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Go's Surprising Prowess: Simulating Millions of Particles on a Smart TV

2025-09-25

Go's Surprising Prowess: Simulating Millions of Particles on a Smart TV

The author tackles the challenge of simulating millions of particles in Go, a language not known for its computational power, for a multiplayer game running on a smart TV. By offloading all rendering to the server and sending only frame buffers to clients, performance bottlenecks are avoided. The article details technical solutions, including a G-buffer approach, frame compression techniques, and efficient client synchronization. Despite Go's lack of SIMD, the author achieves impressive results, running a million-particle simulation on a low-cost cloud server with hundreds of concurrent clients.

(dgerrells.com)

Development

Apollo 13: A Space Odyssey of Ingenuity and Survival

2025-04-18

Apollo 13: A Space Odyssey of Ingenuity and Survival

In 1970, Apollo 13's mission to the moon turned into a desperate fight for survival when an oxygen tank exploded, leaving three astronauts stranded 200,000 miles from Earth. Facing dwindling oxygen, power, and water, the crew found themselves in a critical situation due to insufficient carbon dioxide scrubbers. Ground control, in a feat of ingenuity, guided the astronauts through a makeshift repair using only materials available on board. They successfully modified the CO2 system, averting disaster and ensuring a safe return. This harrowing tale highlights human resilience and problem-solving in the face of unimaginable challenges.

(www.howequipmentworks.com)

Tech Apollo 13 Space Rescue

China's Gigantic Pumped Hydro Power Plant Goes Live

2025-01-09

China's Gigantic Pumped Hydro Power Plant Goes Live

China's Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station, the world's largest, is now fully operational. With a massive 3.6 GW installed capacity, the plant boasts 12 reversible pump-turbine units, including two variable-speed units. Eleven years in the making and costing $2.6 billion, it supports a nearby 10 GW wind and solar farm and connects to the North China power grid via four 500 kV transmission lines. Its underground powerhouse, the largest globally, and cutting-edge technology enhance grid stability and renewable energy integration.

(www.ess-news.com)

Tech pumped hydro energy storage

Andrew Ng Slams 'Vibe Coding,' Says AI Programming Is 'Deeply Intellectual'

2025-06-05

Andrew Ng Slams 'Vibe Coding,' Says AI Programming Is 'Deeply Intellectual'

Stanford professor Andrew Ng criticizes the term "vibe coding," arguing it misrepresents AI-assisted programming as a casual process. He emphasizes it's a deeply intellectual exercise requiring significant effort. Despite his criticism of the term, Ng remains bullish on AI coding tools, highlighting their productivity benefits. He urges companies to embrace AI-assisted coding and encourages everyone to learn at least one programming language to better collaborate with AI and improve efficiency.

(www.businessinsider.com)

AI

Snobol4: A Surprisingly Effective "One Weird Trick" Language

2025-05-13

Snobol4 is a fascinating programming language centered around pattern matching. Unlike languages relying on loops and conditionals, Snobol4 uses pattern matching statements for all logic and control flow. This minimalist approach, while potentially less efficient for large programs, offers surprising ease of understanding for beginners and proves effective for smaller tasks. The author compares its pattern matching to Awk, but significantly more powerful, highlighting its impressive purity and demonstrating how a "one weird trick" can yield surprisingly effective programming.

(ratfactor.com)

Development

$2.5M Gamble Turns into $70M in Under an Hour: Inside the Market's Biggest Mystery

2025-04-12

$2.5M Gamble Turns into $70M in Under an Hour: Inside the Market's Biggest Mystery

On April 9th, 2025, a trader risked $2.5 million on SPY call options, netting over $70 million in under an hour. The trade expertly predicted the market's surge following Trump's announcement on pausing tariffs, with massive volume preceding the news. The precision and scale of the trade raise serious questions about insider trading, as the trader seemed to possess advance knowledge of the market movement. This wasn't just a lucky guess; it was a perfectly timed, high-stakes gamble that points towards potential market manipulation.

