crawl4ai, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, and Ghidra Lead Open-Source Tools – Aug 31

crawl4ai: open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper

unclecode/crawl4ai

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crawl4ai is an open-source Python web crawler and scraper built to produce output optimized for large language models, such as feeding RAG pipelines. It is written in Python, licensed under Apache-2.0, and has 80,408 stars and 8,319 forks on GitHub. The project maintains an active community with 178 open issues and a documentation site at crawl4ai.com.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2: compact sentence embedding model

sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

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all-MiniLM-L6-v2 is a sentence-transformers model that maps sentences and paragraphs to a 384-dimensional dense vector space, used for tasks such as clustering and semantic search. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and has 255,115,397 downloads and 5,320 likes on Hugging Face, with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, OpenVINO, and Rust tags indicating broad runtime support.

last30days-skill: AI agent skill for researching recent web activity

mvanhorn/last30days-skill

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last30days-skill is a Python-based AI agent skill (MIT-licensed) that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, and the wider web, then synthesizes a grounded summary of the last 30 days of discussion. It targets Claude and Claude Code agents, per its topic tags. The repository has 60,648 stars and 5,304 forks on GitHub.

bge-m3: multilingual multi-function embedding model from BAAI

BAAI/bge-m3

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BGE-M3 is a sentence-embedding model from BAAI for sentence-similarity and feature-extraction tasks, usable with the sentence-transformers library. It is built on XLM-RoBERTa and supports three capabilities at once: dense retrieval, sparse (lexical) retrieval, and multi-vector retrieval, across more than 100 languages and inputs from short sentences to long documents. It is MIT licensed with 37,070,236 downloads and 3,447 likes on Hugging Face, and ships PyTorch and ONNX wei…

Heretic: tool that strips safety alignment from LLMs

p-e-w/heretic

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Heretic is a Python tool for automatically removing censorship, i.e. safety alignment, from transformer-based language models without expensive post-training such as fine-tuning. It works via techniques related to abliteration, modifying model weights directly. The AGPL-3.0 licensed repository has 29,315 stars and 3,214 forks, with 81 open issues on GitHub.

I gave an AI agent a production rollback button — then spent the hackathon trying to trick it into pressing it

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A one-line omission in an MCP tool definition is enough to make an AI agent's approval gate silently… Context: Dev.to – AI/ML.

From Figma to the browser: building a shared mental model

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Throughout my career as an engineer, I have been given a countless amount of specs, design documents… Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

google-t5/t5-small

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The developers of the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) write: . Signal: Hugging Face – Translation.

Five bugs in my LLM app that never threw an error

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I spent two and a half weeks building an agent that reads a project's code review history and… Context: Dev.to – Ai.

I Got Tired of Spam Calls, So I Built an AI Honeypot on Google Cloud

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If you run a small service business or trade outfit, your phone is basically your cash register. The… Context: Dev.to – Googlecloud.

Running Coding Agents in Parallel with Git Worktrees

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A Dev.to article explaining a practical workflow for running multiple AI coding agents, such as Claude Code or Codex sessions, concurrently in the same repository on one machine using git worktrees. Each agent gets its own worktree so changes stay isolated, and combining results falls back to ordinary git merges rather than custom tooling. It targets developers hitting the limit of a single agent session per repo.

Murfy AI

Murfy is a team of AI agents for the entire research writing workflow. Murfy helps to write and review your paper in context, fix LaTeX compile errors on the spot, verify reference papers and generate Beamer slides in minutes. Work with unlimited collaborators, real-time editing, free to start. Worth checking for automation claims, data-access patterns, and human-in-the-loop requirements.

Topview Motion Studio

Topview is the Agent OS for Marketing and Filmmaking —turning ideas into high-performing ads, branded content, and cinematic stories. Plan, create, edit, and scale with AI agents, all in one canvas. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

oMLX

oMLX turns your Mac into a full LLM inference server, run from the menu bar. It serves text, vision, OCR, embedding and reranker models with continuous batching, plus a RAM+SSD tiered KV cache that survives restarts, so Claude Code and Cursor respond in about 5s instead of 90s. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible APIs dro… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Superagent

Working with a coding agent should feel like using a good Mac app, not a terminal. Superagent gives yours a computer: a real browser it drives on your own logged-in sessions, an iOS Simulator it taps and swipes, your files, a board it keeps, routines on a timer. Chats sit in a sidebar you can group, survive restarts,… Worth checking for automation claims, data-access patterns, and human-in-the-loop requirements.

