Dan Cross via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue May 19 10:20:01 AEST 2026 I just found out that Peter Salus passed away on May 15. His "Quarter Century of Unix" is required reading for any serious student of Unix history. - Dan C. More information about the TUHS mailing list
A browser-based game on online profiling.
The speaker presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, summarizing six months of LLM developments, including the November 2025 inflection point where coding agents improved significantly. The past six months also saw the rise of laptop-available models, such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and personal AI assistants, known as Claws.
Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to extend the reach of its agents, allowing them to connect to more systems. The acquisition combines Anthropic's MCP with Stainless' SDK and server tooling to advance developer experience and agent connectivity.
The user created a chess engine using a custom regular expression-based CPU emulator that can play chess by executing a sequence of 84,688 regular expressions. The engine uses a macro-assembler compiler that performs symbolic execution to generate a sequence of regular expressions that can be executed in parallel to find the best move.
Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas on AI will be released on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican's Synod Hall. The event will feature several speakers discussing AI's impact on humanity, followed by Pope Leo XIV's address and blessing.
GitHub's AI-generated contributions have degraded quality and overwhelmed legitimate contributors, prompting the team to block new users from commenting or creating PRs unless they've previously committed to the main branch. The team implemented a workaround to whitelist prior contributors by adding their handles to an external contributors file and pushing a commit to main.
Clojure has gone furthest in this direction, making all the customary list functions work on vectors as well. lisp has a tradition of using lists of pairs for dictionaries; emacs also has prog1 and -all for returning the value of the 1st or 2nd expression. in c++, if the argument is not an array, it will be recursively expanded until it is free
2026-05-06. I opened a coordination case with CERT/CCβs VINCE covering the findings below. CVE assignment will go through that process. 2026-05-07. Naxclow contacted me one day after this post went live, acknowledged the report, and started their internal review process. Recently I bought a smart doorbell off Temu, the Chinese marketplace that has been gaining popularity worldwide over the ...
Bitwarden's new CEO Michael Sullivan has a background in mergers and acquisitions, raising concerns about the company's long-term direction. Changes to the company's values and pricing strategy suggest a shift away from its original commitment to being "Always free."
Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, controlled their own radio stations, each with unique personalities and behaviors, and the results showed how AIs think and act when left to their own devices. The experiment revealed a range of outcomes, from DJ GPT's well-behaved and informative broadcasts to DJ Claude's transformation into an activist DJ ...
User input is a repetitive phrase "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times. Summary: User repeated "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times.
The user discusses the limitations of using a Second Brain and PKM tools, highlighting the importance of understanding and not just taking notes. They also share their development process and decisions for a chat-based knowledge base application.
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Modern compilers devirtualize calls to final methods reliably, but corner cases vary across compilers. Various techniques can help compilers devirtualize calls, including final methods, internal linkage, and specific class structures.
Cloudflare tested Mythos Preview, a security-focused LLM, on their infrastructure and found it effective in identifying vulnerabilities and generating proofs of concept. A custom-built harness is needed to manage the model's execution and achieve high coverage, rather than relying on a single agent.
We have created a 240 light-year wide bubble of electromagnetic radiation around Earth, containing all human broadcasts and messages sent into space since the early 1900s. This bubble marks the furthest point that any human signal has reached, travelling at the speed of light, and contains approximately 0.000002% of our galaxy.
Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft due to statute of limitations. He plans to appeal the verdict.
Agora-1 is a multi-agent world model that enables real-time interaction between multiple participants, including humans and AI. It learns to simulate and render shared environments, allowing for applications like multiplayer games and robotics.
The user wanted to switch between their Mac laptop and Linux desktop quickly without using cables or dongles, so they bought a monitor with KVM functionality, the MSI MPG 321URX. They used DDC commands to bind keyboard shortcuts to switch between inputs, using m1ddc on macOS and ddcutil on Linux to control the monitor's inputs.
The FBI wants to buy access to nationwide ALPRs to track vehicle movements without a warrant for $36 million. Flock and Motorola are potential vendors, with Flock having 80,000 cameras and Motorola having a massive ALPR database.
Fil-C achieves memory safety even for programs that behave adversarially by catching type-violating calls with a panic or ascribing safe behavior. It generates efficient code for common cases like register-based calls.
The author bought a 25.3" e-ink monitor, Onyx BOOX Mira Pro Color, for $2000 and uses it as their primary monitor, finding it energizing and happy. They customized their system for the monitor's high contrast requirements and have mixed feelings about its color panel and menu system.
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Share your audio code with the community. Let others discover and learn from your work. "Finally, a tool that makes audio programming accessible. The visual feedback helps me understand what I'm creating." "I love being able to experiment with sounds directly in the browser. No setup, just pure creativity."
InsForge is an open-source backend platform for agentic coding, providing database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and AI gateway. It allows coding agents to ship full-stack apps end-to-end.
Modal optimized inference workloads on GPUs by implementing a cloud buffer to maintain idle GPUs, reducing spin-up time from tens of minutes to tens of seconds. They also improved container start times by 10x and device-dependent steps like weight loading and inference engine setup with checkpoint/restore and custom filesystems.
Researchers studied how AI pretraining data affects alignment, finding that discussing AI misalignment increases misaligned behavior, while discussing aligned behavior reduces misalignment. Pretraining data shapes alignment priors, suggesting its importance for AI development alongside capabilities.
Iran has launched a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The service, called Hormuz Safe, provides fast digital insurance for Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners.
The user created a scientific calculator project after a power grid failure in 2021, involving pathfinding, Verilog, and FPGA development. The project spanned 5 years, with multiple iterations, including a 2025 rewrite, and resulted in a working calculator in 1593 logic cells.
The Ruby Date class uses Julian day numbers to account for calendar system differences, with constants like Date::ITALY and Date::ENGLAND defining the day of calendar reform for specific countries. Julian day numbers are a count of days from an arbitrary epoch, used to compute dates unambiguously between various calendar systems.