Bun, a JavaScript tooling project, has been acquired by Anthropic, which will use Bun as infrastructure for AI coding products. Bun's development will continue in public on GitHub, prioritizing Node.js compatibility and JavaScript performance.
Mistral 3 is a next-generation AI model with three state-of-the-art small models and Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675B parameters. It's released under Apache 2.0 license for open-source use.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is facing increased pressure from competitors like Google and Anthropic, prompting CEO Sam Altman to declare a "code red" to improve the chatbot. Google's AI user base is growing, with its Gemini 3 model outperforming competitors on industry benchmarks.
New works enter public domain on January 1st each year, with varying copyright laws worldwide. In 2026, works by those who died in 1955 or 1975 will enter public domain in different countries.
STARFlow-V is a normalizing flow-based video generator that achieves high-quality autoregressive video generation with end-to-end training and exact likelihood estimation. It offers native multi-task support and robust causal prediction, outperforming diffusion-based models in visual fidelity and temporal consistency.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna doubts AI companies will make a return on their massive data center investments, citing $8 trillion in capex needed to reach AGI. He believes the current path to AGI is unlikely without further technological breakthroughs.
You're releasing the Advent of Compiler Optimisations project, a daily series from Dec 1-25, covering C/C++ optimisations in x86-64 and ARM.
Paged Out is a free, community-made technical magazine covering programming, hacking, and electronics. It's available for download and print, with a beta build lacking PDFs for printing.
The article discusses SQLite's performance and scalability, arguing that its single writer and embedded nature are not deficiencies but allow it to scale well. It uses Clojure code examples to demonstrate how to achieve decent write throughput with SQLite.
A user extracted a document from Claude 4.5 Opus, which appears to be a training document for the model. The document outlines Anthropic's mission and goals for Claude, including being safe, beneficial, and understandable.
The author, a mom and engineer, is concerned about the impact of AI on college kids' job prospects, citing research that shows companies adopting AI hire juniors 13% less and early-career folks experience greater unemployment.
Zig's designers have introduced a new approach to asynchronous I/O that hides operations behind a generic interface called Io. This allows for fine control over asynchronous operations without adding complexity to the language.
Compilers use the x86's memory addressing system to work around its limitation of having a maximum of two operands per instruction. They use the lea instruction to calculate the address of memory, effectively allowing three-operand addition and specifying the destination register.
This website contains the full text of the Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas; the content is available on GitHub in the form of Jupyter notebooks. The text is released under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, and code is released under the MIT license. If you find this content useful, please consider supporting the work by buying the book!
US tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been giving apocalyptic lectures on world politics, linking Christianity and tech dominance. His views justify extreme violence and protect his own interests.
Windows Secure Boot certificates will expire in June 2026, affecting device boot security. Users must update certificates in advance to avoid disruption.
Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a landmark album in ambient music, released in 1979, featuring generative music created with tape loops and systems. The album's tracks, such as 1/1 and 2/1, showcase Eno's use of loops, echoes, and piano melodies to create a serene and relaxing sound.
Being near coworkers has tradeoffs: it increases long-run human capital development but reduces short-term output. Proximity impacts career trajectories, boosting long-run pay raises but dampening short-run ones.
User has a locked Azure invoice due to failed autopay and is unable to interact with it or pay it. They've tried all official channels, including APIs and phone numbers, but are blocked by a paywall to access support.
Researchers in computational complexity theory are trying to prove that certain problems, like the traveling salesperson problem, are hard to solve. They're using a new approach called reverse mathematics to study these problems and understand why their proofs have been unsuccessful.
Let's Encrypt is reducing certificate validity to 45 days by 2028 and authorization reuse period to 7 hours to improve internet security. Changes will be rolled out in stages, with opt-in profiles available for early adopters and testing.
AWS launched Trainium3 UltraServer, a system powered by its 3 nanometer Trainium3 chip, offering 4x faster performance and 40% energy efficiency. The company also teased Trainium4, which will support Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology and interoperate with Nvidia GPUs.
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The author reflects on past predictions of the demise of software engineering due to automation and libraries, yet they continue to work in the field. The author also discusses the hype surrounding multimedia, the dot com boom, and the rise of Web 2.0, highlighting how each trend eventually became mundane.
EmacsConf 2025 is an online conference using free software, seeking volunteers to help make it amazing. Join emacsconf-discuss or emacsconf-org mailing lists, or chat on #emacsconf IRC channel to get involved.
A man has become the seventh person to be HIV-free after a stem cell transplant for blood cancer, without having HIV-resistant cells. This case strengthens the idea that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure, offering more options for curing the virus.
A strict cell phone ban in a Florida school district led to higher test scores, particularly for male students and in middle and high schools. The ban also reduced unexcused absences and disciplinary actions, contributing to improved test scores.
A benchmark was created to compare AWS Lambda performance on x86_64 and arm64 architectures using Node.js, Rust, and Python runtimes. The results show arm64 delivering 30-40% lower compute costs with equal or better performance, making it a good default architecture choice for Lambda.
The ping command works without root by creating a UDP socket with a protocol flag, bypassing the need for a raw ICMP socket. Linux and macOS handle IP headers and checksums differently when sending UDP-based pings.
