See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.
The user migrated their blog from a 10-year-old Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 to a Hetzner virtual machine with FreeBSD, citing security concerns with the outdated Ubuntu system. They set up a FreeBSD server with Jails and Bastille for managing Jails.
The user experienced visual fatigue while using a cluttered search engine but found relief with Kagi, a paid search engine offering ad-free search and customizations. Kagi's features, such as lenses, bangs, and custom CSS, helped the user navigate search results more efficiently with low vision.
Freenet is a decentralized platform for apps, allowing peer-to-peer communication, collaboration, and commerce without relying on big tech. It's a global network of peers, with apps running in browsers, unstoppable and secure.
Google is testing new ad formats with Gemini models to provide helpful answers and connect people with businesses. The formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, and Business Agent for Leads, designed to make decision-making easier and more confident.
The author built a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server, "grumbl", for $48K to support independent research, and calculated that it would take a year of 85%+ utilization to match cloud rental rates. The server has paid for itself and now saves the author $90-$105 per day.
The author is a hacker who splits his year between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, struggling to edit his massive video archive. He built a custom indexer using Claude Code and DaVinci Resolve to make his archive queryable in English.
Spotify's new feature "Reserved" sets aside concert tickets for premium subscribers, giving them a better chance at buying them. The feature will be available in the US this summer, partnering with Live Nation to identify dedicated fans.
Seattle Shield is a secretive public-private network sharing intelligence with law enforcement, including corporations and military agencies, to prevent terrorism but raises concerns about accountability and potential misuse. The network has been criticized for labeling protesters as potential terrorists and creating a surveillance system of informants that benefits private economic interests.
Runtime is a platform that connects environments, automates tasks, and provides live visibility into every session, allowing teams to build, deploy, and manage coding agents from a single dashboard. It offers customizable sandboxes, integrations, and guardrails, and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with policies and audit logs following the team across both.
Waymo's robotaxi got stuck in a flooded Atlanta street, prompting the company to pause service in the city. Waymo is investigating the incident and has faced previous issues with its robotaxis, including illegal passing of stopped school buses and a crash in Santa Monica.
Python 3.15.0b1 introduces features like lazy imports, tachyon profiler, and improved asyncio with TaskGroup cancellation. New features also include ContextDecorator improvements, threading utilities, and enhancements to collections.Counter and json.load/json.loads.
BBEdit 16 offers a free upgrade for licensed customers who purchased after November 1, 2025, and paid upgrades for earlier customers. It includes over 100 new features, improved performance, and notable additions like image text search and customizable color schemes.
Flipper One is a massive open-source project that aims to create a truly open Linux hardware platform with full mainline Linux kernel support, expandable hardware, and a custom GUI framework. The project is seeking community help to overcome technical and financial challenges, and contributors can participate in various sub-projects, including hardware, software, and user interface development.
On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the Trinity test, a massive explosion above a New Mexico desert. The test captured on film and witnessed by scientists and soldiers was an awe-inspiring, blindingly bright event.
Hardware tessellation as we know it today (Dx11-style) had its origins on the Xbox 360, which released in 2005. Time flies, right? It was a natural step in the evolution toward film-quality realtime rendering. After all, tessellation was a key component of the original Pixar Reyes paper [7]. Now that it’s 20+ years later, we have more experience with the algorithm, and hardware tessellation ...
Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail created Agent.Email, a signup flow for AI agents, to address the irony of agents needing human credentials. They're seeking feedback on their restricted-until-claimed trust model and exploring additional security measures for secure sign-ups.
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ParadeDB is building a cloud-based managed service for its Postgres extension. They seek a distributed systems engineer with Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres expertise.
Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.
Major news publishers are blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns about AI companies scraping their content. Over 340 local news sites in the US are limiting the Internet Archive's access, with some citing concerns about intellectual property and others wanting to control how their content is used.
The user created a project called git-commit-folders that allows users to explore their Git repository as a filesystem where every commit is a folder, aiming to give users intuition on how Git works under the hood. The project uses FUSE, NFS, and WebDav to mount the filesystem, but the user encountered several issues, including duplicated code, NFS stale file handle errors, and performance ...
Google's new Antigravity update unexpectedly replaced the user's preferred IDE with a conversational prompt box, breaking their workflow. The user had to completely purge their system and reinstall the legacy IDE to restore functionality, losing their chat history and settings in the process.
The user praises uv's speed but criticizes its poor CLI experience, especially when updating dependencies. They suggest improvements, including a dedicated outdated command and safer default version constraints.
Users listed various types of calculators and related items from different brands and languages. They also mentioned related topics like history, museum, and collection.
Redis offers persistence, complex data operations, and native sharding, but is more complex. Memcached is simpler, faster for basic caching, but lacks persistence and flexibility.
Researchers improved AI agents by allowing multiple parallel streams of computation, enabling simultaneous reading and writing, and improving efficiency, security, and monitorability. This change remedies limitations in chat models, such as inability to act while reading or thinking.
Vivaldi 8.0 offers a unified design with more control, capability, and choice, featuring a new look and improved interface. The browser includes six preset layouts and a wide range of customizable settings to adapt to individual preferences.
The Eigenpal Docx Editor is an open-source WYSIWYG editor for React and Vue with real-time collaboration and tracked changes. It has a framework-agnostic core and agent-ready features, with a live demo and documentation available.
Manu Moreale's plea for support resonated deeply, highlighting a disconnect between digital consumption and active engagement. As consumers of independent content, we have a collective responsibility to reciprocate with human connection, not just financial support.
A man who lost his sense of taste and smell after catching Covid had both senses restored after chewing specially-developed flavoured gum for 12 weeks. The trial, led by Dr Nicole Yang, saw 67% of participants improve their sense of smell and 83% their taste.