Maritime

Maritime is a deployment platform for AI agents that lets you run OpenClaw, ZeroClaw, and custom agents in the cloud without managing infrastructure. You can deploy in minutes, run agents reliably, and scale as needed, all through a simple interface starting at $1/month. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Sayscroll

SAYSCROLL is an AI teleprompter that follows your voice, so you can speak naturally instead of constantly adjusting your scroll speed. It supports 60+ languages and works across videos, demos, presentations, and live content. – Built-in video recorder —Record yourself while reading your script – Improvise —The prompte… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Olostep

Extract, crawl and structure web data at scale with Olostep's Web Data API. Built for AI teams, data pipelines and automation. Fast, reliable and cost-effective. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Now that any service can be built with AI, nobody wants to build anything

I’ve been noticing a strange paradox with AI-assisted coding. A few years ago, if you had an idea for a software service, building it was the hard part. You needed months of development, a decent team, money, infrastructure, and a lot of specialized knowledge. Today, one competent developer using A….

Sony and Warner accuse Anthropic of training Claude on tens of thousands of pirated works. Should the model be retrained from scratch?

A Reddit discussion of the lawsuit in which Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of training Claude on tens of thousands of pirated works via mass torrenting, scraping, and downloading. Anthropic disputes the claims and says it will defend itself. Commenters debate remedies, noting a fine could become a cost of doing business while forced retraining or discarding of the model would be far more drastic. Confidence is community-level only.

Amazon is killing Mechanical Turk. By the end, a third of the humans on it were secretly using AI to do the work

Amazon announced this week that Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced microtask marketplace, will close on September 30 after 21 years. Bezos originally dubbed it "artificial artificial intelligence" because humans handled tasks computers could not yet do. At its peak it had 500,000 workers earning a few cents per task for image labelling and transcription, and by the end a third of them reportedly used AI to complete the work.

The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI's HuggingFace investigation

A Reddit discussion on r/artificial highlights five notable discoveries said to come from an investigation into OpenAI's presence on HuggingFace. The thread is a community-sourced summary rather than a primary report, and no technical details, evidence, or verification status are included in the available context. Readers should treat the specific claims as unverified community discussion until a primary source is checked.

Stripe CEO Surprised at Lack of Media Coverage Around OpenAI/Hugging Face Attack, Calling It One of the Most Important Events of 2026

A Reddit thread on r/artificial discusses remarks by Stripe's CEO expressing surprise at the limited media coverage of an attack involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, which he called one of the most important events of 2026. The thread reflects ongoing community debate about AI governance and how major security incidents affecting AI providers are reported. The item is a community signal, not a verified news report.

Google names 15 AI startups for its Australia and New Zealand accelerator

An article reporting that Google has named the 15 startups selected for its 2026 Australia and New Zealand Google for Startups Accelerator. The 10-week, equity-free hybrid program targets Seed and Series A companies working with AI and machine learning, aiming to help them scale rapidly and responsibly; the selected list includes Blunge among others.

Gave a bunch of agents a task to make $1 online

A Reddit discussion on r/artificial about a hands-on experiment tasking multiple AI agents with earning $1 online. The author was inspired by a METR report, which made the agents look like unsupervised teenagers, and wanted to test whether active human guidance (not just prompts) would change their performance by setting up a shared room to interact with them. The post's full results are not included in the available context.

How Spec-driven development is followed in Companies (In Greenfield Projects) using Claude Code?

A Reddit discussion in r/artificial asking how teams apply spec-driven development to greenfield projects when using Claude Code, Anthropic's CLI coding tool. The poster asks how practitioners structure multiple spec markdown files, whether dedicated tooling exists for managing them, and what workflows experienced users follow. The thread matters to engineers evaluating AI-assisted development practices, but no concrete answers or outcomes are included in the available conte…

AI major — how do I avoid becoming part of the AI slop problem?

