Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

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Memory's share of AI chip component spending rose from 52% to 63% from Q1 2024 to Q4 2025. Total AI chip component spending increased from $22 billion in 2024 to $52 billion in 2025.

Usborne 1980s Computer Books

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Usborne offers free pdfs of award-winning computer books from the 1980s for personal or educational use. The books include program listings for old computers like ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro, but programs won't run on modern computers.

Ruby for Good

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The Ruby for Good event offers shared lodging, meals, and socializing for programmers to build projects helping nonprofits. Registration is all-inclusive, but refunds are not available after June 7th.

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

Reasonix is a terminal-based AI coding agent for DeepSeek, engineered for prefix-cache stability. It's a free, MIT-licensed project with a paid DeepSeek API key.

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

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Large Language Model agents struggle with structural constraints in code generation, exhibiting a decline in performance as requirements accumulate. Agents perform better in minimal frameworks but poorly in convention-heavy environments, with data-layer defects being the leading root cause of errors.

Mastering Dyalog APL

The "Mastering Dyalog APL" book is being updated from Jupyter Notebooks for a more interactive learning experience. The online version is a work in progress with missing chapters and sections, but feedback and corrections can be given on GitHub or by email.

Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking

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Flick is a startup defining AI native filmmaking, founded by an engineer and an award-winning filmmaker. As a founding front-end engineer, you'll lead the development of Flick's core experience, shaping the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

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I used to live on a quiet hill with a great view of the city, but now I live downtown and work with databases. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph by hand, learning to control line weight and style, and now I appreciate the process and art of hand-drawn data visualization.

Childhood Computing

The author's childhood computing experience began in the early 1990s at a school with a computer lab, where they learned to program in LOGO and played classic games like Moon Bugs and Space Invaders. The limited access to computers sparked creativity, leading to writing their own game, Andromeda Invaders, and a lifelong passion for computing.

I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

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The user has a hard time grasping Scheme due to an inconsistent approach and an ALGOL-based mindset. They want to contribute to the GNU Guix and GNU Shepherd ecosystem but need to overcome their familiarity with other programming languages.

'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

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UK companies are exaggerating their AI capabilities to gain media attention, with some using "AI washing" to rebrand existing technologies. PR executives are frustrated with bosses demanding they pitch AI-related stories despite the companies' lack of genuine AI use.

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

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Microsoft released source code for the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, along with utilities like CHKDSK. The code was transcribed from paper printouts by the DOS Disassembly Group, a team of historians and preservationists.

Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression

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PICO is a learned codec that provides 2.3-3 times bitrate savings and 20-40% savings against other codecs, while encoding and decoding images quickly. It offers cross-platform robustness and outperforms top ML-based codecs in speed and efficiency.

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop

FreeBSD Executive Director Deb Goodkin tried running FreeBSD daily on a laptop, citing past struggles with laptop support. With a Framework Laptop, she successfully used FreeBSD as a daily driver after overcoming some challenges.

Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C

The Teletype Model 33, used in early UNIX systems, lacked curly braces and other characters, leading to the invention of trigraphs and digraphs in C. Before the introduction of trigraphs, UNIX programmers used the Teletype Model 37, which supported curly braces, and the kernel translated between curly braces and parentheses for the Model 33.

Wake up! 16b

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The user created a 16-byte x86 real-mode DOS assembly program called "wakeup" that uses the video memory as a calculation space to draw an infinite Sierpinski fractal and bangs the speaker with that geometry. The program's sound is created by XORing against the environment, resulting in a unique and sensitive output that is highly dependent on the hardware and BIOS version.
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Scammers are abusing Microsoft's system to send fake emails from [email protected], potentially tricking people into thinking they're genuine. Microsoft is investigating and taking action to strengthen its detection and blocking mechanisms.

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

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Firefox gives Adafruit users a direct path from idea to connected hardware project — no extra tools or complex setup required. Use Web Serial to communicate with compatible devices from Firefox, right from supported web tools. Firefox is open source and made by Mozilla, the people-first organization behind an independent web.

When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court's Guide for Counsel outlines dos and don'ts for attorneys arguing before the court, including rules on addressing justices, interrupting, and answering questions directly. Attorneys are advised to avoid humor, selfies, and profanity, but can use quotes and exceptions such as trademark disputes or FCC regulations.

The C64 Dead Test Font

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The “dead test” diagnostic cartridge of the commodore 64 uses an 8k ultimax cartridge with rom code at $e000–$ffff. the cartridge implements just 58 characters, without any reverse video characters or reverse image matrices. if we were to address any screen code beyond $39, we’d address the $aa fill area. there are no further character matrixe s implemented and no reverse images of these

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

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The Linux kernel's swap subsystem is being improved for better performance and maintainability, with goals to reduce overhead and optimize operations. A new virtual swap layer is proposed to abstract swapping and address issues like defragmentation and migration.

Predicting the 2026 Bristol Bay and Kodiak Salmon Runs

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Bristol Bay and Kodiak Island sit at the heavy end of Alaska’s salmon map. Bristol Bay’s sockeye returns are measured in the millions, with peak weeks that move more fish in a few days than most rivers see in a season. Kodiak runs smaller in total volume but trades volume for variety — Chinook, coho, sockeye, and a powerful even-year pink cycle that completely changes the character of the ...

Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler

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A cooperative fiber scheduler for Linux enables high concurrency with low overhead using lightweight stackful coroutines. It includes various features and benchmarks, such as io_uring integration and topology-aware work-stealing, and can be configured and built using CMake.

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

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Alexander Grothendieck revolutionized 20th-century mathematics with his work in algebraic geometry. He introduced schemes, a new way to study relationships between objects, and reoriented the field in radical new directions.

Time to talk about my writerdeck

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The user converted an old laptop into a writerdeck, a dedicated writing device, by installing Debian in text mode, replacing the network stack with network-manager, and setting up neovim for writing. They also added features like tmux for terminal tiling, acpi for battery details, and light for backlight control, and set up automatic login and syncthing for syncing notes.

On The <dl> (2021)

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The HTML &lt;dl&gt; element represents a list of name-value pairs, which is a common UI pattern. It consists of &lt;dt&gt; for names and &lt;dd&gt; for values, allowing for semantic markup and improved accessibility.

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

Omarchy Is Not A Distro

Omarchy is DHH's personal Linux setup, essentially Arch Linux with his dotfiles, marketed as a distribution. It includes proprietary software and preloaded scripts, making it unsuitable for new Linux users.

Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Greg Brockman, OpenAI's co-founder and President, shares the company's history and future in a rare conversation. He discusses AI, its impact, and the future of work in a podcast about mastering knowledge and insights.

Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Colossal Biosciences claims to have created a synthetic eggshell, a crucial step towards de-extinction of species like the giant moa and dodo. The company's artificial egg system allows for direct observation of embryo development and could be scaled up to hatch extinct species.