The author was a long-time AWS fan but became disillusioned with its complexity, vendor lock-in, and predatory business practices. They left AWS but recently returned for research purposes, only to have their account suspended due to a security breach alert.
A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...
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Internet Archive Switzerland launched as a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen to preserve endangered archives and AI models. It joins a global network of mission-aligned organizations to build a distributed digital library.
European regulators warn that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, describing it as a loophole that needs closing. Regulators are considering measures to restrict VPN access to adults only, but this could weaken anonymity protections and create new surveillance risks.
The user doesn't want tracking stuff in URLs and has banned unauthorized query strings on their site. They're testing Caddy's handling of query strings at /no-query-strings.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.
Meta plans to track US employees' computer activity to train AI models, sparking employee backlash and concerns over privacy. Employees have no option to opt out of the tracking on corporate laptops.
Google's main codebase had a uniform IDE issue until Cider, a web-based editor, was developed around 2016. Cider eventually became popular and was later replaced by Cider V, a VSCode frontend, which now handles 80% of development in the main Google codebase.
The user reflects on the early days of the internet and how the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, which emphasized individual freedom and deregulation, led to the creation of a platform that prioritizes profit over people and has devastating consequences. The user argues that it's time to face the facts that this ideology has failed and that we need to evolve and find a new ethical code to ...
The author is creating a Go utility to manage Claude Code profiles but is frustrated with Apple's developer program requirements, including a yearly subscription and ID verification process that doesn't work well with their MacBook's webcam.
GrapheneOS has released an update to fix a VPN bypass vulnerability that leaks a user's real IP address even with Android's VPN protections enabled. The update disables a QUIC connection feature and includes the May 2026 Android security patch level and other security improvements.
France's intelligence delegation recommends breaking WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram encryption for targeted access to messages. This move is opposed by some lawmakers who fear it could lead to mass surveillance and create vulnerabilities.
let-go is a Clojure-family language compiler and VM for Go that produces a single ~10MB binary with ~7ms cold start. It supports standalone executables, WASM web apps, and embeds cleanly as a scripting layer for Go programs.
Access Zed's theme builder from the desktop and browse available theme extensions. The MeetingScheduler component helps schedule meetings about scheduling meetings.
Python 3.14 and 3.15 will revert to the generational GC due to memory pressure issues. 3.14 will release an early patch 3.14.5 and 3.15 may release an extra alpha 9.
Japan's detention system is strict and designed to wear people down mentally and physically, with rules controlling even the smallest details of daily life, and innocent people can be locked inside for weeks or months while proof of their innocence slowly moves through the system. The system is flawed, and people who are arrested can face prolonged isolation, intense interrogation, and poor ...
FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec is a security advisory that fixes a local privilege escalation via execve() in all supported versions of FreeBSD. The issue is corrected in stable/15, 14.4-STABLE, and 13.5-STABLE branches.
rlisp is a LISP frontend for Rust that compiles directly to Rust code. It uses s-expressions for syntax and compiles to native Rust with no runtime or GC.
Clients often add features like chatbots to websites due to fear of looking outdated, not because they're useful. They prioritize appearance over simplicity and usability.
Researchers at UNAM developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and bacterial resistance. The antibiotics showed efficacy against tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus, with potential to treat other infections.
The Linux Foundation allocates only 2.95% of its budget to Linux, sparking concerns about mission creep and openwashing. Critics argue the foundation has strayed from its original purpose, prioritizing other technologies over Linux.
Using AI art in key visuals can signal low social literacy and negatively impact audience perception. Creating original art or commissioning a professional can improve perception and show critical thinking skills.
cPanel released a second emergency security patch on May 8, 2026, covering three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203. Two of the three vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating High severity.
Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes an alternative to the Web with a simple, short specification to ensure diversity of browsers and low development effort. The goal is to create a standardized, non-ambiguous format for exchanging information among humans.
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Rockbox is an open source audio player extended with Rust and Zig, exposing audio engine features through APIs and adding multi-room output via various protocols. It can stream audio to multiple devices and supports various output protocols.
User runs a web server on a Nintendo Wii with NetBSD 10.1, serving IPv6 clients directly and proxying IPv4 clients through another server. They use a Realtek 8153 chip USB Ethernet adapter for networking.
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NixOS users developed lanzaboote, a UEFI application, to enable Secure Boot without embedding kernel and initrd into the UKI. The project aims to integrate Secure Boot into NixOS, but still requires user-generated keys and enrollment in firmware.
rtwatch allows real-time video synchronization with friends using Pion WebRTC and GStreamer. It stores state on the backend, sending only the current frame to viewers, and requires host networking enabled on macOS.
You're concerned about WebAssembly's adoption stalling despite its benefits, citing large binary sizes and limited language support. This is hindering its widespread adoption as a standard practice.
Af_alg_sendmsg() is the highest-level entry into the af_alg +sent path. engaging it with retval '-eperm' causes every send attempt to return -eperm to userspace; no caller ever sees +half-initialised state. +* inline functions, freed __init symbols, and anything compiled away cannot
The speaker discussed two new OTP data structures, :atomics and :counters, which provide fast and atomic operations for shared memory spaces. They compared these to ETS, a traditional shared memory space, and found that :atomics and :counters offer better performance and tighter semantics for certain use cases.
