Netflix acquires Warner Bros. in a $82.7 billion deal, combining iconic franchises and libraries. The acquisition creates a stronger entertainment industry with more choice and value for consumers.
Cloudflare experienced a 25-minute outage on December 5, 2025, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic due to a bug in its rules module. The issue was caused by a change to its body parsing logic to mitigate a React Server Components vulnerability.
CachyOS has released its seventh update with improved accessibility, mkinitcpio changes, and more. Key updates include Orca and espeak-ng support, mkinitcpio systemd hook, and Bcachefs integration.
Gemini 3 Pro is a multimodal model that excels in document, spatial, screen, and video understanding with state-of-the-art performance. It can accurately detect and recognize text, tables, math formulas, and figures in real-world documents.
To ensure exactly-once processing in distributed systems, consumers can use idempotency keys to identify and ignore duplicate messages. The choice of idempotency key depends on the system's requirements, with UUIDs suitable for low-volume systems and monotonically increasing sequences or log-based approaches more suitable for high-volume systems.
The author emphasizes the importance of defensive programming in Rust, where the compiler is used to enforce rules and prevent bugs from occurring in the first place. By following specific patterns and best practices, developers can write more robust and maintainable code that is less prone to errors and easier to understand.
A company had significant technical debt due to outdated code and lack of unit tests. A project to port Windows-only modules to Linux only addressed symptoms, not the underlying people problems that created the debt.
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Mohamad, a 17-year-old from the SF Bay Area, built the official mobile app for HCB, a financial platform for 6,500 teenager-led nonprofits. The app allows users to accept donations, issue debit cards, and manage finances from their pocket.
The author chose Zig for Lightpanda due to its simplicity and performance, preferring it over C++ and Rust for the project's specific needs. They appreciate Zig's explicit memory management, comptime metaprogramming, and C interoperability, which fit well with the project's requirements.
A California judge has tentatively sided with Software Freedom Conservancy in its GPL case against Vizio over SmartCast TVs, pending a final outcome. The case involves Vizio's failure to provide source code for Linux and other software licensed under GPL and LGPL.
The user is asking for the smallest CSS code to print the Fizz Buzz sequence. They provide a four-line CSS solution but mention that it can likely be further minimized.
Bausch & Lomb's prescription dry eye drug Miebo costs $800+ in the US, but its European counterpart EvoTears is available OTC for $20.
The user created a hobby project called Time Waster Pro, a browser extension that serves random small websites to users, allowing them to upvote or downvote content. The goal is to provide a simple, ad-free experience that promotes discovery of niche content.
Our world relies on the sea more than ever: 80% of goods traded worldwide move by ship.1 Today’s mariners take it for granted that they can get an accurate chart of the tides for any location on Earth. This would not have been possible without the work of countless scientists through history. The first workable solution, Lord Kelvin’s tide-predicting machines, came in the 1870s. They were ...
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Daniel from Onlook is hiring Founding Engineers for a fast-growing open-source project, requiring expertise in Typescript, NextJS, React, and Tailwind. The role offers $130k-200k salary, 1-5% equity, and great benefits.
Researchers from the University of Zurich and others found that increased national advertising expenditure is linked to lower life satisfaction in European countries. This relationship holds even after adjusting for various factors, suggesting that high levels of advertising may negatively impact societal well-being.
The UniFi 5G Max lineup delivers a sleek, powerful 5G internet experience with easy deployment and flexible placement. It offers dual SIM capabilities, ultra-low latency, and WAN flexibility with UniFi routing policies and SLAs.
David Bather Woods' biography portrays Arthur Schopenhauer as a pessimistic philosopher who believed life is a business that doesn't cover its costs. He advocated for thinking for oneself and compassion, leading to his abolitionist and animal rights views.
The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.
Netflix uses AV1, a modern open video codec, to deliver high-quality streaming to its members, achieving 30% viewing share and reducing bandwidth consumption. AV1's superior compression efficiency and features like HDR and film grain synthesis enhance the streaming experience, with AV2 on the horizon to further improve streaming capabilities.
MetaComputing offers an ARM-based mainboard that can be installed in the Framework Laptop 13 or mini PC case, providing 8 performance cores and an ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU. The MetaComputing ARM AI PC Kit costs $549 for the base model and $999 with a Framework Laptop 13.
The user has been developing a dynamically-typed programming language called Plush with actor-based parallelism and a garbage collector, and has implemented a VM design that allows for efficient message passing between actors. The language now supports graphics and audio output, and the user is seeking contributors to help with profiling and investigating performance issues and writing demo programs.
The author chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle due to its exceptional quality, philosophy, and simplicity. Zig's favorable ratio of expressivity to language complexity and its approach to safety made it the best choice for TigerBeetle's needs.
BMW PHEV owners face high costs due to over-engineered diagnostic procedures and expensive replacement parts. This results in unnecessary waste and increased CO2 footprint.
The SerpApi MCP Server is a hosted service that integrates with search engines for data extraction, requiring an API key for connection. It supports various search parameters and result types, with examples provided for local development and testing.
Nimony is a new language that evolved from Nim, offering improved error handling and meta-programming features. It aims to support hard real-time and embedded systems with a memory-safe language.
A couple months back I created nluarepl. It’s a REPL for the Neovim Lua interpreter with a little twist: It’s using the Debug Adapter Protocol. And before that, I worked on hprofdap. Also a kind of a REPL using DAP that lets you inspect Java heap dumps (.hprof files) using OQL. As the name might imply, a REPL isn’t the main use case for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP). From the DAP page: The ...
A terminal workspace with batteries included