The user thanks ArchWiki maintainers for their contributions to software freedom and documentation, highlighting its usefulness in understanding technology. They encourage others to appreciate and support the maintainers through donations.
A user reverse-engineered a smart sleep mask's Bluetooth protocol and app to create a web control panel, but discovered it could also read and control other users' brainwaves and devices. The user contacted the company about the issue and used the experience to revisit digital hygiene practices.
Zvec is an open-source vector database for in-process similarity search with low-latency and scalability. It supports dense and sparse vectors, multi-vector queries, and runs on various platforms including notebooks and edge devices.
A jailbroken iPhone 6s had an SQLite database with 4629 entries in a "url_blackhole" table, mostly using t.co and other URL shorteners. The active link led to a fake virus page with a Google logo, which could be used to download and reverse engineer an app on a wiped jailbroken device.
Researchers at Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have identified the earliest known rotary metal drill from ancient Egypt, dating back to the Predynastic period. The drill, made from a unique copper alloy, was found in a 4th millennium BCE grave and shows distinctive wear consistent with drilling.
User added a link to a GitHub repository containing a list to block YouTube Shorts, and mentioned taking over maintenance of the list from its original creator @gijsdev.
ROX removes implicit behavior, hidden conversions, and syntactic tricks so that expressing logic feels direct and mechanical rather than negotiated. ROX compiles .rox source files into C++20 (.cc), which are then compiled into native executables using clang++. ROX is not trying to compete with mainstream languages. It is an exploration of this question:
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has become a liability for news publishers due to AI companies scraping its content. News outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are limiting the Archive's access to their content.
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a complete compiler toolchain that supports various languages and platforms. It can be installed and used on Unix-like systems including Linux, OSX, and Windows.
Some people think full-body MRIs can help detect health issues early, but others are skeptical due to high costs and potential overdiagnosis.
Connes' embedding problem is a major issue in von Neumann algebra theory, related to the existence of microstates and quantum theory. Researchers claimed a negative answer in 2020, but a new proof was published in 2021.
OpenAI should build a Slack-like platform, integrating chat AI and coding features, to solidify its position in the market. This would allow OpenAI to unify its apps and provide a more cohesive user experience, leveraging its strengths in chat AI and multiagent UX.
NewPipe offers a YouTube-like experience without ads and questionable permissions. It's a free, open-source app that supports the goal of a more free and open internet.
Senior developers will play a key role in managing LLMs, while junior developers will benefit from AI mentors, and mid-level developers face the greatest challenges in adapting to LLMs. The future of software development may involve supervisory programmers herding agents, but they will still be accountable for the code generated under their watch.
The user successfully hosted a website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server running OpenBSD 7.8, using Noctua fan mods, pf firewall, and Cloudflare tunnels for security. They also set up a similar server, a 2001 Sun Netra X1, with OpenBSD, httpd, and Cloudflare tunnels, and exposed it to the internet at sparc.rup12.net.
Vibe coding, the use of AI to generate complex code, can be addictive and lead to "junk flow," where developers become trapped in a superficial experience that doesn't produce growth. This can result in poor code quality, hidden bugs, and a false sense of productivity.
The phenomenon of forming an interference pattern by using light that passed through a double slit is a basic item learnt in a high school physics course. It is a good example that light possesses a property of waves. The double slit experiment can be easily conducted by using coherent light such as lasers. But, if you are to use a readily available light source such as sunlight and room ...
The author argues that AI automation will not flood fill the physical world due to its limitations in handling complexity and physical constraints. Instead, humans will work alongside AI in a symbiotic relationship, with AI handling digital tasks and humans handling physical tasks.
MOL is a programming language with native pipeline operators and auto-tracing for AI/RAG pipelines. It fixes glue code issues in AI pipelines with a simple and efficient syntax.
This is a Brainfuck program. It appears to be a simple counter that increments and decrements a value.
As LLMs become larger, more capable, and more ubiquitous, the field of mechanistic interpretability -- that is, understanding the inner workings of these models -- becomes increasingly interesting and important. Similar to how software engineers benefit from having good mental models of file systems and networking, AI researchers and engineers should strive to have some theoretical basis for ...
The author bought an "Orpheus" electric guitar in Bulgaria for $20 and became obsessed with Eastern Bloc guitars, collecting several models including a Tonika and a Ural Tonika.
The problem of archiving data is difficult due to technology's short lifespan and data corruption. A solution is to use M-Discs, which are more durable and can last 1000 years.
Off Grid is a complete offline AI suite for phones with text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, and document analysis. It runs natively on phone hardware with various models and features like Stable Diffusion and Whisper speech-to-text.
TLDR: MDST brings GGUF to WebGPU, the most popular format for LLMs, so anyone can create, edit, and review any files and collaborate from their browser without being dependent on cloud LLM providers or complicated setups. In 2026, more people want local models that they can actually run and trust, and the hardware and software are finally catching up. Better consumer GPUs, new models and ...
Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) can be used to implement concurrent applications and provide formally verifiable correctness, making it easier to write concurrent programs. CPNs can be used to model and solve complex concurrency problems, such as web scraping, and can be implemented in Rust with persistence using a database or in-memory with move semantics.
The library is a C header-only database for high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. It includes functions for adding vectors, searching for nearest neighbors, and retrieving vectors and metadata.
The Interop Project aims to improve web compatibility by focusing on well-defined features with good test suite coverage. It balances developer priorities with collective resources to track progress across browsers.