How close can pure functional programming get to C?

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.

Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

Rules downloaded from their server decide your pieces, your score and your ads. One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

Apple Music 404 Not Found

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

@maya@gs.lexinova.eu @OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io @britter@chaos.social Most banking apps work on GrapheneOS but many have memory corruption bugs and incorrect anti-tampering code requiring our per-app exploit protection compatibility mode toggle. Around 10% of banking apps are unavailable due to banning using a non-Google-approved OS. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS in addition to a Google-approved OS which is growing. There's a good list based on ongoing user reports: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

Apple Security Research Device

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle

The Real Kevin Bacon

Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

Welcome to the digital home of Daniel Ball. Explore my portfolio to see the projects I’ve worked on and learn more about my professional journey.

CVE Tracker

Daily count of published CVE records since 1999, rebuilt every day from the official CVE list.

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an...,Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an...

Bringing uv and ty together

Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.

OBS Studio 33

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - Release OBS Studio 33.0.0 · obsproject/obs-studio

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

In September 2014 I published a short post announcing rqlite. The idea was simple: take SQLite, put a Raft log in front of it, and replicate every write to a cluster so that the loss of a node did not mean the loss of the data. The source went on GitHub that same weekend. As…

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

Do you feel spoiled by modern hardware? I know I do. Even the cheapest CPUs have at least 4 cores nowadays, running billions of operations per second. The idea that you could run any software on less than a GHz almost seems like fiction. Yet, there was a time when whole games ran at hardware…

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, our most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modeling, and financial research.

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]

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