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After years of using Deno, a developer returns to Node for a SvelteKit client project and discovers a dramatically improved runtime: native ECMAScript support, no more require(), and a surprisingly s…
In late August and early September, 16 freight operators filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy as diesel costs hit a record $6.27 a gallon. The wave included single-truck outfits and larger fl…
A two-year randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools tested Khan Academy's AI tutor, Khanmigo, during daily remedial math. Students assigned to the AI coach gained 1.3 national percentile ranks…
A Princeton researcher used a $20 AI coding agent to exploit a known vulnerability in Georgia's ballot scanners, reconstructing the cast order of 1.5 million in-person ballots from the May 2026 prima…
Researchers fine-tuned Aria, a piano MIDI transformer, with a gated cross-attention layer that reads a learned embedding for each of twelve jazz pianists, from Art Tatum to Dick Hyman. A sliding pian…
Gwern turns a 2023 sketch into a full puzzle design called Samon (砂紋, 'sand crest'). Players rake sand into prescribed patterns, with solvers, CP-SAT proofs, and a 148-garden campaign across 7 worlds…
In a GitHub issue, Photopea's creator claims PhotoSuite is a copy-paste of his JavaScript code, pointing to identical parsing logic and property names. PhotoSuite's maintainer admits the project star…
Simon Bradley reviews Will Millard's Mapping Britain: The Story of an Island through the Ordnance Survey Archives, recalling the orange-banded, one-inch-to-the-mile maps of his childhood and the late…
photoc is a suite of command-line tools designed for photographers who want to manage their photo libraries from the terminal. It helps you review, organize, and prepare photos by summarizing shoots,…