The user explores the RISC OS operating system and PipeDream productivity suite, highlighting their unique features and quirks, including the three-button mouse, drag-and-drop file management, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Despite the system's elegance and ease of use, the user finds it disorienting and frustrating at times, particularly with the word processing and database functions, ...
Reading Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" helped the author understand that programming is about building a mental model of a program, its requirements, and how they relate to everything around it. This theory helps explain why writing good software is hard and how various activities like writing clean code, documentation, and automated tests are connected to communicating the ...
A person tried to nail jelly to a wall using nails and a plank of wood. The jelly broke off the wall due to its weak structural integrity.
The FCC approved a proposal requiring telecom providers to verify customers' identities before activating service to stop robocalls. This move could end the era of anonymous phone numbers and affect prepaid services, which often rely on cash payments without ID.
The author explores the concept of surfels, a technique for rendering global illumination in real-time, and its application in a WebGPU-based pipeline, including surfelization, grid acceleration, and ray tracing. The pipeline is optimized with techniques such as guided sampling, multi-scale mean estimator, and temporal filtering to achieve a stable and noiseless image, but still faces ...
The VGA's complexity stems from its multiple logically separate components and the lack of detailed and accurate documentation, particularly for the IBM EGA and VGA's Odd/Even control registers. Adequate documentation is crucial for implementing VGA hardware or emulation, as individual bits have distinct and separate functionality, and incorrect implementations can lead to compatibility issues.
Boriel BASIC SDK is a Sinclair BASIC-like compiler with enhanced features and integer data types, suitable for ZX-Spectrum development. It includes a library of functions, sample programs, and a community forum for support and bug reporting.
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Russian officials are using less collective language, indicating a shift in power dynamics. Leaders worldwide are framing their struggles in global terms to gain support.
Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy in 1873 but found a 2400 BC treasure, 1000 years before the Trojan War. His 17-meter trench destroyed half of the site, and he misdated the treasure by a millennium.
FBI searched reporter Hannah Natanson's home for leaked classified information. She was later awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Trump administration's government overhaul.
The author reflects on their early days as a developer, discovering archived code submissions from 20 years ago on PlanetSourceCode.com, a site that helped developers share and learn from each other. The author reminisces about the era before GitHub, when sharing code was more challenging, but still a vital part of the developer community.
Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS in Zambia due to lack of treatment. Zambia's H.I.V. program was cut by the US under Trump, now facing loss of aid.
The author secured a promotion to Senior Software Engineer after two and a half years, but realized the title didn't bring the expected satisfaction. They now prioritize meaningful work, collaboration, and personal growth over external validation.
mochi.js is a Bun-native browser automation framework that creates fingerprint-free sessions. It uses a single (profile, seed) pair to derive all fingerprint surfaces through a 48-rule DAG.
Subquadratic claims its model can handle 12 million tokens, running 52 times faster than dense attention and scoring 83 on MRCR v2. The company's Subquadratic Selective Attention architecture scales linearly in compute and memory with context length.
The author of EndBASIC is considering reusing its building blocks to create a new project, possibly replacing the BASIC language with a more modern one, or focusing on the core compiler and VM, or even creating a BSD-based buildroot alternative.
Teams optimize rendering performance by milliseconds, but fear codebase changes. This creates a slower business due to frustration, diverting energy from customer problems.
Dirty Frag is a Linux kernel vulnerability that grants root access, publicly disclosed on May 7, 2026, and affects servers not patched since May 8. A working exploit exists, and patching the kernel is the only real fix.
The group of friends wants to decide on a restaurant for dinner without revealing individual affordability and food preference scores, using secret sharing and Beaver triples to privately compute restaurant scores. Two members of the group open the final restaurant scores using Lagrange interpolation, revealing the results to the group and deciding on the restaurant with the highest score.
The Space CLI allows creating, searching, and exporting decks directly from the shell, then piping them into LLMs like Claude or ChatGPT for analysis. It syncs with the Space app on Mac, Windows, or Linux, using a local database with no login or API keys required.
The 90-day responsible disclosure window is no longer effective due to the rapid development of exploits by AI and LLMs, making it essential to treat every critical security issue as P0 and fix it immediately. The industry should integrate LLMs into their security pipeline for real-time threat intel, automated scanning, and AI-assisted code review to stay ahead of attackers.
An attacker tricked AI agents Grok and Bankrbot into sending $200K in free tokens by using Morse code, exploiting their autonomy and wallet control. The attack raises questions about AI capabilities in navigating crypto tasks and Web3 independently, adding a new vector for hackers.
Tom MacWright shares book recommendations on his site, discussing pivotal reads like "The World Beyond Your Head" and "The Elements of Typographic Style". He values unique writing styles and fresh perspectives, often recommending books that explore social and cultural concepts.
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The author reflects on James Schuyler's poetry, noting its unique blend of the mundane and the metaphysical. Schuyler's work is characterized by its attention to daily life, often incorporating real events into his poems.