Twitter's in-app webview now loads links in the background, causing traffic spikes for some users. This is not due to algorithm changes, but rather a design change that displays links when pressed.
The author is building an app called Residency to help users track their immigration status and avoid potential issues when traveling. The app simulates various scenarios to predict potential problems.
The author, a mechanic and welder, works at a petrochemical plant and uses his breaks to write stories and novels. He creates a portable desk, the "Truck Desk," in his old F-150 and later adapts it to fit various trucks.
Zhu Zhiqiang, a Chinese animator, created the viral series Xiao Xiao, which became a global phenomenon in the early 2000s, inspiring a new generation of animators.
Mathematicians use manifolds to study complex spaces and objects, viewing them as abstract, well-defined objects with intrinsic properties. Manifolds help solve problems in various fields, including geometry, physics, and data analysis, by translating them into familiar Euclidean space.
This project is a custom firmware for Nest Thermostats allowing independent operation and control. It flashes a modified bootloader and kernel to redirect network traffic to a custom server.
Robert Tappan Morris released the Morris worm in 1988, a pioneering malware that caused widespread damage and slowdowns on the Internet. Morris was later indicted and fined for his role in unleashing the worm, which infected 6,000 systems and caused estimated costs of $100,000 to millions of dollars.
An interactive CSS terrain generator. Define a grid and generate your terrain!
pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres, allowing for transactions and fast queries. It supports object stores like S3 and can import/export data in various formats.
The author spent 10,000+ hours researching the inventors of various technologies, including the AIFF and TIFF file formats. They finally found the creator of TIFF, Stephen Carlsen, after a long search and were able to confirm his story before his passing.
Windsurf Codemaps is an AI-annotated code map that helps engineers understand complex codebases. It provides a shared picture of the system, enabling humans and AI to work together more effectively.
A blog post proposes scaling a bloom filter based full text search index to large document corpuses, but finds it's still a bad idea due to query performance issues and space inefficiency. The index's space savings are lost when the number of documents is small relative to the dictionary size, making an inverted index more space efficient.
Michael Burry's fund Scion Asset Management has placed massive bets against Palantir and Nvidia, making up 80% of its disclosed US equity holdings. Burry's move follows a surge in both stocks amid record AI enthusiasm and rising tech valuations.
Ladybird made significant progress in October with 217 PRs merged, including a large update to the test suite and improvements to media playback, caching, and CSS support. New features include pinch-to-zoom on macOS, improved accessibility tree inspection, and support for CSS Typed OM API and CanvasPattern.
The company is open-sourcing Deepnote, a successor to Jupyter notebooks, to provide a more reactive, collaborative, and AI-ready platform. This move aims to create a universal computational medium for data professionals and enterprises.
The author moved from AWS to Hetzner, saving 10x in monthly costs and thousands of dollars. They believe most developers are misled by cloud providers and can save money by running their own servers.
The US Department of Homeland Security proposes expanding biometric data collection for immigration applications, including DNA, voice prints, and facial scans. The rule would require US citizens associated with immigrants to submit biometric data, sparking concerns about government overreach and surveillance.
The internet has become bloated with large JavaScript libraries and complex frontend frameworks, resulting in huge website sizes. Optimisation is key to reducing website size and improving performance.
The DRAM supply chain is facing a shortage, with major buyers receiving only 70% of ordered server DRAM. Spot prices have surged, with DDR5 16 GB modules now at $13, and availability tightening into November.
The Jevons Paradox states that increased productivity leads to increased consumption, while the Baumol Effect states that stagnant productivity leads to increased prices. As AI adoption increases, we can expect to see both effects, with some services becoming cheaper and others more expensive.
Israeli army's top lawyer Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is behind bars for leaking a surveillance video of alleged abuse at a military prison. She was found alive on a Tel Aviv beach after a frantic search and faces charges of fraud, breach of trust, and obstruction of justice.
YouTube's automated systems flagged a popular tech YouTuber, Enderman, for an alleged connection to a Japanese channel with copyright strikes. Enderman's main channel was terminated, but fans believe it's a mix-up and expect it to be reinstated.
The paper GPULog optimizes Datalog for the GPU using a hash-indexed sorted array data structure and Semi-naïve Evaluation algorithm. It achieves better performance than a state-of-the-art CPU implementation and is generic enough to be applied to other chips like FPGA, DPU, and HPC cluster.