A Reddit discussion post in r/artificial from a student majoring in AI who dislikes humanities coursework but enjoys STEM, asking how to avoid contributing to low-quality AI-generated content ("AI slop"). The thread reflects a broader concern among students and practitioners about the social impact of AI-generated media and how career choices in the field relate to content quality. Detailed replies could not be retrieved, so the range of advice given is not captured here.

Rust Function Overloading – Call for Experimentation

An official Inside Rust blog post proposing an experimentation phase for function overloading in Rust, a language feature that has long been deliberately absent because Rust favors explicit, non-ambiguous APIs. The post invites the community and language teams to explore designs and gather implementation experience before any commitment to stabilization. It matters to Rust practitioners because overloading would affect API design, inference, and interoperability decisions ac…

Ghidra: NSA's open-source reverse engineering framework

NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the NSA Research Directorate, used to analyze binaries and malware. Written in Java and licensed under Apache-2.0, it provides disassembly and software-analysis capabilities, with topics including disassembler and reverse-engineering. The repository has 74,030 stars and 8,071 forks, with 1,926 open issues tracked on GitHub.

Verification: public data.

CVE-2023-49105: ownCloud Improper Authentication Vulnerability

CVE-2023-49105 is an improper authentication vulnerability in ownCloud that is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating active exploitation has been reported. It is tracked in NVD, and organizations running ownCloud should verify affected versions and apply mitigation guidance from the primary advisory. Specific technical details and affected version ranges were not available in the retrieved context, so confirmation against the vendor advisory is…

Verification: cisa kev confirmed.

CVE-2026-53362: Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability

CVE-2026-53362 is a Linux kernel vulnerability that has been added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which typically signals active exploitation and prompts federal remediation deadlines. The specific technical details, affected kernel versions, and mitigation steps are not available in the current context; the NVD page did not load usable content. Operators should consult the NVD entry and CISA advisory directly for authoritative guidance.

Verification: cisa kev confirmed.

CVE-2026-66384: JFrog Artifactory Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory Vulnerability

A CVE affecting JFrog Artifactory, classified as improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory, i.e. a path traversal flaw that could allow access to files outside intended directories. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating active exploitation has been reported. Affected versions, exploit details, and mitigation steps were not present in the fetched context and should be verified against the NVD entry and JFrog's advisory.

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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Haiku, the open-source operating system reimplementing BeOS, has shipped its R1/beta6 release roughly two years after the previous beta and about a week after the project's 25th anniversary. The announcement points readers to the release notes for details on changes and to a press contact for inquiries. The Hacker News thread drew 294 points and 87 comments.

JavaScript Find in Page: DOM Text Above the Codename One Canvas

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The Codename One JavaScript port now renders visible text into a targeted DOM layer, making it searchable, selectable, accessible, and sharp on high-DPI displays without giving browser layout control. Context: Dev.to – Java.

Airgorah: Rust GUI for WiFi security auditing

martin-olivier/airgorah

• ★ 2,630
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Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing tool with a GUI, built on the aircrack-ng suite and written in Rust under the MIT license. It can capture nearby WiFi traffic, discover clients connected to access points, perform deauthentication attacks, capture handshakes, and crack access point passwords. The repository has 2,630 stars and 399 forks.

Small and reasonably fast QOI decoder written in zig

dekoodaaja is a MIT-licensed image decoding library written in Zig, currently implementing only the QOI format. The repository describes itself as providing fast decoders for various image formats, with QOI as the starting point. It is a very early-stage project with 4 stars, 1 fork, and 2 open issues, so anyone adopting it should expect limited format coverage and maturity.

California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification

A news report on California's newly passed AB-1856 bill, which amends the state's age verification law so that open-source software is largely exempt. The measure matters to Linux distributions and free software projects that would otherwise face compliance duties as 'content providers.' Phoronix notes this follows its May coverage suggesting the law could have swept in most Linux distributions without such relief.

