Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru have solved a chemistry puzzle that remained unanswered for over 70 years.
As reported in The Indian Express, the team led by Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh and Stutee Mohapatra from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, along with Prof. Eluvathingal Jemmis from IISc Bengaluru, has synthesised a carbon-free molecule that mimics the iconic ‘sandwich’ structure of ferrocene.
Using osmium and boron-based rings instead of carbon, the breakthrough marks the first stable carbon-free version of the molecule — something scientists worldwide had long attempted to achieve.
Published in the prestigious journal Science (https://t.co/zqkL1CSqz6), the discovery could open new pathways for designing advanced materials with unique chemical and structural properties.
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A Rust dev just killed Headless Chrome.
It's called Obscura. The open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and scrapers at scale.
Chrome vs Obscura:
- Memory: 200MB+ → 30MB
- Binary: 300MB+ → 70MB
- Page load: 500ms → 85ms
- Startup: 2s → Instant
- Anti-detect: None → Built-in
Single binary. No Node, no Chrome, no dependencies.
Stealth mode is brutal:
→ Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, canvas, audio, battery)
→ 3,520 tracker domains blocked by default
→ navigator.webdriver masked to match real Chrome
→ Native function masking so detectors can't sniff it out
Drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP. Zero code changes.
If you run agents or serious scraping at scale, this repo prints money.
100% Opensource.
Opus 4.7 just wrote a custom WebGPU kernel that runs Qwen3.5 up to 13x faster using a fused LinearAttention op! 🤯
Agentic kernel optimization is the future. Now live in 🤗 Transformers.js v4.2.0!
P.S. I've updated all our previous demos to use this new version. Enjoy!
I'm turning 30 today!
This is for all men in their 20s.
- don't destroy your brain with porn, tiktok and politics
- follow your passion is bullshit advice
- work as hard as you can
- find work you have a shot at being excellent at
- take risks, you don't have anything to loose yet
- don't start gambling, trading or hard drugs
- figure out where you want to live
- don't drink too much
- your reputation compounds faster than your money
- no one will ever love you like your mom
- you will never be as strong physically as now
- you will get more attention from women as you age
- for the love of god pay off any debts you have
- college is not for education but for the network
- nobody is coming to save you
- if you want to save buy a cheap S&P 500 ETF and don't touch anything else
- nothing good happens when you are alone at home
- don't worry if you are not married or in a long term relationship yet, men have time
- go to the gym and lift heavy weights
- hook-up culture will make you feel empty
- energy is your biggest asset, treat it as such
- if you struggle with acne take accutane
- call your parents, they will not be there forever
- some of your high school friends will not grow up
- if your friends are losers, make new friends
- constantly checking your phone is not normal
- the women you want don't care about fancy cars
- play long-term games with long-term people
- learn to sell
- networking is dumb, make friends instead
- everything you do now will compound for a very long time
- do more sports than you watch sports
- team sports are the easiest way to meet new people
- enjoy it, it will be over quicker than you think
This is either brilliant or scary:
Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.
BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs!
he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap.
if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked.
average score across all jobs is 5.3/10.
software devs: 8-9.
roofers: 0-1.
medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀
https://t.co/7MWRgdtLDI