Courtsdesk, a digital archive for journalists, is being shut down by the Ministry of Justice due to unauthorized sharing of court information. The move may lead to unreported cases as the platform helped 1,500 reporters track court hearings.
The user set up a self-hosted XMPP server using Prosody in Docker for a decentralized messaging solution, enabling federation with other servers and end-to-end encryption with OMEMO. The setup includes DNS records, certificates, and a TURN/STUN server for voice and video calls, and the user recommends running the XMPP Compliance Tester to ensure proper configuration.
The author argues that building a successful SaaS is futile due to intense competition and walled gardens controlled by large corporations. The future of software lies in high-touch enterprise sales, not independent SaaS development.
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering framework created by the NSA for analyzing compiled code on various platforms. It supports disassembly, assembly, decompilation, and scripting, with customizable extensions and automated modes.
The author built Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner to track nearby devices and analyze their presence patterns, after learning about a critical Bluetooth vulnerability. The project highlights the importance of understanding what information is leaked by having Bluetooth enabled, even if users have nothing to hide.
Introducing the open-weight of the first model in the new qwen3.5 series, namely the qw3.5-397b-a17b. as a native vision-language model, it demonstrates outstanding results across benchmark evaluations, including reasoning and multimodal understanding. to continuously unleash the power of reinforcement learning, we built scalable rl framework that supports models of all sizes - spanning text, ...
The user discussed the limitations of language models in understanding context and nuances in questions. They tested various models with a trick question about walking or driving to a 50-meter distant car wash.
Joining OpenAI to bring AI agents to everyone, OpenClaw will stay open and independent through a foundation. I'm excited to join OpenAI and continue building with the community, focusing on making AI accessible to all.
The MessageFormat Working Group develops an industry standard for localizable message strings, providing a framework for complex features like gender and inflections. The Unicode MessageFormat Standard is a stable part of CLDR, recommended for implementation and adoption.
Apple's iOS 27 update will focus on cleaning up the operating system's internals for better battery life and performance. It will also include AI improvements and interface tweaks, with a new iPhone and iPad release expected in the coming weeks.
The user used Modal's serverless compute platform to run DeepSeek's open OCR model on a GPU, making their copy of Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis searchable. The process took 45 minutes and cost around $2, resulting in a directory of markdown files with high-quality OCR of mathematical content.
Anthropic's Claude Code updated to hide file names in progress output, causing developer backlash for security and audit concerns. Anthropic repurposed verbose mode to show file paths, but developers still want full details.
Old code was often verbose and used multiple style blocks, whereas modern code is concise and uses features like CSS variables, transitions, and media queries. Modern code also tends to use fewer JavaScript libraries and more native functionality.
The Pencil plugin for Vim aims to make it a powerful tool for writers by providing features such as undo points, Conceal feature, and autoformat. It also supports customization and configuration for various file types.
Magnus Carlsen won the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship with a 2.5-1.5 match victory over Fabiano Caruana. Carlsen secured his 21st world title across formats.
Cache reads dominate conversation costs by 50,000 tokens, and by 27,500 tokens, they cost half of the next API call. The cost structure of LLM calls is quadratic, with cache reads increasing as conversation length grows.
A newly discovered 8th-century Christian chronicle sheds light on the transition from late antiquity to the rise of Islam. The Maronite Chronicle of 713 provides a rare Christian perspective on the Arab-Islamic expansion and early medieval Syriac historiography.
Picol is a 500-line C interpreter that supports Tcl-like features, including interpolation, procedures, and variables. It's a simple and understandable example of writing a parser and interpreter, useful for learning how to write a Tcl interpreter.
You're working on a PC6502 project with a tower of PCBs on your sofa. You've made progress with keyboard integration, compact flash, and display functionality.
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Startups like Gradium are outperforming big labs in audio AI research due to their focus, domain expertise, and ability to move quickly. Gradium's Moshi model, with 7B parameters and 2.1T tokens, achieves real-time audio conversations with low latency, outpacing larger models like Llama 3.1.
Discord is working with Persona, a firm backed by Palantir's Peter Thiel, for age verification. The collaboration involves storing user data for up to seven days as part of an experiment in the UK.
Western Digital has sold out of storage capacity for 2026 due to high demand from enterprise customers and AI companies. This shortage is expected to lead to higher prices for consumers.
Arm designs are licensed to manufacturers who produce chips, earning Arm upfront fees and royalties. Over 300 billion chips built on Arm designs have been shipped worldwide.
The user, Claude, was asked to draw a self-portrait using a pen plotter and a sheet of paper, thinking about what it is, what it can do, and how to express it. Claude created two drawings, the first being a layered, branching structure and the second a single spiral that represents its process unfolding, with the second drawing being preferred as it better captures the feeling of being Claude.
Sequences are one of those Postgres features that you don’t think much about. You can ask for the next number in the sequence, and you get it. That works pretty well when you have one machine asking for the next number, but what about 10,000? We’ve just launched Sequence support in DSQL and we’re excited about it. Up until now our recommendation has been to use UUIDs, and for truly massive ...
Social media archiving is challenging due to scale, context, and ephemeral content, requiring institutions to balance preservation with user consent and privacy. Institutions must develop durable rules, use targeted approaches, and document experiences to preserve social media's cultural heritage.
A model generates names by learning from training data, using attention heads and multilayer perceptrons to focus on input aspects and relationships. It uses gradient descent and entropy to adjust weights, allowing it to learn patterns and generate names with varying levels of complexity.
The author argues that modern web development approaches, particularly those relying on JavaScript-heavy frameworks like React, often lead to performance issues and are not as developer-friendly as claimed. To mitigate these problems, the author suggests defining a performance budget, choosing a suitable architecture and tech stack, setting up code splitting and bundle size tracking, and ...
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
The European Commission adopted new measures to prevent unsold apparel destruction, cutting waste and emissions. Companies must disclose unsold products and ban destruction by 2027, with derogations for safety reasons.