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coinfused
an hour ago
Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 ...
16 HOURS AGO
BRRYANT
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
2 HOURS AGO
BIRDCULTURE
Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
3 DAYS AGO
COMPILER-GUY
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
15 HOURS AGO
GEORGEX7
I Learned to Read Again
A DAY AGO
JHOHO
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
4 DAYS AGO
JAMIE_DAVENPORT
Tracking unique visitors without cookies
A DAY AGO
THUNDERBONG
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
A DAY AGO
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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
crowdhailer
an hour ago
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.
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XzetaU8
4 days ago
Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
A real-time microscopic physics simulation of a record stylus tracing a vinyl groove....
silcoon
18 hours ago
How to read more books
My method for reading more...
dkryaklin
4 days ago
Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second
colordx, webgl, gpu, performance, color · 8 min read · published Jun 11, 2026...
ranger_danger
5 days ago
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or ...
rakel_rakel
4 hours ago
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of...
thunderbong
3 days ago
Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial
The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward....
mariuz
4 hours ago
Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica
Open source clone of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP. Contribute to schlae/BeavisUltrasound development by creating an account on GitHub....
https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound
curmudgeon22
5 days ago
First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton
An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken wreck of the ship that carried famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Sh...
iNic
12 hours ago
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
ESP32-P4 + C5, AMOLED touchscreen, wireless, sensors and real I/O in your pocket. You write the code — it becomes whatever you need. For makers, pentesters and geeks....
systima
15 hours ago
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour....
softwaredoug
3 days ago
Why write code in 2026
A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026...
root-parent
17 hours ago
Automation Without Understanding
Two developments are unfolding at once: artificial intelligence systems have begun to produce genuine research-level mathematics, and the United States is weakening the pipeline that produce...
supo
16 hours ago
Against Usefulness
In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program....
rawsh
13 hours ago
Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels
Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training With Sparse Attention Kernels...
laxmena
12 hours ago
Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data
My book club is reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson this month. The core idea fits on a napkin, so before the meeting I de......