Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

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User is impressed with Qwen 3.6, a local model that performs well as general intelligence. It recommends Qwen 3.6 27B for its balance of speed and power.

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

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Ornith-1.0 is a state-of-the-art coding agent with four models (9B-Dense, 31B-Dense, 35B-MoE, 397B-MoE) that achieve top performance on coding benchmarks. It uses self-improving training and can generate reasoning blocks and solution rollouts.

A native graphical shell for SSH

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A graphical shell called Outer Shell allows remote access to server apps via SSH, providing a home screen of apps with APIs for integration. This approach enables native, platform-tailored apps for work and HTML for casual use, raising the bar for web development.

The Radiation Exposure Lie

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Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear disaster, but its effects were relatively small compared to other disasters. Low-level radiation exposure has not been proven to cause significant harm, and some studies suggest it may even have health benefits.

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

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A Game Boy emulator, WATaBoy, was created to test the feasibility of using JIT-to-Wasm for console emulation on iOS. The emulator's JIT compiler running in Wasm was found to be ~1.2x faster than the interpreter running natively.

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

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The author shares their experience with astronomy and outdoor activities, presenting their telescope Wallace and its technical details. They also discuss the challenge of capturing the visual experience of hiking and trail running.

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

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A CUDA program is compiled into machine code that runs on a GPU, involving multiple compilers and transformations from PTX to SASS, and is then launched on the GPU through a complex process involving the CUDA runtime, driver, and kernel-mode driver. The GPU executes the kernel in parallel, using warps and scheduling control bits to hide latency and optimize performance, and eventually copies ...

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

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The US Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment. The court held that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data, even if they are in public areas.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

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EuroISPA warns the European Commission that piracy blocking measures are becoming more extreme and causing overblocking incidents. The ISP organization argues that the Commission should prioritize implementing current law rather than introducing new enforcement obligations.

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

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JumpServer is an open-source PAM platform providing secure access to various endpoints through a web browser. It's licensed under GPLv3 with no warranties, distributed on an 'AS IS' basis.

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

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In medieval Venice, factional divides led to violent street battles between the Castellani and Nicolotti, with bridges serving as platforms for these fights. The ritualized violence of these battles, known as the "guerre dei pugni," became a popular spectacle in Venice by the 17th century.

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

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Sandia National Laboratory built capacity to design and test ICs for radiation-hardened devices in the 1970s and 1980s for use in space missions and nuclear warheads. They successfully created the SA3000 processor, which could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with minimal performance reduction, and was used in the W88 nuclear warhead and other space applications.

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

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Routers are becoming the control plane for AI inference, enabling collaboration between multiple models to improve accuracy and efficiency. The vLLM Semantic Router is a programmable, observable, and open serving layer that selects the right collaboration recipe for each request.

Font-Family Recommendations

The author discusses font loading security concerns and proposes using monospace as a fallback font. They also criticize the use of specific fonts like Menlo and Courier New, suggesting browser defaults are now better.

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

The text discusses various aspects of programming such as correctness, efficiency, debuggability, and more. It proposes a new approach to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate code from separate documents for each concern.

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

The era of ultra-personalized ads has begun… https://t.co/0BVkbWJq5Y

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

The author shares lessons learned from founding two companies, zynamics and optimyze, and discusses the importance of understanding one's motivations and target market before starting a company. They also provide insights into the different types of markets, fundraising strategies, and the dynamics between founders and investors in the venture capital industry.

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Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

Consumers in the US have sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron over alleged memory price fixing. The lawsuit claims the companies colluded to drive up D-RAM prices by 700% over four years.

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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The CEO of Mullvad finances the far-right Swedish Örebro party, providing 70% of their funds. This has led to the party going nationwide, causing the user to lose trust in the service.

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

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Dave Piscitello noticed a surge in .garden TLD registrations with high risk scores. AliDNS nameservers and Dominet registration are associated with these high risk scores.

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

Apollo Global Management's presentation is for informational purposes only and may not be distributed without consent. It does not constitute an offer to sell or buy any security, product, or service.

CachyOS June 2026 Release

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CachyOS has released its fourth update with new features and fixes including DNS-over-QUIC support and improved performance. The update includes various bug fixes and improvements to the installer, package manager, and desktop environment.

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

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Google removed an article about Pollen's collapse from its search results due to a bogus copyright claim filed by a fake profile from an uninhabited island. The article's author suspects that Pollen or its former CEO hired reputation firms to file the claim, and is now investigating further lawsuits against the company.

Building Principia for Windows XP

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The user successfully built Principia, an open-source game, to run on Windows XP by creating a custom toolchain and resolving dependencies, including a patch for GCC's C++ standard library. The user then installed Windows XP on real hardware, installed drivers and updates, and successfully ran Principia on the vintage operating system.

Decker Fantasy Camp 2026

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Summer is here, pack swim gear and snacks, and create games, toys, and visual novels with Decker. Check out the Decker community forum and Phinxel's Phield Notes for inspiration and tutorials.

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

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A virtual machine on a NUMA host can be slow due to remote memory access costs, which can be mitigated by understanding the NUMA topology and making informed placement decisions. Xen's split design makes it challenging to manage NUMA, but Edera's stack of changes aims to make Xen-based virtualization NUMA-aware end-to-end, improving performance and predictability.

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

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An AI resume screening tool is flawed due to non-deterministic outputs from its LLM, leading to inconsistent scores. This tool fails to differentiate between qualified and unqualified candidates, essentially filtering based on luck rather than quality.