KDE is now my favorite desktop

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User switched from Sway to KDE for ease of use, especially for non-gaming tasks. User finds KDE feature-complete, fast, and reliable, comparing favorably to Windows and macOS.

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Slack threatened to cut off free communication for Hack Club despite the nonprofit paying $5,000 yearly. Hack Club is switching to Mattermost due to the short notice and is warning small businesses about the importance of owning their data.

Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats

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The author shared a grab bag of midcentury US and Canadian restaurant placemats bought at a flea market for 75 dollars. The placemats showcased the rise of roadside diners and tourist attractions after WWII, with simple designs influenced by economics.

You Had No Taste Before AI

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People are advocating for developing "taste" to improve AI-generated content but they often lack it themselves. They're really talking about skills like contextual appropriateness, quality recognition, and ethical boundaries that should have been applied all along.

This Website Has No Class

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You built your website without classes by reusing custom elements and attributes instead of classes for styling. This approach made your code cleaner and more accessible, but requires more planning and authoring expertise.

CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

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CERN Computer Animal Shelter reopens for mice donation on the CERN lawn. Disconnected mice from computers are accepted to prevent cyber risks.

The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

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When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context. Andrej Karpathy, while referencing my earlier article on this topic, described the work of AI-assisted engineering as “putting AI on a tight leash”. What does a tight ...

WASM 3.0 Completed

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Wasm 3.0 is released with 64-bit address space, multiple memories, garbage collection, typed references, tail calls, and native exception handling. Major web browsers and stand-alone engines are shipping or supporting Wasm 3.0.

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Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Meta introduced the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band, a new category of AI glasses that offers a high-resolution display and hands-free control through muscle movements. The Meta Ray-Ban Display starts at $799 and will be available in select retailers, offering features like messaging, video calling, and pedestrian navigation with phone-free walking directions.

Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey

Cooley-Tukey algorithm reduces DFT complexity from O(|x|^2) to O(x * (d + r)) by splitting sequences. This approach can be applied recursively to achieve an ideal time complexity of O(x * log(x)) for input lengths that are powers of 2.

Keeping SSH sessions alive with systemd-inhibit

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To bypass power policy settings and prevent system sleep while working remotely, Linux users can create and background a simple long-running process with bash alias commands. This process uses "sh & disown" to inhibit sleep and allows for easy cleanup with a "kill $INHIBIT_PID" command stored in the alias.

Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

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New pnpm setting minimumReleaseAge delays dependencies installation for one hour by default. It can be adjusted or excluded for certain dependencies with minimumReleaseAgeExclude.

CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)

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CircuitHub is a robotics platform that makes low-volume electronics assembly more efficient, raising $20M from top investors and already profitable. They seek an operations research engineer in the USA, UK, or remotely for a high-impact role to drive 3x revenue growth.

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel stock in seismic deal

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Nvidia and Intel have formed a partnership to develop x86 products, including tightly integrated CPUs and GPUs via NVLink interface. Nvidia will buy $5 billion in Intel common stock and custom x86 data center CPUs will be fabricated for Nvidia's AI products.

60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details

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A new book, "Gemini & Mercury Remastered", features restored NASA photographs from the 1960s. It tells the stories of the brave astronauts who pioneered space travel during the Mercury and Gemini programs.

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

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A serious vulnerability was discovered in the Entra ID service, Microsoft's Azure AD Graph API failed to properly validate tokens allowing cross-tenant access.

Boring is good

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The hype surrounding large language models is cooling due to poor results and misuse. Small language models for simple tasks could provide the next step forward, being more efficient and ethical than their larger counterparts.

Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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The Orange Pi RV2 is a $40 SBC with an 8-core RISC-V processor and various connectivity options for affordable access to RISC-V computing. It excels in IoT and lightweight AI tasks but has limitations in software support and desktop performance.

A postmortem of three recent issues

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here are two concise English sentences summarizing the problem and solution. Infrastructure bugs between August and early September intermittently degraded Claude's response quality due to issues with routing, token generation, and XLA:TPU compiler bugs. The problems have been resolved with a fix deployed on September 4, and future incidents will be prevented with improved evaluations, ...

Nvidia to Invest $5B in Intel

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John Grisham Still Wonders: Will Texas Kill Robert Roberson?

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Robert Roberson, a death row inmate, has 29 days until execution for a crime an increasing number of people believe he didn't commit. His lawyers claim his conviction is based on "junk science" and he's innocent, citing new evidence and medical errors contributing to his daughter's death.

History of the Gem Desktop Environment

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Lee Jay Lorenzen, a Xerox employee, created a graphical desktop environment called GEM, which later became the operating system for the Atari 520 ST. Apple sued Digital Research, GEM's creators, over copyright infringement, but DRI settled by modifying GEM to make it less similar to the Macintosh interface.

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

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Many YouTubers reported major drops in view counts, possibly explained by YouTube not counting views from users with enabled ad blockers who account for 50% of computer views. YouTube hinted ad blockers impact view counts' accuracy.

Hypervisor 101 in Rust

This course covers hardware-assisted virtualization and introduces techniques for writing high-performance fuzzing hypervisors. Hands-on exercises with Rust source code are provided to practice the concepts.

Elements of C Style (1994)

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Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

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Ton Roosendaal will step down as Blender chairman and CEO on January 1 2026, handing over to Francesco Siddi. Roosendaal announced current successors at the Blender Conference, including new board members.

Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer

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New libxslt maintainer studying codebases needs help with input/output buffers. Prefer email for questions about using xmlOutputBufferCreateIO for managing output/input buffers.

Towards a Physics Foundation Model

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Researchers developed a General Physics Transformer (GPhyT) that can simulate various physics domains without retraining. GPhyT achieves superior performance and stable long-term predictions through in-context learning and universal principles.

A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

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Text adventures allow players to shape worlds through choice-driven narratives. This channel shares insights and tips on creating immersive, interactive stories.