The user has implemented a syntax highlighter for 42 programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, BASIC, C, and many others, using tools like C++ and GNU gperf, and has encountered various surprising and complex lexical syntax elements in these languages. The user has shared examples of these complexities, including trigraphs in C, universal characters in C, and unique string syntax in ...

Jon, a software engineer at Stripe, shares his personal story of struggling with self-doubt, anxiety, and depression while working at the company. He hopes to inspire others who may be feeling alone in their struggles, and to show that vulnerability and honesty can be a path to growth and self-discovery.

Someday is a free, open-source scheduling tool for Gmail users built with modern technologies. It offers effortless integration, customizable work hours, and a simple booking process while respecting user privacy.

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The author tried rewriting a Customs declaration application in Rust and Svelte, but after a year, they realized users didn't benefit from the new tech and decided to rewrite it in Rails. They learned that making tradeoffs is key in web development and that Rails' strengths outweigh its weaknesses, making it a good choice for building a product.

Researchers studied the UK's 1953 sugar ration end and found that people born after had higher risks of type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Early-life sugar exposure may drive later-life disease, with infants conceived before 1953 having lower disease risks.

The finite element method (FEM) was developed in the 1940s by A. Hrennikof and R. Courant, and was further developed by R.W. Clough, J.H. Argyris, and O.C. Zienkiewicz. The FEM has revolutionized engineering design and scientific modeling, with applications in solid and structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, and other fields.

Cash is a lightweight jQuery alternative for modern browsers, providing jQuery-style syntax for DOM manipulation with a 76.6% size reduction compared to jQuery Slim. It supports partial builds and has 100% feature parity with jQuery for most day-to-day use cases.

Spawek and friends organized annual LAN parties for 16 years, lasting 4-5 days with 12 people. They automated team selection for Dota 2 using Elo ratings and machine learning to create balanced teams.

Shopify implemented out-of-band garbage collection to reduce latency, but wanted to eliminate major collection during request cycles. They added a new feature to disable major collection and manually trigger it outside of request cycles, resulting in significant latency improvements.

You built a device to record and send morse code messages to your email using a Raspberry Pi Pico W and a silent switch. It listens for morse code, sends the text to a web service, and emails it to you.

LM Studio uses venvstacks to create Python application environments without requiring end-user Python dependencies. venvstacks enables layering of environments, allowing for reproducible builds and easy migration to newer component versions.

Researchers developed SPANN, a hybrid ANNS system that balances memory and disk usage for fast high-recall search. SPANN is 2 times faster than DiskANN in reaching 90% recall quality with the same memory cost.

The user created a Solitaire game for the Nintendo E-Reader, a Game Boy Advance peripheral, using z80 assembly and ERAPI, and developed a debugger for E-Reader apps in VS Code. They are now planning to create more E-Reader apps and have a goal to build at least 10 apps and have them professionally manufactured.

SmolLM2 is a compact language model available in three sizes, trained on 11 trillion tokens and released under Apache 2 license. It's capable of solving various tasks and can run on-device, with positive user impressions and a quantized version available.

Sortledton is a universal graph data structure that supports various graph workloads on dynamic graphs with transactional updates. It optimizes memory access patterns and provides competitive performance for analytics, traversals, and pattern matching.

Gremlins originated in World War II as a superstition among pilots to explain mechanical malfunctions, later evolving into a pop culture phenomenon. The concept of gremlins has been adapted to describe technical glitches, software programs, and even virtual pets, symbolizing humanity's struggle to cope with technological advancements.

A ring-based mid-air gesture typing technique called RingGesture allows for intuitive text entry on lightweight AR glasses. It achieves an average text entry speed of 27.3 WPM and a 28.2% improvement in text entry speed with a novel deep-learning word prediction framework.

USDA reports first H5N1 infection in domestic pig in Oregon, raising human risk concerns. A new surveillance initiative will test bulk milk samples nationwide to track the virus' spread.

Hash functions are used in computer security but can be broken if they don't behave randomly, and some commonly used non-cryptographic hash functions are vulnerable to attacks that generate arbitrary collisions. The user breaks several hash functions including CityHash64, MurmurHash64A, and FarmHash64, showing how to generate collisions for these functions and highlighting the importance of ...

Researchers have proposed various compiler transformations and techniques for high-performance computing, including procedure cloning, dominance-based duplication simulation, and just-in-time specialization.

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Google Gemini Pro model can be bypassed with prompt engineering to provide medical diagnoses despite guardrails. Brute-forcing and semantic discontinuity can evade the model's protection, highlighting a potential vulnerability in its design.

Apple has released six M4 chip variants with varying CPU and GPU cores, memory bandwidth, and RAM support. The M4 Pro offers a more straightforward upgrade to the M2 Pro, while the M4 Max has increased memory bandwidth but similar core counts to the M3 Max.

Facial expressions are both universal and culturally influenced, with shared emotions like happiness and sadness recognized across cultures but nuanced by cultural context and social background. Understanding these nonverbal dialects can improve communication and empathy in diverse settings.

Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany using a mechanical-hydrometallurgical approach to recover 96% of EV battery minerals. The plant, powered by solar panels, will help enhance raw-materials sustainability and close the loop on EV battery recycling.

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A Cold War-era document about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case has been obtained through FOIA.

TrendForce predicts all-solid-state battery production will reach GWh levels by 2027, leading to price declines by 2035. Major manufacturers like Toyota and Samsung SDI are racing to scale up production of these batteries.

Explore the mysteries of Satoshi and learn about bitcoin along the way.

A researcher at a US university received an email from Mahdi Shariati, an adjunct professor in Vietnam, offering a "great opportunity to publish an article" with guaranteed publication and lifetime citations. However, Shariati's profile is suspicious and he has a history of problematic publishing behavior, including citation manipulation and retractions.

Rivian's goal is to make voice controls the primary means of interacting with vehicles, solving latency and hallucination issues. The company aims to integrate specific apps, like Apple Music, rather than using CarPlay.

The Sussex muralist's work, particularly the Deception of Eve and Adam, challenged traditional art and questioned the sacredness of images. The artist's use of trompe l'oeil and iconoclasm was a bold statement against the conventional way of making sacred images.

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Version 0.8 of the project is now stable enough for commercial use with a license. Several tweaks were made to function syntax, including requiring = for all functions and defaulting single-expression bodies to -> forward _.

The International Space Station has a leak problem, losing air daily, but experts say it's under control and not a cause for panic. NASA and its partners are working to fix the issue, but the long-term future of the ISS remains uncertain.