(data-and-politics.ghost.io)

Tech insider trading options trading market manipulation

From Procrastination to Productivity: A Meta Engineer's Journey

2025-06-07

From Procrastination to Productivity: A Meta Engineer's Journey

An engineer who worked at Meta and Pinterest shares his experience overcoming procrastination. He discovered that action leads to motivation, not the other way around. Instead of waiting for motivation to strike, start with small steps, such as adding a simple log statement to a complex problem. This creates a positive feedback loop: productive work leads to good feelings, leading to even greater productivity. The article also briefly mentions the tech talent shortage and the use of AI in programming.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Development engineer

Brain Drain: US Scientists Flee Trump's Science Funding Cuts

2025-04-22

Brain Drain: US Scientists Flee Trump's Science Funding Cuts

The Trump administration's drastic cuts to science funding and workforce are driving a mass exodus of US scientists seeking opportunities abroad. Nature Careers data reveals a 32% surge in applications from US scientists for international jobs between January and March 2025 compared to 2024, alongside a 35% increase in US users browsing international opportunities. March alone saw a staggering 68% rise in views as cuts intensified, with hundreds of federal research grants abruptly terminated and major universities facing substantial funding reductions. European institutions are actively recruiting these displaced scientists, with initiatives like Aix-Marseille University's 'Safe Place for Science' and the Max Planck Society's Transatlantic Program offering refuge and collaboration opportunities. This brain drain reflects not just a search for opportunities, but a forced exodus from US academic institutions.

(www.nature.com)

Tech Science Funding US Science

Classic Novels: Training Data for Full-Spectrum Thinking

2025-06-04

Classic Novels: Training Data for Full-Spectrum Thinking

This essay explores the value of reading classic novels like Middlemarch and Bleak House. The author argues that these novels offer more than entertainment; they train 'full-spectrum thinking,' encompassing multiple dimensions (mind, family, career, community, economy, technology, politics) to understand events and characters. Using Middlemarch as an example, the author explains how the novel integrates these dimensions, showing the connection between character destinies and societal changes. While Dickens excels at depicting the lower classes and bureaucracy, his character depth is less developed. The author calls for more novels with a full-spectrum perspective and reflects on whether the current cultural environment hinders such writing.

(adjacentpossible.substack.com)

Misc full-spectrum thinking

The Universality Conjecture and a Bet on Ramanujan Graphs

2025-04-20

The Universality Conjecture and a Bet on Ramanujan Graphs

The Alon-Boppana bound presented a fascinating challenge: constructing graphs that reach this limit. Sarnak, Lubotzky, and Phillips used number theory to create 'Ramanujan graphs' achieving this bound. A bet arose between Alon and Sarnak regarding the proportion of Ramanujan graphs among all regular graphs. Years later, Horng-Tzer Yau, leveraging the universality conjecture for random matrices, solved this problem, definitively settling the decades-old wager.

(www.quantamagazine.org)

Math universality conjecture

Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Massive Upgrade: Gemini 2.5, Shopping, and More

2025-05-20

Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Massive Upgrade: Gemini 2.5, Shopping, and More

Google has fully rolled out its AI Mode to all Search users in the US, powered by Gemini 2.5. This enhanced mode includes new features like shopping capabilities, ticket price comparison, and custom chart generation. Designed to handle complex queries beyond traditional search, AI Mode allows users to compare fitness trackers, for example. Future plans include integrating many of AI Mode's features into the core search experience and adding 'Deep Search' for comprehensive reports. AI Mode will also gain the ability to complete web tasks like booking tickets and reservations, and personalized recommendations via Gmail integration.

(www.engadget.com)

AI

41% of Employers to Cut Staff by 2030 Due to AI, Says WEF Report

2025-01-10

41% of Employers to Cut Staff by 2030 Due to AI, Says WEF Report

A World Economic Forum report reveals that 41% of global employers anticipate staff reductions by 2030 due to AI-driven automation. While 77% plan to upskill their workforce for AI collaboration, the report highlights the significant impact on the job market. Graphic designers and legal secretaries are among roles projected to decline, emphasizing the growing importance of AI skills, creative thinking, and lifelong learning. Despite predicting net job growth over the next five years, the report acknowledges substantial job displacement due to AI.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech

Brazil's Data Wallet Pilot: Empowering Citizens or Exacerbating Inequality?

