An actual Clojure REPL running on my reMarkable 2
An attacker can steal a GitHub token by exploiting a vulnerability in VSCode's webviews, allowing them to install malicious extensions and gain full code execution. The attack involves creating a Jupyter notebook with a payload that installs a local workspace extension, which can then be used to steal the token.
A user reverse engineered Test Drive III maps, reconstructing them with AI after 5 years of work. The maps are stored in a 32x16 grid with 2-byte cells containing tile IDs and rotation/height data.
A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.
A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.
You're inspired by computer science legends and want to reach out to them for guidance. You're suggesting sending an email or tweet to experienced programmers like John Carmack or Per Lundberg for potential life-changing advice.
Researchers improved biomolecular modeling by scaling models, compute, and data, but found that natural protein sequences are vast and their folds are more redundant than sequence counts suggest. They developed a scalable clustering algorithm to identify reusable structural neighborhoods and found that natural proteins reuse a relatively small set of fold solutions, suggesting that enzyme ...
Microsoft plans to build a useful quantum computer in 3 years, citing improved topological qubits. Critics question the evidence and claim Microsoft has a history of unreliable claims, making a 2029 deadline implausible.
We CT scanned four BYD components—a battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fob—to see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.
Developers writing assembly code for Apple's ARM-based computers should be aware of differences between Mach-O and ELF ABIs. Following guidelines can make assembly code portable to other 64-bit ARM devices.
Pluto version 1.0 is released, celebrating six years of progress and making scientific computing more accessible and fun. Pluto is an interactive environment for notebook programming in Julia, with features like reproducibility, accessibility, and reactivity.
The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.
Capstone is a disassembly engine for binary analysis and reversing, supporting 24 architectures and implemented in pure C with bindings for various languages. It provides a generic API and is widely used in the security community.
Researchers at the University of Toronto discovered a new cyberthreat that uses free AI models to spread and adapt, targeting all online devices. This threat can seize control of networks and launch sophisticated attacks at virtually no cost, raising concerns about global security.
Roku LT OS is a lightweight, open-source operating system for embedded systems and automotive engineering. It provides a powerful, predictable framework for high-performance hardware-level development.
Richard Greenhill built a life-size humanoid robot called Shadow Walker in his attic with a group of enthusiasts. The robot, which stood 168 cm tall, used compressed air to move its 28 "air-muscles" and had 12 degrees of freedom, but struggled to walk.
Your story “A Talent for Seeming,” which is adapted from the early pages of a novel-in-progress, focusses on a teen-age girl named Adele, living in Butte, Montana, in the late nineteen-seventies, who falls in love with acting. What inspired you to tell the story of this girl and her coming of age? My novels emerge from a soup of unconnected fragments, bits of narrative DNA that are typically ...
The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.
The user is frustrated with Gmail's new AI features that nag and interrupt them while composing emails. They're switching to Fastmail after 16 years with Gmail due to the unwanted features.
Alphabets are writing systems using letters to represent sounds, forming syllables, words, and sentences. Typefaces have various parts, such as ascenders, descenders, and apertures, which contribute to their overall design and legibility.
Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) helps combine repair data on electronics by defining a shared approach. It collects data on product, repair, and session information to identify trends globally and locally.
AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the practical problem of getting old data into a form that can be read and used on a current machine. The Juggler animation was ground-breaking and ...
OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!
Plasma is transitioning to Wayland, removing X11 support in Plasma 6.8. This change will allow for new performance improvements and features, but may require custom scripts and workflows to adapt.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.
Archaeologists found lower inequality levels in ancient Mohenjo-daro, with economic gaps shrinking over time. The city's focus on public infrastructure and shared resources contributed to its stability and equality.
Take turns placing one piece at a time. New pieces must be adjacent (up, down, left, or right) to an existing piece. Corner-to-corner is not allowed. Once all pieces are placed, take turns moving your pieces. Pieces cannot be moved if removing them would leave any pieces disconnected from the other pieces. In the bottom row here, the middle piece cannot be moved because it would leave the ...
FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.