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MillenniumDB: A Novel Graph-Oriented Database Management System

2025-01-31

MillenniumDB: A Novel Graph-Oriented Database Management System

MillenniumDB is a graph-oriented database management system developed by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). It supports multiple graph models, offering fairly complete RDF/SPARQL support and a custom property graph query language. While still under active development and not yet production-ready, it provides substantial functionality and plans to add GQL support soon. Detailed installation, configuration, and usage instructions, including Docker deployment, are provided.

(github.com)

Development graph database database management system

Hoarder: A Self-Hostable Bookmark Manager Powered by AI

2024-12-24

Hoarder: A Self-Hostable Bookmark Manager Powered by AI

Hoarder is a self-hostable bookmarking app that goes beyond simple link saving. It allows you to store links, notes, and images, and uses AI for automatic tagging and full-text search, supporting local models like ollama. Features include OCR, Chrome/Firefox extensions, iOS/Android apps, RSS feed support, a REST API, and full-page archiving to combat link rot. Designed for users who need a better way to manage and retrieve information across multiple platforms, Hoarder is under active development but a demo is available.

(github.com)

Development Bookmark Manager

YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

2025-01-28

YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

Structured, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is seeking a founding engineer. Structured is redefining how developers build and deploy data apps by consolidating the entire analytics stack into code. They're looking for an ambitious, scrappy, and product-minded engineer to build the core SDK, design interactive components, and tackle challenging problems like real-time data sync and cloud deployments. This is a chance to join a stellar team of ex-Meta engineers, own significant equity, and shape a startup from the ground up.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

Serverless Computing: Why Haven't We All Switched Yet?

2025-01-09

Despite the appealing value proposition of serverless computing (e.g., AWS Lambda)—pay-per-use, auto-scaling, and abstraction from infrastructure—widespread adoption remains slow. The author points to two primary reasons: the lessons learned from the challenging microservices migration, where many organizations struggled due to insufficient technical and organizational readiness; and the fact that serverless amplifies existing challenges of microservices, such as complexities in dependency injection and observability. A gradual adoption approach focusing on highly autonomous teams and suitable use cases (like AI and LLM integrations) is suggested as a more efficient strategy.

(varoa.net)

Development microservices

Outperforming cuBLAS: A CUDA Implementation of Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication

2025-01-18

This article presents a CUDA implementation of single-precision general matrix multiplication (SGEMM) that outperforms cuBLAS in certain scenarios. By cleverly using PTX instructions, asynchronous memory copies, double buffering, and other optimization techniques, the author achieved efficient matrix multiplication, specifically tuned for an NVIDIA RTX 3090. The article details the algorithm design, optimization techniques, and benchmarking methodology, providing valuable experience for CUDA learners.

(salykova.github.io)

Development

The Clockwise/Spiral Rule: Mastering Complex C Declarations

2025-01-01

This article introduces the 'Clockwise/Spiral Rule,' a clever technique for parsing complex C declarations. By spiraling clockwise through the declaration, replacing elements like arrays, pointers, and functions with their English equivalents, even the most intricate declarations become understandable. The author demonstrates the technique with several examples, from simple pointer arrays to nested function pointers, and shows how to handle `const` and `volatile` keywords. This method offers a practical and intuitive way to decipher confusing C code.

(c-faq.com)

Development code parsing

ICO Slams Google's U-Turn on Fingerprinting: Privacy Concerns Raised

2025-01-03

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has expressed serious concerns over Google's decision to allow fingerprinting technology within its advertising products from February 16th, 2025. The ICO argues that fingerprinting is inherently difficult for users to control, undermining user privacy expectations and potentially replacing third-party cookies. Businesses, the ICO stresses, must adhere to data protection laws, including securing explicit user consent, ensuring transparency and fair processing, and upholding information rights. Draft guidance has been released, with a consultation launching December 20th to ensure compliance.

(ico.org.uk)

Tech fingerprinting

Red Hat's Minimum Viable Open Source AI

2025-02-06

Red Hat's Minimum Viable Open Source AI

Red Hat defines the minimum criteria for open-source AI as open-source-licensed model weights combined with open-source software components. This article details Red Hat's vision for open-source AI, emphasizing the importance of open licensing for model weights to facilitate community contributions and improvements. They highlight their contributions through projects like InstructLab and the Granite model family, and their commitment to building open-source AI platforms on technologies like Kubernetes and KubeFlow. Their ultimate goal is to democratize and broadly deploy open-source AI across hybrid cloud environments.

