A founder builds an oven company with a flawed MVP that fails to deliver on its promises, despite raising millions of dollars in funding. The company struggles to execute its vision due to poor engineering, sales, and management decisions.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.
Right to Intelligence advocates for open AI models, allowing users to download, own, and run them locally without needing a license. They provide state-specific call scripts to contact legislators about this issue.
The author is disappointed that Rivian vehicles do not support CarPlay, a feature that allows phone interaction in cars. They believe Rivian should offer CarPlay as an option to attract more customers and increase sales.
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Wordgard is an open-source JavaScript library for in-browser rich-text editors with a powerful programming interface. It's customizable and free to use under the MIT license, but commercial users are expected to contribute to its maintenance.
The user is working on a Rust to C compiler toolchain called cilly which can compile Rust code to C for arbitrary targets and is network transparent. The toolchain is still in development and not yet ready for public consumption due to some issues and the user's current busy schedule.
The author learned about the challenges of building accessible software through a project with a client who had blind and deaf employees, discovering that Microsoft's tools had significant accessibility gaps. The author emphasizes the importance of prioritizing accessibility from the start and working around platform limitations to create a better experience for users with disabilities.
A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.
Safari MCP server is a new tool for web developers that makes debugging faster and more powerful by connecting agents to a Safari browser window. It enables agents to emulate user experiences, access DOM, network requests, and console output, reducing manual checks and improving productivity.
Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.
The author reflects on their childhood experiences working with their father, a Colombian immigrant, and how it taught them about the importance of paying attention to details in reality, which is often overlooked. This realization has implications for various domains, including programming, physics, and personal growth, and the author argues that seeking out and noticing details is crucial ...
A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.
v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! 🎉 Breaking changes Th...
By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. Memory is one of the foundational technologies behind every major compute transition, and right now it is more visible than it has been in years. As AI infrastructure expands across training, inference, and large scale cloud deployments, demand for high performance DRAM ...
Manticore Search 27.1.5 introduced a new ONNX Runtime backend for Auto Embeddings, achieving ~14× faster performance than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path. The new path is now the default for HuggingFace models with an .onnx file.
The game has great graphics, music, and gameplay despite its small size of 13k. It features enemy AI with line of sight checks, dynamic lighting, and impressive graphics for its tiny size.
Researchers developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects to extend their operational range. The suit integrates an oxygen generator and flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water.
The US Secretary of Commerce issued a directive (DAO 216-26) banning modern techniques for preserving privacy in large datasets, including differential privacy, in favor of outdated methods. This move is driven by political interests, not scientific merit, and will compromise the confidentiality of respondents' data and the public's trust in the Census process.
The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.
Co-locating workflow state with application data in the same Postgres database simplifies durable workflows by eliminating partial failures and idempotency issues. This approach also simplifies atomic updates and notifications by leveraging database transactions and user-defined functions.
Superpowers 6 is faster and cheaper, reducing build time by up to 50% and token spend by up to 60%. It optimizes Subagent Driven Development with improvements like combining code and spec compliance review agents.
FoundationDB developed Flow, a new programming language that brings actor-based concurrency to C++11, allowing efficient concurrency within C++ in a maintainable and extensible manner. Flow's new keywords and control-flow primitives support asynchronous message passing between components, enabling complex message-passing systems and achieving high performance per node and scalability.
claude-real-video extracts frames from videos locally, transcribes audio, and hands a clean folder for LLMs to read. It's smarter than other tools that sample frames at a fixed interval, and can be installed with pip and used with ffmpeg and whisper CLI.
Nikon created a special Z6 III camera without wireless connectivity for government and industrial partners with security needs. This camera is available to the public through retailers, costing $3,079.95, nearly $400 more than the standard Z6 III.
The Great Salt Lake Tracker website monitors the status of North America's largest saline lake. It provides a dashboard to track the lake's conditions.
A Vulkan driver for NetBSD has been successfully built and installed using the Lavapipe software driver. The process is now automated and reproducible on a fresh install.
Indian climber Dorje Morup's body, known as 'Green Boots', has been identified after a DNA test. His remains were preserved in snow and ice on Everest for almost 30 years after a 1996 expedition disaster.
X Corp petitions FTC to end 2022 order requiring regular reporting due to user data violations, but EFF and allies urge FTC to reject the petition. The order was a renewal of a 2011 settlement after Twitter exposed users' personal info to hackers, and X's claims of improved privacy practices are met with skepticism.
Google's Android Developer Verification program silently installs a virus on devices running Android 8 or higher, disguising itself as a system service with full root privileges. This virus, which affects an estimated 4 billion devices, blocks users from running software not approved by Google, posing a significant threat to user freedom and privacy.