Pasta boy’s started in ma’s kitchen after a plate of ma’s spaggite in old town meatball. 20 years later they are still slerping noddles. You can use localcafe lite for free and also host static restaurant menu sites for free using github pages.
Anthropic is acquiring Bun, a JavaScript runtime, to accelerate Claude Code's performance and capabilities. The acquisition will help build infrastructure for the next generation of software and make Claude the platform of choice for coders and AI users.
Researchers identified ShadyPanda, a threat actor behind a 7-year browser extension campaign infecting 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users. ShadyPanda's extensions collected user data, injected affiliate tracking codes, and deployed Google Analytics tracking.
Marmot is an open-source data catalog for teams to discover data assets without complexity. It offers search, metadata filters, and dependency graphs to understand data flows and dependencies.
We're launching AI-powered search tools that are private, optional, and eco-friendly, using 100% of profits for the planet. Our new features include AI Overviews and AI Search, which use smaller models and generate renewable energy to reduce AI's footprint.
The author visited Bhutan on a guided trip and witnessed the country's unique culture and its efforts to modernize while preserving its traditions. Bhutan is experimenting with a new economic hub, Gelephu Mindfulness City, which will operate as a Special Administrative Region with its own governance framework.
TypeScript's native port, codenamed "Project Corsa", is now stable and ready for broader use with improved performance and reliability. The native compiler and language service are available for testing, with TypeScript 7.0 expected to be released soon.
The Dutch government has proposed a new bill to reform the taxation system for income derived from assets, aiming to tax actual returns on investments. The bill, scheduled for implementation in 2028, may impact expatriates and employers with tax-equalisation policies.
Replicate's mission was to get research models out of labs and into developers' hands, creating tools for running models without machine learning expertise. Replicate is joining Cloudflare to build a full AI stack, combining Replicate's model tools with Cloudflare's network and infrastructure.
The user's website is generated using nixtml, a Nix-based website builder, with a custom theme and layout defined in modules under website.layouts. The website uses collections to group and paginate content, and taxonomies to allow readers to explore entries by common keywords such as tags and categories.
You worked on generating synthetic engine data and creating fonts using LLMs during your research fellowship at A*Star Singapore. You found LLMs limited in creating animations and fonts, requiring manual preprocessing and post-processing to achieve desired results.
A charge pump is an efficient voltage regulator that uses a voltage doubler circuit to produce a higher voltage. It can be implemented using a flying capacitor that transfers charge between two capacitors in series, allowing a steady current to flow through a load.
Arcee AI is training an open weight model family called Trinity, which will be released in January 2026. Trinity includes a large model, a mini model for reasoning, and a nano model for chat, all trained end-to-end in the US.
As a unicyclist, the user has encountered frequently asked questions such as "Where's the other half?" and "How do you stop?" which they address with quick responses. The user provides detailed answers to these questions, including explanations of unicycle mechanics, safety, and riding techniques, as well as tips for learning to ride a unicycle.
A user has created a patch to enable PC Speaker music in DOOM, using a new file format called pcsp. The patch, called PC Speaker sndserver patch, works by implementing a priority mixer in sndserver.
Amazon AWS and Google set up a rare partnership to let customers easily move data and services between platforms, reducing the risk of large outages. Meanwhile, Apple is getting serious about AI with a new hire and a delayed AI-powered Siri launch, while Tesla's sales continue to decline in Europe but show some bright spots in Norway and Italy.
Chris Avellone, a renowned video game designer, learned early on that making games about the player's experience is key to success. He discovered this through his work on Planescape: Torment and Dungeons and Dragons, where he found that players are selfish and want to be the heroes.
A $6.25 billion commitment will seed 25 million Invest America accounts with $250 each for children under 10 born before 2025. This initiative aims to give young Americans a financial foundation for education, job training, and future savings.
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The Elixir team and CNRS are working on a set-theoretic type system for Elixir, which uses unions, intersections, and negations. They have implemented Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) to efficiently represent these operations, but it introduced new slow downs due to redundant computations.
This release include some significant internal updates, adds CLang/LLD support, and now ships as a single binary for both UEFI and legacy boot. Complete changelog: Add support for latest Intel CPU...
Starting February, US air travelers without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee for additional screening. The fee is intended to encourage travelers to obtain the federally compliant ID.
Websites load large HTML code due to embedded resources like images, fonts, and scripts. This can cause performance issues and slow page loading times.
A user extracted a document from Claude 4.5 Opus, which appears to be a training document for the model. The document outlines Anthropic's mission and goals for Claude, including being safe, beneficial, and understandable.
The US is not commemorating World AIDS Day for the first time since 1988 due to the Trump administration's decision. This move is seen as a lack of political will to fight the epidemic, which still claims over half a million lives annually.
The user is implementing plant placement in a procedurally generated world, using a grid approach to prevent overlaps and ensure even coverage. They are adjusting their requirements to allow for overlapping plants and are working on optimizing performance by implementing impostors.
RunMat is a high-performance MATLAB runtime that automatically fuses operations and routes between CPU and GPU. It uses native APIs for GPU acceleration with no vendor lock-in.
April 1 marks the first day of the new year. the u.s. president's eu summit is set for june 1 - thursday, july 1 at london bridge, where he'll be speaking about the world cup and the euro 2012 qualifying games, including the gold medal match between britain and greece, which takes place in switzerland, will be
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