2025-06-01

Brazil's Data Wallet Pilot: Empowering Citizens or Exacerbating Inequality?

Brazil has launched a groundbreaking nationwide data ownership pilot program, allowing citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint. The project, a collaboration between government-owned Dataprev and DrumWave, uses 'data wallets' to monetize personal data for loans and other uses. However, concerns have arisen that it could worsen the digital divide and exploit vulnerable populations. The initiative's success in balancing citizen rights with data economic development remains to be seen.

(restofworld.org)

Tech

CES 2025: Nuwa Pen Digitizes Handwritten Notes in Real-Time

2025-01-15

CES 2025: Nuwa Pen Digitizes Handwritten Notes in Real-Time

The Nuwa Pen, showcased at CES 2025, is a game-changer. This ink pen, equipped with three miniature cameras, captures handwriting on paper and instantly digitizes it within a companion app. The app even features a large language model for searching and querying notes. While accuracy isn't perfect yet, the Nuwa Pen offers a novel approach to digital note-taking, especially with its innovative 'infinite canvas' feature. It's a promising tool for those who value quick note-taking and easy retrieval.

(www.zdnet.com)

Tech Smart Pen Digital Note-Taking

Rose Petal Growth: A Geometric Trick Revealed

2025-05-03

Rose Petal Growth: A Geometric Trick Revealed

Physicists have uncovered a previously unknown geometric trick employed in the growth of rose petals. Through theoretical analysis, computer simulations, and experiments with rubbery plastic sheets, they demonstrated that as petals curl outwards, mechanical feedback regulates their growth, resulting in rolled edges and pointed tips. This discovery could have future applications in engineering and architecture. The research highlights how geometric patterns influence developing organisms in nature, emphasizing the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic geometry in shaping biological forms.

(www.nature.com)

Tech natural patterns

Oracle's JavaScript Trademark Dispute: A Protracted Legal Battle

2025-02-06

Oracle's JavaScript Trademark Dispute: A Protracted Legal Battle

A community effort led by Deno Land CEO Ryan Dahl is challenging Oracle's ownership of the "JavaScript" trademark, sparking controversy. Oracle is accused of submitting false materials in its trademark renewal application and attempting to delay legal proceedings. The core of the dispute lies in whether JavaScript has become a generic term and whether Oracle has abandoned the trademark. Oracle counters that it has legitimate grounds and submits additional evidence. This legal battle reflects the strict protection of trademarks by tech giants and the efforts of the open-source community to secure fair use.

(www.theregister.com)

Development trademark dispute

Zed Editor 2025 Roadmap: Enhancing Vim Mode and User Experience

2025-01-29

Zed Editor 2025 Roadmap: Enhancing Vim Mode and User Experience

The Zed editor team has released its 2025 roadmap, focusing on improving Vim mode and enhancing the overall user experience. Plans include boosting the non-editor user experience with improvements to the command palette, filename completion, and command history; increasing Vim mode compatibility by addressing edge cases and using side-by-side testing with Neovim; and improving the multi-cursor experience for smoother, easier use. The roadmap aims to make Zed an editor that combines the power of Vim with a modern user experience.

(zed.dev)

Development Zed editor

San Francisco: A Tech Utopia Divided

2025-04-20

San Francisco: A Tech Utopia Divided

San Francisco, the heart of the tech industry, presents a stark duality. On one hand, lavish parties thrown by tech giants; on the other, ordinary citizens struggling with high housing costs and poverty. The rapid growth of the tech sector hasn't benefited everyone, exacerbating inequality and raising concerns about the future. The author, through personal experiences and observations, reveals the social issues hidden beneath the veneer of tech prosperity, highlighting the widening gap between the promised tech utopia and the harsh realities.

