GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.13759: GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.,It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.

Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure

OpenClimbing 2.0 can export an offline PDF, draw a route over a photo, and send shared climbing data back to OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons. The guide becomes an editor for common infrastructure.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

Rethinking Database Programming

Olo (Color)

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

The Benchmarkpocalypse

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

One little step toward UNIX

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR.

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 3 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.