Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

Modify your tools more!

In defense of not understanding your codebase

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

G# is a modern .NET language that brings Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics to the CLR.

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were there.

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online. Open Culture, openculture.com

Making 768 servers look like 1

How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

Async/await makes concurrency easy to write, but incredibly complex to operate. Read on for why the Tokio/Rayon boundary is failing in production, and how explicit state machines fix it.

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

Bluesky now owns the AT Protocol trademark to help make sure it can be used as widely and responsibly as possible.

The lost joy of music piracy

A look back at the music piracy platforms Oink, What.CD, Limewire, and Napster, and why streaming pails in comparison to its predecessors.

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

High bandwidth flash stacks NAND to feed GPUs faster, shrinking energy-hungry hardware footprints and boosting real-world AI responsiveness.

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.,Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.

Grok Build is open source

SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. - xai-org/grok-build

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.

Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

An experimental Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. - minh-ton/reynard-browser