Upload Your RAM

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Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

A PC game was ported to browser for nostalgic multiplayer, with no microtransactions or paid perks. The source code is available on GitHub and supporters get a Discord role in exchange for hosting costs.

Libghostty 1.0

libghostty-vt 1.0 is a stable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation with ABI stability and semantic versioning, supporting various platforms and architectures. It has been widely adopted by major products such as JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and commercial applications like OrbStack.

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

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A Mac's knowledge graph is built by two daemons, analyzing content to create a general-purpose knowledge graph representing the device and user. The graph contains information about contacts, photos, calendar events, family relationships and more.

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

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Researchers tested LLMs and decision models, Jev and Luna, on identity resolution tasks. They found that a hybrid model combining Jev with Opus achieved better accuracy at lower costs than either model alone or other hybrids.

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

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Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory by mid-2027 to focus on the newly launched Cybercab model. The decision comes after weak sales for the futuristic pickup truck, which has only sold in a handful of markets due to its heavy design.

The Components of Agent Memory

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Researchers designed an AI system called Claude to use memory, similar to the human brain's hippocampus and neocortex. The system uses a process called "dreaming" to reflect on its experiences and organize its knowledge into long-term memory.

ToothPaste

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The author created ToothPaste, a device that securely transmits keyboard and mouse commands to any USB-compatible device wirelessly using Web-BLE and an ESP32-S3. It uses a Cryptographic IC for secure data transfer.

Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist

RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters

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Realpage has settled a major federal antitrust lawsuit over algorithmic rent-setting, agreeing to stop using competitors' data and limit coordination among landlords. The settlement includes $359.8 million in payouts to affected renters.

PostgreSQL Internals [pdf]

This book is a comprehensive guide to Postgre���, covering data consistency and isolation, lock management, query execution, and more. It assumes the reader has prior knowledge of database systems and provides detailed explanations of complex topics.

Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE

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The ancient Greek settlement of Akrotiri was destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini around 1620-1530 B.C.E. The site, which includes well-preserved buildings and artifacts, provides a unique glimpse into life in the prehistoric Aegean region.

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

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Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

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The authors successfully exploited a vulnerability in Firecracker, allowing them to take control of a live thread running inside a microVM and execute arbitrary code as root on the host. They achieved this by using access to host memory to locate and modify the saved registers of the vCPU thread, ultimately executing their own payload through Firecracker's write wrapper.

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

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Discord's new Rust client is significantly faster and more efficient, loading the friends list in under a second compared to its Electron app. The new client uses about 70% less RAM with two accounts signed in simultaneously.

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

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The web framework for modern OCaml. Fast, ergonomic and RFC-strict. Eio-native and multicore by design. RFC-strict: its own HTTP/1.1 engine, every requirement it meets a test: RFC 9112 and 9110 for HTTP, 6455 for WebSockets, 7578 for forms, and RFC 9651's published suite for Structured Fields. open Spindle.Syntax type bill = { total : float; [@min 0.] tip : int; [@min 0] [@max 100] (** ...

Running a law firm on Free software

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The author runs a tech-focused law firm using free software, primarily on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 with some hardware issues. They rely heavily on terminal-based tools and FOSS for productivity, document management, and communication.

Notes on San Marino

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San Marino, a microstate in Italy, has maintained its independence for over 700 years despite being surrounded by powerful neighbors. The country's unique diplomatic strategy of portraying itself as weak and Catholic helped it avoid conquest throughout history. San Marino became the second fascist country in the world under the leadership of Giuliano Gozi, but was later purged after World War ...

8088 Domination Post-Mortem

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The author created 8088 Domination, a program that displays full-motion video on an IBM PC using limited resources. The program uses a novel solution to display FMV in graphics mode by changing only a portion of the screen memory and managing disk bandwidth efficiently.

The great butter and cheese fire of 1991

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The Flash C Compiler

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

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This is a series of articles on developing bare-metal applications for PCs with UEFI firmware using Linux. The articles assume no prior knowledge of UEFI and cover software tools, compilation, bootable disks, and file management.

GitHub's new Git storage architecture

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GitHub has introduced a new Git storage architecture capable of handling thousands of writes per second and reads that scale on demand. The new design minimizes coordination and decouples storage from compute, allowing for independent scaling of reads and writes.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is a new video creation tool with native 15-second video capabilities, multi-turn conversational editing, and enhanced reference following. It offers improved consistency and quality at a lower price of $0.07 per second for 720p videos.

Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?

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The authors of Pivot, a real-time analytics database, discovered an optimization technique that significantly improves performance on GROUP BY queries with ORDER BY on aggregate results. By using a probabilistic hash-based structure to prune unnecessary partitions during the aggregation phase, they achieved a 1.6x speed boost and reduced disk I/O by over 70%.

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

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Researchers have uncovered 820 suspicious restaurant domains impersonating major US chains, including Jersey Mike's and Chipotle, using sophisticated payment-skimming attacks. These clones can capture credit card information and SMS verification codes without needing to hack the legitimate restaurant's website.

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

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devvm provides an isolated sandbox for coding with toolchains, agents, and layers that can be customized and shared. It offers features like automatic setup, secure defaults, and protection against attacks such as supply chain attacks and rogue agents.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

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Anthropic's AI R&D has accelerated significantly, with capabilities progress doubling in the last year. This acceleration is likely due to AI automating research and engineering rather than increased headcount or compute power.

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

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Asahi Linux 7.3 has been released with upstreaming work progressing, including support for macaudio and avd drivers. The project is shifting towards an upstream-first approach, enabling Thunderbolt support and improving performance for gaming on Asahi Linux.