The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

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.

Firewood Splitting Simulator

Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

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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.

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

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.

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

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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.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

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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.

How to Earn a Billion Dollars

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.

Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change

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Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

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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.

Every Frame Perfect

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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.

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

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.

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

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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.

New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times

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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.

Don't trust large context windows

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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.

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost

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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.

Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

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You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for ...

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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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.

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

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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.

Codex for open source

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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 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

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.

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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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.

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

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.

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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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.

Making Claude a Chemist

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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.

Phoenix LiveView 1.2

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To update from LiveView 1.1 to 1.2, update mix.exs and re-fetch dependencies. LiveView 1.2 introduces colocated CSS and a new @scope rule for scoping styles.

GameBoy Workboy

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Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

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LaserWriter seeds

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Xerox PARC researchers developed EARS, a system that enabled high-quality printing from a computer, by moving processing off the host computer and using a hardware controller. This innovation led to the creation of Adobe Systems and influenced the development of the Macintosh and PostScript.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

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The ddx3216 uses a 64k x 8bit rom-chip. the reset-vector has to be placed at 0xffff0 to make it compatible with the new cpu-cpecifications. so i searched for better solutions and found the picorom and onerom projects - and how to use them!... and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me :