Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust | 30

developer.nvidia.com
Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical Blog
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains…
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes | 14
ryan.science
Ryan Fahey
My personal website, portfolio, and blog.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it | 6

jakeasmith.com
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it. — Jake A. Smith
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.
The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac | 3
damtp.cam.ac.uk
The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres | 30

rohanbansal.com
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres - Rohan Bansal
...or how to make Qwen learn query optimization via agentic reinforcement learning
Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms | 3
egbert.net
Comparison of Arena Architecture in malloc() | Egbert Blog
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard | 32
mimo.xiaomi.com
mimo-v2.6 RL
Training metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs.
Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill | 3
cloudflare/security-audit-skillGitHub - cloudflare
GitHub - cloudflare/security-audit-skill: A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings · GitHub
A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings - cloudflare/security-audit-skill
Small programming tricks | 52
will-keleher.com
Small Programming Tricks · will keleher
A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus | 6

amazon.science
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus - Amazon Science
Amazon uses the open-source Verus tool to mathematically prove the correctness of critical Rust code, including key components of the Nitro Isolation Engine.
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs | 15
Georganas, Evangelos | Heinecke, Alexander | Dubey, Pradeep
[2609.16338] 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
A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server | 11

labs.watchtowr.com
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
A long, long time ago, in a land free of binary exploit mitigations, when Unix still roamed the Earth, there lived a pre-authentication Telnetd vulnerability.
In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994) that it may even be older than you. To put the
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve | 18

johnjwang.com
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve | John Wang
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 …
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind | 7

gcaptain.com
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global fleet, shipowners are installing towering rotor sails, rigid wings and...
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework | 24

openspec.dev
OpenSpec | A lightweight and configurable spec framework
OpenSpec helps teams and coding agents create, refine, and manage living specifications.
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran 38
wsj.com
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
<a href="https://archive.is/Ay7RJ" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/Ay7RJ</a>
PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 | 16

a6mzero.com
This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 — A6M-Zero
An experiment to design a cute PCB (without touching any tools) in plain English
HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? | 20
harnesstax.github.io
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.
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations | 111
arnegiacomo/fuglerammeGitHub - arnegiacomo
GitHub - arnegiacomo/fugleramme: E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. · GitHub
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
Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space | 4
browser-use/jev-ultrafastGitHub - browser-use
GitHub - browser-use/jev-ultrafast · GitHub
Contribute to browser-use/jev-ultrafast development by creating an account on GitHub.
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries | 17

untranslatedjp.substack.com
Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
Reversing Factorio's RNG | 15
gegell.github.io
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.
US interest rates raised for first time in three years | 9

bbc.com
US interest rates raised for first time in three years
Rates were hiked in a unanimous decision despite fierce opposition from President Donald Trump, who had called for a cut.
Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough | 18

bbc.com
Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" | 75
evanhahn.com
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model | 9
vinnylarouge/jevlikeGitHub - vinnylarouge
GitHub - vinnylarouge/jevlike · GitHub
Contribute to vinnylarouge/jevlike development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds | 21
Zheng, Tong | Wu, Xidong | Zhang, Zheng | He, Zhankui | Zhang, Chaoyi | Coleman, Benjamin | Wei, Ruoqiao | Bai, Di | Liu, Haolin | Liu, Rui | Wang, Xue | Zhuan, Yue | Kang, Wang-Cheng | Xiang, Renkai | Huang, Heng | Cheng, Xinwu | Guo, Yunsong
[2609.14858] Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.14858: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
