Ratty is a GPU-rendered terminal emulator with a spinning rat cursor, multiple 3D presentation modes and support for inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS and built with Rust and Ratatui.
Justin Frankel, founder of Nullsoft, was a rebellious programmer who created popular music tools like Winamp and Gnutella, often challenging the music industry and his corporate parent AOL. He quit AOL and Nullsoft after releasing a private file-sharing system WASTE, which made it difficult for authorities to track copyright infringement.
The author optimizes a handwritten matrix multiplication code in Swift for training a Large Language Model (LLM) on Apple Silicon, exploring various techniques such as SIMD, AMX, and Metal to achieve performance comparable to C. The author concludes that while Swift can achieve similar performance to C, it requires more complex and unwieldy code, and that the fastest CPU instruction on Apple ...
cuda-oxide is a Rust-to-CUDA compiler for safe GPU programming. It compiles Rust code to PTX and supports async GPU programming with Rust's type system and ownership model.
The Portuguese government invested 5.5 million euros in AMÁLIA, a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese. The model's architecture is based on EuroLLM, but with modifications to increase European Portuguese data.
Google and Apple are expanding hardware-based attestation to lock out non-approved devices and OSes, presented as a security feature but actually anti-competitive.
You created a Google account with an Italian SIM tied to your ID, then enabled 2FA and saved recovery codes. Google likely keeps a record of your used phone numbers but can't verify your account with a reassigned number.
The trend of relying on cloud-hosted AI models for features in applications is creating fragile, invasive, and broken software that invades user privacy and depends on external vendors. Developers should instead use local AI models on-device to transform user-owned data, ensuring faster, private, and trustworthy results without the need for cloud dependencies.
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.
Discover, read, and engage with academic papers. AI-powered summaries, quizzes, and a community of researchers — all in one beautiful app.
The user built a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard called k10s using vibe-coded sessions with Claude, but the project's architecture collapsed due to AI-generated code that lacked constraints and view isolation. The user learned that AI-assisted coding requires explicit architecture design, view isolation, and concurrency rules to prevent complexity and data races, and is rewriting k10s in Rust ...
Some software engineers think AI use makes them less intelligent by not learning tasks, but this is a bad argument. They should adapt to AI like construction workers do to heavy lifting, even if it's detrimental to their long-term cognitive abilities.
The author built a web server called ymawky in AArch64 assembly for macOS to understand how a web server works and to strip away convenience layers. The project involved parsing HTTP requests, handling edge cases, and implementing security features such as request timeouts and path sanitization in a low-level and manual way.
geocities-boilerplate is a CLI tool that generates a retro 1990s-style website with neon colors and animations. It can be installed and run with various methods including pipx, pip, npm, and deno.
You've successfully set up a local model on your 24GB Macbook Pro using LM Studio, which runs reasonably well with a 128K context window and enables thinking. This local model, Qwen 3.5 9B (Q4), is useful for research, planning, and basic tasks, but requires more guidance and interaction than SOTA models.
The article discusses James Burke's 1978 TV series "Connections" which explores the evolution of science and technology. A memorable clip from the series shows Burke explaining how a thermos flask can store gases that ignite to launch a rocket.
Press the phone firmly against the guitar body and pluck a string. Each axis trace shows raw vibration; |a| is the combined magnitude. Pitch is detected from the strongest axis (alias-corrected to the actual string frequency).
The user warns that relying on AI coding agents for speed boosts without reducing maintenance costs can lead to permanent productivity loss and indenture. To avoid this, AI must decrease maintenance costs in proportion to the speed boost, or else it's a temporary gain for permanent loss.
A highly targeted social engineering campaign is using Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a previously undocumented RAT named PHANTOMPULSE to finance and crypto professionals. The attack relies on tricking users into enabling community plugins, which then executes code to deploy the RAT with advanced capabilities, including Ethereum blockchain-based C2 server address resolution.
A security incident occurred due to a compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem, affecting approximately 4.2 million machines. The incident was resolved after a cryptocurrency worm inadvertently patched the malware.
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As people age, friendships become harder to maintain due to increased effort required and fewer built-in opportunities to see friends. Creating rituals like weekly calls or trips can help keep friendships strong and valuable.
The author of curl received a report from Mythos, an AI model, that found five potential security vulnerabilities, but after review, only one was confirmed. The author believes the hype around Mythos was primarily marketing and it didn't find issues significantly better than other AI tools.
Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green rolling hill in January 1996 near the Napa-Sonoma county line, California. The photograph, titled Bliss, was used as the default wallpaper for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system and has been viewed by billions of people worldwide.
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'classic adventure' is a collection of games from the early 1980s. the game was developed by willie crowther and don woods for the 9845 pc series - but no source has been found for this version of the program. there are also several versions of tads polyadventure, which are rolled into one package. only 28 out of more than 121 versions have no known source. &#
The lambda calculus is a minimalist, higher-order functional programming language that is equivalent to the Turing machine and can be implemented in various programming languages including JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. It achieves Turing-equivalence through Church encodings and the Y combinator, and its interpreter can be designed using the eval/apply pattern, which scales to much bigger languages.
The user is working on multiple projects including a tool to help write statements of work with AI, a puzzle game, a video cloud platform, and a search engine alternative called Uruky. They are also developing a tabletop simulator called Orpheus, a task manager, and vibecoded games, and are seeking feedback and help with their projects.
The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, set to be the longest immersed tunnel in the world, has successfully immersed its first segment. Engineers from Europe are working together to complete the 18-kilometre tunnel by 2026.
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