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31. Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape
32. Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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33. Vanity Activities
Vanity Activities A few weeks ago, I came across a ~4,000-word guide to something called “credit card churning”. The essay had gone viral. Plenty of...
34. Puppy Linux
35. Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode
See your leetcode year in review! Contribute to collinboler/leetcodewrapped development by creating an account on GitHub.
36. Semantic Compression (2014)
An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.
37. The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is visited by a sphere from the third dimension. He struggles to comprehend the existence of another dimension even as the sphere demonstrates impossible things. It’s a…
38. Context Plumbing (Interconnected)
39. iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm - Release 0.14.0 · iced-rs/iced
40. Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)
41. Using LLMs at Oxide
42. How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories
43. Discovering the Indieweb with Calm Tech
44. What even is "literate programming"?
45. Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer
Description of the issue status Steps to reproduce invite nel0x here and get help to carry on setup build and release: use old maintainers signing allowed? can we play sign? reinstate gh action workflows contact fdroid for release contin...
46. Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - An incredible sight at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Saturday morning, as Episode 38 erupted enormous lava fountains acr...
47. I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
48. The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
49. Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
exercises - Learn the ⚡Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.
50. GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.
51. Alternative solvent makes lead-free perovskite solar cells 10x more stable
52. Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus
Merged to the mainline Linux kernel last year was GPIB drivers in the kernel's 'staging' area
53. Atlas Obscura founders removed from board
The relationship between the company’s founders and some of its investors appears to have soured.
54. OMSCS Open Courseware
55. India's request for satellite-aided iPhone location data is a privacy nightmare
While India's government pulled its demand for a preinstalled iPhone app, it's now accused of previously considering a more privacy-eroding move for always-on satellite location tracking.
56. The past was not that cute
57. The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest
a moderately technical blog
58. When Exercising Copyrights Puts a Gamedev Under Threat (My Take on Gbcompo 25)
I want to share a recent experience that shows how, even in “open” and passionate communities, exercising your copyright can meet with abusive practices. This is the story of a Game Boy developer...
59. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. In an $82.7B Deal
60. United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]