User praises Apple's new icon design for being simple and clear, reminiscent of the Macintosh philosophy. They also appreciate unique and identifiable icons, but dislike overly similar flat designs.
Kip is an experimental programming language that uses Turkish grammatical cases in its type system. It integrates natural language morphology into programming language design for research and educational purposes.
The user built an image-to-ASCII renderer that utilizes shape to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering by picking characters based on their shape and applying contrast enhancement effects. The renderer uses a 6D shape vector to capture the shape of ASCII characters and a directional contrast enhancement technique to eliminate staircasing effects and improve readability.
Xous is a microkernel OS for medium embedded systems with user-space implementation and message passing. It's funded by the NGI0 PET Fund, a European Commission initiative.
Ramp built Claude Code, an AI agent, to manage a park in RollerCoaster Tycoon, demonstrating its strengths and weaknesses in automating tasks. The project highlights the importance of environment legibility and feedback loops in agent design, showcasing the potential and limitations of coding agents in real-world applications.
ChunkHound extracts codebase knowledge and integrates via MCP, supporting 30 languages with structured parsing. It can be installed with uv tool and used with LLMs like Claude or Codex without API keys.
The author analyzed MacOS screenshots from 2009 to 2025 and found that the brightness of the UI has increased steadily over the years, with light mode becoming significantly brighter. The author prefers dark mode to avoid eye strain and suggests a medium grey UI as a compromise.
Camillo Olivetti, a Jewish-Italian engineer, founded Olivetti in 1908, producing high-quality typewriters and office equipment, and his son Adriano expanded the company into computers, developing the ELEA 9003, a mainframe computer, in the 1950s. Adriano's vision for a more democratic and participatory society led him to become mayor of Ivrea and a member of the Italian parliament, while his ...
Business leaders and developers are stuck in a 50-year cycle where new tools promise to make software development simpler, but ultimately, specialized knowledge and intense focus remain essential. The recurring pattern reveals that software development is constrained by intellectual complexity, not mechanical tasks.
🎮 Fun Fact: GTA 6’s internal economy is so advanced that Rockstar reportedly built a custom simulation tool to test inflation, scarcity, and neighborhood collapse before implementing it into the game. GTA 6 isn’t just aiming to be a bigger or prettier game—it’s aiming to be smarter. According to multiple leaks, developer notes, and insider analysis, Rockstar is building the most reactive and ...
Hardwick Hall's design, built during the Little Ice Age, uses clever techniques to keep warm, such as orientation and thermal mass, which can be applied to modern homes. These Elizabethan building secrets can help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and create more efficient heating and cooling systems.
The author quit their job to start their own business with a co-founder, Pedrique, after realizing they had enough signal to determine he was someone they wanted to start a business with. They initially wanted to work on their idea without raising VC funding, but due to Pedrique's financial constraints, they decided to raise money from angels and an early-stage fund.
The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch with compatibility to run Linux, DOOM, and other older x86 PC software. It has a PGA-168 socket for 5V 486 CPUs and a 24 MHz FSB, making it compatible with DX2 CPUs.
User has spent 20 years in the terminal, but feels their knowledge narrowed and wants to learn fundamentals. They're hesitant to rely on AI coding agents despite their improvement, fearing loss of personal satisfaction and skill.
An economist predicts OpenAI will be destitute in 18 months due to its high spending and lack of profitability. The AI industry faces a $800 billion financial gap, with many companies burning cash faster than generating income.
Welcome to iRISC. iRISC stands for interactive reduced instruction-set computer. This web app is an interactive introduction to RISC computer architecture and assembly language. Specifically, ARMv7 assembly language. I have tried to write a simple tutorial which goes through some of the basics, not only of writing assembly, but also some aspects of computer architecture. I aimed to keep the ...
Two East German families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels, escaped to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon on September 16, 1979, after over a year and a half of preparations. They successfully crossed the heavily fortified inner German border and the Berlin Wall, landing safely in West Germany.
The author discusses the limitations of offline evaluation in recommendation systems, treating recommendations as observational problems when they are actually interventional problems.
Large software companies face coordination challenges due to their size, not technical limitations. Criticisms of these companies often miss the structural reasons behind their processes and behaviors.
Computer scientists design data structures like hash tables and heaps to balance insertion and retrieval times, and space usage. These data structures help manage information efficiently, but each has its trade-offs and limitations.
The user, a tech entrepreneur, advises against working for big tech and instead advocates for creating sustainable, open-source companies that benefit the future. They share their own experiences and mission to commoditize petaflops and democratize access to powerful computing resources.
A skeleton found in a Worcestershire barn in 1830 led to the discovery of Richard Heming's murder and the end of the Tithe system in Britain. The Tithe Commutation Act replaced Tithes with Corn Rent, prompting a survey and accurate mapping of rural areas.
The user runs a Python script to create map posters for various cities with different grid patterns and themes. The script uses the Overpass API to fetch data and plot roads, buildings, and amenities on the map.
Langfuse's roadmap remains the same, focusing on building the best LLM engineering platform with open source and self-hosting. The team joins ClickHouse to invest in performance, reliability, and user experience.
Scott Alexander reflects on Scott Adams' life and career, noting that Adams was a big part of his life despite being a different person. Alexander discusses how Adams' Dilbert comics captured the "nerd experience" of being smarter than others but struggling to succeed. He also explores Adams' failed attempts at business and his eventual turn to writing about spirituality in God's Debris, ...
Docker is a containerization platform for building, shipping, and running applications with ease, offering various commands for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, and more. Docker provides a comprehensive set of tools for developers to create, deploy, and manage applications in a consistent and efficient manner.
WSI Streamer is a cloud-native tile server for Whole Slide Images that serves tiles directly from S3 with one command. It supports various features including authentication, signed URLs, and slide metadata retrieval.
To manage Dependabot at scale without sacrificing velocity, optimize dependency workflows by implementing strategies such as cooldowns, batching updates, and adding review requirements. By doing so, you can reduce risk, improve stability, and increase productivity in your enterprise team.
Let's Encrypt now offers short-lived and IP address certificates, improving security by requiring more frequent validation. These certificates are valid for 160 hours and 45 days respectively, with IP address certificates being short-lived by default.