GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

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

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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

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.

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Sun Clock

A 24-hour clock that shows sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for your current location. It also shows the current position and phase of the moon, and its rising and setting times.

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

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…

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

The usual probing.

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.

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

One little step toward UNIX

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

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.

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

India's UPI may finally face merchant fees, raising questions over who pays and whether users will resist.

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.

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

Ana Karina Zatarain on Dutch photographer Pie Aerts’s images of the puesteros of Chilean Patagonia, who look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else.

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.