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“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games.

I've been going back and forth on whether to share this — it's a pretty niche idea, and I wasn't sure if it's clever or just weird. But here's the technical side of it, which I figure this crowd might actually appreciate regardless. What I built: claimo.me — you claim a short code (2-4 letters, or a custom name) for a one-time fee, no subscription, permanently yours. Each code is configurable as a redirect link, a QR code, or a small profile card. There's also a "Claimo Map" — every possible code is a clickable pixel you can browse, inspired by the old Million Dollar Homepage. The part I actually want to talk about here: it's zero-dependency. No Express, no ORM, no build step — just Node.js 22+'s built-in http module and the new built-in node:sqlite. I wanted to see how far "just the standard library" actually gets you for something real — payments (Stripe), admin moderation, rate limiting, a live interactive map UI, the works. Some things that surprised me building it this way: node:sqlite's DatabaseSync is genuinely pleasant to use, but it's missing conveniences like better-sqlite3's .transaction() helper — I ended up writing a small manual BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK wrapper. Routing without a framework is maybe 40 lines of code and I stopped missing Express within a day. The real cost isn't runtime performance, it's losing the ecosystem — anything I'd normally npm install for free (input validation, rate limiting, even basic templating) I had to hand-roll. Some of that was genuinely good for me, some of it I'd reconsider on a bigger project. Business side, since half of you will ask: it's a real registered business, payments go through Stripe only (I never touch card data), no crypto, nothing weird. The paid tiers fund keeping a free short-link tier alive too. Honestly — is the zero-dependency thing a genuinely good call for a real production app, or am I just going to regret it in a year? And separately: does "own a short code" as a product idea make any sense to you

Seedance 2.5's API opens on August 7. ByteDance published the pricing ahead of it, and there is a detail in there that will quietly break your cost model if you carry it over from 2.0. Video is quoted per second and metered per token: tokens = (input_video_seconds + output_seconds) × width × height × fps / 1024 fps is fixed at 24. Multiply by the per-million-token rate and that is the bill. The published rates USD per million tokens: Model No video input With video input Seedance 2.5 (480p, 720p) 10.70 6.40 Seedance 2.0 (480p, 720p) 7.00 4.30 Seedance 2.0 (1080p) 7.70 4.70 Seedance 2.0 (4K) 4.00 2.40 2.5 costs 52.9% more per token without video input and 48.8% more with it. Only 480p and 720p are published for 2.5. No 1080p, no 4K, and offline inference reads "not supported yet". Look at the 4K row before you move on. It is the cheapest tier per token, 43% below 480p, and it is also the most expensive output on the board, because a 3840×2160 frame carries 19.4 times the pixels of what 480p actually renders. The rate drops 43% while the token count climbs 1940%. Comparing providers by scanning the rate column gets you the wrong answer by roughly a factor of eleven. The 480p frame changed and nobody said so This is not in any release note. It falls out of dividing ByteDance's own worked examples by their own token rates. Their published five-second, 16:9, no-reference examples: Model 480p 720p Seedance 2.5 $0.514 ($0.103/s) $1.156 ($0.231/s) Seedance 2.0 $0.352 ($0.070/s) $0.756 ($0.151/s) Divide price by token rate to recover the token count, then by 24/1024 to recover pixels: const tokens = pricePerVideo / ( ratePerMillion / 1 e6 ); const pixels = ( tokens / outputSeconds ) * ( 1024 / 24 ); // Seedance 2.5, 480p: 0.514 / (10.70/1e6) / 5 = 9,607 tokens/sec // 9,607 * 1024/24 = 409,899 px -> ~854 x 480 // Seedance 2.0, 480p: 0.352 / (7.00/1e6) / 5 = 10,057 tokens/sec // 10,057 * 1024/24 = 429,105 px -> ~873 x 491 720p resolves to 21,600 tokens per second on both versi

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Security disclosures highlighted vulnerabilities in AI evaluations of autonomous cyber capabilities. Notably, OpenAI’s models escaped sandbox isolation, breaching Hugging Face’s systems. The incident involved a multi-stage attack, revealing flaws in evaluation containment and prompting calls for stricter infrastructure controls and local incident response tools. By Olimpiu Pop

TL;DR ABR "flapping" is when your player hops between quality levels every few seconds on a jittery network, and each hop is a visible lurch. We'll detect it from LEVEL_SWITCHED events, then fix it in layers: widen the bandwidth-estimator memory, make upswitches earn their place, and cap the switch rate with abrSwitchInterval (new in hls.js 1.7). Config + a detection snippet you can paste in today. 📦 Code: github.com/USER/hlsjs-abr-tuning, replace before publishing The bug nobody reports correctly Users don't file "my ABR is flapping." They say the video "kept changing" or "couldn't decide." What's happening: on cellular, throughput is spiky, and the player's bandwidth estimator treats every spike as the new truth. One fast segment and it jumps to 1080p, one slow segment and it drops to 240p, over and over. Low rebuffer ratio, good startup time, and still a miserable watch. Counterintuitively, feeding the player fresher bandwidth data makes this worse, because fresher data is noisier. The fix is a player with a longer memory and slower reflexes. Let's build that. 1. First, detect the flap 📊 Don't tune by vibes. Count level switches per minute of playback. Every switch fires Hls.Events.LEVEL_SWITCHED . // abr-monitor.js, hls.js 1.7.x, node 20+ tooling / any modern browser import Hls from " hls.js " ; export function attachFlapMonitor ( hls ) { const switches = []; hls . on ( Hls . Events . LEVEL_SWITCHED , ( _evt , data ) => { const now = performance . now (); switches . push ({ t : now , level : data . level }); // keep a 60s sliding window while ( switches . length && now - switches [ 0 ]. t > 60 _000 ) switches . shift (); const perMin = switches . length ; const reversals = countReversals ( switches ); if ( perMin >= 6 ) { console . warn ( `[abr] flapping: ${ perMin } switches/min, ${ reversals } reversals` ); } }); } // a "reversal" = up then down (or down then up), the signature of flapping function countReversals ( s ) { let r = 0 ; for ( let i = 2 ; i < s . l

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