On The <dl> (2021)

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The HTML &lt;dl&gt; element represents a list of name-value pairs, which is a common UI pattern. It consists of &lt;dt&gt; for names and &lt;dd&gt; for values, allowing for semantic markup and improved accessibility.

My two-part desk setup

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The user changed their desk setup to face the room instead of the wall, creating a more open and comfortable space. They also split their desk into a digital and analog side, allowing for a clear separation of work and personal activities.

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

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The Spacelab computer was a 16-bit minicomputer built by CIMSA, using a French-built Mitra 125 MS processor. It had a 32-bit ALU and supported up to 128 KB of magnetic core memory.

Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

Jennifer Combs was arrested for a Facebook post about Trinidad's water supply, claiming residents were hospitalized due to bacteria. She filed a federal lawsuit alleging the arrest was an act of political retaliation for speaking out about the city's water problem.

Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street

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The author built a tool called Hengefinder to find henge moments, where the sun aligns with a street, by calculating road bearings and sun azimuths. The tool uses a combination of astronomical data and binary search to find these rare geometric alignments.

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

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z386 is a 386-class CPU built around original Intel microcode, recreating enough of the original machine for the recovered 386 control ROM to drive it. It runs real protected-mode DOS software, including DOS 6 and 7, and games like Doom, with a focus on educational reconstruction and usability.

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

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80386 Microcode Disassembled

The user and others extracted microcode from a high-resolution image of the 80386 CPU die, disassembled it, and found 215 entry points with new instructions and shared code. The microcode has a hidden security bug in IO permission bitmap handling and may have undocumented features or opcodes, but the exact nature of these is unclear.

PHP's Oddities

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The author reflects on their experience with PHP, a language they initially didn't expect to use, but has grown to appreciate despite its quirks. PHP's array data structure is flexible but complex, and its type system has unintuitive features like uninitialized properties.

The Art of Money Getting

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P.T. Barnum's book "The Art of Money Getting" offers 20 rules for success, emphasizing finding one's natural abilities and avoiding debt. Key principles include being the best at one's work, keeping income above expenses, and maintaining a good reputation.

Italy Cancels Boeing Pegasus Order, Shifting to Airbus A330 MRTT

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Italy has acquired six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft worth 1.39 billion euros, shifting its air defence focus to Europe within NATO. This decision strengthens Europe's military capabilities and reduces Italy's dependence on US solutions.

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (2022)

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To improve deep learning model performance, first identify the bottleneck in your model, which can be compute, memory bandwidth, or overhead. Then, optimize accordingly, such as increasing compute intensity, reducing memory bandwidth costs, or minimizing overhead.

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

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SpaceX launched its Starship V3 rocket on its 12th suborbital test flight, reaching space despite a lost engine and failed boost back maneuver. The mission deployed 22 payloads and tested the rocket's heat shield tiles, bringing it one step closer to operational missions.

Iowa lawmakers to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - University of Iowa students could soon be required to take classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom — or they won’t be able to graduate. Republican lawmakers added a provision to a massive budget bill during a 35-hour legislative session requiring University of Iowa students to complete at least six credit hours from the center to earn an undergraduate degree. ...

Evaluating Spec CPU2026

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SPEC has updated its CPU benchmark suite, SPEC CPU2026, with 52 workloads, more source code lines, and a focus on core throughput. The new suite challenges modern CPUs, particularly in instruction-side footprint and branch prediction, but retains portability goals and modernizes the benchmark suite.

Oura says it gets government demands for user data

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The author, a security and privacy reporter, investigated Oura's data handling practices after a deal with the Department of Defense and Palantir sparked customer concerns. Oura's security design choices allow governments to access user data, and the company has a responsibility to ensure user data is secure despite its large valuation.

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Assuming LLMs will fix code issues is irresponsible, but if organizational leadership mandates leveraging LLMs, we can adapt and move rigor elsewhere. This could involve standardized specifications and tests, checked into project repositories, to ensure accountability and understanding.

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

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Anthropic's Project Glasswing uses AI to find thousands of software vulnerabilities, but fixing them is a major challenge. The project aims to help cyber defenders adapt to this challenge and make software safer by releasing tools and resources to support vulnerability scanning and patching.

Highest Random Weight in Elixir

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The user discusses two distributed hashing algorithms, ExHashRing and Rendezvous Hashing (HRW), comparing their performance, complexity, and suitability for different use cases. HRW is simpler and more general than ExHashRing but has a linear time complexity, which can be improved to logarithmic with a skeleton implementation.

Lisp in Vim (2019)

The article discusses two Vim plugins, Slimv and Vlime, which provide Lisp development environments for Vim, and compares their features and installation procedures. The plugins use a client-server architecture and rely on the Swank server to evaluate Lisp expressions, and both support interactive programming and debugging.

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it

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A user in our Discord said microsandbox felt slow. Listing every file in the Python standard library took 5.3 seconds inside a sandbox; in Docker it took milliseconds. We went digging. We fixed it in v0.4: we replaced our user-space filesystem with a Linux disk image that the VM mounts directly. The geometric mean speedup across our mixed guest-visible filesystem suite is 47×, with the ...

sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library

The user has created a high-quality, ultra-portable C standard library called sp.h1, which is a 15,000 line single header library written in plain C99. The library aims to modernize C by ditching null-terminated strings and providing a more ergonomic and performant alternative, while also being highly customizable and compatible with various platforms.

AI Engineering from Scratch

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The curriculum is a comprehensive AI learning system with 20 phases and 435 lessons in four languages, covering linear algebra to autonomous swarms. It teaches raw math first, then code, with a focus on understanding AI concepts under the hood.

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

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Rubish is a Ruby-based shell that supports bash syntax and integrates Ruby features. It allows seamless mixing of shell commands and Ruby code.

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

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A MacBook was sent from Australia to Uganda via multiple freight services and customs clearances, facing various delays and challenges, but finally arrived safely after 42 days and 36,000 km. The laptop's journey involved failed attempts, unexpected detours, and a surprising delivery to a hardware shop, where it was stored on a shelf before being collected by the sender.

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

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Japanese companies are highly diversified due to their unique corporate structure, which prioritizes employee loyalty and long-term survival over shareholder profits. This structure, known as the "J-firm" bundle, allows Japanese companies to adapt and change quickly in response to changing market conditions.

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

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US lawmakers proposed a ban on automated license plate readers, but the FBI plans to buy nationwide access to the cameras for law enforcement. A crackdown on deepfake sexual abuse images is underway, with the FTC warning companies to remove nonconsensual intimate images and the Department of Justice arresting two men for sharing AI-created explicit content.

Solving the “Zork” Mystery

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The author investigated the origin of the word "zork" in the game Zork, initially believing it was a jargon term for unfinished programs.