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31. Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip
32. Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
33. Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode
loriculus.org
34. Making Nintendo DS ROMs with Rust
A little guide on compiling Rust to make a Nintendo DS Rom
35. No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt
Cuba may be experiencing the most profound moment of economic uncertainty that the island’s residents have endured in decades if not over their entire lives.
36. Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of (2021)
37. Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
38. Why AI Velocity Is Becoming a Debt Accelerator
39. Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]
40. Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990
41. Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark social media addiction trial
LOS ANGELES — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in a landmark trial that could set a precedent for whether social media platforms are responsible for harming children
42. Phoenix pay system fiasco: 10 years of mistakes and lessons
A decade after the Phoenix pay system fiasco began, a new wave of job cuts in the federal public service might only add to the government’s backlog of problematic pay transactions.
43. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access
Contribute to petertodd/breccia development by creating an account on GitHub.
44. Ppisp: Cleaner Representations of Gaussian Splats and NeRFs
45. Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
Minimal x86 Kernel - built in Zig. Contribute to lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86 development by creating an account on GitHub.
46. BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code. - Zaneham/BarraCUDA
47. I Use Obsidian
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
48. Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial
49. Vinyl Cache has left GitHub
50. Tesla announces Powerwall 3P with native three-phase inverter
51. Rathbun's Operator
52. Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
53. Semantic Diffusion (2006)
54. Portugal: The First Global Empire
55. Gentoo on Codeberg
56. The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers
The well-off have no experience with the job market that might be coming.
57. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia
58. Assistant to the Regional Manager
The problem with utopia
59. Google Public CA is down
60. Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems.