A founder builds an oven company with a flawed MVP that fails to deliver on its promises, despite raising millions of dollars in funding. The company struggles to execute its vision due to poor engineering, sales, and management decisions.
Enabling strict memory overcommit in Linux protects PostgreSQL from catastrophic OOM kills by preventing shared memory corruption. A kernel bug in Linux 6.5 caused inflated committed memory, but a fix was applied, allowing strict overcommit to be safely enabled.
Valve has made the Steam Machine's e-ink display open source under the MIT license, allowing anyone to create their own "Inkterface". JSAUX plans to release pre-built versions of the display.
Wordgard is an open-source JavaScript library for in-browser rich-text editors with a powerful programming interface. It's customizable and free to use under the MIT license, but commercial users are expected to contribute to its maintenance.
The author of this post works at an AI company and feels that people are exaggerating the impact of AI, creating a toxic environment where everyone feels behind. They want people to stop the "AI Confidence Theater" and focus on real, achievable use cases.
Right to Intelligence advocates for open AI models, allowing users to download, own, and run them locally without needing a license. They provide state-specific call scripts to contact legislators about this issue.
The author is disappointed that Rivian vehicles do not support CarPlay, a feature that allows phone interaction in cars. They believe Rivian should offer CarPlay as an option to attract more customers and increase sales.
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas. Pushed by an unknown force as inexorable as gravity, screwworms moved north β ever moving, ever spreading, ever multiplying, ever destroying. No army ever advanced any more surely or methodically. No army was ever more ...
The author learned about the challenges of building accessible software through a project with a client who had blind and deaf employees, discovering that Microsoft's tools had significant accessibility gaps. The author emphasizes the importance of prioritizing accessibility from the start and working around platform limitations to create a better experience for users with disabilities.
Safari MCP server is a new tool for web developers that makes debugging faster and more powerful by connecting agents to a Safari browser window. It enables agents to emulate user experiences, access DOM, network requests, and console output, reducing manual checks and improving productivity.
A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.
The user is working on a Rust to C compiler toolchain called cilly which can compile Rust code to C for arbitrary targets and is network transparent. The toolchain is still in development and not yet ready for public consumption due to some issues and the user's current busy schedule.
A new PostgreSQL extension, PL/CBMBASIC, brings Commodore 64 BASIC to PostgreSQL. It executes function bodies on Commodore 64 BASIC V2, with a 15-microsecond power cycle per call.
The game has great graphics, music, and gameplay despite its small size of 13k. It features enemy AI with line of sight checks, dynamic lighting, and impressive graphics for its tiny size.
Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.
The author reflects on their childhood experiences working with their father, a Colombian immigrant, and how it taught them about the importance of paying attention to details in reality, which is often overlooked. This realization has implications for various domains, including programming, physics, and personal growth, and the author argues that seeking out and noticing details is crucial ...
Two red teamers gained access to a company's network by posing as new employees and exploiting a maintenance door left open during winter. They used a hidden Raspberry Pi to breach the network and gain domain admin access through password vulnerabilities.
Gemini Code Assist on GitHub is a code reviewer that automatically summarizes pull requests and provides in-depth code reviews. It can be invoked at any stage of a pull request and interacts with users through comments.
v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! π Breaking changes Th...
A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.
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Researchers developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects to extend their operational range. The suit integrates an oxygen generator and flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water.
The author believes that programming languages can help prevent bugs in AI-generated code by enforcing global properties, such as data race freedom, through local reasoning. The author uses Rust as an example of a language that enforces data race freedom through ownership types and traits, and suggests that this approach could be applied to other languages to improve code reliability and productivity.
Micron's VP Praveen Vaidyanathan discusses the current memory market driven by AI demand, with companies competing for access to fast and dense memory subsystems. He highlights Micron's investments in HBM4, custom memory, and LPDDR6, as well as its plans for future generations of memory and storage solutions.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.
OM Core is an open-source reference implementation of a multidimensional modeling engine for structured financial, operational, and analytical models. Instead of treating the spreadsheet grid as the model, OM Core represents the model using dimensions, cubes, groups, and rules. Grids and views are projections of that model, not the source of truth. Alpha software: OM Core is under active ...
Tautologies in economics promote clear thinking and help identify plausible causal relationships. They are useful tools that force us to see connections and understand the economy's functioning.
The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.
Manticore Search 27.1.5 introduced a new ONNX Runtime backend for Auto Embeddings, achieving ~14Γ faster performance than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path. The new path is now the default for HuggingFace models with an .onnx file.
The US Secretary of Commerce issued a directive (DAO 216-26) banning modern techniques for preserving privacy in large datasets, including differential privacy, in favor of outdated methods. This move is driven by political interests, not scientific merit, and will compromise the confidentiality of respondents' data and the public's trust in the Census process.