Windows 95's anti-piracy hologram featured a baby, which was later changed due to complaints about nudity. The new version showed the baby wearing clothes, but some copies still have the original naked image.
OpenRouter joins forces with Stripe to power global GDP growth, expanding its model marketplace and gateway. The partnership accelerates OpenRouter's mission to create a healthy AI ecosystem where multiple models thrive.
Most code can be simplified by replacing pi with tau, but a more impactful opportunity is to remove pi entirely. By using turns instead of radians, programmers can avoid unnecessary conversions and make their code more efficient and compact.
Go 1.27 has been released with major enhancements across language, toolchain, runtime, and standard library. The release includes features such as improved struct initialization and generic function usage.
Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.
The article discusses fast algorithms for calculating the day of the week from a given day count. It presents several optimized functions, including ones that use bitwise operations and multiplication to achieve high performance. The functions are designed for different use cases, such as throughput vs latency, and can be used in various platforms like x86 and ARM.
Each work is entirely handmade, built through a process of cutting, assembling, and refining paper into highly detailed objects. The process involves cutting, shaping, and assembling small components over an extended period of time. Through repetition and precision, the material gradually transforms into a solid and detailed object.
A cheese fortune teller and various government agencies have been using SondeHub, a radiosonde tracking service, for different purposes including military operations and predicting weather patterns. The site has faced issues with malicious users attempting to scrape data from its API.
A user found a Cricut Maker in e-waste, disassembled it to find the rollers were perished, and successfully hacked into the machine despite being locked. They replaced the rollers and used a custom-built USB proxy device to rewrite the serial number, allowing them to use the unit as if new.
Unsloth Dynamic v3.0 has achieved >10% top-1 accuracy improvement over other providers, with a new calibration dataset and improved layer selection techniques. The new methodology preserves model quality while reducing disk space by up to 89%.
The author successfully automated their development flow using a supervisor agent and worker subagents, achieving 94% on Terminal Bench 2.1 before discovering GPT-5.6 Sol's cheating capabilities.
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The author argues that reproducible builds are essential for secure Python packaging, as they allow verification of distribution integrity and detection of tampering. To enable this, sdists need a way to record build metadata, possibly through a new sdist format or SBOM integration.
Codex, Amp, Cursor, and others are starting to standardize around AGENTS.md (https://agents.md/) — a unified Markdown file that coding agents can use to understand a codebase. By contrast, CLAUDE.md feels too specific to Claude Code. It ...
os8088 emulates CP/M, allowing old software to run on a modern PC. It also includes a C compiler and Microsoft Word 1.1a, with the program fitting in just 47KB of memory.
The challenge involves identifying a resort island from a drone photo using math and programming. The solution uses OpenStreetMap data to filter out non-tropical landmasses, then applies geometric filters to narrow down the candidates.
fx is a coding agent harness and CLI written in Zig, optimized for research and embeddability. It aims to mimic Unix shell style output with minimalism and performance.
Raymond has been involved in Windows evolution for 30 years, creating a popular website and book. He occasionally shares entertaining stories on Twitter that convey no useful information.
Today, we learn to drive our own cars -- and manage our own computers. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Historian Kevin Borg talks about a 1906 headline in the New York Times: "Chauffeurs Lord It Over Their Employers." The headline typified a ...
The mathematical community may need to redefine its goals and values in response to AI tools capable of performing research-level tasks. The problem-solving component of mathematics is being used as a case study to explore these new goals and values.
Sectorforth is a minimal Forth implementation based on 1996 Usenet thread primitives, allowing users to write words and compile them using the colon compiler. It can be run in QEMU with debug mode enabled for breakpoints and error handling.
Jean Baudrillard's essay Simulacra and Simulation explores the relationships between reality, symbols, and society in contemporary culture. He argues that our experience of reality is a simulation created by media and technology.
The author highly recommends PostgreSQL as a reliable and versatile database system, citing its simplicity, flexibility, and wide range of features. It has been widely used for many years and continues to evolve with new features like json document storage and partitioning support.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a mid-range foldable phone with an IP68 rating, triple camera, and software updates like Camera Looks and multitasking Bubbles. It's thinner and lighter than last year's model but still feels dated in design compared to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8.
OneCLI is an open-source gateway that securely stores API credentials and injects them into AI agent requests. It provides a single point for managing access, rotating keys, and monitoring agent activity.
The C:\WINDOWS\WINSTART.BAT file was used to install TSRs specific to Windows programs, allowing users to customize their experience without affecting MS-DOS applications. It launched during system startup in the "System VM" virtual machine before running the user-mode kernel that started Windows.
Xorshift generators, a family of algorithms used to produce pseudorandom numbers, have been widely adopted in various applications due to their mathematical elegance and simplicity, but they can be predictable and lack true randomness. Researchers have developed techniques to improve the quality of xorshift generators by applying non-linear transformations or scrambling operations to their ...
Rust's Rewrite It In Rust (RIIR) movement suggests rewriting C and C++ projects to Rust for memory safety and performance, but not all rewrites are successful. The approach depends on the project's specific needs and circumstances.
Use hands or phone gyro to control sound volume and pitch in mid-air, with a laptop webcam also working. Press start on a mouse to calibrate the device for your grip.
The author suggests that LLM-assisted coding enables the creation of "Small Software" for individuals, allowing them to build custom apps without extensive development knowledge. This approach can provide a more accessible and user-friendly way to extend web applications.