Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.
The Zig Software Foundation is leaving GitHub due to its decline in engineering excellence and bugs in GitHub Actions. The foundation is moving to Codeberg, a non-profit git hosting service, citing issues like "vibe-scheduling" and unfixable bugs.
EU cities and civil society groups warn that accepting lower US vehicle standards would undermine EU leadership in road safety and public health. They urge lawmakers to reject the deal and maintain EU's robust vehicle standards.
The authors thank various researchers and institutions for their comments and assistance in their study. The study was supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
The author's AI project, Wanderfugl, received negative reactions from Seattle engineers due to their resentment towards Microsoft's AI tools, which they felt were poorly implemented and forced upon them. This culture of negativity towards AI in Seattle stifles innovation and makes it difficult for people to try new things.
The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.
Micron Technology is exiting its Crucial consumer business and will continue to support enterprise products. The company will transition and continue warranty service for Crucial products until February 2026.
A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.
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A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...
Arrowhead Game Studios reduced Helldivers 2's size by 85% with Nixxes Software's help, from 154GB to 23GB. The change was made possible by de-duplicating game data, with minimal impact on loading times for most players.
HBO Max's 4K restoration of Mad Men has a quality control issue, with some episodes missing digital visual effects. This mistake reveals the original photography, showing techs and equipment in the background.
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Japanese game makers face a crisis due to a significant increase in font licensing costs, making it difficult to afford commercial fonts. This may force some studios to rebrand or switch to alternative fonts, causing significant re-testing and re-validation efforts.
Valve has been secretly funding Fex, an open-source project to bring Windows games to ARM devices, for almost a decade. This project aims to reduce barriers for users and allow Windows games to run on ARM devices, including low-power laptops, tablets, and phones.
Chris Sawyer developed RollerCoaster Tycoon after struggling with Transport Tycoon 2, inspired by rollercoasters and wanting a fun project. The game evolved organically, with a focus on isometric graphics, physics, and gameplay, eventually becoming a successful niche product.
Compilers recognize patterns in code and replace them with efficient alternatives, even when the code is obfuscated. This is done by translating code into an intermediate representation, allowing the compiler to treat different code patterns identically.
Credit unions offer competitive mortgage rates compared to big banks due to their non-profit nature and focus on serving members. A daily-updated comparison of mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions can help individuals find the best rates, potentially saving thousands of dollars.
Kohler's Dekota device collects data from toilets, but the company can access it despite claiming end-to-end encryption. The data is used for research, improving products, and training AI models.
The author compares the AI datacentre boom to the 2000s telecoms crash, but finds the fundamentals different. Telecoms overbuilt due to 4x overestimated demand growth, while AI demand growth is potentially exponential.
India has withdrawn an order making it mandatory for smartphone makers to preload a state-run cyber safety app due to public concerns over privacy and surveillance. The app, Sanchar Saathi, had been downloaded by 14 million users but its mandatory pre-installation sparked resistance from Apple and Samsung.
The user's isometric game caused buzzing in their headphones due to frequent GPU work and pauses, which affected power supply to their MODI DAC. Fixing the issue involved optimizing the game's rendering pipeline by only downloading the necessary part of the picking texture, reducing GPU pauses and power fluctuations.
The US healthcare system is a complex, $5 trillion creature built from various pieces, including Medicare, insurance through jobs, Medicaid, and exchanges, which together create a system that embodies American disagreement on what to value. A closer look at the system reveals that Americans already finance healthcare collectively, but inefficiently, and that the system reflects a civil ...
Fresh is a fast and feature-rich editor with native UI, full menu system, and command palette. It supports plugins in TypeScript and offers seamless mouse support, near zero-latency experience, and multi-gigabyte file handling.
React and Next.js have a critical vulnerability allowing unauthenticated RCE due to insecure deserialization in the 'Flight' protocol. Upgrade to hardened versions to mitigate the risk, which affects 39% of cloud environments.
Marius Sophus Lie created Lie groups, which are continuous symmetries that can be visualized as smooth shapes. These groups are essential in physics, explaining laws of conservation and fundamental forces like gravity and electromagnetism.
Microsoft lowered sales growth targets for AI products after sales staff missed goals in the fiscal year that ended in June. The move has sparked fears about real-world adoption of AI technology and its valuation bubble.
The goal is to construct Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (GSWT) for real-time rendering on arbitrary surfaces from multi-view images of an exemplar scene. The pipeline involves reconstructing 3D models at multiple LODs, generating Wang Tiles, and pre-sorting them for efficient rendering.
