The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.
The author warns that machine learning (ML) may lead to widespread job displacement, deskilling, and automation bias, potentially exacerbating wealth and power consolidation in the hands of large tech companies. The author fears that ML may not deliver on promises of abundance and instead lead to economic shocks, increased income inequality, and a loss of intellectual inheritance.
DaVinci Resolve Photo page offers advanced color tools for still photography, including DaVinci color grading and Resolve FX. It supports RAW files from major camera brands and allows for GPU-accelerated processing.
One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”. Let’s discuss the ultimate beast: fifth normal form (5NF). Often it’s presented even more confusingly than 4NF is, and we can show that this presentation is ...
Kontext CLI is an open-source tool that securely manages AI coding agent credentials. It replaces long-lived API keys with short-lived, scoped credentials.
LangAlpha is a vibe investing agent built to help interpret financial markets and support investment decisions. It runs on a provider-agnostic model layer, abstracting across multiple LLM backends, and supports a three-tier data provider hierarchy.
User used Backblaze for 10 years but discovered it stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders without notification. Backblaze's change in policy eroded user's trust, breaking their promise to back up all data.
A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. The traditional astronaut’s ‘low residue’ breakfast of steak and eggs pays tribute to the oldest and wisest strategy for going to ...
jj is a simpler and more powerful DVCS than git, combining the best of git and Mercurial. It has a git compatible backend, allowing you to try it without converting others.
Researchers introduce Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) to improve parallel token generation, matching AR model quality and outperforming prior DLMs. I-DLM uses introspective strided decoding to verify generated tokens, achieving 2.9-4.1x higher throughput than LLaDA-2.1-mini and SDAR at high concurrency.
The author describes the aegraph, a data structure at the heart of Cranelift's mid-end optimizer, and explains how it was developed to unify code motion, canonicalization, and rewrites in a single framework. The author outlines the process of elaboration, which involves canonicalizing pure operators, putting them into a sea-of-nodes representation, performing rewrites, and then converting ...
User loves the Fediverse for its open protocol and lack of algorithmic feed, but dislikes heavy clients requiring modern browsers and JavaScript. They created SmolFedi, a lightweight PHP client that generates HTML server-side, supporting multiple accounts and features.
Tool calling with closed-source models is seamless, but with open models, it depends on a wire format the engine must understand, leading to implementation burdens. A shared declarative way to describe wire formats is needed to standardize tool calling across models and engines.
Franklin Computer Corporation's ads, including one featuring Ralph Archbold as Benjamin Franklin, were memorable but problematic due to copyright infringement on Apple products. The company's clones, such as the ACE 1000, were popular but ultimately led to a lawsuit and the company's shift away from desktop computers.
Companies should focus on their nucleus nouns, the core nouns that drive their app, to create a strong brand and competitive advantage. By identifying and prioritizing these nouns, companies can build expertise and craft a unique value proposition that sets them apart from competitors.
A verified implementation of zlib, lean-zip, was found to be vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the Lean runtime. Despite this, the application code had zero memory-related bugs in 105 million fuzzing executions, demonstrating the effectiveness of formal verification in producing robust software.
OpenDuck is an open-source implementation of MotherDuck's ideas for cloud-native DuckDB, offering differential storage, dual execution, and transparent remote databases. It provides an open protocol, backend, and extension for anyone to run, extend, and build on.
Renewables supplied more power to the US than natural gas in March, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. Rising power demand is extending the lives of aging coal power plants, complicating the transition away from fossil fuels.
A queuing theory book explains why open source contributions sit for over a year due to a bottleneck of 200 open PRs on Jellyfin web, causing a 6.7-month average cycle time. Implementing flow controls like PR size limits, review priority, and a weekly triage schedule can help.
A zine (pronounced like the last syllable in “magazine”) is “a small-circulation print or online publication that is produced through noncommercial means and is meant to appeal to a niche audience”. This page collects zines created by my students and me, all free to download, print, and distribute! This zine is an introduction to causally ordered message delivery, a fundamental abstraction ...
The author argues that multi-agentic software development is a distributed systems problem that inherits impossibility results from the literature, including the FLP theorem and Lamport's Byzantine Generals theorem. These results imply that consensus is impossible in certain scenarios, and the author suggests that designers should explicitly address these coordination problems rather than ...
NimConf 2026 will be an online event on June 20, 2026, featuring pre-recorded talks and live chat Q&A. Submit talk proposals by May 10, 2026, for a chance to share your Nim-related ideas with the community.
A trusted WordPress plugin, Countdown Timer Ultimate, was compromised through a supply chain attack. The plugin's wpos-analytics module injected malicious code into wp-config.php, serving SEO spam to Googlebot.
WiiFin is a homebrew client for Jellyfin on the Nintendo Wii, providing a console-friendly media experience. It's experimental and still under development, with optional video playback using MPlayer CE.
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Most languages make you choose: safety or the web. Lumina doesn't. Lumina is a statically typed, web-native language with HM type inference, algebraic types, and trait-based polymorphism, compiled to JavaScript and WebAssembly. Build reactive UIs, WebGPU workloads, and WASM modules in the same language, with the same type system. - nyigoro/lumina-lang
A Counter class is defined in Ruby using Hokusai::Block, allowing for a graphical counter with addition and subtraction buttons. The Counter class is run using Hokusai::Backend with a title, FPS, width, and height.
The gh stack CLI and GitHub UI allow for organized pull requests in an ordered stack, making it easier to review and merge large changes. This approach breaks down big changes into small, focused pull requests that build on each other, improving review quality and team efficiency.
Engineers at Princeton designed soft-rigid hybrid robots that move without motors or external controls using a printable polymer and flexible electronics. The robots can precisely and repeatedly move and return to their original shape without wear or distortion.
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