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The Truth Behind Codex 'Build a Website in 5 Minutes': AI Isn't Creating Sites — It's Helping You Copy Them
Exposing the truth behind viral Codex 5-minute website videos: creators aren't building original sites with AI — they're copying shared prompts or scraping others' work.
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Steam Malware Attribution: How Bitcoin, Cookies, and Food Delivery Orders Identified the Attacker
Investigators traced Steam malware to its creator using Bitcoin transaction chains, Google Cookies, and Uber Eats orders—revealing how cross-referencing digital evidence destroys the illusion of online anonymity.
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Ollama Prepares for Trillion-Parameter Open-Source Models as the Open-Source Ecosystem Heats Up
Ollama scales up for trillion-parameter open-source models like Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8. Hugging Face demands $100M from OpenAI, Alibaba Coder goes mobile, and DeepSeek pauses fundraising.
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If Digital Computers Have Consciousness, It Exists Only at the Hardware Level — Not in Software
If digital computers can produce consciousness, does it reside in software algorithms or physical hardware? Exploring causal closure, substrate independence, and implications for AI consciousness.
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When AI Handles the Details, Are We Truly Empowered?
When AI handles the details for us, do we gain empowerment or lose capability? This article explores the hidden costs of outsourcing details to AI and how to use AI tools rationally.
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Building Self-Hosted Tunnels Under Extreme Censorship: A Layered Architecture with VLESS Reality
Deep analysis of building layered tunnel architectures using VLESS+Reality to evade DPI and domestic relays with whitelisted IPs to bypass geographic blocking in extreme censorship environments.
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AI Coding Tools in Practice: Which Ones Actually Stuck with the Team?
A 12-person product team shares real-world experiences with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, and CodeRabbit—exploring efficiency plateaus, scenario matching, and selection criteria for AI coding tools that actually stick.
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A Complete Guide to Learning AI Agents from Scratch: From Beginner to Practice
A complete guide to learning AI Agents: from large model fundamentals and core technologies to hands-on projects. Systematically outlines beginner methods and exposes crash-course marketing traps.
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Making Money with AI Coding Gigs: A Sober Breakdown and Honest Assessment of the Four-Week Learning Path
Can beginners really earn over 10,000 yuan in their first month with AI coding gigs? This article breaks down the four-week AI coding learning path week by week and objectively assesses the real monetization barriers.
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Frontier AI Models Keep Making Element…
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Frontier AI Models Keep Making Elementary Mistakes: The Reliability Crisis in the GPT-5 Era
Why do frontier AI models like GPT-5 still make basic errors? This deep dive explores the reliability crisis in advanced LLMs, benchmark gaps, and what developers should do.
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Can AI Discover Alpha? A Deep Dive into Qlib and RD-Agent
Can AI truly discover Alpha automatically? This deep dive into Microsoft's open-source Qlib and RD-Agent reveals the 3 critical backtest pitfalls and 6 overfitting prevention gates every quant researcher needs to know.
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How CS Students Should Use AI to Learn Programming — Without the "Used It But Learned Nothing" Trap
Many CS students use AI to learn programming but later feel they didn't truly learn. This article breaks down the two AI learning traps and offers Socratic questioning, the Feynman Technique, and more to turn AI into a real learning accelerator.
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Loop Engineering: Why Unsupervised AI Loops Are a Recipe for Disaster
Loop Engineering lets AI run autonomously until criteria are met. This deep dive exposes its three core risks: unbounded token costs, hidden quality failures, and goal misalignment — and why humans remain irreplaceable.
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Open Book Touch: A Complete Guide to the Open-Source Pocket E-Reader
Open Book Touch is an open-source E-ink reader with touchscreen and front lighting that fits in your pocket. Explore its features, open-source advantages, and real-world challenges.
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Beware of the 'Free GPT-5.6' Scam: A Full Breakdown of AI Fraud Tactics
Videos promoting 'Free GPT-5.6 SOL' are circulating on Bilibili. This article exposes the fictional product, fake benchmarks, and manipulation tactics behind this AI scam.
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Telemetry Guard: An Open-Source Windows Telemetry Blocker Built by a Programmer
Telemetry Guard is an open-source Windows privacy tool built by a software engineer. It uses PowerShell + a lightweight GUI to disable telemetry, ad tracking, and activity history, with backup and rollback support. MIT licensed and free.
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Exposing the GPT-5.6 Marketing Scam: Are the Sol/Terra/Luna Sub-Models Real Releases or Just a Trap?
Is "GPT-5.6" with Sol, Terra, and Luna sub-models a real OpenAI release? We debunk the viral claims, expose third-party top-up risks, and show how to spot AI scams.
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The Other Side of the Fable Programming Myth: A Developer's Sober Reflection and Rational Assessment
When AI coding assistant Fable sparked community frenzy, one developer admitted he 'couldn't feel the magic.' A deep look at survivorship bias, hype psychology, and rational AI tool evaluation.
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The Age of AI Agents: Why the Open Sou…
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The Age of AI Agents: Why the Open Source "Zero-Cost" Myth Is Collapsing
AI agents consume open source software at massive scale without contributing back, creating a sustainability crisis. Explore the hidden costs, maintenance imbalance, and security risks behind the "zero-cost" myth.
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AI Skill Auto-Generates Test Cases: Say Goodbye to Manually Transcribing PRDs
Test engineers: use the AI Skill 'Doc-based Test Case Generator' to auto-generate structured test cases from PRDs or screenshots, covering boundary values, negative scenarios, and more.
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