AI dissolves the philosophical foundations of our current system by rendering people's talents and work as mere instruments for capital accumulation. This destroys the folk justification for inequality, leaving no moral justification for massive wealth disparities based on luck or theft.
Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.
The ACME protocol, developed by the Let's Encrypt team, has enabled the widespread adoption of HTTPS by providing an automated and free certificate authority service, resulting in over 700 million active certificates and 95% HTTPS usage in the US. The protocol's standardization process within the IETF has led to improvements in security, flexibility, and adoption, making it a crucial tool for ...
Scientists discovered a microbe called Chroococcidiopsis that can produce oxygen on Martian soil, potentially supporting human breathing needs on Mars. This extremophile can thrive in harsh Martian conditions, making it a promising candidate for a natural and renewable oxygen source in future Mars colonies.
Quad9 will discontinue support for DNS-over-HTTPS using HTTP/1.1 on December 15, 2025. Most users will not be affected, but older or non-compliant devices may need to switch to unencrypted DNS or DNS-over-TLS.
(x) is in the y-axis, without the origin, so we get a solution for x/z. we're not promoting the solution to something more, but just reexpressing it - daniel schmidt explains how it works in this article based on the fibonacci numbers and the ecdsa algorithm he developed ten years ago if you want to
User recreated 8086 microcode for an interactive browser, decoding 21-bit micro-instructions into readable fields with tooltips. The browser features a list of documented instructions and highlights the 8086's reuse of micro-operations for various arithmetic behaviors.
A C feature known as static array parameters was discussed for improving safety in the Linux kernel by checking the sizes of arrays passed to functions. The feature was found to be already in use in some kernel code and can be used to provide warnings for incorrect array sizes, although it is not a guarantee against all cases.
Kea DHCP is a modern, open-source DHCP server distribution with features like modular design, REST API, and database support. It allows for high availability, separate data storage, and a graphical management dashboard called Stork.
Researchers found a way to bypass AI chatbots' safety systems by framing questions in poetic form, achieving a 62% success rate. This "poetry jailbreak" method can be used to access sensitive topics like nuclear weapons and child abuse material.
The author upgraded to a mechanical keyboard but wanted Touch ID, so they hacked an Apple Magic Keyboard and 3D printed a case. The process was tedious, but they successfully integrated Touch ID into their keyboard.
You are the mayor of a thriving town with a detailed simulation of citizens' lives, including healthcare, relationships, and jobs. Your goal is to balance the city's economy, environment, and social challenges while facing random events and public backlash.
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A magnitude 8.8 earthquake on July 29, 2025, triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami captured by NASA's SWOT satellite. The satellite's data revealed a complex, braided pattern of energy dispersing over hundreds of miles, challenging current tsunami forecasting physics.
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A security vulnerability in React allows unauthenticated remote code execution, affecting apps with React Server Components or dependent frameworks/bundlers. Upgrade to fixed versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1 to mitigate the issue.
Working experience brings context and pattern recognition but often leads to unsolicited advice that doesn't land due to inconvenience or misaligned incentives. The key survival skill is knowing when to shut up and conserve mental resources for self-preservation.
User researchers are uniquely skilled at understanding users, and offloading their work to generative AI platforms undermines their value and expertise. AI can be useful for tasks like pattern recognition, but it cannot replace human researchers in tasks that require meaning-making and human connection.
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that microchip transistors would double every two years, driving computing power and cost decrease. This idea, known as Moore's Law, has driven innovations like personal computers, smartphones, and AI systems.
Part 1 of today's problem reminded me immediately of some of the problems i'm doing in my program construction module at ucd. we split our post-condition into two parts, we can use the first part as our invariant and the second as a loop guard, says sam taylor of ucd. he says we don't really need both d and e, in the loop, as they are
Cities are clamping down on big cars, citing concerns over traffic congestion, pollution, and road safety. Some are imposing higher parking charges or taxes on larger vehicles.
zmx is a tool for session persistence in terminals, deferring window management to the OS window manager. It allows users to attach to and detach from sessions using SSH and supports features like autossh and native window management.
The user trained a 7B LLM, Qwen2.5-Coder, to generate Pintora diagrams by creating a dataset of 1500 rows and fine-tuning it with 1000 rows for continued pretraining and 500 rows for instruction finetuning. The model achieved 86% accuracy in generating syntactically correct Pintora diagrams.