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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight | 6

isaraerospace.com

History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace

By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | 76

cloudinabottle.org

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle

Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser | 8

quenq.com

Play GTA Vice City Online in Your Browser | Quenq GTA Vice City

Play the complete GTA Vice City game directly in your browser. Full WebAssembly port with save support and controller support.

Music Theory for Programmers | 24

Music Theory for Programmers

runjs.app

Music theory for programmers

I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.

The revolt of the reader | 38

The revolt of the reader

bcantrill.dtrace.org

The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules | 0

motherjones.com

You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules – Mother Jones

A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 | 3

dpreview.com

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AI, Tools and Transformation | 9

ben-evans.com

403 Forbidden

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices | 8

miod.online.fr

Strange Medieval Devices

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded | 3

vermaden.wordpress.com

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗

My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running - it will now be my kids computer ... so I needed a new one ... but not a bigger one :) I spent way too much time finding new Mini-ITX case for the next one ... and after all possibilities ... I got…

Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark 8

nytimes.com

Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark

Learn Programming with OCaml | 14

Learn Programming with OCaml

usr.lmf.cnrs.fr

Learn Programming with OCaml

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings | 16

lapcatsoftware.com

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | 244

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
collusion.wiki

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) | 37

devquasar.com

The “$60 Gaming PC” – AMD BC-250 – DevQuasar

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil | 35

A rocket launch carves an orange arc into a dark night sky in this long-exposure photo.
space.com

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil | Space

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket made history today (Sept. 5), becoming the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil.

A Computer History Time Capsule | 0

blog.archive.org

A Computer History Time Capsule | Internet Archive Blogs

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions | 55

nvd.nist.gov

NVD - Home

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 | 0

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

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IBM Quantum Safe brand visualization
ibm.com

IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2—more circuits, faster | IBM Quantum Computing Blog

High-speed, independent qubit reset boosts circuit throughput 25x over Heron while enabling accurate observable estimation on circuits with 7,500+ gates.

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns | 37

Summary card of repository mv12star/shitter, described as: Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.
codeberg.org

Instances - mv12star/shitter - Codeberg.org

shitter - Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory | 8

sofiabelen.github.io

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

A follow-along series of coding experiments as I explore Rust's peculiarities, from a C++ developer's perspective.

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | 13

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

Chart of completion rate against output tokens for GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1 and Fable 5 on two robot-arm tasks
openai.robocurve.org

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 controlling a pair of YAM arms under the same agent policy: 19/20 vs 8/20 on block-into-bowl in interleaved blinded pairs, 2/20 vs 2/20 on the puzzle, with 80% fewer output tokens.

Topologist's Map of the World | 12

Topologist's Map of the World

futilitycloset.com

Small World - Futility Closet

Reddit user xilefakamot created this in 2020 — a “topologist’s map of the world.” It depicts international borders and nothing else — the shapes, sizes, and distances between countries are forsaken in order to present the pattern of their borders as efficiently as possible. “No calculations per se – I sketched out a series of networks showing which countries bordered each other, then gradually smoothed them out to make the map – all done manually.” (Via MapPorn.)

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus | 48

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

Solé, Ricard | Ruffini, Giulio | Castaldo, Francesca | Tuccio, Marco | Seoane, Luis F. | de Domenico, Manlio | Elena, Santiago F. | Krakauer, David C. | Levin, Michael

[2609.03344] Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.03344: Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map | 2

victoriametrics.com

How Go’s Built-in Map Works with Swiss Tables

Go 1.24 replaced the built-in map’s bucket-based runtime with Swiss Tables. This article explains groups, control bytes, H1 and H2, probing, table growth, …

RecurseCenter.return() | 6

mm-dev.rocks

RecurseCenter.return()

Site Is Closed on Sundays | 33

Site Is Closed on Sundays

v7.robweychert.com

Rob Weychert | Art & Design

I make art and design, obsess over film and music, hoard trivial archival data, and share it all on this here website. Enjoy your stay.

Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks | 0

llogiq.github.io

Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks — Llogiq on stuff

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor | 6

demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor - iczelia/balrogg
iczelia/balrogg

GitHub - iczelia/balrogg: demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor · GitHub

demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor - iczelia/balrogg

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan | 2

lttlabs.com

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