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iamflimflam1
6 hours ago
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive...
7 HOURS AGO
THEJCDENTON
Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
8 HOURS AGO
LUMPA
Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)
11 HOURS AGO
BLINCOLN
'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet
3 HOURS AGO
ANDSOITIS
There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
14 HOURS AGO
MIKEMCQUAID
Homebrew 7.0.0
6 HOURS AGO
KOLANOS
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
4 HOURS AGO
DGELLOW
AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
5 DAYS AGO
NAOH
Apple iPod Engraver (2019)
5 HOURS AGO
MIKHAEL
Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
9 HOURS AGO
LEEPHILLIPS
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
20 HOURS AGO
LOPOPOLO
Aligned to whom?
9 HOURS AGO
LEEPHILLIPS
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
2 DAYS AGO
EVANANDERSON
A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System
u1hcw9nx
2 hours ago
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.
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taubek
15 hours ago
JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface....
ibobev
11 hours ago
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1....
jonifico
a day ago
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, es...
bookofjoe
9 hours ago
Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering....
surprisetalk
3 days ago
Bad Code Is Kudzu
Delete your features...
chiassedu80
9 hours ago
CUDA for AMD on Windows
Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows...
eigenspace
3 days ago
Julia 1.13 Highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.13 release....
https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
NaOH
3 days ago
The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
New stories from the East German specialists behind this Cold War project...
xlmnxp
8 hours ago
Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices
Build, distribute and run Linux applications as OCI packages with explicit permissions, native desktop integration and shared storage....
zdw
a day ago
TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio
A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust + Tokio - FeralFirmware/TailTalk...
thunderbong
6 hours ago
Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents
The card can be used to permanently cancel the match if they “observe inappropriate behaviour from spectators or parents"....
kevvok
3 days ago
Base84 deserves a place in file names
The TurboCrypt git and file encryption tool was originally designed for Unix systems....
matt_d
3 days ago
On Binary Translation and Its Consequences
The PC market is one of the toughest areas for a CPU designer to compete in....
dsubburam
a day ago
Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield nece...
fvitas
5 hours ago
Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh
Swap hair, head, body and legs from 389 photographed bricks. Over 50 million minifigures, one link to share....