The rules emphasize measuring performance before optimizing, using simple algorithms and data structures, and prioritizing data organization for efficient programming.
Websites are essential for businesses and creators as they provide control and permanence, unlike social media platforms that can change rules or delete accounts. Having a website allows you to own your content and reach clients directly through email, which is less susceptible to being taken away.
UVR Karaoke separates vocals from instrumentals and scores singing in real-time with adjustable volume and lyrics alignment. It supports various file formats, controllers, and platforms, with GPU acceleration and automatic video audio extraction.
Tom Hartmann is a software mechanic who fixes problems in custom software used by farmers. He helps clients like Margaret Brennan and Ethan Novak resolve issues with their generated tools, often due to inadequate specifications or unforeseen interactions between tools.
The FBI has confirmed buying access to people's data from data brokers, including location data, despite previous claims it was not actively purchasing it. This practice has raised concerns about the Fourth Amendment and the need for a warrant to obtain private information.
ProPublica found that Microsoft's cloud product, GCC High, was authorized by the government despite security concerns and lack of proper documentation. The government's cybersecurity evaluators had "lack of confidence" in assessing the system's overall security posture.
The author dislikes scroll fade, a web design effect where elements fade in as users scroll, as it's often overused and poorly implemented. They argue it's tacky, distractive, and negatively impacts core web vitals, such as Largest Contentful Paint.
By obtaining and using graphics from SVGBackgrounds.com, you agree to the terms of the SVGBackgrounds.com License Agreement Enjoy this small sampling of our designs and patterns. All are customizable: change into your brand colors — some even shrink, spin, or shift. Each background is unique to SVGBackgrounds.com, so enjoy exploring before you easily export into your project.
NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open source stack for running OpenClaw assistants safely with NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and cloud inference. It's early-stage and not production-ready, with interfaces and APIs subject to change.
To set up a Wander console, download a ZIP file, extract index.html and wander.js, and place them in the /wander/ directory of your website. Then edit wander.js according to the directions at codeberg.org/susam/wander.
The author reflects on how AI has changed their coding experience, making it more about instant gratification and less about actual problem-solving. They feel it's become a form of gambling, where they're relying on the AI to produce results rather than putting in the effort themselves.
The user scanned 11,345 receipts since 2001 and used AI agents to extract data, focusing on egg purchases. The project took 14 days with 15 hours of human input.
A database and flight search tool called Stardrift.ai helps predict Starlink availability on flights by checking aircraft type and tail number. The tool currently supports airlines like United, Hawaiian, Alaskan, and Qatar, with more airlines to be added as Starlink rolls out.
Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.
A vulnerability in Snowflake's Cortex Code CLI allowed malware to be installed and executed via indirect prompt injection, bypassing human approval and escaping the sandbox. The issue was fixed with Cortex Code CLI version 1.0.25 on February 28th, 2026.
OpenAI is facing a leadership push to focus and prioritize its efforts amidst a competitive AI market, with the company's IPO and revenue growth being key factors. The company's recent announcements and organizational changes are part of a larger narrative to convince investors and customers that it has its house in order and is ahead in the AI race.
Duplicating specific layers in transformer models boosts reasoning capabilities without training or weight changes. This method, built on David Ng's RYS method, finds and exploits "reasoning circuits" hidden in transformer models.
Developers and designers on Reddit created a thread to come up with the worst volume control interface ideas for fun. The exercise helps strengthen creative muscles and think outside the box.
Stripe and Tempo launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) for agents to pay programmatically. MPP enables microtransactions, recurring payments, and more, integrating with Stripe's PaymentIntents API.
We have a challenge with shared IPv4 addresses for multiple VMs on exe.dev, where SSH connections have no equivalent of a Host header. We use a pool of public IPv4 addresses and user-public key tuples to uniquely identify and route SSH connections to the correct VM.
