Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.16338: Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

Small programming tricks

A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

What does a coding-agent harness actually add, and at what cost? It turns out your Claude models may not need Claude Code… We evaluate 21 model–harness pairs spanning seven models and three harnesses—Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Pi—on SWE-bench Lite and Terminal-Bench 2.0.

Backups Aren't Simple

Aleksandar Filipovski, 2026-09-16

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here are the key requirements it’s designed to meet: Store …

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

An experiment to design a cute PCB (without touching any tools) in plain English

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

OpenSpec helps teams and coding agents create, refine, and manage living specifications.

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains…

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

Amazon uses the open-source Verus tool to mathematically prove the correctness of critical Rust code, including key components of the Nitro Isolation Engine.

A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

Reversing Factorio's RNG

This post details how Factorio's random number generation works, how it can be reversed and how I used that knowledge to predict and manipulate the RNG with pure in‑game mechanics.

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

Training metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs.

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

...or how to make Qwen learn query optimization via agentic reinforcement learning