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A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Kumamoto Region with a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported severe shaking, with seismic intensity reaching 7 in Uki…
We urge the European Commission to ensure digital identity and age-assurance systems remain voluntary, privacy-preserving, and non-discriminatory. Citizens should not be forced to identify themselves…
Our team at La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Scripps Research developed a groundbreaking HIV vaccine that successfully trains immune cells to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies in primates.…
I argue that Substack should serve as a distribution tool, not your primary digital home. Relying entirely on platforms like Twitter or Medium makes you a tenant rather than a homeowner, leaving your…
I am introducing Codex Security, an open-source CLI and TypeScript SDK designed to find, validate, and review security issues in your code. This tool supports macOS, Linux, and Windows, requiring Nod…
I break down the Kimi K3 architecture, the largest open-weight model at 2.8T parameters. It scales up the Kimi Linear design with new LatentMoE components and attention residuals for better efficienc…
I bought a probiotic tea that tasted terrible, suspecting the boiling water killed the bacteria before I drank them. Intrigued by this paradox, I decided to test if the BC30 strain could actually sur…
Kevin Baillie, a former vice president at Eyeline Studios, is suing Netflix after being terminated following a company retreat. Baillie shared his experience with physician-supervised ketamine therap…
HNewhere is a lightweight userscript that seamlessly integrates Hacker News discussions directly into any article page. By automatically detecting relevant HN stories, it loads comments into a custom…
I tested Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Opus 4.8 on the new SlopCodeBench, which simulates real-world software evolution with hidden requirements. While Opus 5 achieved a 24% strict pass rate, it generated fi…
We discovered that fine-tuning a 9B open-source model with reinforcement learning outperforms expensive frontier models on specific business tasks. By redesigning workflows and training on proprietar…
We are proud to be the last to breaking news, offering a quarterly magazine that revisits the past three months with in-depth, independent journalism. In an increasingly frantic world, our publicatio…
After years of relying on Claude and ChatGPT, I set up my own inference endpoint using opencode and Kimi K3 on Modal. The experience felt surprisingly freeing, like cutting ties with external provide…
We introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that outperforms full attention across short and long contexts. At its core, Kimi Delta Attention extends Gated DeltaNet with finer ga…
I am thrilled to share that Half-Life has finally been ported to PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9. GitHub user doctashay achieved this by forking the Xash3D FWGS engine, making the…
I walk through the evolution from standard softmax attention to linear variants like DeltaNet and Kimi Delta Attention. By treating the hidden state as a learnable map, I show how simple assumptions…
As a Zig core team member, I share how our incremental compilation feature now allows complex applications to rebuild in milliseconds. By caching intermediate representations and modeling dependencie…
We built UNA to challenge the throwaway culture of smartwatches. Our modular GPS watch features a user-replaceable battery, universal USB-C charging, and an open SDK for custom development. Designed…
I am excited to share the release of Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7, which introduces a new interactive manual module and expands SIMD support for ARM64 and X86-64. This update includes critica…
As a nonpartisan civic campaign, we are urging Casa Grande leaders to demand clear rules and public oversight for the Flock surveillance system. While marketed as simple license plate readers, Flock…
At 38, I am forced to ask my mother for money after chronic illness ended my ability to work. This essay explores the shame of losing economic utility in a culture that equates productivity with huma…
GrapheneOS relies on donations from individuals and organizations to fund developer salaries, hardware purchases, infrastructure costs, and legal fees. We offer multiple ways to contribute, including…
Using Claude Mythos Preview, we found significant mathematical flaws in the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and a weaker version of AES. These autonomous discoveries cut HAWK's key strength in hal…
Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.6 to address numerous security flaws that could allow unauthorized data access, privilege escalation, and system crashes. The update fixes issues ranging from buffer ove…
If you feel uncomfortable using your iPhone while riding in a car, try enabling Vehicle Motion Cues. This accessibility feature displays animated dots on the screen edges to help your brain track the…
I am announcing the end of the iPhone Upgrade Program to introduce Apple Upgrade, a more flexible leasing option for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Current members can continue their monthl…
Fourteen years after DMARC launched, we found that 68.4% of company domains still lack enforcement. While many have records, most sit in a monitoring-only mode called p=none. The real barrier isn't i…
