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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

Packagist install statistics for jakeasmith/http_build_url: 19,864,271 total installs, 401,308 in the last 30 days, and daily installs climbing from 2014 to 2026.
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

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
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.

Backups Aren't Simple | 44

Backups Aren't Simple

filipovski.net

Backups aren't simple

Aleksandar Filipovski, 2026-09-16

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill | 3

A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings - cloudflare/security-audit-skill
cloudflare/security-audit-skill

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

Small programming tricks

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

Verus-16x9.gif
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

John Wang, co-founder and CTO of Assembled
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

Rendering of a Maersk containership fitted with a 35-meter Anemoi Rotor Sail for wind-assisted propulsion.
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 — A framework for creating and managing specs
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

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PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 | 16

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

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

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
arnegiacomo/fugleramme

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

Performance Improvements in .NET 11 17

devblogs.microsoft.com

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space | 4

Contribute to browser-use/jev-ultrafast development by creating an account on GitHub.
browser-use/jev-ultrafast

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

Reversing Factorio's RNG

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

Medium close of of Kevin Warsh wearing a white shirt, a dark navy jacket, and a blue tie with white spotted design. Behind him, in soft focus, is a dark navy background and a US flag.
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

A white laboratory mouse sits on a human hand inside a lab. The human hands holding the mouse have blue protective gloves on
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

Contribute to vinnylarouge/jevlike development by creating an account on GitHub.
vinnylarouge/jevlike

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

Anatomy of a Texture | 9

Anatomy of a Texture

I just uploaded a new article describing how a modern video game texture is stored in graphics memory, why it's done this way, and how it may differ between platforms.

It is called Anatomy of a Texture. [Agentlien]

agentlien.github.io

Anatomy of a Texture

A step-by-step guide to modern texture memory layout