A post on Hacker News advises against using passkeys due to concerns about attestation, but the author argues this is not a valid reason. Passkeys are actually more secure than traditional passwords and resist phishing attacks.
Iosevka is an open-source sans-serif and monospace typeface designed for coding, terminals, and technical documents. It offers two widths: Normal and Extended, with the latter providing more breathing space between characters.
PRISM is a PostgreSQL-native index access method that offers faster querying and index building compared to pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW. It can be used with native types or existing pgvector tables, allowing seamless integration with PostgreSQL.
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A TV4 programme's edited season was deleted, but the network denies an AI agent caused it. The actual cause is a technical failure that will delay the premiere until 2027.
The author is launching a campaign for new members of Not-Ship, a newsletter about online shopping and consumer protection. The author will send three extra emails to free subscribers.
The author shares their experience with Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" which introduced them to cryptography, a science of secret messages. The story follows a protagonist who cracks a pirate's treasure code using logical reasoning and frequency analysis.
I presented Pulsar, a new Pharo IDE focusing on coding and system understanding, at ESUG 2026. It aims to help programmers navigate and modify code effectively with generative tools.
This article explains the nature of sound, from its creation and propagation through air to its perception by humans. It uses visualizations and simulations to illustrate how pressure waves are generated by vibrating objects, such as a plate or a string, and how they interact with their surroundings.
The label names what you see. The drawer explains the evidence. The record gives the full sources, measurements and licences. Certainty words distinguish documented, reconstructed, conjectural and not known. The museum labels the reproduction, not the painting.
A 70-year-old experiment, SEER, built by David Hagelbarger in the 1950s uses relays to predict a player's next move in matching pennies. The machine beats its opponent about 55% of the time.
The author, a photographer, discovered his passion for programming after being introduced to computers in the 1970s and developed Kid Pix, a user-friendly painting program.
Guitoro is a free online virtual guitar that allows users to play along with songs, learn chords and strumming patterns, and even record their own performances. It features realistic recordings of real instruments and offers various settings for tempo, capo, and strumming style.
A 900-page book on color mixing created by A. Boogert in 1692 predates modern color theory and features over 700 pages of color swatches, but its practical application is unclear. The book, meant to educate watercolorists, remains a rare and unique insight into the workshop of 17th-century painters.
Gemini 4 Argon is a highly advanced AI model that excels in various domains, including long-horizon software engineering, scientific research, and enterprise knowledge work. It achieves significant improvements in accuracy and performance compared to previous models, with applications in fields like healthcare, finance, and robotics.
The author's stock analysis repository evolved from an OLTP engine to a lakehouse, utilizing Apache Polaris, MinIO, and Iceberg for optimized queries. The lakehouse design allows for efficient reads and writes with minimal locking.
The Android 17 build has a bug in wcscspn() and wcspbrk() functions, which incorrectly stops scanning at the first character of a string greater than or equal to U+0100.
Electricity generation per person in the UK has declined by a third since its peak in 2003, with levels now matching those of the late 1960s. The decline is attributed to deindustrialization and improvements in energy efficiency rather than just changes in electricity imports.
Programming for the joy of programming itself - not for work, not for money, not for external requirements. "The goal isn't to become any of these programmers. It's to remember why you started coding and keep that curiosity alive alongside your career."
The BLS prohibits automated programs from accessing data without following their usage policy to prevent delays and ensure timely access. Users can report errors by contacting the BLS.
Ledger has found backdoors in some of its wallets sold in SouthEast Asia, allowing thieves to steal $102 million in crypto. Ledger is investigating and has asked the seller to halt sales until it can conduct a full investigation.
Eric Binnion received the Distinguished Janitor Award, Automattic's highest honor, and will receive an extra header in Nginx for 30 days. A physical memento of a tungsten cube was given to him during chemotherapy.
I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. C use computer · M use CD player · Z zoom TV · 1–6 monitor buttons
A project analyzes ELIZA program implementations as biological specimens, using phylogenetic methods to trace their evolution across decades and languages. The study identifies a basal clade of original ELIZA versions and derived simplifications, highlighting architectural similarities and divergences.
Kcgi is an open-source CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++ web applications, providing security features like sandboxing and process separation. It supports various features including auto-compression, authentication, caching, and formatted writers.
QuEra's AI model has developed control logic for its quantum computers, achieving expert-level performance and verifying it against independent measurement. The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) enables autonomous recovery in seconds, reducing downtime and increasing scalability.
Encora Therapeutics developed a wristband device to help patients with Parkinson's disease and essential tremor, after a 2017 MIT project showcased its effectiveness in reducing tremors. The company received FDA clearance in February for its device, which uses mechanical vibrations to send signals to the brain, and is now available for patients who qualify.
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PostEra is building an AI-first biotech to accelerate medicine discovery using its Proton platform. The company develops agentic research verticals for drug discovery, focusing on in-context learning and few-shot adaptation.
Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices sold through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant draining users' cryptocurrency wallets. The company is investigating and working with authorities to identify the perpetrator.
Say numbers out loud as randomly as you can. Before each one, a predictor in your browser seals its guess, and a split-flap board shows how far ahead of chance it gets.