Learning a few things about running SQLite

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

Vāgdhenu: a meter-aware Sanskrit śloka-to-chant text-to-speech system. Prof. Prathosh A P, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

"Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means

That "Disk Not Ejected Properly" macOS alert isn't always your fault. Learn what's really happening and how to tell a flaky cable from failing hardware.

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

The state of open source AI

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design. We have unlocked a new paradigm of predictive accuracy in understanding our biomolecular world, allowing us to rationally design new medicines on a computer with unprecedented understanding and precision.

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

As warmer temperatures return, Union Pacific is applying an innovative concept to manage heat-related track conditions – part of a broader strategy that helped the railroad deliver its best-ever full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, improving 19% year over year.

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Recommended reading 1.4 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.5 Hugepages 1.6 A note on benchmarking 1.7 Cache lines 1.8 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization 2.3 Trailing zeros 2.4 Popcount 2.5 Manual SIMD 3 Optimizing the search 3.1 Batching 3.2 Prefetching 3.3 Pointer arithmetic 3.3.1 Up-front splat 3.3.2 Byte-based pointers 3.3.3 The final version 3.4 Skip prefetch 3.5 Interleave 4 Optimizing the tree layout 4.1 Left-tree 4.2 Memory layouts 4.3 Node size \(B=15\) 4.3.1 Data structure size 4.4 Summary 5 Prefix partitioning 5.1 Full layout 5.2 Compact subtrees 5.3 The best of both: compact first level 5.4 Overlap

Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark court order to cut off a pornographic website’s ability to operate under its domain name after the company failed to take measures to protect children from the harmful sexual content it published. This legal victory establishes a significant precedent for enforcing age-verification laws against non-compliant foreign operators.

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again

The move is a vote of confidence in Boeing from the U.S. government.,The move is a vote of confidence in Boeing from the U.S. government.

Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

A batteries-included framework for building web apps - tokio-rs/topcoat

Lego building instructions through time

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

Located in Illinois, he first designed the residence at age 22 and lived in it for 20 years