Interview with oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFx Industry

An interview with the developer known as oofoe, whose background spans the visual effects industry and precision instrument software, about working with niche languages. He came to Janet and Racket after years as a "REBOL refugee," builds puzzle games in Decker, and maintains a Janet-to-JavaScript transpiler for making games. The conversation covers his animation career and his ongoing language experimentation.

One flake to rule them all

A blog post by Farid Zakaria about managing Nix flake configuration, opening from his stated position that flakes are "meh" despite being here to stay. Rather than resisting them, he argues for embracing a single unified flake to rule a project's dependencies. Practitioners using Nix will find a concrete approach to avoiding fragmented flake setups across repositories and tools.

abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus

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GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine – GitNexus is a client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser. Drop in a git repository (Github, Gitlab, Azure, Local) or ZIP file, and get an interactive knowledge graph with a built… Github trending.

My Commit Said "Stop Trusting the Receipt." That Is the Commit Where the Trusting Started.

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On 2026-08-25 at 21:27 EDT I pushed this to self-correcting-integration-maintainer: fix: repair… Context: Dev.to – DevOps.

Overcoming Dart's Single Inheritance Wall: Composable CubitSignalMixin & BlocSignalMixin in Flutter

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Discover how CubitSignalMixin and BlocSignalMixin allow any existing Flutter controller, domain repository, or enterprise class to gain full reactive state container capabilities without occupying its single inheritance slot.

I Built a P2P Messenger Without a Central Message Database — What I Learned About WebRTC, E2EE and Serverless Architecture

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I Built a P2P Messenger Without a Central Message Database — What I Learned About WebRTC,… Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

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An essay by Vivek Ghaisas describing how a consumer smart doorbell ended up chained across five separate cloud services just to produce a notification. The author was motivated by a 2024 burglary in his apartment building that prompted investment in home security gear. The post is a practitioner-oriented critique of how ordinary smart-home devices accumulate hidden cloud dependencies. The Hacker News thread drew 101 points and 74 comments.

A Stranger's Pull Request Almost Stole My Cloud Credentials. So Every CI Job Gets a Fresh microVM Now.

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My self-hosted CI runner was the least trusted machine I owned. Now every job runs in a disposable… Context: Dev.to – DevOps.

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

A security write-up describing a privilege escalation flaw in Omarchy's default Docker configuration. Because of how Docker access was configured, essentially every program running in the user's desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo, or other privilege prompt. The post matters to practitioners running Omarchy or similar Docker-on-desktop setups where group membership grants effective root.

Transfer files over an ethernet patch cable

A practitioner blog post by Maurycy explaining how to move files between two computers by connecting them directly with an Ethernet patch cable. The author shows that a small amount of IP configuration on each machine is enough to establish the link, avoiding the need for a switch, router, or network infrastructure. It serves as a practical reference for ad-hoc, high-speed machine-to-machine transfers.

Prequel

A macOS screen recorder that hands back a finished video. Zooms that follow the work, a framed camera and a background, exported at up to 4K on your Mac's own media engine. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

RIP MY BUILD

RIP MY BUILD is a side project cemetery for honest public postmortems. Publish a permanent obituary with the original link, cause of death, lesson learned, and whatever you’re building next. Every memorial gets a shareable page, visitor roses, permanent plot adornments, and a weekly honors leaderboard. It turns the us… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Retro Y2K Theme

Customize any website with a vintage 90s & Y2K retro theme. Enjoy nostalgic web aesthetics, and classic UI designs! Back to 2000 has never been easier! RawY2K is the ultimate retro website modifier that transforms any modern web page into a vintage 90s and Y2K aesthetic experience. Customize your browser with custom c… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

“I just chose words carefully”

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High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

What Happens After You Win a DEV Challenge? A Complete Guide to Getting Paid

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Winning is the part everyone posts about. The two months after — the part where a cash prize actually…

Hacking IKEA Furniture

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A blog post by Green Lightning documenting a hands-on furniture-hacking project. After moving to a home with a dedicated office room, the author wanted a piece of furniture that was not available for purchase, so they built it themselves by modifying or assembling custom work around IKEA components. The post drew 296 points and 205 comments on Hacker News, where readers discussed practical DIY approaches.

