Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

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User is impressed with Qwen 3.6, a local model that performs well as general intelligence. It recommends Qwen 3.6 27B for its balance of speed and power.

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

A native graphical shell for SSH

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A graphical shell called Outer Shell allows remote access to server apps via SSH, providing a home screen of apps with APIs for integration. This approach enables native, platform-tailored apps for work and HTML for casual use, raising the bar for web development.

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

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A Game Boy emulator, WATaBoy, was created to test the feasibility of using JIT-to-Wasm for console emulation on iOS. The emulator's JIT compiler running in Wasm was found to be ~1.2x faster than the interpreter running natively.

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

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The US Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment. The court held that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data, even if they are in public areas.

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

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A CUDA program is compiled into machine code that runs on a GPU, involving multiple compilers and transformations from PTX to SASS, and is then launched on the GPU through a complex process involving the CUDA runtime, driver, and kernel-mode driver. The GPU executes the kernel in parallel, using warps and scheduling control bits to hide latency and optimize performance, and eventually copies ...

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

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EuroISPA warns the European Commission that piracy blocking measures are becoming more extreme and causing overblocking incidents. The ISP organization argues that the Commission should prioritize implementing current law rather than introducing new enforcement obligations.

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

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An AI resume screening tool is flawed due to non-deterministic outputs from its LLM, leading to inconsistent scores. This tool fails to differentiate between qualified and unqualified candidates, essentially filtering based on luck rather than quality.

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

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The author shares their experience with astronomy and outdoor activities, presenting their telescope Wallace and its technical details. They also discuss the challenge of capturing the visual experience of hiking and trail running.

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

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In medieval Venice, factional divides led to violent street battles between the Castellani and Nicolotti, with bridges serving as platforms for these fights. The ritualized violence of these battles, known as the "guerre dei pugni," became a popular spectacle in Venice by the 17th century.

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

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Sandia National Laboratory built capacity to design and test ICs for radiation-hardened devices in the 1970s and 1980s for use in space missions and nuclear warheads. They successfully created the SA3000 processor, which could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with minimal performance reduction, and was used in the W88 nuclear warhead and other space applications.

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

The text discusses various aspects of programming such as correctness, efficiency, debuggability, and more. It proposes a new approach to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate code from separate documents for each concern.

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You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

The era of ultra-personalized ads has begun… https://t.co/0BVkbWJq5Y

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

Apollo Global Management's presentation is for informational purposes only and may not be distributed without consent. It does not constitute an offer to sell or buy any security, product, or service.

CachyOS June 2026 Release

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CachyOS has released its fourth update with new features and fixes including DNS-over-QUIC support and improved performance. The update includes various bug fixes and improvements to the installer, package manager, and desktop environment.

The Radiation Exposure Lie

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Chernobyl was the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster. The reactor was built to a flawed design. In 1986, its operators disabled automated safety systems and removed control rods to perform a late-night test. The coolant water overheated, speeding up the reaction until it flash-boiled into steam and violently shattered all the nuclear fuel in a matter of seconds. The graphite in the reactor ...

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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The CEO of Mullvad finances the far-right Swedish Örebro party, providing 70% of their funds. This has led to the party going nationwide, causing the user to lose trust in the service.

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

The author shares lessons learned from founding two companies, zynamics and optimyze, and discusses the importance of understanding one's motivations and target market before starting a company. They also provide insights into the different types of markets, fundraising strategies, and the dynamics between founders and investors in the venture capital industry.

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

Consumers in the US have sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron over alleged memory price fixing. The lawsuit claims the companies colluded to drive up D-RAM prices by 700% over four years.

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

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State-of-the-Art Coding Agents: Available in 9B-Dense, 31B-Dense, 35B-MoE, and 397B-MoE (post-trained on top of Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5), achieving state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks such as Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE-Bench, NL2Repo and OpenClaw. Self-Improving Training Framework: Ornith-1.0 employs RL to learn to generate not only solution ...

Decker Fantasy Camp 2026

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Summer is here, pack swim gear and snacks, and create games, toys, and visual novels with Decker. Check out the Decker community forum and Phinxel's Phield Notes for inspiration and tutorials.

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

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Google removed an article about Pollen's collapse from its search results due to a bogus copyright claim filed by a fake profile from an uninhabited island. The article's author suspects that Pollen or its former CEO hired reputation firms to file the claim, and is now investigating further lawsuits against the company.

Building Principia for Windows XP

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The user successfully built Principia, an open-source game, to run on Windows XP by creating a custom toolchain and resolving dependencies, including a patch for GCC's C++ standard library. The user then installed Windows XP on real hardware, installed drivers and updates, and successfully ran Principia on the vintage operating system.

Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

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A virtual machine on a NUMA host can be slow due to remote memory access costs, which can be mitigated by understanding the NUMA topology and making informed placement decisions. Xen's split design makes it challenging to manage NUMA, but Edera's stack of changes aims to make Xen-based virtualization NUMA-aware end-to-end, improving performance and predictability.

Rebuilding the Computer Room

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The author reminisces about the "computer room" of their childhood, where computers were bulky and had fixed locations, and how portable devices like laptops and smartphones have changed the way we interact with technology. The author now seeks to reintroduce boundaries and physical restrictions to minimize distractions and maintain a healthier relationship with technology.

Type-checked non-empty strings

A Haskell technique using RequiredTypeArguments and UndecidableInstances was employed to create a type-checked non-empty string constructor, resulting in a 10% build-time improvement in a large package. This technique can be used to define type-level predicates for any type, enabling type-safe validation and error messages.

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

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The user reverse engineered the ASIF file format used in macOS 26 Tahoe, discovering its structure and how to read from an arbitrary offset inside the virtual disk. The format uses a combination of tables, entries, and bitmaps to store and manage chunks of data, and the user provided a detailed explanation of how to calculate the correct chunk for a given offset.