DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

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OpenRA

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OpenRA playtest features new random map generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000. The update includes balance overhauls, difficulty adjustments, and UI improvements for map-making.

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Fintech systems require careful handling of money to prevent errors and ensure trust. Key patterns include idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation, and event sourcing to maintain accurate and reliable financial records.

Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981

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Australian captain Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to prevent a six, sparking outrage in a 1981 cricket match. The incident led to a ban on underarm bowling and remains one of the most infamous moments in cricket history.

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

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Mythos, a powerful AI model, has raised concerns about its potential to automate zero-day exploits, but its actual impact may be overstated. Existing cybersecurity measures, such as zero trust principles and AI-assisted vulnerability management, can still be effective in protecting against AI-assisted attacks.

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.

Suspicious Discontinuities

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Discontinuities in tax policies, subsidies, and other systems can lead to people behaving in ways that are not optimal, such as losing money to reduce taxes or manipulating grades. Smoothing out these discontinuities can help mitigate these issues, and techniques like randomization can be used to achieve this.

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

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Mark Zuckerberg is waging a bizarre war on whistleblowers, including Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of Careless People, which exposes Facebook's misconduct. Zuckerberg is demanding $111m and silence from Wynn-Williams, who has complied despite the absurdity of the situation.

How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024)

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H-E-B's quiet acts of kindness have cemented it as Texas' most beloved brand, with employees often going above and beyond to help customers. The company's selfless generosity has created a loyal customer base, with many customers becoming lifelong advocates for the brand.

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

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A limited preview of the new gpt5.6 is available to u.s. government partners. the preview is designed to test the effectiveness of safeguards against misuse based on real-world scenarios - and to help users prepare for attacks if they encounter them en route to the tool sandboxed in their home pcs or home labs, for example, he says – and how they might be used...

Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off

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A Midlands town stood out on British wireless sets in the 1930s due to a powerful radio transmitter near Droitwich. The transmitter's masts still send broadcasts across Britain and Europe, including coded messages during WWII and cricket commentary.

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

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Physicists have different methods to count elementary particles due to complexities in the Standard Model of particle physics. The number of particles can range from 17 to over 1000 depending on the criteria used.

Beer CSS – Build material design in record time

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The text is a dummy sample of the printing industry, used since the 1500s. It has remained unchanged despite the transition to electronic typesetting.

Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE

NOX METALS is a supply chain company using software and automation to deliver metal to American factories quickly. They are hiring software engineers in Detroit to build an intelligent platform that manages orders, inventory, and industrial equipment.

Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

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California law prohibits streaming ads from being louder than content starting July 1. Streaming services may apply volume adjustments to US streams nationwide due to technical requirements.

The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II

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During World War II, the US government shipped thousands of flutes to soldiers, including ocarinas, which were chosen for their simplicity and durability. The ocarinas were made from plastic molds and had a simple fingering system, making them easy to play and learn.

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

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Liam's guide helps revive old hardware with Linux by selecting the right distro, optimizing RAM, and upgrading to an SSD, reducing electronic waste and extending the machine's life by 2-3 years. The guide provides a tier system for distro selection based on RAM, CPU architecture, and storage, and offers techniques for browser optimization, zram compression, and service trimming to squeeze ...

If you can't hold it, you don't own it

Digital purchases are often revocable licenses, not actual files, and can be removed by stores without notice. Physical media, such as discs and books, cannot be remotely erased and can be owned, resold, and lent indefinitely.

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

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The kinetic energy of an object is proportional to the square of its velocity because it is a consequence of Newton's second law and the definition of work. The quadratic dependence of kinetic energy on velocity is a result of the symmetry properties of space and time, specifically the homogeneity and isotropy of space and the homogeneity of time.

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

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Robert J. Sawyer, a science fiction author, uses WordStar for writing due to its intuitive interface and long-hand-page metaphor, which allows for easy editing and navigation. WordStar's unique control-key commands and customizable options make it a more productive tool for writers.

Cultures of Making and Relating

A book "Cultures of Programming" by Tomáš Petříček analyzes programming history through five cultures: engineering, management, humanist, mathematical, and hacker. These cultures influence software development and research, often creating tensions between formal and informal approaches.

Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth

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The user's AI agent optimized system performance from half throughput to full saturation, but its explanation of why it worked was wrong. The user analyzed and debugged the system, identifying a bottleneck caused by 4 KiB page address translation, which was fixed by using hugepages.

Like a Bouncer at a Bookstore: Texas' App Store Accountability Act

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Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512

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Manticore's KNN search engine improved by up to 29% at high k with no API changes or index rebuild. Optimizations target distance computation and memory access patterns.

Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)

This course covers Jest and Vitest fundamentals for testing frontend applications, including assertions, mocks, and async testing. It's free and compatible with both Jest and Vitest, preparing you for React frontend testing.

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

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The author was targeted by a fake-interview scam using a RAT called PinpinRAT, which was embedded in a TypeScript repository. The scam was sophisticated and used multiple fake websites, stolen history, and a patient timeline to avoid detection.

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs provides isolated, stateful execution environments for user or AI-generated code, offering virtual machine level isolation, rapid launch and resume, and stateful execution. It's available in multiple regions, with up to 16 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and 32 GB of disk per MicroVM.

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs is shrinking, with some benchmarks showing a near catch-up by December 2026. However, a broader analysis of 18 benchmarks shows a more moderate and consistent gap of around 5 months.

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

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The US government lifted its block on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 AI model, allowing release to over 100 US institutions. The decision follows intense talks between the government and Anthropic, which committed to working on protocols and standards for its models.

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

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Mathematicians are concerned that AI may replace human mathematicians, but some see it as a tool to aid in problem-solving and collaboration.