Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.
GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.
arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.
Z-Image is a powerful image generation model with 6B parameters, offering sub-second inference latency and photorealistic image generation. It has three variants: Z-Image-Turbo, Z-Image-Base, and Z-Image-Edit, supporting bilingual text rendering and creative image editing.
Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized hardware accelerator that has enabled the company to excel in artificial intelligence, thanks to its focus on neural network inference and training. The TPU's design, which involves a systolic array and a scalar unit, has been optimized for performance and power efficiency, allowing it to outperform general-purpose processors in certain tasks.
Perl's growth was hindered by its culture, which was rooted in conservative UNIX sysadmin values and a tribal meritocracy, making it difficult for the language to evolve and adapt to changing needs. The language's culture and values, such as its emphasis on flexibility and its reluctance to change, ultimately led to its decline in popularity, but it remains widely used and influential in the ...
A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.
Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025, at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, to help install Linux on laptops. Several people with Linux experience will be present, and short trainings may be held on various topics.
The user successfully used Claude's headless mode in a continuous loop to decompile Snowboard Kids 2 functions, achieving more progress in 3 weeks than in 3 months. They developed a workflow and tooling approach to manage Claude's autonomy, including a scorer and defensive coding to mitigate failures and optimize token efficiency.
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Infisical is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build and expand its open source security infrastructure platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical mastery of JavaScript and a bias toward action, with experience in devops and open source development.
Dycus built a low-resolution black-and-white camera using an old optical mouse sensor after 65 hours of work. The camera has multiple shooting modes, a 3D-printed body, and can capture recognizable images despite its low resolution.
The user's career started at Etak in 1985, where they helped design and build a production line for digital maps, which were then used in navigation systems. The user notes that collecting map data has become increasingly complex over the years, especially with the rise of autonomous vehicles requiring highly detailed maps.
NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by Sipeed, but it has serious security issues including default passwords and a hardcoded encryption key, and it also contains a built-in microphone that can record audio. The device's security flaws are likely due to rushed development, but there are ways to install custom software and remove the microphone, and similar devices with hidden ...
The user wants to find AV1-encoded videos in their media library to convert them before upgrading their iPhone. They've written a test using MediaInfo to check if a video uses AV1 and scans a folder using glob.
The author read a book on San Francisco's history and became curious about Huckleberry House, a home for runaways founded in the late 1960s. She visited the San Francisco Public library and discovered the house's archives, including letters from teens to its founder, which inspired her to pursue her own non-profit, Nautilus.
The user set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager, on a Ryzen 7 Mini PC with Proxmox virtualization. They configured it to run via Tailscale VPN and used immich-go to improve upload reliability and handle Google Takeout archives.
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.
The author searched for a José Saramago quote on Google but couldn't find it, leading to paranoia about censorship. The quote was found when the author tried the full phrase "God is the silence of the universe."
It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Astronaut Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews: "I left my Hasselblad camera there with the lens pointing up at the zenith, the idea being someday someone would come back and find out how much deterioration ...
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.
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.
The author is working on a project to port PalmOS to the Pixter Color, a toy device from the early 2000s, and has made significant progress, including creating a Pixter Color emulator and designing a board with a 1MB NOR flash for the OS. The author has also overcome several challenges, including the lack of a cache, MMU, and MPU in the Pixter Color's SoC, and has implemented a scheme to ...
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Rev 1.1 introduces several key upgrades including improved connectivity, power management, and audio routing. It also features a new LoRa transceiver, HDMI connector, and Haptic Engine 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.
Wolfram Compute Services allows users to scale up computations by sending them to a cloud-based system, providing access to supercomputer power. The service is easy to use, programmable, and offers various options for machine selection, notification, and job management.
I resigned from Intel to accept a new opportunity. I contributed to AI flame graphs, cloud strategy, and customer meetings during my 3.5 years at Intel.
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