DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

The DARPA Lift Challenge aims to shatter the heavy lift bottleneck, seeking novel drone designs that can carry payloads more than four times their weight, which would revolutionize the way we use drones across all sectors.

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Discover ENAS, the license-free enterprise storage platform featuring native ZFS, secure UniFi management, scalable petabyte-class capacity, multi-site backups, and shared iSCSI storage for modern business infrastructure.

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems

How American Express uses cell-based architecture to deliver resilient, low-latency payments at global scale.

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension to the Model Context Protocol is now stable, enabling organizations to centrally provision MCP server access through their identity provider so users get connected servers on first login without per-app OAuth.

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

Gribouille 0.3.0 gives guides and axes a much finer on/off switch, lets compose() carry its own theme, and makes geom-area() stack by default. A long list of legend and annotation fixes rounds it out.

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

Walk through DuckDB's internals: how it skips serialization overhead, parses and optimizes SQL, and stores data in columnar row groups with zone maps.

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revealed a potential vulnerability to major speculative attacks.

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent

The ISA Doesn't Matter Where It Counts

x86's lock-in is real. It's just furthest from the GPU.

Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

Wasm interpreter in lean, designed for reasoning. Contribute to cajal-technologies/talos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand

Apply for jobs at Flexport, a tech company hiring developers, logistics, customs + marketing roles for supply chain and global trade.