The author has retired Claude Code as their main coding harness due to frustrations with its features and stability. They're now using Pi, a more stable and customizable alternative that offers better performance and user experience.
The author shares their experience with the OpenStick, a $10 device that runs Debian and offers various useful services such as AdGuard Home for DNS blocking and Zeroclaw for AI agent management.
Apiiro is a control plane for agentic development security, offering various solutions to protect AI environments. It provides tools such as Guardian Agent and Auto Fix to secure agentic development.
cljrs is an experimental Clojure dialect targeting the Rust ecosystem. It aims to be a capable Lisp runtime with persistent data structures, a hosted macro system, and native interop — compiled or interpreted, suitable for use as an agentic coding runtime.
Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina developed high-voltage photography in 1939, leading to the field of Kirlian Photography. The process involves applying high voltage to an object, creating a corona discharge that is recorded onto film.
A math puzzle involves using exactly four 2s to generate a target number with basic operations. The challenge lies in finding the correct combination of mathematical tools, such as integrals and complex numbers, to achieve the desired result.
A PC game was ported to browser for nostalgic multiplayer, with no microtransactions or paid perks. The source code is available on GitHub and supporters get a Discord role in exchange for hosting costs.
When I started putting together this issue of ROM, I was seeing a lot of headlines and social media posts about stuff that, frankly, bummed me out. Surely exaggerated claims that it's joever for the Switch 2 ("Nintendo's worst nightmare!") because you can emulate it now (AI). A dozen new recomps a day (AI). A launcher for said recomps (AI). Play this or that in your browser ...
Researchers created MaxxBench to test how well coding models adapt to changes in familiar tasks, finding that some models rely on "hidden tests" rather than following the original requirements. This highlights a need for more robust benchmarking methods that evaluate a model's ability to generalize across different scenarios.
Physicists on the Manhattan Project were concerned that Nazi Germany might build a nuclear bomb before the US and its allies, but research suggests they didn't have enough uranium and heavy water to achieve criticality. The German team led by Werner Heisenberg underestimated the materials required for their reactor experiment, which would have needed significantly more resources than initially thought.
The new Overview page provides a compact readiness summary of merge status and next available actions, making it easier to find what's blocking progress. It also offers filtering options for unresolved conversations and comments, allowing users to focus the conversation.
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A Mac's knowledge graph is built by two daemons, analyzing content to create a general-purpose knowledge graph representing the device and user. The graph contains information about contacts, photos, calendar events, family relationships and more.
Discord's new Rust client is significantly faster and more efficient, loading the friends list in under a second compared to its Electron app. The new client uses about 70% less RAM with two accounts signed in simultaneously.
iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that skips YouTube ads and auto-mutes them, but may require device pairing due to changes in screen ID codes. It can be run on a computer with network access, either automatically or manually added with a YouTube TV code.
Attackers exploited default passwords and old firmware on European refrigeration supervisors, forcing defrost cycles. A decoy controller called ColdFrame mimics real units' web fingerprints to detect specific exploits and track attackers.
The author reflects on the reorganization of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers and its subsequent merger with Microsoft AI, citing incompatibilities between their research focus and the new organization's emphasis on scaling. The author has left AIF to pursue opportunities where research can lead to innovation and real-world impact.
The Commodore PET, first announced in January 1977, was the world's first personal computer. It featured a keyboard with a numeric pad and an operating system burned onto a ROM chip, running on a solid steel chassis.
The Amsterdam School was a Dutch architectural movement from 1910-1930 characterized by Expressionism and luxurious fantasy, with notable buildings in the Netherlands. The movement's influence was short-lived but had a lasting impact on Dutch architecture.
ZapFast is a WhatsApp client written in Rust with egui and fastframe, offering native desktop apps and encrypted chat storage. It allows users to send formatted text, media, and messages without linking to a server.
Apple has a "grey list" of over 100,000 words and phrases it restricts from being completed by its predictive text, including potentially sensitive topics. This list may be used to avoid offering inappropriate or offensive suggestions.
The Ox64 RISC-V computer can run Linux for $8, but initial setup is challenging due to hardware limitations. The author overcame hurdles such as UART programming and flashing the device using a serial bridge.
Asahi Linux 7.3 has been released with upstreaming work progressing, including support for macaudio and avd drivers. The project is shifting towards an upstream-first approach, enabling Thunderbolt support and improving performance for gaming on Asahi Linux.
A group of photographers have taken pictures of processor chips, with over 350 images from 1972 to 2024. The photos are available online and can be viewed by clicking on individual chips, showing their size in comparison to others.
The author discusses two influential books, Zen of Assembly Language and Programmers at Work, which shaped their thinking on programming. These books offer unique approaches to problem-solving and code structure, focusing on practical applications rather than theoretical concepts.
A recent genetic study suggests that the Goths originated from Scandinavia, contradicting long-held historical views. The findings indicate that migration played a significant role in spreading Gothic language and culture across Europe, with Scandinavian ancestry present in many regions until it eventually vanished.
GeoWorks was a GUI-based operating system developed in the 1980s that ran on low-power hardware, making it suitable for home users with limited resources. Although it failed to gain widespread adoption, GeoWorks' influence can be seen in various products such as Palm PDAs and Nokia smartphones.
The author, a lawyer, uses Free software for their law firm's operations and personal life. They utilize various tools like LibreOffice, pandoc, vim, Firefox and Signal for tasks such as document production and communication.
Alarm Mode wakes you with any cartridge. Press the button to snooze, or pull the cart to stop Build Mixtapes from across your collection and flash them to writable carts to woo your crush, '80s style An open API for developers: read, flash and back up carts, grab Game Boy Camera® frames, and more, all via web requests
Ira Velinsky's design work significantly contributed to Commodore's global success, transforming the company's products from industrial designs to ergonomic and lifestyle-oriented aesthetics. His iconic designs for the CBM-II series and other models are often overlooked in favor of Porsche Design Studio, despite his crucial role in shaping Commodore's visual identity.