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Article URL: https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/how-to-save-tokens-when-coding-with-ai-agents-subtitle-yadda-yadda

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Article URL: https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/5-things-to-lighten-dependency-on-web.html

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Article URL: https://github.com/eric-cgn/openpayphone

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Article URL: https://nlkw.de/en/blog/getting-fried-part-1-cogentiv/

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russias-rassvet-constellation-loses-its-first-satellite-to-orbital-decay

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/da7ce472-44d8-4b7e-8bed-c007df3e1b92

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Why are we launching the world’s largest library of translated ancient texts? Consider that less than 3% of the Latin Renaissance has been translated to English. Latin was the main language of European intellectual society through to the 1800s — and so hundreds of thousands of books remain unscanned and untranslated — unread — and not in AI training.

And then there are uncountable thousands and thousands of ancient texts in Chinese and Sanskrit and other languages. Lost knowledge…

To reconnect the world with these source texts, www.SourceLibrary.org is launching in beta with 15,000+ translated books from over 50 different languages. More than half appear to be completely new translations. For scale, our word count just exceeded English Wikipedia. We have hundreds of thousands of images —- and everything is searchable.

It is also nearly totally free. These texts are all Creative Commons share-alike and accessible via MCP or API. So if you use AI, you can benefit from your AI having actual source texts at the ready. It is incredible if you are a history buff.

Imagine going down a rabbit hole on Alchemy in Claude and being able to retrieve and compare actual source texts in Latin, Chinese, Sanskrit etc — and then go directly to the scanned and annotated page of the books.

Believe me, there are so many rabbit holes. Go check out our new collection on Baltic Paganism or see the Index Libertorum Prohibitorum (a catalog of all the books ever banned by the Catholic Church). Or our images of mystical union or our podcast on ancient evidence for magic mushrooms…

So, we just had our beta launch (video available Tuesday) at the Embassy of the Free Mind (www.EmbassyoftheFreeMind.com) in Amsterdam, home to the Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica, a UNESCO recognized “Memory of the World” rare book library founded by Joost Ritman. (They also have a Guinness record for the largest library devoted to magic and mysticism. Like a real world hogwarts in the middle of Amsterdam!)

In 15th century Florence, translations of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Wisdom helped to ignite a European-wide Renaissance. Maybe just maybe translating the world’s Ancient Wisdom could make a global AI renaissance more likely than an AI apocalypse? Perhaps that’s just magical thinking… but what is magic anyway? oh, it’s “…the absolute consummation of natural philosophy”. That’s a lovely thought, from the source: https://sourcelibrary.org/book/ioannis-pici-mirandulae-omnia...

HN, please sign up for free and leave feedback, found at the bottom of every page. If something is annoying or improper or hard to use — please share. I read feedback almost every day. Derek@sourcelibrary.org

Test out the librarian — it’s a research agent that can retrieve quotes and images in chat.

And, finally, please help us find founding donors! We are entirely supported by personal donors. We need lots of tokens, if you know any potential corporate sponsorship. In addition to the digital impact, we want to create long term support for the human stewardship of this material. The wisdom is more than the books…

SourceLibrary.org is an open source initiative of the Embassy of the Free Mind (embassyofthefreemind.com), a Dutch nonprofit with 501c3 status. More here: https://sourcelibrary.org/support

If this project resonates with you, please let me know what you find!

Derek Lomas, PhD Assistant Professor of Positive AI Department of Human-Centered Design Delft University of Technology The Netherlands Dereklomas.me

PS. Thank you to my friends at www.Playpowerlabs.com, www.getsmartpaper.com and Wisdom-Frontier.org for concept and development support — and thanks to https://www.frond.studio/ for design support

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Honestly I just like the Drudge layout and wanted more relevant articles

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Article URL: https://byandrev.dev/en/blog/using-whisper-to-transcribe-videos/

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Hello HN,

I've been working on a simple OS for tinkering and running bare metal apps on vintage PCs.

Since I couldn't quite decide whether to target pure 16-bit, or slightly more capable 32-bit machines, I ended up with two separate versions:

- GentleOS/32 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32) works on i386+, requires 4MB of RAM and VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode or any 256-color VESA mode.

- GentleOS/16 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos) works on 80186+, requires less than 192KB of RAM and a CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode.

You can find more details in the repos.

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Article URL: https://time.com/4308036/meaningless-word-interesting/

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Article URL: https://andreaturchet.github.io/blog/riflessioni_sri.html?lang=en

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Article URL: https://elliotmorris.net/agents-agile-communism-coercion

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Article URL: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/us-air-operations-center-qatar-severely-damaged-iran/

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Article URL: https://tagide.com/blog/llm/the-anatomy-of-a-learning-stall/

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Article URL: https://emot.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-analyzing-1248-world

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Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/notebook-to-production-ai/

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