Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

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Journalist frustrated with Google News, citing distractions from social media results and foreign publications. Google News fails to honor specified time range, showing outdated news instead.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

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Google has a history of building products with RSS support, then removing it, which has led to a decline in RSS adoption. This behavior poses a threat to the freedom and openness of the internet, as users lose trust in RSS feeds due to Google's inconsistent support.

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

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A soundness bug in Lean's kernel was reported and fixed on July 27, allowing a proof of False to be accepted. The bug was only reachable through metaprogramming and has been fixed along with other related bugs found by nanoda and an AI.

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

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The book covers advanced programming topics including macros, Unicode strings, and object-oriented programming. It also covers concurrent programming, exception handling, and advanced parameter implementation.

But can your calculator run Linux?

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The user is interested in running Linux on the HP Prime G2 calculator, which has a powerful ARM Cortex A7 CPU and 256 MB RAM, and has successfully updated an old Linux port to work with the calculator's newer touchscreen controller and keyboard. The user has made a pre-built download available for the calculator, which can be run without compiling the entire Linux system, and has also added ...

NetBSD 11.0

NetBSD 11.0 is released with various ISO images, including CD-ROM and DVD options, and users are advised to check installation notes for their architecture. The release includes fixes for security issues, such as hdaudio and ipfilter vulnerabilities, and open pullup requests will be committed to the stable branch for the upcoming 11.1 release.

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

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The guide provides a quick setup for navigation with typed routes, using sealed classes and exhaustive switches for error-free routing. It uses a List of route objects for history management, with operations like push, pop, and set.

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

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Ripgrep occasionally crashes with a SIGSEGV when searching very-large trees at high concurrency due to a heap metadata assertion failure in MUSL's mallocng. The bug can be reproduced by running a generated tree of 1.8M files with 20GiB of data and searching for an arbitrary string in a loop.

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

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Explorative Modeling is a new paradigm for generative modeling that increases generative expressivity by exploring multiple possible answers during training, improving existing models across images, video, and language. This approach enables end-to-end generation and scales generalization, with gains growing with model and data scale.

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

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The user compared pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package, to River's schema-based testing approach and found both to have similar setup times around 100 ms. However, River's approach is faster overall due to its optimization of reusing test schemas.
Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink Todd E. Humphreys∗, Peter A. Iannucci∗, Zacharias M. Komodromos†, Andrew M. Graff† ∗Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin †Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Abstract—We develop a technique for blind signal identifica- tion of the ...

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Cursor updated its Usage window to display token amount instead of dollar signs. You're not alone in experiencing issues, as some users report increased bugs, including auto-selecting sub-agents despite default settings.

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

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Canada signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, a treaty that critics say enables cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing. The decision raises concerns about human rights and state surveillance powers, despite Canada's previous opposition to the treaty.

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

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DoesItPlay found that 27% of physical game releases require downloads to function, with 34% of PS5 and 50% of Xbox Series X games needing them. This trend is seen as a disregard for physical games by larger companies.

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

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CISA issued an alert on July 30, 2026 warning that threat actors are increasingly targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) sector, in some cases modifying passwords to lock out operators and disconnecting devices by changing their IP addresses, resulting in boil-water notices and sustained manual operations. CISA named Rockwell ...

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

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Nyctography (in Nyctography: ) is a form of substitution cipher writing created by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1891. It is written with a nyctograph (a device invented by Carroll) and uses a system of dots and strokes all based on a dot placed in the upper left corner. Using the Nyctograph, one could quickly jot down ideas or notes without the aid of light. Carroll invented ...

Linux on ESP32

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A custom CLIC driver is needed for S31 due to Linux expecting PLIC. OpenSBI was modified for XIP in flash and internal SRAM to save PSRAM memory.

Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity

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Researchers measured the effect of reserving registers on kernel performance. Reserving registers increases spills and slows down eight of nine kernels, with the ninth kernel showing no slowdown despite a 23 spill increase.

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring

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"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success" You gotta be in founder mode. Next.js web / React Native app. / Supabase, firebase, and Prisma. / Nest.js for WhatsApp / Open AI and Anthropic APIs for agents / Solidity and web3.js for Smart contracts. / A lot of Typescript.

Manual: •.,:;…!?·

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The article discusses basic punctuation characters, including the period, comma, ellipsis, bullet, and interpunct, and their various uses in different languages and contexts. The Unicode table contains several items related to bullets and interpuncts, which can be used for separating parts in a sentence or indicating omissions.

A directory of people who love RSS

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You launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for RSS enthusiasts, and added your site to the directory. You're inviting others to join by adding their own website and responding with a link to this post.

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

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Glyphs 4 is a leading Mac font editor that allows users to draw quickly, manage efficiently, and release with confidence. It offers various features such as customizable shapes, blending modes, and opacities, as well as a powerful left sidebar and kerning assistant.

RamenHaus

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Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 114 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. Start with the latest entry, click a bowl to continue, or browse the complete index. Inspired by Lauren's Rotating Sandwiches and everyone at Naive Yearly. Ideas, collaborations, and questions: [email protected].

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

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QM is a platform designed for startups, allowing employees to work independently with isolated workspaces and collaborate with an agent in channels and projects. It's built with open source in mind, allowing users to pick their own harness and model.

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

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New feature allows using fibers on a single thread, replacing thread pool with Async under the hood. Requires Async dependency and fiber isolation in Rails (config.active_support.isolation_level = :fiber).

Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Americans have been told to be 'ready' to flee ten Middle Eastern countries as the Iran war spirals, with President Trump warning: 'We'll be hitting them very hard.' The US Embassy has urgently advised US citizens across the Middle East to 'consider departing or be ready to depart if there is an escalation,' just hours after Trump signaled fresh strikes on Iran ...

The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

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A historic five-story building at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue is being renovated after decades of billboard advertisements. The building, a holdout from Macy's expansion in the early 1900s, is finally visible again after years of being hidden behind dark netting and scaffolding.

Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now

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Centre Lane Partners owns most of the surviving legacy American tabletop industry, including Pyrex, Corelle, and Chicago Cutlery, and has been accused of extracting value from its brands through various tactics. Many American cookware brands have been acquired and downsized, with some being made in China or having their factories closed, highlighting the importance of researching the owner ...