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allisdust
3 hours ago
The Vibe Tax
Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained....
2 HOURS AGO
ROOT-PARENT
Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
4 HOURS AGO
AKEYES6
Predicting AI model release dates with stats
5 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II
3 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026)
18 HOURS AGO
ANDSOITIS
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
12 HOURS AGO
RAYBB
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
A DAY AGO
RZNICOLET
I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)
34 MINUTES AGO
VICGALLE_
An elliptic curve of rank 31
6 HOURS AGO
HARLIXAY7
I ran out of space extracting a RAR so I built ReclaimArc
7 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
A DAY AGO
STARED
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
7 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
3 DAYS AGO
GRAPPLER
ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
vanpra
3 hours ago
How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.
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tosh
8 hours ago
What Is a Harness?
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within....
mdp2021
6 hours ago
Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests
Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds....
dbreunig
3 hours ago
Fable and the End of the Free Lunch
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the f...
campuscodi
9 hours ago
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It's delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units....
ryanvogel
5 hours ago
A website for debloated open source alternatives
open-source replacements for bloated vendor software...
bookofjoe
4 hours ago
Explain it to me like I'm ten
In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) w...
the-mitr
6 hours ago
Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged ...
https://punyamishra.com/2026/04/16/why-sal-khant-on-learning-by-making-but-teaching-by-telling/
taubek
15 hours ago
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
It's time to fix the real problems...
0megion
4 hours ago
AI and Infrastructure Engineering
How I actually use AI in day-to-day infrastructure work, and why I think it's the next layer of abstraction rather than a replacement for the engineer - the same way Kubernetes was for Ansib...
gumby
5 hours ago
Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely
Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses AI’s impact on the future of work...
boilerupnc
19 hours ago
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!...
Sir_Twist
19 hours ago
I Dream of Quieter Computing
A quick note about future of computing and indieweb. It's about a 2 minute read....
zX41ZdbW
16 hours ago
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
Build a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in Rust, generate ARM64 machine code, and benchmark it against an interpreter and handwritten implementation....
cocacola1
21 hours ago
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
This article was published last year, but due to its enduring popularity I’ve moved it to the front page for......
mpweiher
an hour ago
OpenStar demonstrates dipole fusion reactor concept
New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole ...