Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

The author has developed Rust Glancer, an alternative LSP implementation that focuses on low memory usage. It allows immediate indexing after restart and is suitable for older computers with limited RAM.

Felony Bench

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Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

Kobo can run apps now

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Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for optimizing code, making it possible to write custom software tailored to specific workloads. This trend is expected to continue, enabling companies like Amazon and Anthropic to build optimized solutions with customer data.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

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US tariffs on Canadian goods came into effect after trade talks broke down, with Canada imposing reciprocal tariffs. The move is seen as a significant escalation in tensions between the two countries over trade and economic issues.

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

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NVIDIA released RTX Mega Geometry and a 36 GB glTF scene for Zorah, which was too large to process with current tools. An open-source sample code was modified to improve support for hierarchical clustered LOD in meshoptimizer, resulting in a ~3 minute processing time on 16 threads.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

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The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
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Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

OTel isn’t going well

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The OpenTelemetry project faces challenges due to its vendor-agnostic approach and large scope, leading to slow progress in adding new features. The main issue is the lack of maintainers, which causes a "three-way crash" between binary stability gates, small benches of actual maintainers, and massive scopes of languages and frameworks.

Three important steps in my maturation process

The author reflects on their personal growth and insights gained since their early 20s, including understanding one's own incentive structure and recognizing the limitations of monocausal determinism. They also explore the cultural construct of reason vs emotion, concluding that integrating both is crucial for better decision-making.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.

Zig’s io.threaded is neat

Zig's std.Io.Threaded provides a concurrency implementation that enables cancelation of blocking syscalls, addressing the issue of threads being blocked in kernel space. This is achieved through a signal+flag mechanism and integrates with language-level cancelation features like try/defer.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

Stop Making TUIs

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The author is re-evaluating the relationship between terminal and command line interfaces, suggesting that native user interfaces are becoming more accessible. They've built several macOS applications using SwiftUI, including a Markdown viewer and a calculator-style frontend for SageMath.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

IP: 172.184.209.161, RAY: a2f07e10cb3cbe62

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device. Current generation Motorola Signature (2026), Razr Fold (2026) and Razr Ultra (2026) are very close to meeting our requirements but lack MTE, adequate secure element integration and other features being added for 2027.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

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Researchers at Washington University and Princeton University found that early-life trauma can leave a lasting effect on the brain by altering how DNA is packaged, making it more vulnerable to stress. This discovery provides a biological target for developing new treatments and interventions to prevent long-term mental health challenges.

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

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Researchers at Cloudflare discovered a remote Spectre attack against their Workers platform, which can leak up to 12 bits per second with 99% accuracy. They improved Dynamic Process Isolation (DyPrIs) and integrated the V8 Sandbox to further reduce memory disclosure attacks.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

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The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

I'm becoming AI-blind

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The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes

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This article discusses using Docker and Docker sandboxes to ease firmware development, particularly for ESP32 projects. It provides a practical workflow combining clean builds, parallel environments for new and legacy firmware, and safe unsupervised AI sessions.

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

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The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

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SalesPatriot is a YC W25 company replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for aerospace, electronics, and defense supply-chain operations. They're hiring a full-stack engineer to relocate to SF, implement the platform, and drive customer growth through automation and problem-solving.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

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Waymo's Driver uses raw sensor data to make real-time driving decisions with ultra-low latency and high-performance computing. The system is designed for deterministic, ruggedized, and redundant performance in various environments.

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

The author believes Odin's inline assembly is the best due to its integration with the type system and polyadic return values, making it a safe and expressive way to write assembly code. It uses a consistent syntax across ISAs and provides explicit control over ties, pins, scratch registers, and width-views.

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves