Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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The user discusses Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), a hack that allows running Linux on Windows 9x without virtualization. It uses Windows 9x's VMM services to run Linux cooperatively with the Windows kernel.

3.4M Solar Panels

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The system has 96 gb of ddr5 ram clocked at 4,800 mt/s and a crucial t700 4 tb nvme m.2 ssd which can read at speeds up to 12,400 mb/s. it is running ubuntu 24 lts via microsoft's ubuntu for windows on windows 11 pro x64 based pc with qemu gps vmware and duck

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

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GitHub CLI sends pseudoanonymous telemetry to help improve the product by understanding feature usage. You can review the telemetry implementation and opt-out using environment variables or configuration options.

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

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Google introduces TPU 8t and TPU 8i, two custom chips for AI training and inference, designed to power supercomputers and drive cutting-edge model development. The 8th generation TPUs deliver scale, efficiency, and capabilities for training, serving, and agentic workloads.

The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

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At Google, our TPU design philosophy has always been centered on three pillars: scalability, reliability, and efficiency. As AI models evolve from dense large language models (LLMs) to massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) and reasoning-heavy architectures, the hardware must do more than just add floating point operations per second (FLOPS); it must evolve to meet the specific operational ...

How the heck does GPS work?

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GPS uses satellites to measure distance by timing signal delays, then uses multiple satellites to pinpoint location. The system accounts for clock errors, gravity, and speed to provide accurate positions within a few meters.

Making RAM at Home [video]

Another Day Has Come

It’s a profoundly different feeling today than the last time Apple’s CEO announced his transition to chairman of the board, and his chosen successor was promoted to replace him as CEO. In August 2011, Steve Jobs was sick. For years he’d managed to stay a step, sometimes two, ahead of the pancreatic cancer he’d been battling since 2003, but no more. Jobs wrote, in his letter to the company’s ...

ChatGPT Images 2.0

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

The Linux kernel is removing the amateur radio protocol implementation and drivers due to unmaintained code and increasing security-bug reports from large language models. This removal aims to reduce the number of things to review and increase kernel security.

Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?

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Uber's ledger system on DynamoDB was a costly failure due to high write costs and storage expenses. The company eventually migrated to its own internal ledger, LSG, built on top of DocStore, after realizing the mistake.

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

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Something I didn't understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn't a totally bespoke, foreign concept in the realm of databases. It's still of the relational abstraction. Or can be. This represents a table in a relational database. Let's assume this was a table in a relational database and we had to do all sorts of ...

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

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Matt Godbolt wrote an article on why x86 compilers use xor eax, eax to zero a register, citing its compactness. However, sub eax, eax is a viable alternative with similar execution time and better flag behavior, but xor won due to swarming and special CPU detection.

Laws of Software Engineering

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Complex systems evolve from simple ones and have inherent irreducible complexity. Understanding technology and managing it are often mutually exclusive, and quantifiable things can be measured for better outcomes.

All your agents are going async

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The current limitations of HTTP-based chatbots are being addressed by new features such as async agents, workflows, and durable state storage, but these solutions still rely on polling or HTTP requests for notifications. A more robust solution is needed, such as a durable transport and state solution, which is being developed by Ably, a company building a session-based platform for AI agents.

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

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Researchers developed a smart contact lens that tracks glaucoma in real time and delivers medicine in response to eye pressure. The electronics-free lens uses microfluidics to sense pressure and release drugs, offering a more comfortable and user-friendly option for glaucoma treatment.

Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter

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Researchers developed PrfaaS to improve large-scale LLM serving by offloading long-context prefill to separate clusters and transferring KVCache over Ethernet. This design increases serving throughput by 54% and 32% compared to homogeneous and naive heterogeneous baselines.

I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore

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Using chained methods like map and filter can lead to complex pipelines that are hard to debug and understand. Breaking code into explicit steps is often clearer and more maintainable, especially for large arrays or complex logic.

Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows

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Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

The safe-gc crate is a garbage collection library for Rust that uses zero unsafe code, providing a safe API for users to consume and manage garbage collected objects. It implements simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection and avoids common garbage collection footguns, such as use-after-free bugs and memory leaks, by using Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline.

MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation

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MuJoCo is a physics engine for simulating articulated structures, used in robotics, biomechanics, and machine learning. It has a C API and Python bindings, with interactive visualization and utility functions for physics-related quantities.

CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes

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China's CATL unveiled a new lithium-iron phosphate battery, Shenxing 3.0, with faster charging speeds and improved cold-weather performance. It can charge from 10 to 98 percent in 6 minutes and 27 seconds, outperforming BYD's Blade 2.0 in similar conditions.

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM

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The author compared Windows Server 2025 on Intel and ARM systems, finding ARM to be faster due to consistent performance and lower latency. ARM's steady execution timing benefits virtualized environments, but Intel's peak performance is still ideal for workloads requiring high throughput.

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

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A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.

Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

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A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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GitHub Copilot's Individual plans are changing to protect existing customers by pausing new sign-ups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. These changes aim to ensure a predictable experience for existing users while a more sustainable solution is developed.

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

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Acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people, but both have risks, especially if taken incorrectly. Official sources don't clearly state this due to complexity and fear of giving medical advice, prioritizing safety labels over comparative safety information.

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment

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NASA's Curiosity rover found over 20 organic compounds on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule linked to DNA, suggesting Mars can preserve life's building blocks. The discovery supports the idea that Mars may have had conditions suitable for life 3.5 billion years ago.