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke sparked a fierce debate by endorsing a tax-tiered voting system on social media, suggesting that those paying no income tax should lose their voting rights. This proposal, wh…
I argue that the ACM Digital Library should immediately grant Large Language Models access to its vast repository of computer science research. This move is essential to ensure AI systems are trained…
After six months on the International Space Station, astronauts often return with a lingering sense of detachment, feeling like they are watching their own lives from a distance. This 'observer sensa…
I created Anthropeum to challenge you to guess where and when ten daily artifacts from The Met were made. Each day, you pin locations on a map and select time periods, earning points based on accurac…
The GrapheneOS Foundation is standing firm after an activist used the OS's duress password to wipe his phone during a US Customs search. While federal agents indicted the user for destroying evidence…
Founded in 1956 by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, the Mondragon Corporation has grown into a massive federation of worker cooperatives in the Basque Country. With over 70,000 employees and billi…
Our new review highlights how rapid oxygen loss in oceans and freshwater systems is driving Earth into an unsafe state. We argue that aquatic deoxygenation interacts critically with all nine Planetar…
We are moving beyond traditional zero trust because AI agents access data at machine speed, overwhelming legacy systems. Our new Beyond Zero model shifts security boundaries from applications to indi…
We offer a unique service to double the VRAM on your NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti from 11 GB to 22 GB. By replacing stock GDDR6 modules with higher-density parts and updating the VBIOS, we enable bette…
Christopher Nolan's $250 million adaptation of The Odyssey offers a family-friendly spectacle but lacks narrative depth and emotional resonance. While the film captures the epic's themes of survival…
We are witnessing AI research accelerate toward automation, creating a risk where capabilities outpace our ability to control them. While competitive pressures drive individual companies to rush, we…
I built Deltafin to run Kimi K3, a massive 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, on a standard 64 GB Apple Silicon Mac. By streaming MXFP4 experts on demand and using fused NEON kernels, t…
I am excited to share that Kimi K3, Moonshot AI's massive 2.8-trillion-parameter model, is now live on the Telnyx Inference API. As the first open-source model in the 3-trillion-parameter class, it o…
XY is a high-performance Python charting library designed for the web and notebooks, capable of rendering up to 100 million points with seamless interactivity. Built with a Rust core and GPU accelera…
We are releasing uv 0.12.0 with significant improvements to correctness and safety. This update restores default build system definitions for new projects, enforces strict archive formats, and blocks…
We are releasing the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, transforming the protocol from stateful to stateless to boost reliability and scalability. This update removes session handshakes, enabling requests…
Join us in London from September 2 to 4 for DConf 2026, the premier annual gathering for the D programming language community. We are thrilled to feature talks on integrating LLMs into the Phobos sta…
I demonstrate a practical method for measuring the performance impact of eBPF workloads using a custom C test harness and the perf tool. By pinning execution to a specific CPU and analyzing kernel cy…
Our analysis of OONI data reveals that at least six major Italian ISPs, including Fastweb and Vodafone Italia, began blocking access to Women on Web and Women Help Women in mid-February 2026. Using D…
verified-3d-mesh-intersection is the first formally verified implementation of 3D constructive solid geometry (CSG) mesh intersection, built in Lean 4. This project revolutionizes trust in AI-generat…
We introduce Neutrino-1 8B, a transformer model using a proprietary ternary format to shrink its footprint to just 3.88 GB. This design allows the same artifact to run efficiently on everything from…
I am producing first English translations of historical Hebrew and Latin works in astronomy, cosmology, and natural philosophy. These texts span centuries, including manuscripts that have never been…
I followed the scent of wood smoke into Tashkent to witness Raushanbek Ismailov, a fifth-generation nonvoy, baking traditional non in a scorching tandoor. Exploring markets from Bukhara to Samarkand,…
Yap is a free, open-source voice dictation tool for macOS that leverages Apple's native Speech framework for instant, on-device transcription. Unlike competitors requiring heavy model downloads or AP…
I argue that most music theory books rely on superstition rather than science. By combining physical sound phenomena with how the human brain processes audio, I derive the Major Scale, the Standard C…
We often believe we grasp how everyday things work, from toilets to bike gears, until we try to explain them. This illusion of explanatory depth reveals our knowledge is far shallower than we assume.…
