The talk covers JavaScript's history from 1995 to 2035, discussing its flaws and positive impact. It's a science fiction comedy that explores programming's evolution.
Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience
Ruby's design is based on a simple Lisp, stripping out macros and s-expressions, then adding an object system, blocks, and Smalltalk-style methods. Ruby's functional features, such as blocks and Enumerable methods, are borrowed from Lisp.
zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code. It supports HTTPS reverse proxy and custom code execution via eBPF.
Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.
Atari used screen printing to create its iconic arcade cabinet artwork in the early 80s, applying individual color layers one at a time. The process involved breaking artwork into color layers, creating separate screens for each color, and aligning them perfectly for a clean-looking finish.
SpaceX has $235 billion in cash commitments through 2030, but only $50-75 billion will be raised from the IPO. The company's cash constraints may force it to exercise the Cursor option in stock, not cash.
SQL to ER Diagram is a free, open-source tool that converts SQL schema into interactive ER diagrams in the browser. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, with no account or sign-up required.
The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.
To become a billionaire, one must create a startup with exponential growth, which can be achieved by making something users love so much they tell their friends, and then sustaining that growth in a large market. This can be done without cheating, as the key is to understand users deeply and make something that dramatically improves their lives, rather than exploiting them.
GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model, is now available to all users. It supports long-horizon tasks and is a step towards making frontier intelligence accessible to everyone.
The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.
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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.
KPMG's report on AI usage contained inaccuracies due to AI hallucinations, prompting an investigation. The firm removed the report and is reviewing its guidelines on AI use, including human oversight and source verification.
The author recreated the game Xonix using only the capabilities of the first version of Windows, demonstrating the stability of the original WinAPI design. The code remains recognizable and even compiles and runs on modern 64-bit systems with minimal changes.
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods. It’s not exactly that I think we were wrong all those years. To be clear, we’re strong believers in the power of tools to help us write better and more reliable code. And type systems are a kind of lightweight formal method that we’ve gotten an enormous amount of ...
Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.
The author describes the limitations of large context windows in LLMs, where attention drops off after 100k tokens, making them mostly a marketing number. To avoid this, the author uses a "breadcrumb approach" by writing and passing a spec to new sessions, keeping the working session in the smart zone.
You created a game where players control ghosts chasing Pac-Man with AI, but he turns the tables if he eats a power pellet. The goal is to catch Pac-Man before he clears the maze or escapes after turning the tables.
Free Oberon is a cross-platform IDE for the Oberon programming language, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows users to write, compile, and run programs in Oberon, with features like automatic linking and error detection.
Tribblix is an open source OS blending retro style with modern components, based on illumos. It's available for download in SPARC and x86 versions, with the x86 version being more stable.
Arch Linux AUR developers are dealing with another malware incident, with more sophisticated code obfuscation. Multiple packages, including Node.js and Firefox, were found with malware before being removed.
Python 3.14.0 introduced an incremental garbage collector but reverted the change in 3.14.5 due to higher memory usage. The incremental GC reduced pause times but increased memory usage, leading to its removal in favor of the traditional GC.
Codex supports open-source maintainers with tools for real workflows, reducing coding and review load. Selected maintainers receive API credits and ChatGPT Pro for six months.
Pyodide now supports PEP 783, allowing Python packages to be published directly to PyPI and installed at runtime, reducing the burden on maintainers and enabling faster startup times. This release also includes several breaking changes, such as a new versioning scheme, removal of certain libraries, and updates to the ssl and hashlib modules.
A user built a portable console using a used IBM 1U console, a terminal emulator, and a keyboard. The device has two modes: one for connecting to a terminal box and another for free connectors.
Anthropic's Claude AI model assists chemists with daily tasks, including NMR spectrum analysis, and can propose a structure from a spectrum alone. Claude's performance is competitive with dedicated NMR software, but limitations remain, including limited evaluation scope and solvent coverage.
At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just answer straightforwardly: “I’m reading a very long story about free theorems.” Never one to shrink from a pedagogical challenge, I thought for a moment, then began: “Do you know what a function is?” He didn’t. “A function is like a machine where you put something in one ...
Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.