Airbus software issue may cause flight cancellations over the weekend due to necessary updates. Airlines are working to implement the fix, which could take hours or require replacing computers in older planes.
User's internet provider blocked Imgur in the UK, causing issues with accessing old links. They created a solution using a VPN-connected container and Nginx to automatically route Imgur traffic through a non-UK exit point.
Big tech companies produce sloppy code due to high turnover rates and engineers working outside their area of expertise. Engineers are often forced to rush out work on unfamiliar systems, leading to mistakes and bad code.
The author was afraid to publish due to fear of being judged, but now feels free to write about their knowledge gaps and personal struggles. They want to help others learn and fill in their own gaps.
Molly is an improved Signal app for Android
Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in django.tasks, allowing task creation and queuing, but execution must be managed by external infrastructure. A custom backend and worker can be created to send notifications to phones and other devices using ntfy.sh, demonstrating the framework's capabilities.
Skald aims to provide a self-hostable, data-privacy-focused RAG setup using open-source tech, allowing users to substitute third-party services with local options. The setup uses Postgres, Sentence Transformers, and Docling, and benchmarks show good performance for point queries in English, but struggles with aggregating context from multiple documents.
The Hacker News dataset contains 28.74 million postings with 384-dimensional vector embeddings for real-world vector search application design and performance analysis. It can be used with ClickHouse and Sentence Transformers for vector similarity search and Generative AI applications.
Airbus has identified A320 Family aircraft that may be impacted by intense solar radiation corrupting flight control data. Airbus is working with aviation authorities to issue a precautionary software and/or hardware update to ensure fleet safety.
The ABC programming language sources exist in two versions, one in a tar ball and another in Luciano Ramalho's GitHub. The language is intended to work on 32-bit systems but may be upgraded for 64-bit systems.
Real-time 3D visualization of aircraft flight paths. Watch live flights with stunning ribbon trails across the sky.
Investors fear a US market jolt similar to 2008's Lehman collapse, this time from private tech industry. Share prices may fall further, but exiting now might be premature.
Developers are asking AI agents to perform complex tasks across multiple context windows, but this remains an open problem. A two-fold solution was developed to enable the Claude Agent SDK to work effectively across many context windows.
A bug in the Perl program git-re-edit caused it to remove the TMPDIR environment variable, leading to a problem with Emacs and emacsclient communicating over a Unix-domain socket. The issue was eventually tracked down to a Linux capability feature that removes TMPDIR from the environment when a program is run with elevated privileges, which was enabled for the Perl program on the user's system.
Tyr is a P2P email app that runs on Android devices, using the Yggdrasil network for transport and strong encryption. It provides email freedom by running a complete email server on the device, allowing users to send and receive encrypted emails.
You finished a working web server for your hobby OS, overcoming issues with the terminal buffer, E1000 network driver, and RST packets. You implemented a HTTP engine and web engine, allowing for routing and serving static files.
Dutch universities are highly dependent on US tech companies like Microsoft, which poses risks to their autonomy and academic freedom. They are exploring alternatives like OpenDesk and Nextcloud to reduce their dependence on big tech.
You discussed your background in computing, starting with Logo programming as a kid, and eventually discovering Common Lisp which became your primary language for personal projects. You shared your approach to software development, emphasizing the importance of a clear vocabulary, layered design, and composable functions, and how these principles have helped you maintain a large and ...
Nothing in particular is wrong, it’s just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble • anticipating a delightful surprise and thinking you’re a fool to ignore what you know you like • the sensation of a lot of flesh w
moss is a modern kernel with async/await model and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications. It uses libkernel for architecture-agnostic logic and has a comprehensive test suite.
JSON Schema is a system for describing the structure and constraints of JSON data, using a set of keywords and vocabularies that can be combined to create custom validation rules. The system consists of schemas, metaschemas, dialects, and vocabularies, which work together to provide a flexible and extensible way to validate JSON data.
The author argues that internet-driven surveillance has led to a culture of fear and punishment, pathologizing normal desires and eroding erotic and emotional privacy. To reclaim intimacy and desire, we must "kill the panopticon in our heads" by abandoning excessive surveillance and regaining personal and mental privacy.
Fabric is a creative code and rapid prototyping environment focusing on interactive visuals, image and video processing and analysis and 3D content authoring. Pro User tool to create reusable documents (similar to Quartz Composer Compositions) that can be loaded in the Fabric runtime and embedded into 3rd party applications. Developer environment built on Satin that can render high fidelity ...
Users with names like Jeff_Davis and Richard_Smith are posting AI-generated summaries of links as comments. These comments are being flagged as dead due to showdead setting.
Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
Atuin Desktop's new runbook execution engine fixes flaky context and inconsistent execution, keeping state and behaving predictably. It lays the foundation for real-time collaboration and CLI-based execution, making runbooks repeatable, shareable, and reliable.
Meta Platforms Inc. is issuing $27.3 billion in senior secured amortizing notes through Beignet Investor LLC, a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital. The notes are assigned a preliminary A+ rating due to strong contractual linkage to Meta and tight technical separation.
The user discusses generalizing printf functions into one function that constructs and outputs a formatted string, but notes that this is a harder problem due to the need to handle different output methods and the volatility of function pointers. A possible solution is to use a void pointer to keep track of state and implement vsnprintf, sprintf, and snprintf with a few lines of boilerplate code.