.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

The Human-Centered Computing Foundation aims to create an alternative web architecture that prioritizes user data and attention. They are launching a campaign to secure a new Top-Level Domain for ethical, human-centered technology.

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

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User is impressed with Qwen 3.6, a local model that performs well as general intelligence. It recommends Qwen 3.6 27B for its balance of speed and power.

Free the Icons

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Apple's MacOS 27 Golden Gate has improved app icons, restoring distinct shapes and sharper designs. However, MacOS 26 Tahoe's forced squircle shape for third-party icons is still a usability issue that Apple should address.

Memory Safe Context Switching (longjmp, setjmp) in Fil-C

Fil-C supports memory-safe context switches using longjmp/setjmp and ucontext APIs. It enforces strict rules to prevent stack corruption and capability model violations.

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

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We introduce LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE language model with 1.6 trillion parameters, achieving strong performance on coding, agentic tasks, and long-horizon tasks.

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

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PDP-1 Lisp was developed in 1960 by Peter Deutsch, a 14-year-old high school student, as a minimalist and efficient Lisp for the tiny PDP-1. It introduced the read–eval–print loop (REPL) and evolved Lisp from a theoretical language into a practical, interactive tool.

Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?

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Europe aims to reduce its dependency on non-European cloud suppliers by tripling its data centers and investing in AI. However, the continent's power problem may be less significant than its permitting and planning issues.

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

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Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

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Ornith-1.0 is a state-of-the-art coding agent with four models (9B-Dense, 31B-Dense, 35B-MoE, 397B-MoE) that achieve top performance on coding benchmarks. It uses self-improving training and can generate reasoning blocks and solution rollouts.

A native graphical shell for SSH

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A graphical shell called Outer Shell allows remote access to server apps via SSH, providing a home screen of apps with APIs for integration. This approach enables native, platform-tailored apps for work and HTML for casual use, raising the bar for web development.

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

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The US Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment. The court held that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data, even if they are in public areas.

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

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South Korea's government and top tech companies are investing $1 trillion in megaprojects to bolster memory chip supply, build AI data centers, and deploy humanoid robots by 2028. The initiatives aim to secure South Korea's position in the AI industry but raise concerns about labor displacement and wealth distribution.

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

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The Trump administration is cracking down on dissent, sentencing eight defendants to 450 years in prison for possessing or distributing information deemed anti-government. This move erodes the First Amendment and could lead to the criminalization of holding certain viewpoints.

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

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The Apple Neural Engine is a fixed-function matrix accelerator in Apple chips since A11-class, exposed through Core ML. A reverse-engineered guide documents its datapath, dispatch route, and compiler format for A11-A18 and M1-M5 chips.

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

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A Game Boy emulator, WATaBoy, was created to test the feasibility of using JIT-to-Wasm for console emulation on iOS. The emulator's JIT compiler running in Wasm was found to be ~1.2x faster than the interpreter running natively.

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

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The author shares their experience with astronomy and outdoor activities, presenting their telescope Wallace and its technical details. They also discuss the challenge of capturing the visual experience of hiking and trail running.

One million passports leaked online

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A journalist discovered nearly one million exposed passports and IDs on public internet due to a company's failure in data security practices. The documents were accessible through direct URLs with no authentication or encryption, creating a potential window for criminal exploitation.

Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base

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Trealla is a local-first knowledge base with content-addressable storage and hyper-relational graph. It uses Prolog as the main runtime and supports features like time-travel, deduplication, and full-text search.

SQLite improving performance with pre-sort

To optimize insert speed with unordered data, batching and pre-sorting can help. A fast comparison method is needed, such as converting the first 8 bytes of a 20-byte random ID to an unsigned long.

Dark Sky Lighting

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Dark-sky lighting reduces light pollution by directing light downwards and using amber colors, which helps protect wildlife and our circadian rhythm. It also reduces energy consumption and makes our stars visible again, promoting a safer and healthier environment.

Open Memory Protocol – One Memory Store for Claude, ChatGPT, Curso

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The AI memory silo problem occurs when AI tools forget user context and memories when switching tools, but an open protocol called Open Memory Protocol (OMP) can solve this issue by allowing tools to share memories. OMP is a vendor-neutral specification for storing, retrieving, and sharing user memories across AI tools, ensuring seamless continuity and user control over their memories.

Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

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Netflix replaced Compute Managed Batch with Kueue, a cloud-native job queueing system, to offer a more managed experience for batch workloads. The migration required zero lift for end users and was completed in 4 weeks, with Kueue now managing millions of batch workloads in production.

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

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A CUDA program is compiled into machine code that runs on a GPU, involving multiple compilers and transformations from PTX to SASS, and is then launched on the GPU through a complex process involving the CUDA runtime, driver, and kernel-mode driver. The GPU executes the kernel in parallel, using warps and scheduling control bits to hide latency and optimize performance, and eventually copies ...

Philae's extraordinary comet landing relived (2024)

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On 12 November 2014, after a ten year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, Rosetta’s lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for the first time. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary feat, we celebrate Philae’s impressive achievements at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta arrived at the ...

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

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Routers are becoming the control plane for AI inference, enabling collaboration between multiple models to improve accuracy and efficiency. The vLLM Semantic Router is a programmable, observable, and open serving layer that selects the right collaboration recipe for each request.

Working With AI: A concrete example

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Carson Gross discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in coding, specifically with the Sorcerer's Apprentice problem where developers rely too heavily on AI and lose understanding of their code. He shares a personal experience with AI assistance in fixing a bug in his hyperscript project, highlighting the importance of human oversight and expertise in controlling complexity.

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

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Sandia National Laboratory built capacity to design and test ICs for radiation-hardened devices in the 1970s and 1980s for use in space missions and nuclear warheads. They successfully created the SA3000 processor, which could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with minimal performance reduction, and was used in the W88 nuclear warhead and other space applications.

What can you confidently guarantee about your software?

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Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

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Ornith-1.0 is a self-improving open-source model for agentic coding tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. It learns to generate solutions and task-specific harnesses, outperforming leading models of similar size.