Google Cloud suspended SSLMate's account three times without clear reason, causing Andrew Ayer to recommend against using G-Cloud for serious workloads. Ayer suggests using OpenID Connect as a workaround, but finds Google's setup process complicated and unacceptable.
Agentic AI startups face challenges in deploying AI agents in production environments, with technical issues being less of a concern than integrating with legacy tech stacks and human-agent interfaces. Successful deployment strategies involve a "Think Small" approach, starting with low-risk tasks and focusing on augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing them.
Anna's Archive is a meta-search engine for pirated books and articles that has been targeted by publishers for removal from Google search results. Google has removed over 749 million Anna's Archive URLs in response to copyright holder complaints, a significant number compared to other pirate sites.
Japanese trade association CODA claims OpenAI's Sora 2 may have violated copyright law with its opt-out policy. CODA is requesting OpenAI stop using Japanese IP for machine learning without permission.
A young developer at Linode, Drew DeVault, taught the author to value logic over seniority and to be persistent in advocating for change. This lesson helped the author navigate company politics and redirect the organization's path.
The user replaced a brittle server-bound FFmpeg script with a browser agent that can execute FFmpeg commands. This made complex media processing a single, serverless step in workflows, eliminating the need for API calls and large file transfers.
The FDA is embroiled in a scandal involving top drug regulator George Tidmarsh, who allegedly used his position to exact petty revenge on an old business associate. Tidmarsh resigned amid a lawsuit claiming he used regulatory authority to target the associate and made threatening texts and emails.
Economists warn that $70tn of inherited wealth will pass down generations, widening inequality globally. A G20 panel is needed to monitor and address the issue, experts say.
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The concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has become a dominant narrative in tech, with some believing it will bring about a utopian future and others fearing it will lead to the apocalypse. However, the idea of AGI is more like a conspiracy theory, with a flexible and unproven concept that has been shaped by marketing and the influence of powerful figures in the tech industry.
Zesfy app allows users to schedule tasks and organize their daily planning with features like sessions, highlights, and calendar groups. The app also includes new features and improvements such as recurring tasks, daily summaries, and subtask notes.
Source maps are used to map minified JavaScript files back to original source code, allowing for debugging in browser DevTools. They use JSON format, VLQ encoding, and Base64 characters to efficiently store position mappings between generated and original source files.
TSMC is raising chip prices by 3-5% annually for 4 years starting 2026 to offset costs and fund expansion. This will likely increase costs for consumers, especially for AI accelerators, gaming GPUs, and next-gen desktop processors.
US Customs and Border Protection launched a face-scanning app for local law enforcement to assist with immigration enforcement. The app, Mobile Identify, requires camera access to take photos of subjects and returns a reference number for ICE contact.
Plexe is a platform that helps build production-ready AI models for business challenges such as fraud detection and churn prediction. It connects to user data, checks quality, and spots patterns to provide clear performance metrics and easy-to-read explanations for trusted predictions.
The Rust Foundation announced the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund to support Rust developers with consistent and transparent funding. This initiative aims to ensure Rust maintainers can continue their vital work with the support they deserve.
The Trump administration's freeze on SNAP funds and restrictions on grocery stores offering discounts to those affected by the cuts have left millions of Americans struggling to feed themselves and their families. The government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, has also led to federal workers going weeks without pay, health care subsidies being cut, and Trump's immigration ...
UnitedHealth Group pays its own physician practices 17% more than competing practices, and up to 61% more in areas with large market share. This practice may be skirting a rule designed to curb health insurer profits.
WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode that aims to provide performance parity with native code, but our evaluation using the SPEC CPU benchmark suite shows a substantial gap between WebAssembly and native performance, with code compiled to WebAssembly running on average 1.55× slower in Chrome and 1.45× slower in Firefox than native code. We identify the causes of this performance degradation ...
The user had to patch the SimpleText code to open a smaller text window at startup, which involved disassembling code resources, injecting a new routine, and jumping over original code to avoid modifying it. The user used CodeWarrior and ResEdit to achieve this, and shared several tricks and workarounds for debugging and patching old software, including using C functions, scratch registers, ...
