id Software's early days were marked by technical ambition and overwork, leading to mistakes in game development and corporate management. Quake's success was marred by poor incentives, unrealistic expectations, and infighting among designers.
Bunny.net's mission is to make the internet faster by building a massive global network and advanced routing engine, Bunny DNS. Bunny DNS is now free, with no query limits or usage-based charges, making it accessible to everyone.
CAPTCHAs were created to distinguish humans from machines but were eventually beaten by computers. Now, websites verify browser identity instead, using methods like Web Bot Auth to establish trust.
Yann LeCun advocates for open-source AI to ensure global sovereignty, cultural diversity, and safety. He believes open-source AI will surpass proprietary systems and is inevitable due to its cost-effectiveness, security, and localization benefits.
Rahul from Greptile observed a surge in OpenClaw pull requests, mostly low-effort AI-generated submissions, with a 9.3% merge rate. To address this, solutions like Vouch and reputation systems are being developed to filter out malicious or unqualified contributors.
Nub is a TypeScript-first Node.js runtime that provides a faster alternative to existing tools. It offers a package manager, native watch mode, and Node version management.
The user created a pure Go library called objgit that allows for a git server to be hosted in object storage without relying on the local filesystem, using the go-git library and the billy filesystem abstraction. The user encountered several challenges and implemented workarounds to optimize performance, including caching pack files and fixing issues with ListObjectsV2 calls, and is now ...
The Xteink X4 is a £40 e-ink reader that's small and lightweight, with a crisp display and instant page turns. It's highly portable and can be improved with custom firmware like CrossPoint or Inx.
Computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, delivering our best performance yet for agentic computer use tasks. Previously only available as a standalone Gemini 2.5 computer use model, computer use is now integrated natively in the main Gemini Flash model. Gemini already excels at function calling and using built-in tools like Search and Maps grounding. With built-in ...
The user successfully ported Wine to their hobby OS Astral, enabling it to run 32-bit Windows games like Cogmind and Deltarune. They also implemented WoW64 support to run 32-bit code on a 64-bit OS, but still face issues with Wine-mono and Steam compatibility.
Researchers developed Krea 2, a series of foundation models for creative image generation that can produce diverse and controllable images. The models were trained using a large-scale data infrastructure and a multi-stage pipeline that includes pretraining, midtraining, and supervised finetuning to achieve high-quality and stylistically diverse results.
A curator arranged a field trip to the Dinosaurs Of China exhibition at Wollaton Hall in 2017. A stitched photo of the Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis skeleton was created from a sequence of photos taken by Matt.
SSH port forwarding explained in a visual way, including local and remote port forwarding, and dynamic port forwarding using the -L, -R, and -D flags. SSH tunneling allows accessing private services from a local machine, exposing local services to the public, and creating SOCKS proxies for flexible network access.
Monolisa is a typeface built for you, the developers and creatives. it improves code legibility and provides san serif for all design tasks. after using this font for just two days it's grown on me - i really like it. if you need emojis, you can find them in the font's character set. the characters are easy to read, and the style is very clean.
Microsoft claimed a quantum breakthrough in 2025 using Majorana particles, but a scientist's peer-reviewed critique in Nature says they got it wrong. The scientist argues Microsoft's claims are based on flawed data and incorrect programming.
Pure Effect is a zero-dependency effect library for JavaScript and TypeScript that separates business logic from I/O operations. It allows for testable pipelines and replaying of failed production runs without touching the database.
Haystack is an open-source AI framework for building production-ready agents and applications with LLMs, offering modular visibility and vendor-agnostic connections. It enables flexible, composable AI workflows for text, image, and audio tasks with standardized tool calling and scalable context engineering.
The author started a German company, PlentyLabs, in January and spent over 9,600 euros in fees and bills, but still can't invoice clients due to missing VAT ID. The German incorporation process is slow and expensive, scaring new founders away.
Peerd is a Chrome/Firefox extension that runs a full AI agent loop inside the browser, using the browser as its runtime, hypervisor, and security model. It allows users to drive their pages, run sandboxed compute, and build small apps, with a focus on security and user control.
LEVI is a framework that uses smaller, cheaper models for most mutations and larger models for paradigm shifts, achieving strong ADRS results at a fraction of the cost. LEVI maintains diversity across both code structure and actual behavior, ensuring the search archive does not collapse into a single solution family, and achieves the highest score on every problem where improvement is possible.
More people are contributing to open source than ever, most of them trying to help. The challenge is keeping up with the volume. Creating a pull request has never been easier. Reviewing one still takes a human about as long as it ever did. When great contributions and low-quality noise land in the same queue, the ones that deserve attention are harder to find. That’s why we’ve introduced pull ...
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, died in a plane crash in La Baule, France. He founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his brothers, who still control the company.
the-stats-duck v0.6.0 is a DuckDB extension for statistics, including distributions, tests, regression, and plots, all in SQL. It adds features like violin marks, 2-D facets, and a per-layer STAT smooth for visualizing data.
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom AI accelerator designed for large language model inference, delivering performance per watt better than current state-of-the-art. The chip is part of a multi-generation compute platform to make AI faster, more reliable, and accessible to more people.
Dijkstra's home in nuenen contained a large collection of scientific books, booklets, papers, manuscripts. with the permission from his family, i was allowed to empty part of his office - the contents of those boxes are listed on this page. the book contains letters from p.a. spencer to edsger w. dakstra, and letters to the editors of the prestigious journal reuters
You're developing a list of advice including a creative mindset, radical transparency, and writing down what makes you happy. You also advocate for "stealing" or building upon others' work, like Virgil Abloh's 3% approach, to learn and create efficiently.