Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state

Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made for sexual health services, how many children are likely to be born, how many schools to build, etc. You trust the Government, you voted…

New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

xssfox is hacking on cursed software, hardware and everything in between.

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

just a blog

Being ambitious and being a dad

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their onsite peers.

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

Introducing Ornith-1.5, an open-source model family that extends self-scaffolding into an end-to-end self-improvement loop.

PostgreSQL for Everything

You need simplicity if you want to move fast. PostgreSQL can very well replace Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse and Elastic. And many successful companies are doing exactly that. Let's check out how.

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

@Revan_9766@mastodon.social The initial devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027. The initial devices will be flagships so they'll be higher end hardware than Pixels at a higher price. Lower end devices will take more time to meet our requirements since the updates and security features aren't as good. It's mostly due to how Qualcomm handles it. The latest Snapdragon flagships have the best security features. We'll also need Motorola to start paying them for longer updates below flagships.

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

Meteorites provided a rare but ready source of iron for ancient Bronze Age cultures before smelting became common. A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, sheds light on how the ancient Minoan and Mycenaean elite used this extraordinary metal and when its popularity declined.

OpenLogi

A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)

A long division story

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

Air Theremin — a browser theremin played in mid-air: tilt your phone, or wave both hands in front of the camera. Pitch, volume and timbre follow you, with note snap, cave reverb and recording.

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

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Cerebras CS-4

The Cerebras CS-4 delivers revolutionary AI performance, replacing hundreds of GPUs with a single wafer-scale chip. Accelerate AI workloads like never before.

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

Today marks an important milestone for @moderna_tx , for the field of mRNA, and for the many people working to bring new possibilities to patients. This morning, Moderna and Merck announced positive Phase 3 results for adjuvant treatment with intismeran autogene, an

Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

The most atomic way to train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free C - vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library

A high performance rust-powered UI layout library. Contribute to DioxusLabs/taffy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

Open-source sandboxed agent harness for teams. Giving every employee a secured personal agent. - onecli/onecli

Supersonic Trebuchet [video]

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