(www.redhat.com)

Tech Open Source AI Model Weights

Houseplant: Streamlining ClickHouse Database Migrations

2024-12-27

Houseplant is a command-line tool designed to simplify ClickHouse database migration management. It allows developers to write migrations in a user-friendly YAML format, making them easy to read and maintain. Simple commands like `houseplant init`, `houseplant generate`, and `houseplant migrate` enable initialization, migration generation, execution, and rollback. Houseplant supports various environment configurations and offers an intuitive command-line interface for seamless ClickHouse schema management.

(houseplant.readthedocs.io)

Development Database Migrations

AI's Abstract Art Revolution: Algorithms Modeling Art History?

2025-02-16

AI's Abstract Art Revolution: Algorithms Modeling Art History?

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed CAN, a creative AI system that generates art distinct from its dataset (paintings from the 14th century onwards). Surprisingly, much of CAN's output is abstract. Researchers suggest this is because the algorithm understands art's historical trajectory; to create novelty, it must move beyond previous representational art towards abstraction. This raises the intriguing possibility that AI algorithms not only create images but also model the progression of art history, as if art's evolution from figuration to abstraction were a program running in the collective unconscious. While the question of whether AI can create art remains open, methods like Turing tests can help evaluate AI-generated art.

(www.christies.com)

AI AI Art Abstract Art Art History

Bio-Computer Plays Pong: A New Era of Biological AI?

2025-03-05

Bio-Computer Plays Pong: A New Era of Biological AI?

Australian startup Cortical Labs unveiled CL1, a biological computer powered by hundreds of thousands of living human neurons. Accessible via a cloud-based "Wetware-as-a-Service" system, CL1 boasts low power consumption and rapid learning capabilities, promising applications in disease modeling, drug testing, and biological AI. While CL1's learning abilities currently lag behind traditional AI, its unique biological properties offer advantages in specific applications; it has already taught neurons to play Pong. However, ethical concerns have been raised, prompting the team to collaborate with bioethicists to ensure safety and responsible development.

(www.abc.net.au)

AI Biocomputer Biological AI Neurons

Autodesk Deletes Decade-Old Forum Posts: A Developer Revolt

2025-01-02

Autodesk's announcement to archive (effectively delete) forum content older than 10 years has sparked outrage within its developer community. Valuable code samples, solutions, and years of shared expertise are set to vanish, leaving developers reliant on this resource facing significant losses. While Autodesk cites improved search and user experience as reasons, developers decry the move as 'monumentally stupid,' accusing the company of destroying community knowledge and damaging long-term relationships. Many are migrating to alternative platforms like TheSwamp and GitHub.

(forums.autodesk.com)

Development developer community content deletion

Grandmaster Blunders: Pressure, Hallucinations, and Psychology

2025-02-01

Grandmaster Blunders: Pressure, Hallucinations, and Psychology

This article delves into the reasons behind grandmaster blunders in chess, analyzing three key factors: pressure, hallucinations, and psychology. Through personal anecdotes and game examples, the author explains how time pressure, complex positions, and mental state lead to seemingly unbelievable mistakes by top-level players. Tips for avoiding these blunders are shared, such as careful move verification and maintaining composure under pressure. The article highlights that both overconfidence and excessive caution can be detrimental.

(lichess.org)

Game blunders strategy

OpenSPH: Interactive Visualization for Astrophysical Simulations

2025-01-03

OpenSPH is a versatile particle code library primarily used for astrophysical simulations. A new graphical application, SpaceSim, provides a more interactive and user-friendly interface for setting up and running simulations. Users can customize initial conditions and simulation steps using a node-based editor. Simulations range from planetary impacts and galactic mergers to black hole accretion disks. Windows installers, source code, and tutorials are available. Community feedback is encouraged via the Discord server.

(pavelsevecek.github.io)

Tech astrophysical simulation particle code visualization tool

Hunting a Ghostly Embedded Bug: Error -22

2025-01-26

The Tweede golf team encountered a frustrating bug in their embedded Rust software for the nRF9160 microcontroller, resulting in Error::NrfError(-22) when sending data to a server. After weeks of investigation, they traced the issue to the libmodem library's initialization function. A pointer to a stack-allocated configuration struct was used after the struct was destroyed, causing unintended writes to the shared memory region configuration and resulting in a data length of 0. Adding `black_box` and using watchpoints ultimately located and fixed the bug. The team highlighted the benefits of using Rust for embedded development to prevent such low-level errors.

