The IRCv3 Working Group develops and tests changes to the IRC client protocol, with specifications including RFC1459 and RFC2812. The group also defines extensions for easier development of advanced client features.
X Corp. sent cease and desist letters to Nitter, demanding its takedown and threatening legal action. The project's developer is seeking funding and legal help to fight the demands.
Developers often fail to write effective documentation, relying on assumptions rather than real user feedback. Testing with real users, even paying for their time, leads to significantly better documentation.
LineageOS 24.0 is released, celebrating its 10-year milestone and featuring Android 17-based updates with security patches from August 2025 to October 2026.
A system one decision model uses a single pass to generate output by selecting the highest probability option from a constrained set, but may not guarantee accuracy. Calibrating the model's confidence scores through temperature scaling can improve its accuracy and match its true probabilities.
The original simulation combined a 2D rigid body with simple models of a car, ship and brick. It used proper rigid-body physics to handle rotation and added a vehicle simulation layer for tyres, which was an approximate but effective model at the time.
The rise of AI-generated art raises questions about the value of human creativity and involvement in creative processes. While some people may prefer human-made content, others are open to AI-created works, with 97% of listeners unable to distinguish between AI-generated and non-AI tracks.
The rat compiler backend uses a priority bin-packing allocator to map virtual registers to physical registers, with heuristics for handling live ranges and spills. The allocator also implements coalescing and hints to improve code generation.
A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.
The author proposes the "Lightbulb Computer," a device that combines a projector with computer vision, allowing users to interact with information in their real-world environment. This device aims to provide a more natural and convivial way of computing, reducing distractions and promoting social interactions.
Git stores commit data as zlib compressed objects, with overhead depending on file size and complexity. The actual storage space required for a commit can be significantly less than the original file size due to compression.
This project transforms the PSP 1000 into a modern handheld using a Raspberry Pi, offering various features and technical details. The PSPi 6 is an open-source hardware design available for purchase or DIY assembly.
Researchers have developed a method to create large language models that operate directly on the byte encoding of text, avoiding the limitations of subword tokenization. This approach, called "byteification," allows for more efficient processing and better performance in domains requiring fine-grained textual understanding.
A roboticist can be "nerd sniped" by presenting them with a controversial definition of a robot, which is not just about technical functionality but also social construct. The term "robot" has evolved over time and is often used to describe automated machines that make us uncomfortable or question our values.
I’ve now been working on floss, my own operating system (OS) from scratch for AArch64, which is really just a kernel so far, for a couple of months since my last post about Interrupts and the Generic Interrupt Controller on AArch64. Right now, floss targets QEMU’s virt and Raspberry Pi 4 (rpi4) boards, as well as real Raspberry Pi 5 (rpi5) hardware. Testing on real hardware has been rewarding ...
The author uses Rewind VM to find and solve race conditions in Nix builds, leveraging Nix's deterministic nature and built-in features like derivations, debug symbols, and cache. Rewind provides a debugger-like experience with tools like gdb support, shell access, and comparison capabilities.
Released for Hangul Day 2026: how I collected 4,500 lines of handwriting with a smartpen, adapted Alex Graves' architecture to Hangul, and published the dataset.
Cockroach Labs' MOLT tool gained the ability to migrate from IBM Db2 sources, utilizing a hospital model for high-quality code production. The hospital model ensures thorough review and testing before merging code, resulting in significant cost savings and improved quality compared to traditional agent-based approaches.
A user found an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and was confirmed by Knuth, receiving a check. The user initially waited months to report the error, even dismissing their own claim from a university genius.
Talorys is a free, open-source personal AI assistant that runs on Cloudflare and provides tasks, notes, memories, reminders and routines without server or database access. It stores data in a single SQLite-backed Durable Object and has no telemetry or analytics code.
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Microsoft is introducing Execution Containers (MXC) to help run and manage agents more securely, providing a policy-driven execution layer for untrusted code or dynamically generated workloads. MXC limits what the agent workload can access by containing the scope of the impact if something goes wrong.
Several people have left social media, including Salma and Brett Codes, who retired from AI usage. They're now focusing on offline life, with some making significant lifestyle changes like Chad Whitacre's move to a rural town for his zine project.
Intel and AMD are releasing new CPUs that support DDR4 RAM, a move to address the ongoing RAM shortage. This allows users to upgrade their PCs without having to switch to more expensive DDR5 memory.
Celld uses deterministic simulation testing to find and fix bugs in its distributed system, which can run with an S3-compatible object store as its only external service dependency. The simulator controls events, delays writes, and advances simulated time to test how time-dependent behavior interacts with other events.
Diffle is a tool for reviewing Git diffs in the browser, allowing users to comment on lines, blocks, or whole files and submit them as a prompt or pending review. It can also be used to generate test cases and screenshots of code changes.
The author discusses unikernels, a concept where an application is the operating system, and how they can improve security by reducing the attack surface. They share their experience building a distributed unikernel operating system using OCaml and agents.