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31. Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms
32. Airbus moving critical systems away from AWS, Google, and MS
33. Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model
Join the discussion on this paper page
34. White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator
The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking.
35. Performance Hints (2023)
Battle-tested, Mom-approved
36. The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices. - FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop
37. Believe the Checkbook
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
38. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
39. Gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions
Generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions dependencies. Pin all actions to exact commit SHAs with integrity hashes.
40. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
41. GotaTun -- Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable.
42. Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting for servers
43. Reverse Engineering Major US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations
Timeline & Responsible Disclosure
44. The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself
Deploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure.
45. Feast Your Eyes on Japan's Fake Food
Lauren Collins on the culture, history, and production of shokuhin sampuru—astonishingly lifelike handmade Japanese food replicas.
46. Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a ‘mass surveillance system,’ Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges.
47. The scariest boot loader code
48. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
Unless the AI bubble pops soon, gaming is going to change... and it won't be the same ever again.
49. Buteyko Method
50. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
How we pwned X (Twitter), Vercel, Cursor, Discord, and hundreds of companies through a supply-chain attack - writeup.md
51. Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
52. A tagging system for documentation review comments
A tagging system to stop debating what blocks merge.
53. What Makes You Senior
The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn't technical. It's the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry
54. Response Healing: Reduce JSON defects by 80%+
55. Open Source Historical LLM trained exclusively on 19th century text
A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
56. Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
57. Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture
58. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …
59. Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
60. Anthropic says AI sentiment is positive. Their data tells a different story
We analyzed 1,250 interviews from Anthropic's dataset. 85.7% of people live with unresolved AI tensions. Creatives struggle the most yet adopt the fastest.