I argue that asking Large Language Models to generate a confidence score for their responses is scientifically invalid and practically useless. While models show some latent internal awareness, they…
I built EYG to help technically minded people automate their lives without mastering complex deployment tools. Unlike professional languages like Gleam, EYG removes the friction of running code so ma…
Users report that virtual machines cannot boot when using Bridged network mode on Apple M5 Pro devices, specifically over WiFi connections. While the issue affects multiple virtualization platforms l…
From a childhood discovery in a Cambridge library to a decades-long obsession, I dedicated my life to solving Fermat's Last Theorem. After a breakthrough linked the problem to the Taniyama-Shimura co…
US residential proxies fuel social media manipulation and spam by routing bad actor traffic through hacked home connections. Victims are often tricked by free VPN apps, game SDKs, or malware on smart…
Scala Tutorials offers a free, open-source platform for mastering Scala 3 through bite-sized, interactive lessons directly in your browser. Powered by the Scala Center's Scastie playground, it elimin…
I view PyTorch as serving a dual role: a clear reference language for defining models and an implementation language for production. While high-performance kernels and LLM-generated code optimize exe…
We package C/C++ projects for the Zig build system to simplify compilation and cross-compilation. By replacing dependencies on Make, CMake, Clang, and system package managers, we offer a unified tool…
Following the recent Unity controversy, I explore whether building your own game engine is worth the effort. Drawing from my experience creating a custom engine for over a dozen games, I weigh the be…
I discuss the launch of Opus 5 and how we built Claude Code by deleting 80% of our system prompt. We explore solving prompt injection, the concept of product overhang, and why developers should give…
tale.fyi is a new platform designed to serve as a true home for fiction on the internet, starting with humanity's public domain library. It allows users to read or listen to entire books from a singl…
Population Rays is an interactive web tool that visualizes the distance required to encounter 100,000 people from any specific location in the US. By generating a 5-degree slice in every direction, t…
Charles Bukowski taught that creative blocks are temporary and that forcing output often leads to poor quality. Instead of obsessing over shipping code with AI tools, developers should embrace waitin…
Dolmenwood is a fantasy roleplaying game built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules, set in a world inspired by British Isles folklore. It offers streamlined rules and introductory materi…
I developed a spacefilling curve heuristic to solve routing challenges like the Traveling Salesman Problem efficiently. Unlike heavy optimization packages requiring massive computing power, this meth…
I reflect on the evolution of Web Fonts from early licensing debates to the DRM-free success of WOFF 1.0. By uniting browser engineers and typographers, we created a standard that transformed web typ…
As AI models increasingly discover and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed, the industry must shift its security focus. OpenAI recently identified zero-day flaws in JFrog Artifactory, prompting…
We have published a practical key-recovery attack on the HAWK-256 cryptographic scheme. This research demonstrates that the algorithm is vulnerable to specific attacks, rendering it unsuitable for se…
I argue that the current moral panic about a literacy crisis stems from a category error, conflating distinct issues like decoding struggles with shifts in reading habits. Rather than a civilizationa…
I watched Anthony Saldivar and other elite undertakers compete to restore silicone heads at the Restorative Art Technical Showcase. Their skills, honed by horror movie techniques and military service…
I built Toolcraft as an open-source starter kit and UI library to help developers create custom design apps with AI. Instead of just providing components, it offers a full application architecture in…
America's biggest technology companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, are pouring record sums into artificial intelligence infrastructure, with spending projected to reach $1.4 trillion by…
ctrlb-decompose transforms millions of noisy log lines into a handful of actionable, structured patterns optimized for Large Language Models. By utilizing a two-stage pipeline featuring CLP encoding…
I argue that choosing a programming language should not be about academic purity or GitHub trends, but about the platform ecosystem it serves. Languages act as authoring tools that reduce development…
Small-town entrepreneurs like Zachary Dunn are leveraging AI to build eight-figure businesses, proving that the United States is now a fertile ground for independent creators. From Etsy sellers to lo…
I argue that shifting the EU budget away from national contributions based on labor taxes is essential. By implementing new own resources like taxes on ultra-high wealth and crypto transactions, we c…
I encountered a fake Google Captcha on the Crooked Timber website that instructed me to run a malicious PowerShell command via my clipboard. Although I recognized the scam and verified the threat wit…
I built Hard Road, a procedural post-apocalyptic game where the world generates in real-time. Players navigate a desolate landscape with a focus on atmosphere, featuring dynamic time of day and ambie…
