Pebble watch software is now 100% open source, ensuring long-term reliability through decentralization. Core Devices, the company behind the relaunch, is self-funded and aims to continue manufacturing Pebble watches as long as it stays profitable.
The user improved their Raspberry Pi NTP server's frequency stability by 81% and reduced frequency standard deviation by 77% through CPU core pinning and thermal stabilization using a PID-controlled thermal load. This "time burner" system maintains a stable thermal environment for the crystal oscillator, keeping its frequency consistent and achieving an RMS offset of 35 nanoseconds.
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz used brain organoids to study the brain's earliest electrical activity, finding that it occurs in structured patterns without external experiences. This suggests the human brain is preconfigured with instructions about how to navigate and interact with the world.
SSDs can lose data if left unpowered for years, especially those with TLC or QLC NAND, which can retain data for up to 3 years and 1 year respectively. To prevent data loss, use alternate storage media and invest in a backup system.
Anthropic's Claude AI agent uses three features to improve tool use workflows: Tool Search Tool, Programmatic Tool Calling, and Tool Use Examples. These features reduce token consumption, latency, and improve accuracy by enabling dynamic discovery, efficient execution, and reliable invocation of tools.
Researchers developed a new approach to solid knitting, using a 2D array of needles to create 3D shapes. This approach allows for more complex designs and reduced constraints on stitch connection.
Between 1951 and 1992, the US conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site, with 100 atmospheric tests visible from Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The tests drew tourists and were often covered in newspapers with photographs, showcasing the morbid fascination with nuclear weapons at the time.
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cool-retro-term is a customizable terminal emulator mimicking old cathode tube screens. It's available for Linux and macOS, with packages in most distributions or downloadable from the Releases page.
Bills of Mortality were printed in London from 1530, listing deaths and causes, with a weekly circulation of 5000-6000 copies. They were sold for a penny, showing people's morbid curiosity and a profit motive.
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You're interested in building a compiler for a masters-level class CIS531, which involves implementing a compiler in Racket programming language.
OCR Arena is a free playground for testing and evaluating leading foundation VLMs and open source OCR models side-by-side. Upload a document, measure accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.
Claude Opus 4.5 is a new AI model available today, offering improved efficiency and capabilities in coding, agents, and computer use. It's now more accessible with a lower price point of $5/$25 per million tokens.
The Windows 95 user interface was brought to the Windows NT code base by implementing new features and behaviors based on the Windows 95 code as a reference implementation. The Windows NT team used various methods to protect the changes and ensure compatibility with the existing Windows 95 code, including using macros and typedefs to handle differences in character sets.
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Google is developing Aluminium OS, a unified Android-based operating system for PCs, to compete with Windows and macOS. Aluminium OS will replace ChromeOS, with a transition strategy including legacy support and optional migration for existing Chromebooks.
HelixGuard detected over 300 NPM registry components poisoned with malware that steals sensitive information and exfiltrates it via GitHub Actions. The malware, similar to the 'Shai-Hulud' attack, uses TruffleHog for secret scanning and achieves worm-like propagation by modifying package.json and using stolen tokens.
Within Google there is a series of videos starring “Broccoli Man” poking fun at the experience of building software as a Googler. One of these, “I just want to serve 5TB”, circulated extremely widely and ended up getting published publicly to YouTube. It’s a Google cultural classic that still resonates 15 years later (though with mostly different specifics thwarting Googlers’ ability to ...
The history of LLM extension over the last three years has seen various mechanisms emerge, from simple system prompts to complex client-server protocols, with the goal of allowing end users to customize these systems. The latest development, Agent Skills, represents a significant step towards this goal, allowing users to give agents instructions and generic tools, and trusting them to do the ...
The author argues that modern C++ requires a fundamental shift in understanding, as it has evolved into a language of thought that describes models and evaluates itself at compile time, rather than just a tool for system-level programming. To truly master modern C++, developers must relearn the language from the ground up, embracing concepts, metaprogramming, and compile-time mechanisms to ...
The author tested Google's Gemini 3 model and found it to be very good at coding and general tasks. It can work with code to do anything on a computer, making it a general-purpose tool.
The author presents a nuanced view of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) by examining its various features, including encapsulation, inheritance, and message passing, and discusses their pros and cons. The article argues that OOP encourages certain programming styles that can lead to performance issues, scattered code, and unnecessary complexity, but also provides benefits such as open ...
Google Cloud's Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has successfully scaled to 130,000 nodes, twice the officially supported limit, and sustained Pod throughput of 1,000 Pods per second. This extreme scalability is made possible by architectural innovations such as a strongly consistent API server watch cache and a proprietary key-value store based on Google's Spanner distributed database.
The author compares the performance and fairness of Rust's standard Mutex and parking_lot's Mutex, finding that parking_lot's Mutex is more predictable and fair under heavy contention, but standard Mutex is faster in low-contention scenarios. The author recommends using parking_lot's Mutex when risk of monopolization exists or when fairness is crucial, but standard Mutex is sufficient for ...
DDR5 RAM prices have surged due to AI demand, with a 64 GB kit costing $599, a 190% increase in just 2 months. Experts predict DRAM and NAND constraints will continue through 2026 as Big Tech pursues AGI, affecting consumer prices.
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