(rachdele.substack.com)

Tech tech development

Resurrecting the Dead: Running Android Apps on Unsupported Windows Versions with Project Astoria

2025-06-01

Resurrecting the Dead: Running Android Apps on Unsupported Windows Versions with Project Astoria

This post details how to run Project Astoria, Microsoft's defunct Android app bridging solution, on various unsupported Windows versions, from Windows Desktop to the Anniversary Update and beyond. By cleverly utilizing files and registry entries from old Windows 10 Mobile builds and overcoming the 'time bomb' issue of expired builds, the author successfully gets Android apps running. The article thoroughly outlines each step, including copying files, importing registry keys, configuring services, and deploying APKs using a patched WConnectAgent tool. The author concludes by successfully running Android CPU-Z on Windows 10.

(trungnt2910.com)

Development

TU Delft's Autonomous Drone Beats Human Champions in Historic Race

2025-06-04

TU Delft's Autonomous Drone Beats Human Champions in Historic Race

A team from TU Delft won the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi, a race pushing the limits of physical AI. Their drone, using a single camera and innovative deep neural network training, outperformed 13 autonomous drones and even human champions. This achievement, unlike previous AI victories in virtual settings, happened in a real-world, high-stakes competition. The efficient and robust AI developed has broad applications in robotics, from self-driving cars to search and rescue operations.

(www.tudelft.nl)

Tech Drone Racing

Miyawaki Method Fights Urban Heat Island Effect in Mexican City

2025-05-17

Miyawaki Method Fights Urban Heat Island Effect in Mexican City

Nezahualcóyotl, a municipality in Mexico State, is combating its severe urban heat island effect using the Miyawaki method. A 600-square-meter plot at the Technological University now hosts a new forest featuring 1,500 plants from 25 native species. This high-density planting technique rapidly creates biodiverse forests, improving the urban environment by lowering temperatures and increasing rainwater infiltration. While not a complete solution, this initiative symbolizes the community's and students' commitment to addressing environmental challenges, offering a significant step forward.

(english.elpais.com)

Tech Miyawaki Method Urban Heat Island Effect Environmental Restoration

Optoelectronic Neural Networks: A Dawn for Post-Moore's Law Computing?

2025-04-10

Optoelectronic Neural Networks: A Dawn for Post-Moore's Law Computing?

This review summarizes the rapid development of optoelectronic neural networks in recent years, from the pioneering work in deep learning to the latest advances in building large-scale neural networks using photonic devices. Researchers have explored various optical computing methods, including coherent nanophotonic circuits, diffractive deep neural networks, and photoelectric multiplication to implement deep learning. These studies have not only achieved breakthroughs in image recognition and StarCraft, but also provide new possibilities for breaking the limitations of Moore's Law and exploring new paths for post-Moore's Law computing.

(www.nature.com)

Tech optoelectronic neural networks post-Moore's law

Fitness-Based Function Testing in Lisp

2025-04-07

This code defines a Lisp function called `fitness` that evaluates the fitness of a generated function. It compares the output of the generated function (`form`) with the output of a target function (`fitness-fn`), calculating a fitness value between 0 and 1, where a higher value indicates better fitness. The function includes error handling; it returns `NIL` if the generated function executes illegal code. `fitness` iterates through a list of test inputs (`test-input`), ultimately returning the product of all fitness values as the overall fitness. Examples demonstrate how the function is applied to different generated functions and their fitness scores are calculated.

(aerique.blogspot.com)

Development Function Testing

Abracadabra Finance Suffers $13M Crypto Hack; Tornado Cash Connection?

2025-04-08

Abracadabra Finance Suffers $13M Crypto Hack; Tornado Cash Connection?

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Abracadabra Finance was hit with a hack resulting in the loss of approximately $13 million in cryptocurrency. The attack targeted the platform's isolated lending markets, known as "cauldrons." The exploit went undetected until the attacker executed multiple transactions. Abracadabra Finance is investigating with security firms and is offering a 20% bounty on the stolen funds. Some security firms link the attack to decentralized exchange GMX, though GMX denies involvement. Investigators suspect the funds used in the attack originated from Tornado Cash, recently desanctioned by the US Treasury.

