Debian's APT tool will require Rust in May 2026, affecting unofficial ports without a working Rust toolchain, and some developers have expressed concerns about the impact and communication style of the change. The discussion highlights the challenges of supporting modern software on retro computing devices and the need for a consistent Debian policy for declaring statically linked libraries.
Chris and Yuhong from Onyx are building an open-source chat that works with any LLM, providing tools like RAG and web search. They aim to offer a secure, customizable, and user-friendly experience for teams to use LLMs.
Orion is a new browser that prioritizes user privacy and customization, built on WebKit and available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It offers features like Focus Mode, Link Preview, and Profiles as Apps, with a focus on security and user control.
FLUX.2 is a powerful image generation model that offers high-quality images, consistency, and control. It's designed for real-world creative workflows and is available in various models for different needs and budgets.
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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.
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.
As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy.…
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.
Roblox CEO David Baszucki expressed frustration over child safety concerns in an interview, echoing a familiar dismissive attitude from tech CEOs. The incident highlights a broader issue of platforms prioritizing growth over user safety, with leaders choosing to ignore or downplay concerns.
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.
Scientists identified five major brain development epochs from infancy to old age with four pivotal turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. The epochs include network consolidation, adolescence, adult mode, early ageing, and late ageing phases with distinct brain organisation and connectivity patterns.
Shimmer is a system that allows devices to discover nearby peers by comparing their environments cryptographically without disclosing raw details, using techniques like locality-sensitive hashing and MinHash. This approach offers an alternative to geolocation-based proximity detection and has potential applications in location-based multiplayer gaming, conference networking, and IoT ...
Signal filters are ubiquitous in electronics; on this blog alone, they cropped up in articles on digital-to-analog converters, radio receivers, audio amplifiers, and probably more. In principle, the relative simplicity of these circuits should make the underlying theory easy to self-study; in practice, most introductory texts rapidly devolve into a foul mix of EE jargon and calculus. On ...
The IT community has failed to learn from decades of software development and operational failures, resulting in a trillion-dollar cost to society. To reduce IT blunders, senior management must prioritize honesty, skepticism, and ethics, and treat software development with the respect it deserves.
The user recreated a popular Google video "I just want to serve 5TB" using AI technology Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana, completing the 4-minute short film in a single Saturday despite some glitches and inconsistencies.
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.
Techmeme celebrates 20 years of aggregating tech news, remaining consistent despite significant changes in technology and media. The site continues to evolve with new features and expansion into other news verticals.
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.
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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.
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.
The user discusses common data races in Go programming, including implicit capture of outer variables in closures, concurrent modification of shared data structures, and lack of synchronization in third-party libraries. They propose several solutions to prevent data races, such as using higher-level concurrency APIs, implementing deep clones, and running tests with the race detector enabled.
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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.
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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 user ranks every major version of the Windows GUI from 1985 to 2023 based on how they look now, giving each a rating from 1 to 10 Clippys. The user concludes that Windows 11 is the most refined version of the OS since 2000, with a clean and cohesive look, but criticizes its lack of customization and removal of features.
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.
You're interested in building a compiler for a masters-level class CIS531, which involves implementing a compiler in Racket programming language.