Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2607.22738: Nova3D: Code-Native Generation of Programmable 3D Assets

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Oxford Electric Bell

JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer

Open and convert .jxl files free in your browser — nothing uploaded, no sign-up, no limits. New to JPEG XL? Learn what it is and which browsers support it.

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

Teaching My Kid To Code With a Modern MUD

Splitting a Git Commit

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

Meta filed for a patent that includes a "memory recall" system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights real later.

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

Polars is a library for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with a fast and expressive DataFrame API. It was first released by Ritchie Vink in 2020. Install Polars with all of its optional dependencies from the terminal: uv pip install "polars[all]" Import Polars in Python, and confirm which versions of Polars and its dependencies you have installed: import polars as pl pl.show_versions() Polars queries typically read data, transform it, and write the result back out. A complete query is often a single chain of method calls:

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

There are three games he’d still like to make, but feels he’s “done what I set out to do”…

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.

The Amazon Tax

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life.

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

Michael Chu's decades old recipe format just went viral, and it's got the internet completely divided over whether it works.

Composable Tests

It's not what I thought

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

A local MITM proxy that lets you control TLS fingerprints (JA3/JA4), HTTP/2 fingerprints, HTTP header order, and User-Agent — all from a single YAML config file. - ytkoka/impersonate-proxy

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?