Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Bashblog is a simple script to create a blog by posting entries to a public folder on a server. It works on GNU/Linux, OSX, and BSD.

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster with Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. Set up static IPs, MTU, and trust the interface in the firewall, then install the toolbox and run the cluster with Ray and RCCL.

OpenRA

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OpenRA playtest features new random map generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000. The update includes balance overhauls, difficulty adjustments, and UI improvements for map-making.

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

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Wayfinder is a prompt router that decides whether to send a prompt to a local or cloud model based on its structure and wording. It reads the shape of a prompt and difficulty cues in the wording to determine the routing decision.

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

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The MWCC GC/2.0 compiles and diffs code, requiring exact byte matches. It's a decompilation challenge for GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, graded by a Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler.

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Encrypted DNS options like DoH and DoT add latency but often have similar whole-page load times as plain DNS. However, they provide better security and some providers have minor overhead.

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Fintech systems require careful handling of money to prevent errors and ensure trust. Key patterns include idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation, and event sourcing to maintain accurate and reliable financial records.

Engineering for Bounded Cognition

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The human mind can only hold about four things at once, and even that is a narrow beam of attention that misses much of what is happening around it. This limited capacity is the root of many software problems, but it can also be the key to good engineering, which is about shaping systems to work with the way minds actually work.

Reflecting to optimise

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If you want to find the best fold, you need to use a different function. this is because the gradient is actually based on the same function in probability space as the parameter vector you are calculating from logit space. the form of the dual space depends on norm of your vector space, so it’s not easy to say which method works best for your specific problem. in this article, i’m going to ...

From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art

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Jim Parkinson — lettering artist, type designer, and painter — died today at his home in Oakland, California, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. He is survived by his wife, the book artist Dorothy A. Yule, who was not only his life partner since 2010, but also a dedicated nurse during Jim’s years of dementia. Born in Oakland on October 23, 1941, Jim grew up across the street from Abraham ...

A stray "j" ruined my evening

User created a link shortener script, but noticed issues with Gurk, a Signal TUI, when copying links ending in 'j'. The issue was due to ANSI newline delimiter being translated as 'j' at the end of links.

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

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The team responsible for shell32.dll received a bug saying that they were responsible for a large number of crashes in a particular third party program. Opening the crash dumps showed the clear signs of a stack overflow: # Child-SP RetAddr Call Site 00 000000ba`92851098 00007ff9`fed521c1 ntdll!_chkstk+0x37 01 000000ba`928510b0 00007ff9`feea5ace ntdll!RtlDispatchException+0x2d1 02 ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

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ClickHouse Cloud built WAL-RUS, a Rust-based Postgres backup tool for predictable memory usage. WAL-RUS is compatible with WAL-G and reduces memory consumption by over 70% while maintaining archival throughput.

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

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Regular expressions vary across tools, but a subset of features work everywhere, including . ^ $ [...] * \w \W \s \S \1 - \9 \b \B ? + | {n,m} (...) capturing.

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

The user created a "Town Square" feature on their website, allowing visitors to see each other as stick figures and interact. They've open sourced it and made it available for others to integrate into their sites.

Experimenting with Random() in CSS

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The user discusses the CSS random() function and its uses in creating interesting designs, patterns, and backgrounds, including a bokeh effect, a cherry blossom animation, and a stack of Polaroid photos. The user also explores the combination of random() with other CSS features, such as style queries and animations, to create unique visual effects.

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

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Wireless technology relies on radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that are difficult to design due to their complex electromagnetic properties. Researchers have developed AI algorithms that can design RFICs more efficiently and effectively than human designers, potentially revolutionizing the field.

The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

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The movie Good Will Hunting highlights the difference between expertise and wisdom, with the character Will having knowledge but lacking experience, while Sean has lived through life's challenges. This moment emphasizes the importance of lived experiences in creating meaningful work.

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

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The case for physical media ownership

Digital purchases are often revocable licenses, not actual files, and can be removed by stores without notice. Physical media, such as discs and books, cannot be remotely erased and can be owned, resold, and lent indefinitely.

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)

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The author took a 3-month sabbatical in 2020 to finish an album, which transformed their music-making process into a repeatable routine. They learned to focus on quantity over quality, releasing 4 songs as an EP and many more over the following year.

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

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Discontinuities in tax policies, subsidies, and other systems can lead to people behaving in ways that are not optimal, such as losing money to reduce taxes or manipulating grades. Smoothing out these discontinuities can help mitigate these issues, and techniques like randomization can be used to achieve this.

Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use

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A DNS resolver server is configured on a router to resolve local domains automatically, storing records in a zone file and caching responses. The server can be used with VPNs like vless, and its configuration involves setting up DNS servers and routing rules to direct traffic correctly.

Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025)

To add an extra layer of security to a web browser or Electron-based IM application, use LXC to isolate the application from the host system. This involves creating an unprivileged container with network capabilities and mapping UIDs and GIDs to unused host IDs.

From Pentagons to Pentagrams

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Galois conjugation maps regular pentagons to regular pentagrams and vice versa. This map preserves field operations and interchanges two kinds of quasiparticles in icosahedral quasicrystals.

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

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Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier AI model, in Tokyo, targeting Japanese businesses and government agencies to reduce export control exposure. The move comes as the US government's ban on Anthropic's models drags on, with local alternatives like Sakana and China's 360 filling the gap.

DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

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DeepSpec: a full-stack codebase for training and evaluating speculative decoding algorithms - DeepSpec/DSpark_paper.pdf at main · deepseek-ai/DeepSpec