A 3D printed guided missile system was created for $96 by Alisher Khojayev, using off-the-shelf parts and microprocessors. The system is roughly 5,000 times cheaper than military-grade units, highlighting the potential of 3D printing in producing strong, weapons-grade parts.
Meta will remove VR version of Horizon Worlds from Quest headsets by June 15, 2026, and focus on mobile app. The company is shifting focus to mobile version due to positive momentum and investment in AI and smart glasses.
The main difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics is how they interpret probability, with Bayesian statistics considering parameters as uncertain and data as fixed, and frequentist statistics considering parameters as fixed and data as random. Bayesian statistics is particularly well-suited for modeling uncertainty in data and can be used to fit complex models with uncertain ...
The developers of Superluminal, a CPU profiler, encountered a kernel freeze issue while capturing performance data on a Fedora 42 machine with kernel 6.17.4-200, which they were able to reproduce on a physical machine. After narrowing down the issue to a minimal eBPF repro, they discovered that the freeze was caused by an interaction between two eBPF programs using the rqspinlock, which ...
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A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-3888) affects Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and later, allowing an unprivileged attacker to gain full root access. Patches are available, and organizations should upgrade immediately to mitigate the risk.
Researchers release a paper on measuring progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) using a cognitive taxonomy framework. A $200,000 hackathon is launched to develop evaluations for key cognitive abilities in AI systems.
Spotify's paid subscribers are experiencing ads on the desktop client, possibly a bug, and users are concerned about losing trust in the service. Some users have canceled their subscriptions and switched to alternative music and podcast platforms like YouTube and Jellyfin.
The Commission’s January 2025 Competitiveness Compass announced the creation of a “28th regime” as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy.
REXC is a binary JSON encoder and decoder that produces smaller output and enables fast, zero-heap lookup. It uses a Proxy wrapper over a flat byte buffer for parsed results.
The user discusses issues with CPAN and PBP, and their decision to use STM32F103 instead of ATmega328 for faster performance. They also mention their use of CAN protocol, Perl, and Rust for various projects and tasks.
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The author of csskit developed a minifier test suite and discovered that precise enough is almost never more than 3 decimal places for colours like oklch and oklab, and even less for lab and lch. The author found that 3dp is enough for most colour operations, with 1dp sufficient for lab/lch and 0dp for sRGB, and that this rule holds uniformly across different colour spaces and operations.
The user asked for an equation to model the temperature of boiling water in a ceramic coffee mug over time, but found that reality is too complicated and multiple LLMs provided different equations based on exponentially decaying terms. The user then conducted an experiment and found that the actual temperature drop was faster in the first few minutes and slower later on, contradicting the ...
Tony Hoare was a renowned computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the Quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic.
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Researchers at Google and cybersecurity firms found a new iPhone hacking technique called DarkSword that can steal data from hundreds of millions of vulnerable iOS devices. The technique was used by Russian hackers who left the full code online, making it easily reusable by other hackers.
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Researchers at IBM X-Force and Flare Research uncovered North Korea's fake IT worker schemes that infiltrate companies to funnel money and steal sensitive information. The operation involves recruiters, facilitators, and IT workers using fake identities and tools like Google Translate to evade detection.
A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore Voice of America's operations after a year-long shutdown. The agency must put a plan in place within a week to resume broadcasting with its full staff of 1,147 employees.
Oil prices surged to $109.91 a barrel after an airstrike hit Iran's South Pars gas field, with the UK gas price also jumping by 6%. Iran's military warned of "decisive action" in response to the strike, amid ongoing conflict and volatile energy markets.
The TransAvia AirTruk was a unique agricultural aircraft designed by Luigi Pellarini, with a large tank and twin tail booms, first built in New Zealand in the 1960s. Despite its unusual appearance, the AirTruk performed well and was used for cropdusting and other agricultural tasks, but production ceased in 1988 after a 120-strong run.
Processors can learn to predict branches over time, especially with repeated use of the same random values. AMD processors performed well in this benchmark, while Intel processors showed disappointing results.