We hid translator names and asked over 1,500 readers to compare eight English versions of the Odyssey in a blind test. Robert Fagles emerged as the clear winner across multiple statistical models, wh…
Everyone recognizes microservices, yet few can define them technically. The real value isn't in code size or deployment speed, but in solving organizational bottlenecks. As companies grow, teams need…
Since 1997, I have curated TWC Classics, the oldest and largest website dedicated to The Weather Channel. Our collection now holds over 8,000 files, including audio, video, images, and historical dat…
Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle has launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to revolutionize satellite maintenance in geosynchronous orbit. Developed with DARPA and the Naval Research Laborat…
I created the Usenet Archive Toolkit to rescue dying Usenet discussions from rotting away on unreliable platforms like Google Groups. This project offers tools to process messages into a coherent, se…
I analyzed recent data showing that tech job offer rates have plummeted from 51% in 2015 to just 39% today, marking the lowest point in over a decade. This significant decline reflects a major shift…
I built Hulios, a Rust-based tool that uses eBPF to route all your Linux system traffic through Tor transparently. It secures your connection by redirecting TCP sockets and DNS queries without needin…
We have finally proven that the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n equals 4. Building on earlier ideas from Moody, Long, Long-Paton, and Bigelow, our work confirms th…
I explore how Go 1.24 replaced the classic bucket-plus-overflow map implementation with a Swiss Table-inspired design. This shift eliminates pointer chasing and improves cache locality by using compa…
Six months ago, I saw AI as a helpful assistant, but now I cannot work without Claude. As 84% of developers adopt these tools, we face a shift from unlimited tokens to strict cost metrics. The real c…
Segue solves the problem of AI silos by letting you save context in one assistant like Claude or ChatGPT and load it instantly in another using a short, pronounceable handle. Instead of re-explaining…
Recursion feels elegant, but it hides a dangerous physical limit: stack overflow. Even with correct logic and tail-recursive structure, most JavaScript runtimes like V8 and SpiderMonkey do not guaran…
I run my development on a Linux box while my RTX 5070 sits in a Windows gaming machine. By turning the gaming PC into a headless Linux GPU server via WSL2 and SSH, I get full CUDA access without dual…
I am launching Granola for Apple Watch, a new tool built for meetings away from your laptop. With a simple tap on your wrist, you can start recording notes while focusing entirely on the person in fr…
I trace the surprising origins of Russian mathematics, starting with Peter the Great's vision to import European genius. The story follows how Christian Wolff recruited the Bernoullis and Leonhard Eu…
We explore how AI agents like Codex and Claude Code are reshaping scientific computing by lowering engineering costs and accelerating software maintenance. Our field report reveals a shift where rese…
I explore how proof assistants like Lean leverage the Curry-Howard correspondence to treat mathematical proofs as computer programs. By mapping logical operations to types, these tools verify complex…
Flashpaper is a privacy-first tool for sending private notes, keys, and files that vanish instantly upon viewing. Unlike traditional services, it stores secrets exclusively in volatile RAM, ensuring…
I argue that modern setup scripts must support Git worktrees to enable safe parallel development, especially with coding agents. Instead of running separate Docker stacks for every branch, I advocate…
My team has launched Peppy.bot, an open source platform designed to simplify robotics development as a direct replacement for ROS 2. We already support the OpenArm robot v1.0 and v2.0, along with Isa…
Trylle reimagines the Git workflow by unifying code reviews, issue tracking, and CI automation into a single, cohesive surface. Designed for modern teams, it eliminates tab switching by keeping diffs…
Dowe is a revolutionary full-stack language designed for the AI era, transforming a single declarative source into verified software across server, web, desktop, Android, and iOS platforms. Unlike tr…
Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8, a new tablet-style foldable with a unique 4:3 aspect ratio designed to compete directly with the rumored iPhone Ultra Fold. Weighing in as the world's light…
I am thrilled to announce that Xenharmlib 0.4.0 represents a major leap forward, refactoring the core to support the entire range of regular temperaments, including Just Intonation. This update allow…
I joined Blacksmith to solve complex storage problems hidden within continuous integration, where ephemeral virtual machines generate massive churn. Unlike typical systems, our workload demands handl…
Copper remains the essential conductor for modern motherboards because its unmatched electrical conductivity and thermal properties are critical for signal integrity in high-speed standards like DDR5…
Silo is an open-source IDE designed for developers juggling multiple projects and AI coding agents. Unlike traditional editors like VS Code or Cursor that focus on a single workspace, Silo keeps ever…