The author partially retracts an apology for Python's tail calling results, citing improved performance on MacOs AArch64 and Windows x86-64. Tail calling interpreter beats computed goto interpreter by 5-15% on pyperformance, with a 14-78% speedup on MSVC Windows x86-64.
CUDA Tile is an MLIR-based intermediate representation for CUDA kernel optimization, providing a comprehensive ecosystem for tiled computations on NVIDIA GPUs. It simplifies high-performance CUDA kernel development through abstractions and GPU-specific optimizations.
The New Yorker's full archive is now available online with over 100,000 articles from 4,000 issues. The expanded archive includes classic pieces by notable writers and allows for easier searching and discovery.
The user has a custom git alias that archives old branches by converting them to tags and adds shell completion for tab completion. The alias uses a bash function wrapper with a git switch hint to leverage the official git completion script.
Simon & Schuster launched Pocket Books in 1939, selling 17 million copies within two years, tapping into a previously untapped market of readers. The success of paperbacks led to an increase in hardcover titles and opportunities for writers, rather than the elimination of serious literature.
Various topics are discussed including AI, cybernetics, fascism, digital rights, and more. The posts cover a range of subjects from technology and science to politics and social issues.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites containing AI-generated content is available for cleaning image search engines with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist, and it works on various platforms including mobile and pihole/adguard. The blocklist can be imported into uBlock Origin or uBlacklist with a single click, and it also includes a separate list for sites with mixed authentic and AI-generated imagery.
User bought a MacBook Air M2 for $750 with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD. They installed Asahi Linux and Fedora minimal with Sway window manager, customizing the interface to utilize the notch screen real estate.
The user created "can spinners" from recycled aluminum soda cans, which spin on sharpened wire tips due to heat from a lamp. They share a step-by-step guide on making these spinners, including cutting, bending, and balancing the aluminum pieces.
The author bought the domain VidaliaOnions.com at auction for $2,200 and developed it into a niche business selling farm-to-door Vidalia Onions. He partnered with a Vidalia farmer and their business grew from 50 to over 600 orders in the first season.
The Program podcast saw a decrease in downloads in 2025, but still managed to reach 1 million downloads, with Patreon being the powerhouse bringing in 74% of the revenue. The show's creator is hopeful about its future despite the challenges, with a gross income of $2,300 CAD monthly and plans to continue working on new stories and episodes.
A critical vulnerability was found in LangChain, a widely used AI framework, where attacker-controlled data can be deserialized and trigger arbitrary object instantiation, potentially leading to remote code execution. The vulnerability was caused by a missing escape in the serialization path, specifically in the dumps() and dumpd() functions, which has been patched in versions 1.2.5 and 0.3.81.
Google is rolling out a new option to let users change their Gmail address to a new one with the same "@gmail.com" ending. Users will be able to reuse their old email address and it will remain active for 12 months after the change.
Phoenix is a new X server written in Zig, designed as a modern alternative to Xorg with hardware acceleration and safety features. It supports modern hardware and applications, but is not yet ready for use.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found restoring brain's energy balance with NAD+ can reverse Alzheimer's disease in mice models. This breakthrough suggests a new approach to treating AD, offering hope for recovery and a paradigm shift in how researchers and clinicians think about treating the disease.
Let's get the Rustls TLS library ready to replace OpenSSL in as many projects as possible. The Rust Foundation just announced the launch of the Rust Innovation Lab, with the Rustls TLS library as the inaugural hosted project. We're in the beginning phases of a journey towards memory safety for the Internet's critical software infrastructure, and as we get going it makes the most ...
Translucency sorting in Minecraft is challenging due to the need to order quads by depth for correct rendering. This work presents a solution using topological visibility graph sorting and partition tree sorting, improving visual correctness and performance.
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Clearspace is building a technology to protect human attention by controlling network traffic with AI. They're hiring a networking engineer to develop a VPN and proxy system that applies human-language rules to real traffic in real time.
A UK couple, Rob and Dianne, took in a homeless man named Ronnie, who was autistic, in 1975 and formed a lifelong companionship that lasted 45 years until his death in 2020. They helped Ronnie get a job, find clothes, and become a valued member of their family, despite facing challenges like his gambling addiction.
People celebrate Christmas differently worldwide, but it's Christmas here, so Merry Christmas. Focus on loved ones and what's important, not perfection, like Christmas markets which bring people together.
The author rates toys based on playtime and cleanup ratio, favoring those with many uses and easy cleanup. High-scoring toys have interchangeable parts with strong magnetic connections.
URLPattern interface specifies patterns for matching URLs or URL parts using path-to-regexp library syntax. Patterns can contain groups, regex, and modifiers for optional, repeated, or fixed text matches.
Spice Cayenne is a next-generation data accelerator for high-scale and low-latency data lake workloads. It combines Vortex columnar format with an embedded metadata engine for faster queries and lower memory usage.
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley was a Vermont farmer who took the first photograph of a snowflake in 1885 and published 2300 of his photographs in a monograph titled Snow Crystals. He was a pioneer in photomicrography and left a record of his beautiful and unique snowflake photographs.
A browser-based text editor stores text in URL hash, compressing it with deflate for sharing. Users can share notes via a 500-character URL and even customize styles via DevTools.
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The book is an updated version of Arthur Engel's 1993 textbook, covering over 60 math topics with Python programming, and includes new chapters on fractals and other math topics. It's suitable for university students with a year's exposure to math and programming, but also accessible to advanced high school students with Python knowledge.
Fabrice Bellard attended the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, a military academy that specializes in engineering, where he obtained an Engineer's degree. He developed notable algorithms and programs, including a prime number calculator and a VR engine, and shares his work to help others.
The Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent is a powerful open-source AI voice agent with a modular pipeline architecture for mixing STT, LLM, and TTS providers. It requires a preflight setup and uses Docker Compose for deployment with Prometheus-format metrics and per-call debugging.