Companies 
By @TheMarkup [ 6 Min read ]
Using 709 volunteers who shared archives of their FB data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. Read More.
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Building AI Agents (The No-BS Version) 
By @paoloap [ 4 Min read ]
Learn how to build practical AI agents from scratch using GPT, n8n, CrewAI, and Streamlit. Ship your first agent this weekend with step-by-step guidance Read More.
Minecraft, Engineering, and The Incremental Mindset 
By @jacoblandry [ 8 Min read ]
Minecraft is just engineering neatly packaged into a whimsical, blocky paradise. Read More.
The Best AI Web Scraper Tools in 2025: Top Picks, Features & Pricing 
By @oxylabs [ 7 Min read ]
Discover the 8 best AI web scrapers of 2025, from Oxylabs to Octoparse, with features, pricing, and use cases for every skill level and business need. Read More.
Laravel Boost, But Better: Custom Configs, Tools, and Context That Work 
By @oussamamater [ 9 Min read ]
In the era of AI, LLMs are undeniably part of our workflow. Let’s make them suck less with Laravel Boost. Read More.
Networking : Why You Should Understand the IPv4 Header Beyond Chasing Tools 
By @verlainedevnet [ 5 Min read ]
Network engineering is the foundation in today’s tech industry, with many trends do not skipping the fundamentals to chase cloud, cybersecurity …. Read More.
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