Go 1.26's new garbage collector, Green Tea, improves performance by reducing cache misses and increasing speed, but its impact on L3 cache is initially misleading. By analyzing L1 cache metrics, we see that Green Tea reduces L1 cache misses and improves overall performance, but Go still struggles with memory fragmentation due to its non-moving collector.
Decathlon is the first German retailer to use Wero, a European payment scheme that routes payments directly between bank accounts in real time. Wero aims to reduce processing costs and increase loyalty for retailers like Decathlon, but still lacks in-store point of sale functionality.
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, released under the Kimi K3 License for research, deployment, and further innovation.
This project creates self-contained Python distributions that can run on any system with minimal dependencies. The distributions can be customized and repackaged by downstream tools like PyOxidizer and PyOxy, which add functionality to the Python interpreter.
Researchers developed a small-molecule glue called CyclicFP-fmoc that bonds strongly to nonstick surfaces and can be easily removed with ethanol. The adhesive combines high strength, ductility, and washability, making it reusable and recyclable.
Microsoft has announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that delivers world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models, and Perception, an agentic security system for continuous monitoring and patching. The combined system, MDASH, uses MAI-Cyber-1-Flash to efficiently handle 90% of tasks, enabling the use of more costly models for exceptionally hard tasks, resulting in ...
In 1941, British codebreakers discovered a new German encryption system called Tunny, which was more advanced than Enigma, and they built a machine called Colossus to break the code. Colossus, the world's first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, was built by engineer Tommy Flowers and helped the Allies decipher encrypted messages, saving countless lives and shortening World War II.
A vulnerability was found in My Eicher's APIs, allowing hackers to gain high-level access and account takeover, potentially controlling hundreds of vehicles. The vulnerability was discovered in 2025 and fixed in November 2025, but not before exposing sensitive data of 275k vehicles and 115k customers.
The user encountered a problem while working on a bytecode VM, specifically how to efficiently store and retrieve line numbers for a chunk of bytecode. They discussed two solutions: run-length encoding and a static predecessor problem solved via binary search, which can be used for both sequential traversal and arbitrary lookups.
FeyNoBg is a state-of-the-art model for automatic background removal that outperforms or closely matches the best published results on eight benchmarks. It's based on BiRefNet and uses a library called NoBg for training and running the model.
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Misago's current implementation has issues with duplicated code and complexity. It can be simplified by using a JavaScript framework with server-side rendering like Next.js or Remix.run, and focusing on an API with React.js UI.
Paged Out! magazine Issue #9 is now available with over 70 items, articles, and artwork, and the editorial team is working on Issue #10 with a call for papers deadline of September 30, 2026. The magazine is also introducing a Patreon page to support its financial goals and making past issues available for purchase through Lulu.com.
A judge has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI, a company that scrapes Google's search results, citing that Google's "SearchGuard" measure is not designed to protect copyrighted content. The court ruled that Google's claims under the DMCA are subject to dismissal as they do not effectively control access to a copyrighted work.
Ray tracing has become a practical part of real-time graphics, but animated geometry still presents a difficult scaling problem. The paper Ray Tracing Massive Amounts of Animated Geometry by Gruen et al., winner of the third-place Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper) at High-Performance Graphics 2026, tackles a common production case: scenes with many complex objects that all deform ...
This project provides a shared library for SM64 movement and rendering code, allowing Mario to be easily integrated into existing game engines or systems. The library loads official SM64 ROMs at runtime for asset extraction and can be built and used with SDL2 and GLEW libraries.
ZFS scrubs measure a pool's performance headroom, revealing potential issues before they cause data loss. Delaying scrubs can lead to more severe problems, such as disk failures and data corruption.
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The author questions the value of Anthropic's acquisition of Bun and the company's large valuation, citing a lack of release tags and increasing open pull requests. The author suspects that the cost of the rewrite is higher than claimed, with potential off-the-books expenses and ongoing Anthropic employee involvement.
Infrawrench is a unified interface connecting to 25+ cloud providers, managing resources, and offering features like SSH terminals, Kubernetes management, and SQL editors. It also includes features like custom dashboards, secret management, and offline desktop app capabilities.
The user proposes a new mail system called HMTP (Hypertext Mail Transfer Protocol) that uses HTTP and replaces SMTP's design flaws, focusing on discovery, verification, delivery, and encryption over HTTP. HMTP uses standardized technologies like WebFinger, ActivityPub, Webmention, Ed25519, and HPKE to provide a secure, decentralized, and scalable mail system with features like first-contact ...
The user cleaned their 16-panel solar farm and saw a 2-5% increase in power output, worth £60-150 per year. They plan to upgrade the solar farm but are hesitant due to a change in feed-in tariff rules that would reduce their benefits.
The website uses Anubis to protect against aggressive AI scraping, which adds a Proof-of-Work load to make scraping more expensive. Users with plugins like JShelter need to disable them for this domain to access resources.
The discussion focuses on mathematical and physical arguments against continuity and in favor of discreteness, particularly Emile Borel's ideas. This is from a paper by Gregory J. Chaitin.
Michiyo Yasuda was a key color designer at Studio Ghibli, creating unique and nuanced colors for films like My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. Her subtle perception and attention to detail allowed her to convey emotions and realism in Ghibli's films, making her a master of her craft.
The author explores the concept of bugs in software and their ubiquity, discussing how even simple programs can exhibit computational irreducibility and unpredictability, making it difficult to guarantee bug-free behavior. The author uses examples from Turing machines and cellular automata to illustrate the challenges of predicting program behavior and the importance of computational ...
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Carl Brown invented a 10-string "harp-guitar" in 1896, which was later manufactured by the Gordon and Wurlitzer companies, and Rene Grunewald's firm also produced a similar instrument. The 10-string harp-guitar was marketed as a practical and useful instrument for beginners, with a tone resembling a mandolin and guitar, and was considered a radical improvement over the standard guitar.
PGSimCity is an independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals. It is not affiliated with, sponsored, endorsed, or approved by Electronic Arts Inc. SimCity is a trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. Early, unreviewed prototype. It almost certainly contains inaccuracies in both the model and explanations. Found one? Open an issue or send a pull request.