Software efficiency is often overlooked due to fast CPUs and cheap memory, but it's still crucial for certain applications and can be beneficial in moderation. Premature optimization is bad, but delaying it can also be harmful, making early algorithm and architecture choices important.
Singapore passed a law to cane scammers as financial frauds surge, with victims losing S$3.8 billion since 2020. The country implements measures to combat scams, including restricting banking services and tracing fund flows.
You're a new grad looking for a job in Rust, TypeScript, or React, and you can be contacted at [email protected]. You're currently working on a compiler in OCaml, but you've encountered several pain points, including syntax issues, automatic currying, and opaque type inference.
Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT supplier Miljödata that exposed 1.5 million people's data. The attack caused operational disruptions and raised questions about security and data handling practices in Sweden's municipalities.
Larry Fink and André Hoffmann are interim Co-Chairs of the World Economic Forum, promoting tokenization and digital IDs. This technology aims to transform the financial system, but critics warn it could lead to a loss of personal freedom and control.
CEOs face mounting pressure to deliver AI-driven results or risk job loss, with 74% fearing job loss within two years. 70% predict AI failures will lead to executive oustings this year.
The Art of Atari is a book featuring 40 years of Atari's artwork from packaging to concept art. It includes behind-the-scenes details on game creation and insights from key Atari figures.
Reddit's status page was inaccurate during the outage, showing all systems operational despite user reports of 500s. Redditstatus eventually acknowledged the issue, but only after a significant delay.
Apple is planning a cheaper MacBook with an iPhone processor, code-named J700, to be released in the first half of 2026. The laptop will cost under $1000 and compete with cheaper Windows and Chromebook laptops, as well as serve as an alternative to an iPad.
Find and rate the climbing/bouldering gyms nearby. Discover gyms, vote on smelliness, difficulty, parking, and more.
Google's Project Suncatcher aims to create a space-based AI infrastructure using solar-powered satellites with Google TPUs. This system would be highly scalable and minimize impact on terrestrial resources.
Sean Dunn, a D.C. man, is on trial for throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol Agent in protest of President Trump's policing policies. Dunn's attorney claims the act was a harmless gesture, but the agent testified that the sandwich exploded all over him.
Paramount's new head David Ellison is creating a blacklist of talent deemed "antisemitic," "xenophobic," and "homophobic." He aims to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment with more "America-centric" content.
US President Donald Trump's call for nuclear testing has experts concerned about devastating consequences for communities and ecosystems. Resuming testing could inflict new harms on groups affected by past US nuclear testing, including the Marshall Islands where 67 nuclear bombs were exploded between 1946 and 1958.
The bluetui executable can be customized through a config file or command line options. It supports various keybindings and layout options.
Requiring developers to license AI training materials hinders innovation and inclusive AI models, stifling socially valuable research and expression. Expanding copyright to control AI training would benefit tech monopolists and legacy gatekeepers, limiting free speech and innovation.
The user encountered a serialization issue with a complex data structure containing a SocketAddrV6 type, which has a non-canonical textual representation that drops the flowinfo field. The issue was resolved by generating random instances of the data structure with flowinfo set to zero, and the user learned about the importance of the principle of least surprise in designing serializable types.
Grayskull is a minimalist computer vision library for microcontrollers with a single-header design and integer-based operations. It provides modern algorithms for image processing, thresholding, filtering, and feature detection.
A Finnish inventor built a 35-foot solar-powered yacht, Helios 11, in 200 days using off-the-shelf solar panels and lightweight materials. It runs indefinitely on solar energy, no fuel needed, and is designed for efficiency over luxury.
The US government has become juvenile and incompetent under Trump's leadership, numbing society and wearing down its resistance to corruption and violence. Americans must model mature behavior, demand it from officials, and organize to restore democracy, one person at a time.
Portuguese authorities seized a narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic, detaining four crew members from South America. The suspects were remanded in pre-trial custody, highlighting a transnational drug trafficking organisation.
Melbourne's housing market peaked in 2021 with a median house price of over $1m, but prices have since fallen by $10,000. The city's affordability has improved due to increased listings and reduced competition from investors.
Pinecone's slab architecture balances accuracy, freshness, scalability, and performance by caching frequently accessed data and reorganizing it in the background. It ensures writes are safe, queries are fast, and the system can scale to billions of records without sacrificing durability or performance.