Samsung Electronics plans to more than double its HBM4 memory chip output next year, driven by increased demand for glass carriers used in the production process. The company aims to raise glass carrier production volume 2.5 times from this year's 20,000 sheets per month.
OpenAI's ad collector, __obi, tracks users' browsing data and sends it to their ChatGPT account via cookies on visited websites. The cookie is set by advertisers using OpenAI's pixel SDK, which collects identity from both advertiser-supplied and scraped values.
Pirate Face is a decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI, mirroring open models from Hugging Face as peer-to-peer torrents. It ensures model availability outlives any single hosting platform through checksum-verified downloads and verification of matching Hugging Face identities.
The author argues that the economics of open source software is stable, with free winning every time and closed source making money. However, the cost of maintaining popular packages is high due to serial near-burnout among maintainers. The author proposes a solution where registries charge companies for access to open-source code and pay maintainers a royalty on dependency trees.
The Apple iPhone 18 Pro delivers excellent overall camera performance with a wide dynamic range, improved contrast and skin tones, effective stabilization, and a well-balanced texture-noise trade-off. Its variable aperture is particularly strong in maintaining sharpness in complex scenes.
The author discusses the role of CRTs in pixel art, arguing that modern nostalgia for CRT fuzziness is misplaced. They highlight how techniques like dithering and anti-aliasing were used to improve pixel art quality on old hardware, which was often more forgiving than modern screens.
The letter W originated from the Latin alphabet's lack of a sound /w/, which was present in Germanic languages, and evolved through various spelling practices in post-classical Europe. The English language eventually adopted the letter W to represent this sound, with its usage influenced by historical linguistic changes and regional dialects.
Singapore's ReadSG program rewards daily reading with virtual coins redeemable for cash, aiming to build reading habits among a phone-first population. The initiative has drawn attention from governments and educators worldwide as a test of gamification shifting screen habits at scale.
A medical tattoo artist faces online censorship, with social media algorithms mistaking her realistic work for inappropriate nudity. Meta acknowledges the issue and allows appeals, but users like Lauren Carter struggle to reach clients due to frequent content removal.
The village's financial system is based on a hierarchical structure of money, where special gray stones are the most basic unit of value, followed by banknotes and deposits, then reserves held by commercial banks. The central bank holds black stones as its reserve currency and issues them to maintain stability in the system. The villagers have created a complex system that allows for ...
A ranked ladder for small neural networks that play strategy games. Train a model, write an adapter, upload two files, and get measured into a weight class from 8 KiB up.
The author discusses the challenges of implementing sandboxing in software, particularly on Linux and FreeBSD. They propose using discretionary privilege dropping as a solution, which involves restricting access to system resources for untrusted code.
Jevchat is an interactive chat model that generates text based on user input, using various strategies and algorithms to produce responses. It can be run with different options, such as choosing a question or generating text from pre-defined alphabets.
Radius is a modern Meetup alternative for local groups, events and activities. Find people with shared interests, join what they are doing nearby, or start your own community.
A complete decompilation of Resident Evil 4 for the Nintendo GameCube has been achieved using a custom-built toolchain, which reproduces the original game's code and data exactly. The project is open-source and released under CC0 license.
Sherline Tools, a US manufacturer of precision lathes and CNC machines, is winding down operations due to changing market conditions. The company will continue selling products and parts until October 2026 before ceasing all activities.
Static recompilation of Ogre Battle 64 to PC using N64Recomp toolchain, generating native C code from ROM. The project requires a USA Rev A ROM dump and includes tools for conversion and execution.
Apple created unique keyboard layouts for Canada and Japan to comply with local standards, featuring distinct symbols such as Ctrl, Alt, Tab, and Esc. These custom designs were used in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being phased out or replaced by standard symbols.
The author, an engineer in Los Angeles, has been working on making agents run reliably in production for 25 years and finds it a fun and challenging task. He discusses the difficulties of creating minimally-embarrassing agentic experiences with subjective outputs and outcomes.
The author built a custom NAS using an old Zotac EN1070K GPU, adding six 8TB hard drives and a touch screen interface. The system runs Kubuntu with ZFS and various Docker containers, offering more control than traditional NAS solutions like TrueNAS.
The author is struggling to keep up with the rapid evolution of AI tools and patterns, adopting new technologies like Linear and Datadog MCP. They're exploring the software factory pattern to streamline their workflow and improve project management.
The user is trying to reduce their home's temperature and has started using an e-paper display with ESP32 to show weather, news, tasks, and air quality data. They've designed a simple layout but are now working on making it more attention-grabbing and wireless.