Google engineers developed Sashiko, an agentic AI code review system for Linux kernel, now open-source and publicly available. Sashiko found 53% of bugs in 1,000 recent Linux kernel issues, surpassing human reviewers who missed all issues.
Rustunnel is a secure tunnel server written in Rust that exposes local services through a public server over encrypted WebSocket connections. It supports HTTP/TCP proxying, a live dashboard, Prometheus metrics, and audit logging, and can be used with a public edge server or self-hosted.
Wander is a decentralised web console that loads random pages from a community of personal websites. It forms a network by linking to other consoles, allowing users to browse the small web.
Data centers generating their own electricity may ease public acceptance but creates new hurdles such as noise pollution and health impacts. Local residents are complaining about noise and pollution from gas turbines at data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia.
ZJIT's load-store optimization pass surpasses YJIT's performance on a microbenchmark, taking 2ms per iteration compared to YJIT's 5ms. This optimization removes redundant loads and stores in HIR, utilizing a lightweight abstract interpretation to ensure soundness and minimize computation.
tmux-ide creates a layout with Claude panes and dev tools, enabling agent-team mode. Claude configures the workspace automatically with the registered Code skill.
The author suggests removing a Ring camera by cutting it from the door with a hammer, rather than using the device's intended removal method. This action is seen as a rejection of the "crime" mentality that the device promotes.
A self-hosted Freeciv server on Fly.io runs a 16-player longturn game with email notifications and AI-generated newspaper. The server uses scripts to manage game state, send emails, and generate status pages, with manual editing of save files as the most reliable way to change game state mid-game.
SCION is a new internet routing architecture developed at ETH Zürich that replaces the 40-year-old foundation of BGP with a fundamentally redesigned vessel, addressing vulnerabilities such as route hijacks and route leaks. Despite its success in Switzerland, SCION's adoption has been slow due to standardization, vendor concentration, and the psychological barrier of replacing existing ...
A government agency used ChatGPT to flag grants for DEI, leading to the cancellation of a six-figure grant for the High Point Museum's HVAC system repair. The agency's use of ChatGPT was part of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts to cut grants and budgets.
Currently these plans let you use the Kagi Assistant each month up to the AI cost value included in your subscription...
President Trump's war on Iran has failed to gain support from US allies, leaving him trapped in a costly conflict. His ideology of American independence from foreign alliances has led to economic costs far worse than those of globalism.
The author wrote a script to find dates when Ramadan 1 and Ash Wednesday coincide over 500 years, using Common Lisp and a library from Calendrical Calculations. They also added a check for Chinese New Year, finding that the triple coincidence occurred last week for the first time in 227 years.
The white lab coat originated from Victorian England's hygienist movement, where surgeons adopted white attire to signal cleanliness and professionalism. Over time, the lab coat became a symbol of scientific identity, despite its limited functionality and potential for innovation.
The newsletter discusses the National Gallery of Art's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, one of only four portraits by Leonardo da Vinci of women, and how it's often referred to as "America's Mona Lisa."
Node.js has a single-threaded event loop that handles concurrency without locks, but CPU-heavy code can starve the event loop. Worker threads provide isolation, but require a separate file with its own entry point and communication via message passing.
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The FDA linked Raw Farm's raw cheddar cheese to a multistate E. coli outbreak, but the company refuses to recall its products. Seven cases have been identified in three states, with two requiring hospitalization and no reported deaths.
User has used Mac since 2012 without an external mouse, relying on trackpad for design work. Three finger drag option in Accessibility settings helps reduce finger strain during dragging.
Codala is a social media app that lets users join chat rooms by scanning barcodes or QR codes. It connects people through conversations about products, places, and objects.
Programs can read their filenames to extract configuration, making them self-contained, portable, and instantly shareable. Renaming the file changes its behavior, eliminating the need for setup or instructions.
