User wants to create a homebrew router using a Linux-powered device, such as a mini-PC, to bypass a US policy banning new consumer router imports.
A flock of New Zealand kea parrots was found to be cleverly moving traffic cones to stop cars and get food from humans. Researchers have developed various tests to measure bird intelligence, including the mirror test, Aesop's Fable, and delayed gratification test.
AI is a natural evolution of human tools, facilitating idea creation and dissemination. Its development should remain human-centered to enhance quality of life and expand human thought.
The demo scene initially tolerated copying due to technical limitations, but as it evolved, artists began to value originality and craft over plagiarism. Today, many sceners reject AI-generated art and plagiarism, valuing the creative process and technical limitations that define the scene.
Cloudflare's Turnstile program collects 55 properties from a user's browser, including font measurements, storage, and React application data, to verify the user is running a real browser with a fully rendered ChatGPT application. The program uses a custom VM with a server-generated XOR key to collect and encrypt the fingerprint data, which is then sent as the OpenAI-Sentinel-Turnstile-Token ...
User created an Excalidraw extension to generate SVGs for light and dark mode, but it caused frustration due to dependency on text changes. They then created a new extension that automatically exports frames as SVGs in both modes, allowing for local review and reference.
Ghostmoon is a pre-release app that provides system control and utility features for macOS, including display management and network tools. It requires Gatekeeper approval or Terminal command to run, with optional donation for additional features.
Mathematicians have long sought to formalize their proofs to ensure rigor and accuracy. They've developed systems like Lean, a computer language that can automatically verify proofs, but its adoption comes with risks of homogenizing math and shifting focus away from the problem domain.
A comprehensive benchmark of 29 C++ hashmaps was conducted, evaluating 174 combinations of hashmaps with different allocators and hashes, resulting in 1914 benchmark evaluations. The benchmark results show that Google's Abseil's absl::flat_hash_map and ankerl::unordered_dense::map are among the fastest hashmaps, with excellent performance in various scenarios, including search, insertion, and ...
Apereo CAS is a large open-source Spring Boot application that solves complex problems with seven battle-tested patterns, including the thin wrapper pattern, feature flags, and the configurer pattern, which improve scalability and maintainability. By consistently applying these patterns across 400 modules, CAS demonstrates good engineering discipline and makes its complex architecture ...
A seminal 1952 paper lays the foundation for optimal control and reinforcement learning. bellman extended his work to continuous-time systems, turning the optimal condition into the pde. he estimates $v_kapprox valpha_j$ by monte carlo rollouts of the closed-loop sde and fits $v_theta$ via regression. $$ learned value function matches the exact power-law $
Voyager 1, a 48-year-old spacecraft, is still functioning and transmitting data from interstellar space despite having only 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder. It has made numerous discoveries and is now the most distant human-made object in the universe, carrying a golden record with sounds of Earth for potential extraterrestrial life.
A team member used Copilot to edit a PR description, adding ads for itself and Raycast. This is seen as an abuse of the platform's features for self-promotion.
VHDL's delta cycle algorithm preserves determinism in a concurrent language by separating signal value updates and process evaluations into distinct phases. In contrast, Verilog's nonblocking assignments do not solve the problem of non-determinism in general, although they can provide determinism in synchronous designs.
The next generation of breakout software companies will not win on product alone. They will win on how quickly they can turn developer enthusiasm into enterprise trust. That transition used to unfold over years. A company would win mindshare with individual developers, become embedded in side projects and internal workflows, and only later build the systems required for formal enterprise ...
The creator of Waterfox, a 64-bit Firefox build, shares its 15-year history, from 50,000 downloads to 1M monthly active users. Despite financial struggles, the browser remains independent and committed to user privacy.
Big AI labs are struggling due to high energy costs, reduced capital from the Gulf, and concerns about rate hikes. This could lead to a market downturn and affect public companies' balance sheets and growth prospects.
Ninja binaries are available on GitHub for Linux, Mac, and Windows. To use Ninja, run ./ninja -h for help or copy misc/ files for features like Bash completion.
Mechanism design is a science of creating rules that align self-interest with the collective good, used in various cities to balance preservation and development. This approach has been successful in places like Montgomery County, New York, and Tokyo, but requires maintenance, transparency, and adaptation to work effectively.
The ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in London, resolving international comments and producing a final document for approval. C++26 features include reflection, improved memory safety, and language contracts.
Pong, a simple video game, was invented in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn, and it became a huge success, launching the video game industry. The game's simplicity and market awareness made it ubiquitous, winning broad social acceptance and paving the way for Atari's success.
Real-time texture compression is exciting because it allows new hardware formats to be adopted without waiting for content to be created targeting them, and it's a lot easier to introduce new hardware formats. Native hardware compression is a compelling alternative to real-time compression, but it's currently limited to modern high-end devices and has varying quality across vendors.
Files extracted from SAILDART archive include LT, TA, TB, TOP6, and CON6, with documentation and logs to be committed. The software is in the public domain, funded by the USA government through ARPA.
Philadelphia courts ban smart eyewear with recording capabilities due to potential witness and juror intimidation. Those caught attempting to bring smart eyewear into courtrooms may be barred entry or arrested for criminal contempt.
The author believes AI coding agents will make free software matter more than ever, giving users the freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, and that this shift will make software freedom more practically relevant for everyone, not just technical enthusiasts. The author thinks new models are needed that combine the customization benefits of free software with the convenience of ...
Pretext is a JavaScript library for multiline text measurement and layout, supporting various languages and rendering to DOM, Canvas, and SVG. It provides APIs for text analysis, measurement, and layout, allowing for efficient and accurate text rendering with features like shrink wrapping and manual line layouts.
Laptop keyboard became too sensitive and unusable after cleaning. I remapped arrow keys using Karabiner Elements to avoid expensive repair.
The writer took a 14½-hour train ride from Atlanta to Washington due to a government shutdown that caused airport chaos. Along the way, they reflected on how politics affects daily life and saw the diversity of America's collective experience.
Eclipse GlassFish has evolved into a robust, enterprise-grade platform with commercial support and frequent updates. It now supports modern Java standards, lightweight deployments, and is suitable for production environments.