Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

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Bug Description Apparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a...

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

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The load average of 1.0 on a two-core machine does not mean 50% CPU usage, but rather 100% CPU utilization, as the load average is the average number of running processes, not CPU usage. The load average is calculated by counting the number of running and uninterruptible processes, and is an exponentially damped moving average of the system load since startup.

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

The user has had negative experiences with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) and believes they should not replace SQL, but rather augment it. They recommend learning SQL to write efficient queries and manage database interactions, and suggest using templated SQL or stored procedures for complex queries.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

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Astrophysicist Charlotte Mason and colleagues are studying "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, which may be black holes or a new type of object. Researchers are exploring various theories to explain the dots' existence and the universe's early mysteries.

Curveball

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If you'd rather run Curveball as a desktop app, you can download a release from Github or compile it yourself. Don't worry - compiling Curveball is easy, especially if you already have Rust. Oh yeah. This thing is written in Rust 🦀. That means it must be good, right? Why Curveball? I'm working on a level set for an open-source game called Neverball, and I needed some fancy shapes. ...

Maybe you should learn something

Learning new things is fun and makes life richer, but it requires a daily time investment of up to an hour. It's a long journey with initial struggles, but consistent practice leads to improvements over time.

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

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The author, a co-founder of Databricks, discusses how traditional OLTP databases are clunky, difficult to scale, and fragile, and proposes a new architecture called Lakebase that externalizes storage and compute, making databases more durable, elastic, and cheaper to run. Lakebase's design also enables a new feature called LTAP, which unifies transactional and analytical workloads by storing ...

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

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Dr Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding zebra finches' core vocabulary and advancing human-animal communication research. Her research showed zebra finches use distinct calls to announce identity and activities, and understand the meanings of their vocalisations.

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

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High-stakes meetings in poorly ventilated rooms can impair decision-making due to high CO2 levels. A CO2 monitor can help identify and fix this issue, which is often overlooked and can be as simple as opening a window.

The Vespa at 80

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A Vespa museum in Rome showcases the scooter's 80-year history, from its birth in 1946 to its current status as a symbol of freedom and style. The Vespa's unlikely story began as a solution to post-war Italy's transportation needs, designed by Corradino D'Ascanio and launched by Enrico Piaggio.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

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AMD's Instinct MI350 series offers cheaper GPUs with comparable specs to NVIDIA's Blackwells, but lacks day-0 support for frontier models. With optimization and tweaks, AMD can achieve competitive performance per dollar, closing the gap with NVIDIA, but still requires more support and development.

Costco is the anti-Amazon

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Amazon's complex logistics model may not be the most efficient or socially beneficial, while Costco's simpler model offers lower costs and better worker treatment. A public grocery store model, inspired by Costco and the military commissary system, could provide cheaper groceries for New Yorkers with lower overhead.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

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Leanstral 1.5 is a free, open-source model that delivers a performance upgrade for formal verification, achieving a new state-of-the-art on FATE-H/X and PutnamBench. It verifies complex code properties and uncovers previously unknown bugs in open-source repositories.

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

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The book is a narrative by geologist Ekaterina Radkevich about her expeditions and research on Earth and its resources. It completes the Science for Everyone Series, a collection of scientific knowledge for the general public.

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

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The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches," was an all-female Soviet military unit that flew over 23,000 sorties during World War II. The regiment was formed in 1941 and flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military until the end of the war in 1945.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

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The Dreamcast shipped a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 that retail games booted into and never exposed. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition takes that same on-disc CE runtime and turns it into something you can actually use: a multitasking windowed desktop and an in-progress TCP/IP stack over the Broadband Adapter — all baked into a standard bootable Dreamcast disc. It is fully ...

How working memory could give rise to consciousness

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Working memory, a faculty that stores information for tasks, has a small capacity and is closely linked to consciousness, suggesting that consciousness may arise from working memory and attention. However, the link between working memory and consciousness is still debated, with some arguing that consciousness overflows working memory's capacity and others suggesting that some information in ...

Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

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TL;DR Partition by the primary key, not by created_at, and let a background service manage boundaries based on observed growth. Queries keep using the keys they already have, partition pruning works automatically, and the partition column never leaks into application code. The same “service watches and adjusts” pattern applies to hash and list partitioning with different operations. The ...

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

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New research reveals that the world's tallest tropical trees can pump water to their topmost branches without difficulty. The study found that these trees' water systems are perfectly adapted to their height, making them no more vulnerable to drought than shorter trees.

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

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Steam Controller Auto-Charge is an open-source app that automatically charges a Steam Controller using computer vision and WebHID telemetry. It uses optical flow tracking, haptic navigation, and battery status polling to guide the controller to its charging puck.

California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste

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Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

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User has $2k to spend on local machine intelligence and $40k for top-of-the-line. They have 4x RTX Pro 6000s and built a DDR4 system to host them.

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

The user discovered a severe vulnerability in MSI Center, a pre-installed software on MSI laptops and desktops, allowing for Remote Code Execution (RCE) with valid login credentials. MSI patched the vulnerability within two days and the user is still waiting for a CVE from VulDB after submitting their report.

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why

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NASA's Perseverance rover found complex macromolecular carbon on Mars' surface at an ancient river channel. The origin of this carbon is still unknown, and samples may need to be brought back to Earth for further analysis.

FreeBSD ate my RAM

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The user investigated why memory usage reported by fastfetch and btop differed on FreeBSD, discovering that the discrepancy was due to btop's incorrect handling of the ARC cache and filesystem metadata buffer cache. The user contributed patches to btop and htop to improve their memory usage reporting, and also submitted a PR to fastfetch, which was later merged with improvements.

Synthesis is harder than analysis

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Calculus has two main branches: differential calculus, which calculates the slope of a function, and integral calculus, which calculates the area under a curve. The two are connected by the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, which states that integrals are anti-derivatives, but integral calculus is generally harder than differential calculus due to its global nature.

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

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Amsterdam's fire-fighting system improved in the 17th century with the introduction of new engines and a culture of inventiveness. The city's fire damage decreased dramatically after implementing the Van der Heyden brothers' suction and pressure hoses.

The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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A false report of Jim Carrey's death on Google's Knowledge Panel exposed a failure mode in knowledge systems, highlighting the need for transparency and scrutiny in how information is verified and presented. The author argues that knowledge systems must move beyond a simple true-or-false model and instead represent the complexity of claims, including their provenance, contradictions, and ...

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island

The user discusses their experience with AI and testing, highlighting the benefits of using AI to generate tests and the limitations of relying solely on LLMs for testing. They propose a testing methodology that combines fuzzing, randomized testing, and human review to achieve high-quality results, and discuss the importance of feedback loops and independent perspectives in reducing false positives.