(tweedegolf.nl)

Development

Reddit's DAU Growth Stalls: Dependence on Google Traffic and the Risks of AI Partnerships

2025-02-16

Reddit's DAU Growth Stalls: Dependence on Google Traffic and the Risks of AI Partnerships

For seven consecutive quarters, Reddit boasted more logged-in than logged-out US users, showcasing strong user loyalty. However, starting in Q4 2023, logged-out users surpassed logged-in users, with growth heavily reliant on traffic driven by Google search. Reddit's CEO acknowledged this dependence on Google's algorithm and user search habits. While Reddit pursues AI partnerships, this reliance also poses risks; its latest quarterly earnings missed expectations, causing a stock price drop. Reddit believes that in the AI era, people value authentic content more, giving it a long-term advantage.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Tech Google Traffic

System Oscillation: From Thermostats to Software Documentation

2025-02-14

System Oscillation: From Thermostats to Software Documentation

This article explores common system oscillations, using thermostats and rabbit-hawk populations as examples to illustrate how delayed feedback leads to cyclical fluctuations. The author applies this model to the problem of software documentation, pointing out that excessive documentation becomes outdated over time, diminishing its value. In agile development, the author argues that good code, tests, and team communication can replace redundant documentation, while the advent of generative AI further addresses information retrieval, reducing reliance on outdated documentation.

(tidyfirst.substack.com)

Development systems theory

Hacking Your Starlink Mini: Removing the Internal WiFi Router

2025-06-15

This guide details how to remove the integrated Wi-Fi router from a Starlink Mini 1 terminal, enabling Ethernet-only operation. This modification unlocks greater flexibility for advanced users with custom networking needs, embedded installations, or power-constrained environments. The guide provides a step-by-step disassembly process, PCB connector pinouts, a direct Ethernet connection schematic, network configuration instructions, and explanations of gRPC status codes for troubleshooting. Caution: This modification is only for the Starlink Mini 1, and removing the metal plate is strongly discouraged due to potential cooling and EMI issues.

(olegkutkov.me)

Hardware

Apple Secretly Enables AI Photo Analysis, Sparking Privacy Concerns

2025-01-03

Apple Secretly Enables AI Photo Analysis, Sparking Privacy Concerns

Apple silently enabled a feature called "Enhanced Visual Search" in iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1, which analyzes photos for landmarks without explicit user consent. While Apple claims to use homomorphic encryption and differential privacy to protect user privacy, the lack of transparency and opt-in choice has sparked concern. Developers criticize Apple's lack of explanation and user notification, arguing the approach is even more intrusive than its abandoned CSAM scanning plan. Although no evidence suggests Apple violated its privacy statements, the lack of communication is the core of user discontent.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's $2 Note Named 2023 Bank Note of the Year

2024-12-28

The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) has announced that its members have selected the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's $2 note as the 2023 Bank Note of the Year. Chosen from nearly 100 new banknotes released globally in 2023, the winning note features a vibrant design combining sports and environmental themes, symbolizing hope for a bright future. The front depicts cricket legend Sir Viv Richards, the 40th-anniversary logo, turtles, and fish. The reverse showcases fish, coral, turtles, and a map of the islands in contrasting bright blue. The ECCB selected this design to inspire the people of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and youth worldwide.

(www.theibns.org)

Misc banknote design International Bank Note Society Eastern Caribbean Central Bank

lzbench: An Open-Source Benchmark for Compression Codecs

2025-02-14

lzbench is an open-source benchmark tool for evaluating the performance of various compression codecs. It measures compression ratio, compression speed, decompression speed, and round-trip speed. The tool supports multiple codecs and allows users to add new ones, with raw data available for download and further analysis. The FAQ addresses common questions, including adding codecs, calculation methods, memory usage, multi-threading, chart scaling, and customization options, making it a valuable resource for developers and researchers.

(morotti.github.io)

Development compression codec

Century-Scale Digital Storage: A Race Against Time

2024-12-14

Century-Scale Digital Storage: A Race Against Time

This article explores the challenge of storing digital data for 100 years. From the invention of IBM's first hard drive-equipped computer, RAMAC, to the prevalence of cloud storage today, the author analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of various storage methods, including hard drives, cloud storage, removable media, and physical imprinting or printing. The article highlights the threats to long-term data preservation, such as physical damage to hardware, software updates, institutional changes, and market fluctuations. Ultimately, the author argues that the key to century-scale digital storage lies in establishing a culture that values maintenance and preservation, requiring a collective effort from all sectors of society to combat the erosion of time and safeguard humanity's digital heritage.