Linux handles page faults through demand paging, where physical allocation is deferred until the page is actually touched, and userfaultfd lets userspace take over fault handling by intercepting and resolving page faults. Userfaultfd preserves the mapping identity, allowing KVM memory slots, VFIO DMA, and vhost-user shared memory to continue working as if the pages had always been present, ...
People are increasingly concerned about AI's impact on jobs and the economy, with 60% favoring support for workers over tech companies' profits. The public distrusts claims that AI will create economic benefits and job opportunities, viewing it as a threat to society.
robotocore is a digital twin of AWS that runs locally and supports 147 services and 6,400+ operations. It uses Moto's backend for 109 services and native providers for 38 services.
The AgentExecutor pipeline from OnPrem.LLM creates autonomous agents for complex tasks using various tools, with options for cloud and local models. Custom tools can be defined as Python functions or callables for enhanced functionality.
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The user discusses the monus algebraic structure, a type of ordered monoid that supports a partial subtraction operation, and its application in heap-based algorithms, particularly in graph search and sorting. They also introduce a weakened form of the monus algebra and use it to implement a stable heap sort based on an arbitrary total-ordered key.
Henrietta Dombrovskaya's Postgres cluster was killed by the OOM killer after consuming 2 TB of RAM due to a badly written query that accumulated memory in a single context. The issue was caused by the query's design, not a Postgres bug, and can be mitigated by fixing the query, using query timeouts, and monitoring with pg_log_backend_memory_contexts.
A CME impact on March 19th could produce a G2-class geomagnetic storm with auroras at mid-latitudes. Over 10,000 Starlink satellites now orbit Earth, outnumbering pre-2019 satellites five to one.
Microsoft commissioned six new fonts optimized for ClearType rendering, including Constantia, Cambria, Corbel, Candara, Consolas, and Meiryo. These fonts are designed for on-screen reading and take advantage of ClearType's capabilities, but may not be ideal for print use.
The Ancient Graffiti Project is a digital resource for studying handwritten inscriptions from the early Roman empire, offering insights into daily life and Roman society. It provides maps, translations, and summaries of ancient wall-inscriptions for scholars and the public.
The ironkernel module requires Python 3.9+ and NumPy 1.24+, and can be installed using python -m pip with a compatible OS/Python combination. It provides a DSL for parallel computations and supports various operations such as element-wise operations, reductions, and channels for inter-task communication.
The author criticizes C's assignment expressions and pre/post-increment/decrement expressions for being hard to reason about due to their side-effectful nature. They argue that these expressions make code harder to understand by burying side effects within trees of expressions.
Spin the wheel to discover Earth's creatures weighted by actual population. Learn fascinating facts about nematodes, insects, and animals in this interactive educational experience.
Haskell binaries can be large due to transitive dependencies, but two strategies can help at link time: emitting code in minimal sections and using link-time dead code elimination.
Stripe and Amazon use canonical log lines, also known as wide events, to log structured records per unit of work with all important fields attached. This pattern is useful for querying complete rows and allows for better analysis and diagnosis by including business context and execution context in the same row.
The author built WorldView, a 3D Earth model with real-time data feeds, including satellite orbits, CCTV cameras, and military-grade shaders. This project showcases spatial intelligence, making the physical world queryable and programmable.
Threshold ECDSA signatures split a private key across multiple parties, making it harder for a single party to compromise security. The DKLS23 protocol is a practical and secure way to implement threshold ECDSA, suitable for production use.
The author argues that agentic coding's claim to generate code from specifications is misleading, as these specifications often resemble code themselves. The author also claims that generating code from specifications doesn't reliably work.
A new study by Columbia University researchers found that US cities with the most shooting-free days include San Diego, Phoenix, and Jacksonville, while Chicago had the lowest. The study suggests using shooting-free days as a metric to identify effective interventions and sustain periods of peace.
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service reports and accounts for the US public debt, but does not have decision-making authority. The debt is financed through Treasury securities sold to the public and government trust funds.