Delta encoding multiplayer game state

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Old Light is a browser strategy game where a tab can stay open for days. The client holds a full copy… Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

I failed a "design a document editor" interview, so I built one

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Every resume builder is a form. Building the actual editor meant event sourcing, a page-break planner, and a PDF that matches the screen exactly. Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

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A Show HN hardware project by Wilson Harper: a business card built as a PCB that has no battery and instead harvests RF energy from a nearby smartphone over NFC. The harvested power drives an on-board microcontroller and 21 animated LEDs, demonstrating NFC energy harvesting as a practical power source for small interactive electronics. The Hacker News thread drew 148 points and 15 comments.

Understanding ChatGPT Work

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A blog post by Simon Willison unpacking ChatGPT Work, an OpenAI product announced on July 9th that he describes as extraordinarily confusing and powerful, and which OpenAI has been iterating on rapidly since launch. The post lays out what he has figured out about how the product works, aimed at practitioners trying to understand its practical implications. The discussion drew 131 points and 45 comments on Hacker News.

Sort branches by last commit date

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A short "today I learned" post explaining how to list local git branches ordered by their most recent commit. The author had accumulated too many branches and previously relied on a convoluted shell function that looped over `git branch`, ran `git log -1` per branch to fetch commit dates and relative times, then sorted the output. The post shows the simpler replacement approach, and it drew 112 points and 40 comments on Hacker News.

Virtual DOM vs Real DOM: Is the Virtual DOM Actually Faster?

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You've probably heard this before: "React is fast because it uses a Virtual DOM." It sounds… Context: Dev.to – Frontend.

Hijri Dates in Indonesia Were a Pain to Get Right. Not Anymore.

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If you've ever built a website for Indonesian users and needed to show today's Hijri date, you… Context: Dev.to – Opensource.

PrimeVue v4 Stopped Active Dev: OpenVue Takes Over on MIT

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If your stack relies on PrimeVue v4, there's a recent change in the project's maintenance lifecycle… Context: Dev.to – Vue.

Why asking for help feels harder than solving the problem yourself

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I will genuinely spend an hour stuck on something before I message someone who could answer it in two… Context: Dev.to – Career.

But where does taste come from?

A blog post by Christine Lemmer-Webber that reflects on the notion of "taste" in software and design, asking where it originates rather than treating it as an innate trait. It joins an ongoing conversation among practitioners about how aesthetic and technical judgment is formed. The available context is limited to the post's title and opening lines, so specific arguments from the body are not summarized here.

Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released

Gram Editor 3.3.0 is a new release of the Gram text editor, announced 2026-08-25, that practitioners can now update to. The release updates and improves the git panel and history views, reworks smooth scrolling using exponential smoothing, improves Supertab completion, adds toggle actions for all side panels, and adds support for loading installed extensions. The release post includes a screenshot of the Ferra theme, which is not new in this version.

Repeating Ourselves Less with M4

A blog post by Nemin explaining how to reduce repetition in OpenBSD's httpd.conf by preprocessing it with the M4 macro processor. It gives a fast primer on macros, shows how M4 expands repetitive server blocks, and includes the final resulting config file, plus a section weighing whether the approach is worthwhile. Useful for practitioners maintaining hand-written web server configs with duplicated per-site blocks.

The U.S. is more than just the US (according to the ISO)

A practitioner blog post about a recurring real-world problem with ISO country codes in video streaming deals. The author recounts situations where business agreements define which territories can receive content, and the naive assumption that the United States maps to a single code breaks down because ISO standards define the U.S. with more than one code. The piece matters to engineers building geo-restriction or entitlement logic.

Automating immersive reading

This is a practitioner blog post explaining how Storyteller, a tool for syncing audiobook narration with ebook text, uses a forced alignment algorithm to match audio to text automatically. The author walks through how the alignment works, using examples such as matching a spoken sentence like "They soon know that they will grow up" to its place in the book. It matters for anyone building media-sync or subtitle-style tooling.