SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

DBOS recently argued that Postgres is all you need for durable execution: if you already trust your database, you do not need a separate orchestration tier. I a…

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.,Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.

Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

The leading Japanese snack-food manufacturer Calbee has made headlines through its announced switch to black-and-white packaging for some of its products due to naphtha shortages, which are having a growing impact on a wide range of industries.

You can just say it

There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. It usually goes something like this: In the age of AI, we should still prefer humans in certain roles because AI could never perform the tasks required for that role. Or, a human can at least do it better. Or, perhaps the output from a human and AI may look similar, but human output is preferable for subtle stylistic reasons that an AI cannot reproduce. Or, at least the AI cannot reproduce it consistently. Observe the scuff marks around the base of the goalpost from constant movement. Allow 28 days for the concrete to cure.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's squarely where the Neo landed for the good-but-cheap laptop category. My nephew is also my godson, and to kick off his computing journey, I thought I'd let him choose from a Framework 12 I bought to test, or the MacBook Neo I bought a couple months ago to use around the studio.

What Is a Dickover?

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

An accidentally fast variable-length integer encoding

Ember.js 7.0

The Ember project is excited to announce the release of Ember v7.0. Following Ember's Major Version Policy, the major includes only the removal of features that were deprecated until 7.0...

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?

MCP is dead?

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

On Rendering Diffs

A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening preparation gap that threatens the value of UC science, technology, engineering and math degrees.

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

Today, we’re releasing LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a high-throughput edge model optimized for fast, reliable tool calling and complex instruction following on consumer hardware, delivering compressed performance competitive with much larger models and day-one support across major inference frameworks.

The dead economy theory

We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

Shift says it’s offering New Yorkers free cleanings if they can record cleaners working inside their homes with a ‘magic hat.’

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

Build your own high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA - a smaller version of vLLM - jmaczan/tiny-vllm

Let Equals Equal Equals

Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constituencies, harms AT users, and should be fixed immediately. Reference Target is complementary and welcome, but it is not a substitute for making imperative assignment work.