The internet has become a consolidated space where corporations and governments control information, making it a bleak future for innovation and creativity. The rise of AI has made execution cheap, but also allows large corporations to absorb and replicate individual innovations, making it safer to stay silent and not disrupt.
Voyager 1, a 48-year-old spacecraft, is still functioning and transmitting data from interstellar space despite having only 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder. It has made numerous discoveries and is now the most distant human-made object in the universe, carrying a golden record with sounds of Earth for potential extraterrestrial life.
Philadelphia courts ban smart eyewear with recording capabilities due to potential witness and juror intimidation. Those caught attempting to bring smart eyewear into courtrooms may be barred entry or arrested for criminal contempt.
Cloudflare's Turnstile program collects 55 properties from a user's browser, including font measurements, storage, and React application data, to verify the user is running a real browser with a fully rendered ChatGPT application. The program uses a custom VM with a server-generated XOR key to collect and encrypt the fingerprint data, which is then sent as the OpenAI-Sentinel-Turnstile-Token ...
The creator of Waterfox, a 64-bit Firefox build, shares its 15-year history, from 50,000 downloads to 1M monthly active users. Despite financial struggles, the browser remains independent and committed to user privacy.
Claude Code silently destroys uncommitted changes to tracked files every 10 minutes via programmatic git operations. The bug is invisible when all changes are committed, making it appear intermittent.
Open source operating systems are not implementing age verification due to various laws and restrictions. Some developers plan to comply with age verification laws, but none have fully implemented it for Brazil or California.
A writer took a 14Β½-hour train ride from Atlanta to Washington due to a government shutdown that caused airport chaos. The journey allowed him to reflect on the impact of politics on American life and appreciate the convenience of rail travel.
Pretext is a JavaScript library for multiline text measurement and layout, supporting various languages and rendering to DOM, Canvas, and SVG. It provides APIs for text analysis, measurement, and layout, allowing for efficient and accurate text rendering with features like shrink wrapping and manual line layouts.
Daywork's DX Harvester 1 helps teams recover components from retired hardware, reducing downtime and gray-market risk. It's designed for repair teams, startups, OEMs, and electronics processors facing supply constraints and returns.
France's brown motorway signs have promoted the country's history, culture, and identity for over 50 years, directing drivers to monuments, vineyards, and national sites. The signs, designed by Jean Widmer and others, have become an open-air gallery showcasing France's heritage and local industry.
A machine learning primer for engineers builds intuition through analogies and mental models. It focuses on design decisions and tradeoffs, not just tool explanations.
The ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in London, resolving international comments and producing a final document for approval. C++26 features include reflection, improved memory safety, and language contracts.
ATmosphereConf 2026 is a gathering of developers and entrepreneurs building a free and open online ecosystem. The Atmosphere is a thriving ecosystem of over a thousand interoperable social apps and services running on the AT Protocol.
The author believes AI coding agents will make free software matter more than ever, giving users the freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, and that this shift will make software freedom more practically relevant for everyone, not just technical enthusiasts. The author thinks new models are needed that combine the customization benefits of free software with the convenience of ...
Ohm v18 is a major update that significantly improves performance by compiling grammars to WebAssembly and using region-based memory management. It also optimizes space skipping, memoization, and rule application.
Your post got picked up by Hacker News and received many views. You're working on a version control system that provides safer versions of squash and rebase.
To join a dist cluster, share a URL with the same hashtag and enable dist, but only on a trusted network. This demo uses unencrypted Erlang distribution, which should not be used over the internet due to security risks.
RISE offers free RISC-V CI runners for open source projects on GitHub, removing the barrier to testing on real hardware. Install a GitHub App and add a label to your workflow to run jobs on physical RISC-V boards.
Music is art, makes political statements, signifies membership to social groups, sells products, is supposedly being automated, and overall has a lot going on at once. What gets increasingly ignored by this tempest is the craft involved in making great music. To take an example from the current cultural imagination, the musician Bad Bunny releases great songs, but he isn't successful ...
JR Kyushu trains offer unique experiences with distinctive designs and features showcasing Kyushu's landscapes. Various trains like Kamome and D & S trains provide scenic routes and amenities for passengers.
Buddhism has undergone significant changes in the Western world, adapting to modern culture and science, and transforming into a secular mindfulness meditation practice. This transformation, driven by various cultural and intellectual movements, has led to a widespread adoption of Buddhist practices, but also resulted in a loss of its core religious concepts and a shift towards a more ...
NVIM v0.12.0 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...
User is frustrated with a social network that displays AI-generated content and artificially limits scroll speed. They find it annoying and reminiscent of a dystopian TV show.
IBM's System/4 Pi family of computers was introduced in 1967 and played a critical role in various military and space applications, including the Space Shuttle, Skylab, and GPS development. The family evolved over the years with improvements in performance, memory, and architecture, with the AP-101B computer being used in the Space Shuttle for many years and later replaced by the AP-101S, ...
QuickBEAM is a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM, providing Web APIs backed by OTP and a built-in TypeScript toolchain. It allows for dynamic evaluation and execution of JavaScript code within Elixir processes.
Scientists at the University of Michigan found that nitrile and latex gloves may contaminate lab equipment with stearates, leading to overestimation of microplastics. Cleanroom gloves, which release fewer particulates, are suggested as a solution to this problem.
Miasma helps fight AI data scraping by sending poisoned training data to scrapers. It's a fast, low-memory server that can be set up to direct scraper traffic to a proxy.
A Tennessee grandmother was wrongly arrested in North Dakota due to AI facial recognition errors. She spent over five months in jail before being released after evidence showed she was in Tennessee during the time of the crimes.
Researchers have mapped the nerves inside the clitoris in unprecedented detail, revealing the extent of nerves crucial to orgasms and correcting previous anatomical misconceptions. The study could help prevent women from experiencing poorer sexual function after pelvic operations and inform reconstructive surgery after female genital mutilation.