MacBook Neo

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Apple unveiled MacBook Neo, a new laptop with a breakthrough price, featuring a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and up to 16 hours of battery life. Starting at $599, MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

Alibaba's Qwen team faces uncertainty after key researcher Junyang Lin's sudden resignation and several other team members' departures. The team's open weight models, including the impressive Qwen 3.5 family, may be impacted by the loss of talent.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

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Engineers who overbuild and create complex systems are often rewarded over those who ship simple solutions. This is because complexity is often perceived as smart and impressive, even if it's not necessary.

“It turns out” (2010)

The author criticizes Paul Graham's use of the phrase "it turns out" as a way to avoid making a genuine argument. This phrase is often used to convey unexpected information, but can also be used to mask a lack of evidence or a weak argument.

Glaze by Raycast

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Glaze is a desktop app builder that lets users describe what they want and build it, with features like file system access and menu bar integration. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month with daily credits to build apps.

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future devices with official support, meeting privacy and security standards. Devices will have unlockable bootloaders and support for custom GrapheneOS builds.

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

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Qwen3.5 model family supports fine-tuning with Unsloth, offering both vision and text fine-tuning options with various VRAM requirements. The model can be fine-tuned using transformers v5, with bf16 LoRA setups recommended for MoE models and 256GB VRAM required for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

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The new Open Educational Resource (OER) explains how to develop, produce and use components in DC energy systems Within our community forum we aim to join forces and build renewable energy components together

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals

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The current system of scientific publishing is a scam where taxpayers pay for research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again for scientists to read it, with the majority of the money going to CEOs. To fix this, the government should stipulate that research funded by grants cannot be published in for-profit journals, cutting out the middlemen and allowing for more open ...

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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The Wasteland is a platform that connects people to work on projects, earning stamps and reputation, and is designed to scale up to all the world's work. It uses a Git-based workflow, with a shared wanted board, and allows users to build their own work history and reputation.

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

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Gustaf Blomqvist's thesis exposed a smartwatch for children's security disaster, allowing full control and potential denial-of-service attacks. The watch's vulnerability highlights the risks of software-based systems and the need for improved security.

Chimpanzees Are into Crystals

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RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

This document describes a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) that encrypts the ClientHello message to protect sensitive information. ECH uses Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) and is supported in TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3, and newer versions of the TLS and DTLS protocols.

Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage'

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Microsoft's Outlook rejected emails to certain IP addresses due to reputation rules or block lists, causing delivery issues for businesses. The problem worsened in February, affecting multiple users and prompting complaints on Microsoft's support forums.

RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

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A new regex engine called RE# was developed in F# that outperforms other industrial regex engines and supports intersection, complement, and context-aware lookarounds with linear-time guarantees. The engine uses a derivative-based approach and minterm compression to achieve high performance and supports leftmost-longest matching with bidirectional scanning.

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

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TikTok won't introduce end-to-end encryption for DMs citing safety concerns. It prioritizes proactive safety over user privacy, arguing it helps prevent harm to young users.

Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction

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A Canadian journal has corrected 138 case reports to add a disclaimer stating the cases are fictional. The corrections follow a New Yorker article that exposed a fabricated case report on opioid exposure through breast milk.

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

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Jiga streamlines product sourcing by connecting engineers with vetted manufacturers and automating administrative tasks. This saves time and reduces costs, allowing engineers to focus on actual work.

Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself

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The author enjoys coding for the process, not just the end result, but feels pressure from AI and quick apps making their work seem less valuable. They're focusing on what makes their app unique, personality, feel, and polish, to stand out in a crowded market.

A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing

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The Human Genome Project released a nearly complete human genome sequence in 2001 after 10 years of work and $3 billion in research costs. DNA sequencing methods have evolved significantly since the 1940s, with various techniques such as Sanger sequencing, pyrosequencing, and nanopore sequencing being developed over the years.

Agentic Engineering Patterns

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

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The NeuralCPU is a GPU-based CPU that uses trained neural networks for all arithmetic operations, achieving speeds of 4,975 IPS and inverting the conventional CPU's MUL vs ADD performance. It supports two modes: Neural Mode, where every operation is a forward pass through a trained model, and Fast Mode, where the ALU uses native torch arithmetic for maximum throughput.

SRGB↔XYZ Conversion (2021)

In an earlier post, I’ve shown how to calculate an RGB↔XYZ conversion matrix. It’s only natural to follow up with a code for converting between sRGB and XYZ colour spaces. While the matrix is a significant portion of the algorithm, there is one more step necessary: gamma correction. Human perception of light’s brightness approximates a power function of its intensity. This can be expressed as ...

Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

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Cloudflare's network observes requests to identify "toxic combinations" of minor security issues that can lead to major breaches, including exposed admin panels, debug flags, and misconfigured access controls. To mitigate these risks, Cloudflare recommends implementing WAF rules, authentication, and authorization, as well as disabling unnecessary endpoints and sanitizing inputs to prevent SQL ...

Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)

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Better JIT for Postgres

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pg_jitter is a PostgreSQL JIT compilation provider that adds three alternative JIT backends - sljit, AsmJit, and MIR - delivering faster compilation and competitive query execution. It provides native code generation with microsecond-level compilation times.

Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975

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Modern Illustration is a project by illustrator Zara Picken, featuring print artefacts from her extensive personal collection. Her aim is to preserve and document outstanding examples of mid-20th century commercial art, creating an accessible resource for understanding illustration history.

Bet on German Train Delays

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Browse live ICE, IC & EC prediction markets. Pick a train, predict the delay, and win from the pool. Updated every 2 minutes.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

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Coastal hazard assessments often inadequately handle sea-level and land elevation data, leading to underestimation of exposed areas and populations. Proper integration of sea-level height and coastal elevation is crucial for accurate assessments, especially in data-sparse regions.