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121. Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat
122. Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
The lawsuit cites 'courageous whistleblowers,' but provides no technical evidence. WhatsApp's parent company, Meta, calls the claims 'absurd' and warns that it plans to countersue.
123. Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs
124. Y Combinator is no longer investing in Canadian startups
Silicon Valley’s most famous accelerator now requires Canadian firms to incorporate in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore in order for it to invest
125. Infinite pancakes, anyone?
126. Nexphone-A phone that runs Android, Linux, and Windows?
127. Maze Algorithms (2017)
128. Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
Microsoft is aware of an alleged issue that leaves PCs unable to boot and requires manual recovery after Windows 11 January Update.
129. Why I'm launching a feminist video games website in 2026
I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership
130. Anyone Can Clone Your Voice Now
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
131. Typography on Pencils (2023)
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here.  Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.
132. BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
We are excited to share that BirdyChat is the first chat app in Europe that can exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act. This is a big step forward for anyone using BirdyChat for work.
133. BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)
Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…
134. We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.
135. Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
Analysis of more than 40 million alarm-related events shows most alarms offer little operational value, disrupt rest and push crews toward risky workarounds.
136. 1931 Ford Model a Hot Rod Bridges Generations with a Civic Type R Engine
A lot of these came stock with four-bangers, but this Civic Type R engine makes about seven times as much power as the factory lump.
137. The Post Correspondence Programming Language: Domino-oriented Programming (2015)
138. Memory layout in Zig with formulas
I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which offers a safer, more memory-explicit experience for systems programming, without sacrificing low-level control or C interoperability. Notably, Zig makes it straightforward to manage memory allocation by treating allocators as first-class values rather than hidden globals. Instead of relying on an implicit runtime or a process-wide allocator, you pass explicit allocator objects into the code that needs them. This makes ownership and lifetimes much clearer, encourages you to design APIs around who is responsible for allocating and freeing memory, and makes it easy to swap in custom allocation strategies (e.g., arenas, scratch, tracking, etc.). ↩
139. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro
Achieving 7000 msg/s (~6.7MB/s) with just 27MB of memory on a free t3.micro EC2 in AWS
140. "People are going to stop and ask you, 'How can I help?' Let them."
Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.
141. A Lament for Aperture
I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older software, but most of my fondness for those days is nostalgia. An exception to that, however, is Apple's Aperture.
142. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
143. Publishing on the ATmosphere
Where everything is worth building
144. Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
145. Doing Gigabit Ethernet over My British Phone Wires
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter and misery I’ve mostly lived with powerline adapters over recent years. Some worked well, some did not (try few and…
146. Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state.
147. Startup Incubator Y Combinator Cuts Canada from Countries Where It Will Invest
148. Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public
A website controlled by the public via AI. Text to make changes. Watch live at sharedclaude.com
149. Compiling models to megakernels
Fine-grained synchronization, deep pipelines, and zero kernel launch overheads, automatically.
150. Will the smartphone survive the AI age?
The Apple-Android duopoly is under attack from OpenAI, Meta and Amazon | Business