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241. A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Em-Dash
242. A super fast website using Cloudflare workers
Sub-100ms website served from 200+edge locations. 1.7KB Brotli, perfect Lighthouse score. The fastest site on Earth.
243. High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects
The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope
244. Simple 3D Packing
Simple 3D Packing. Contribute to Vrroom/psacking development by creating an account on GitHub.
245. Memory Safety
ISRG's Prossimo is committed to moving the Internet's security-sensitive software to memory safe code and to encouraging people to prioritize memory safety.
246. Startups Aim to Integrate Radio Cables with GPUs
RF and terahertz over fiber technology offers longer reach and lower power consumption, transforming data centers by overcoming copper's physical limits.
247. Self-hosting is being enshittified
Self-hosting got harder in 2025. Here's what changed.
248. Who watches the Waymos? I do [video]
I do.
249. Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment
When the world's richest man can simply 'correct' an AI to reflect his own values, what does that tell us about the entire alignment discourse?
250. Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo
Designed for the information age, Volvo Centum is an ultra-legible typeface for Volvo's interfaces
251. Your Inbox Is a Bandit
252. A Tour of Common Concurrent Hash Table Designs
A tour of common concurrent hash map designs—global locks, sharding/lock striping, Java's ConcurrentHashMap, and Cliff Click's NonBlockingHashMap (NBHM)—through the lens of contention and performance.
253. 'Off Switch' Discovery Could Help Clear Our Brains of a Common Parasite
There's a parasite living in the brains of 40 million Americans, and most of these human hosts are completely unaware.
254. TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
I kept finding avahi-daemon pegging the CPU in some of my LXC containers, and I wanted a service policy that behaves like a human would: lim...
255. Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.
256. China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan
Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls ‘a stern warning’ against separatist and external forces
257. ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0
ZJIT is now available with the release of Ruby 4.0. Here’s an update of our progress.
258. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2
I bought a MacBook Air M2. As of writing, it's very affordable with the 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 13.6" model available for $750. As of writing, also Asahi Linux doesn't support anything newer than M2.
259. Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.
260. All my senses are being tortured simultaneously
A letter of complaint of note
261. ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
Can we get timestamps for chats generated in ChatGPT? I understand it currently categorizes chats into day, week, months etc. but can we get actual time-of-day stamps for each message? E.g 1:20pm, 5:00am, 3:34am, etc. MM…
262. UVB-76 (The Buzzer)
263. Quake's Player Speed According to John Romero (2017)
Quake 1 Stories
264. Line Scan Camera Image Processing
I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.
265. EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work?
266. Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks
267. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how …
268. Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM
Craig Gidney's computer science blog
269. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
In 1990, Sony imported 20 examples of the biggest CRT ever made, the KV-45ED1, also known as the PVM-4300. It cost $40,000.
270. Help My c64 caught on fire
Angelo Pesce's homepage & blog on computers, graphics and other things.