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When did Google get so weird? | 24

When did Google get so weird?

sancho.bearblog.dev

When did Google get so weird?

Ember-1 | 26

Ember-1

fireworks.ai

Introducing Ember-1

Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.

Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? | 5

quora.com

Just a moment...

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 | 2

shnatsel.github.io

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 | Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff

A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it!

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi | 10

Eleven pixel-art city nights side by side: Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco, Hamburg and Amsterdam
loficities.com

Lofi Cities · Pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music

Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM | 1

declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir 😇 - deepfates/imp
deepfates/imp

GitHub - deepfates/imp: declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir 😇 · GitHub

declarative self-improving language-model programs for Elixir 😇 - deepfates/imp

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life 28

nytimes.com

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] | 2

What I did at Recurse Center | 2

thill.me

What I did at RC | patrick’s blog

I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | 10

iain.rocks

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | Iain Cambridge

The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) | 8

asawicki.info

Writing Efficient C++ Code

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights | 21

jvns.ca

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out | 19

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

Did you ever click on an “AI Arena” expecting glorious battle and instead get a boring benchmark? If so, this project is for you: proper life-or-death fights between four models on a picturesque 8×8 grid. May the most intelligent one win!

Click on any of the matches to spectate them.

Code: https://github.com/hp6/ai-arena [hp6]

tinyaiarena.com

Tiny AI Arena

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers | 5

generalroboticslab.com

General Robotics Lab | Duke University | Discovery Robotics Research

General Robotics Lab at Duke University - Building discovery machines that learn, act, and collaborate by discovering how the world works. Research in embodied intelligence, robotics, AI, machine learning, and human-robot collaboration.

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey | 3

a fragment of light-orange cuneiform tablet against a black background
livescience.com

'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey | Live Science

Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures | 22

ihatethefuture.com

i hate the future: the normalization of inexplicable failures

In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...

Allegations of US interference in Quebec election | 3

globalnews.ca

Federal intelligence agency contacted amid U.S. interference allegations in Quebec election | Globalnews.ca

As Quebec's election enters its final stretch, U.S. interference allegations prompted a CSIS contact and calls for from party leaders for transparency.

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots | 10

mitxela.com

FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots - mitxela.com

John Coltrane Centenary's – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes | 4

jazzwise.com

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted | 35

unsung.aresluna.org

“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests | 10

fakecloud.dev

fakecloud - Local AWS Cloud Emulator

fakecloud is a free, open-source local AWS cloud emulator. Single binary, no auth required, no paid tier, plus first-party SDKs for test assertions.

Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum | 2

icm.museum

KICKI: a DECsystem1060 – INTERIM COMPUTER MUSEUM

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer | 13

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

clydesnotes.blogspot.com

Video CDs break Windows Explorer

There is an odd bug in Windows related to Video CDs . To reproduce it: Insert a Video CD (if you don't have one, you can download this fi...

Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp | 3

Drafting latency per drafted token by corpus size. Upstream llama.cpp takes 8.54 to 165.48 µs. With the four changes, drafting takes 0.89 to 3.98 µs.
jadidbourbaki.github.io

42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp

Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting for prompt lookup decoding up to 41.6x faster per drafted token, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x.

Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web | 23

Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

I've spent the last 10 months building Beauty: a local, powerful greco-roman Markdown editor where the page looks finished while you type. It runs on the Mac, iPhone and in the browser, and the browser version opens without an account: https://app.markdown.beauty

I was frustrated with writing apps, and like most I used Apple Notes. After 2+ years immersed in Cursor, Codex and CC, I wished some interactions existed in a text editor.

The Markdown renders in place as you write it, including tables (which you can drag and resize without lining up pipes), KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams. A lot of thought went into typography and the writing experience.

Your notes on the Mac are plain .md files in a folder with images next to them, so they open in anything else too. Each note keeps 200 versions. If you share a note with a link it syncs peer to peer over WebRTC while someone has it open, and the server that connects you only ever sees a random room id.

Most of the ~1,000 commits went into the editor itself. It's a contenteditable, and I don't let the browser restructure the document at all, which was a lot more work than I expected. Building this to be performant and cross-platform required some novel approaches, which I'll later open source. The editor is free with no account or ads, and there's an optional subscription for sync through your own iCloud.

https://www.markdown.beauty [thiagoperes]

markdown.beauty

Vercel Security Checkpoint

Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress | 1

en.wikipedia.org

Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS | 13

github.blog

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS - The GitHub Blog

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake | 18

pikuma.com

Pikuma: C's Flexible Integer Sizes were Not a Design Mistake

Word sizes, strange machines, and why <strong>int</strong> was never meant to mean 32 bits. C's flexible integer types were how the language achieved portability in a world of 12, 18, 36, and 60-bit computers.

PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura | 16

PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura

nura.eco

Nura // Project rebrand: Nura

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Go Concurrency Distilled | 15

Go Concurrency Distilled

antonz.org

Go Concurrency Distilled