(lil.law.harvard.edu)

Tech data storage digital archive long-term preservation

The Return of Adventure: Ditching the Tourist Trail for Unconventional Experiences

2025-01-21

The Return of Adventure: Ditching the Tourist Trail for Unconventional Experiences

From Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions to the unconventional journeys of modern travelers, this essay explores the evolution of travel. Convenient transportation and mass media have shaped a homogenized tourism model, yet a new trend of seeking unusual adventures is emerging. Examples include attempts at straight-line crossings, continent-spanning games of tag, and spontaneous explorations of city's hidden corners. These adventures aren't about geographical discovery, but about experiencing the journey in novel ways and rediscovering the unexpected joys of travel. The essay ultimately encourages readers to break free from established patterns and embrace personalized, unconventional adventures.

(quarter--mile.com)

Misc adventure exploration

Maxing Out Alpine Package Installs: An NP-Hard Challenge

2025-01-21

This article details an experiment to determine the maximum number of Alpine Linux packages installable simultaneously. The author parsed Alpine's APKINDEX files, extracting package dependencies, conflicts, and provides relationships. These were translated into constraints for a PuLP solver. The experiment successfully installed 98.5% of packages from the main repository and 97.8% from main + community. This showcases algorithmic optimization of package installation, offering insights into building leaner container images.

(www.naff.dev)

Development Package Management Constraint Solving

Tig: A Text-Mode Interface for Git

2024-12-17

Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git, primarily functioning as a Git repository browser. It also aids in staging changes for commit at the chunk level and acts as a pager for various Git command outputs. Installation instructions, release notes detailing new features and bug fixes, and resources like the homepage, manual, and Q&A section on Stack Overflow are readily available. Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted through the issue tracker or via email.

(jonas.github.io)

Development command-line interface version control

The Internet of Agents: Building the Future of AI Collaboration

2025-03-31

The Internet of Agents: Building the Future of AI Collaboration

Agentic AI is rapidly evolving, but the lack of shared protocols for communication, tool use, memory, and trust keeps systems siloed. To unlock their full potential, we need an open, interoperable stack – an Internet of Agents. This article explores key architectural dimensions for building this network, including standardized tool interfaces, agent-to-agent communication protocols, authentication and trust mechanisms, memory and context sharing, knowledge exchange and inference APIs, economic transaction frameworks, governance and policy compliance, and agent discovery and capability matching. The author argues that shared abstractions are crucial to avoid fragmentation and enable scalable, composable autonomous systems.

(www.anup.io)

AI interoperability protocol standards

The Science of Binge-Watching: How Many Episodes Before You Give Up?

2025-03-03

The Science of Binge-Watching: How Many Episodes Before You Give Up?

This article explores the optimal strategy for binge-watching: when to abandon a show. By analyzing IMDb ratings data, the author finds most shows require 6-7 episodes to reach their long-term average quality. However, long-running series typically decline in quality around seasons five or six. The author also analyzes the psychological biases involved in sticking with bad shows, using his own experience with *How I Met Your Mother* as a cautionary tale about the importance of cutting losses and avoiding disappointing finales.

(www.statsignificant.com)

Misc binge-watching television

Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 Update Breaks Scanners

2025-01-04

Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 Update Breaks Scanners

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update has rendered many users' scanners unusable. Despite Microsoft claiming to have fixed an issue with the eSCL scan protocol, numerous Canon users are still experiencing problems, with their multifunction devices failing to scan properly on Windows 11 unless connected via wired Ethernet. Canon has confirmed the issue and says Microsoft is working on a fix, expected in January 2025. Affected users can use the built-in Windows Fax and Scan app as a workaround. This highlights the compatibility challenges that can arise from major OS updates.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech Scanner Issues Compatibility Problems

Muon g-2 Mystery: Standard Model Showdown or New Physics?

2025-02-27

Muon g-2 Mystery: Standard Model Showdown or New Physics?

The 2021 Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab revealed a significant discrepancy between the measured anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the Standard Model prediction, hinting at new physics. However, a recent alternative Standard Model prediction suggests the Fermilab result is consistent with the Standard Model. This has sparked a heated debate in the particle physics community: does the Standard Model need revision, or have we discovered new physics? The next few years will be crucial, with the release of Fermilab's final Muon g-2 results and more precise calculations of strong interaction contributions offering a definitive answer—a landmark event in particle physics.

(physicsworld.com)

Tech standard model new physics

Common Lisp Time Handling: The LOCAL-TIME Solution

2025-01-01

This paper delves into the complexities of time handling in Common Lisp and presents the author's solution: the LOCAL-TIME library. It traces the evolution of human time representation, from imprecise, context-dependent notations to precise scientific ones, highlighting the chaos introduced by political factors like daylight saving time. LOCAL-TIME uses an efficient fixnum-based representation, integrates world timezone data, and handles various time calculations and format conversions, thereby avoiding errors stemming from imprecise time representation—like the infamous Y2K problem.

(naggum.no)

Development Time Handling

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