(therecord.media)

Tech

A Catalog of Novel Operating Systems: Reimagining the Future of Computing

2025-05-17

A Catalog of Novel Operating Systems: Reimagining the Future of Computing

Following the LLM hype, a wave of new operating system creations has emerged. This article catalogs several such projects, including the UXN/Varvara personal computing stack, the web-research oriented Nette.io OS, and Lisp-based systems like Interim and ChrysaLisp. These projects demonstrate innovative approaches to OS design, such as DesktopNeo's reimagining of the desktop interface and MercuryOS's intention-based OS. These efforts represent bold explorations into the future of computing, reigniting passion for OS innovation.

(github.com)

Development

Revolutionizing Cross-Chain Transactions with Intents

2025-09-24

Revolutionizing Cross-Chain Transactions with Intents

Traditional cross-chain transactions are complex, time-consuming, and expensive. This article introduces a new approach called "intents," where users simply declare their desired outcome (e.g., swap 1000 USDC for 100 SOL) without specifying the steps. A network of "solvers" automatically fulfills the request. This is analogous to saying "get me milk" instead of giving detailed driving instructions. NEAR Protocol pioneered a cross-chain intent system, leveraging chain signatures to achieve 2-3 second finality and native Bitcoin support, exceeding $1 billion in total volume. Its 1Click API simplifies development, enabling easy creation of cross-chain DEX interfaces.

(blog.shodipoayomide.com)

Development cross-chain transactions intents NEAR Protocol

Google Duo to be fully discontinued in September 2025

2025-05-31

While the Google Duo brand disappeared in 2022, some features lingered in Google Meet. However, Google has announced the complete shutdown of all Duo features by September 2025. This includes 'Legacy calls' which utilized Duo technology. Users will need to transition to 'Meet calls', offering enhanced capabilities like screen sharing and live captions. Note that some beloved Duo features, such as Family Mode and Knock Knock, won't be carried over. Google urges users to export their call history and video messages before the deadline.

(9to5google.com)

Tech Video Calling

Qwen2.5-VL-32B: A 32B Parameter Visual-Language Model That's More Human-Friendly

2025-03-24

Qwen2.5-VL-32B: A 32B Parameter Visual-Language Model That's More Human-Friendly

Following the widespread acclaim of the Qwen2.5-VL series, we've open-sourced the new 32-billion parameter visual-language model, Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct. This model boasts significant improvements in mathematical reasoning, fine-grained image understanding, and alignment with human preferences. Benchmarking reveals its superiority over comparable models in multimodal tasks (like MMMU, MMMU-Pro, and MathVista), even outperforming the larger 72-billion parameter Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct. It also achieves top-tier performance in pure text capabilities at its scale.

(qwenlm.github.io)

AI visual language model

US Airlines Push for Deregulation, Threatening Passenger Rights

2025-09-24

US Airlines Push for Deregulation, Threatening Passenger Rights

Major US airlines, including American, Delta, Southwest, and United, are pushing for deregulation, claiming it will lower costs and boost competition. However, this move risks significantly eroding passenger rights and increasing hidden fees. Key protections at stake include automatic refunds for cancellations, transparent pricing, and guaranteed family seating. While airlines argue deregulation will lower fares, the likely outcome is more fees, less accountability for service failures, and a diminished sense of consumer protection. This could lead to a more expensive and opaque air travel experience for passengers.

(www.travelandtourworld.com)

Tech airline deregulation passenger rights hidden fees

.NET 10's DATAS GC: Prepare for Takeoff!

2025-09-24

.NET 10's DATAS GC: Prepare for Takeoff!

.NET 10 defaults to Dynamic Adaptation of Heap Size (DATAS), a significant GC change impacting memory usage and requiring user attention unlike previous updates. This post explains DATAS's adaptive behavior: adjusting heap size based on Live Data Size (LDS), minimizing memory while maintaining performance. It details scenarios where DATAS isn't ideal (e.g., high-throughput demands, critical startup performance, primarily Gen2 GCs). Two case studies illustrate tuning DATAS via configuration parameters for optimal results.

(maoni0.medium.com)

Development

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