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Arduino's Bio-Based PCBs: A Greener Future for Electronics

2025-05-11

Arduino's Bio-Based PCBs: A Greener Future for Electronics

Arduino, in collaboration with the European Innovation Council, has launched the Desire4EU project to develop biodegradable printed circuit boards (PCBs) using PLA-flax. The project has successfully created bio-based versions of the Arduino Nano and UNO, utilizing lower soldering temperatures to reduce energy consumption and e-waste. Future plans include a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to further quantify environmental benefits, with 1,000 beta boards planned for distribution in 2026.

(blog.arduino.cc)

Hardware Bio-based PCBs

The Herculean Task of a Crewed Mars Mission

2025-02-21

This article delves into the immense challenges of a crewed mission to Mars. Orbital mechanics dictate incredibly long travel times, with no feasible abort options. This necessitates unprecedented reliability, especially in life support systems, a hurdle current technology hasn't overcome. Furthermore, communication delays necessitate high autonomy, increasing complexity and risk. The article weighs the pros and cons of long-duration versus short-duration missions, highlighting uncertainties surrounding the effects of heavy-ion radiation and Martian gravity on astronaut health. The conclusion: a crewed Mars mission, with current technology, demands a protracted and immensely expensive preparation period; prioritizing robotic exploration might be more practical.

(idlewords.com)

Tech space technology life support

Portabl E: A Cross-Platform AmigaE Compiler

2025-07-02

Portabl E is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language, enhanced with improvements and designed for cross-platform compatibility. Version r6b is now available, fully supporting AmigaOS4, AROS, and MorphOS, with good AmigaOS3 support and basic Linux/Windows functionality. Download requires the username "user" and password "password". The project includes example code, screenshots, pre-compiled programs, documentation, forums, and mailing lists for community support.

(cshandley.co.uk)

Development

Spegel: A Terminal Browser Using LLMs to Rework Webpages

2025-07-02

Spegel: A Terminal Browser Using LLMs to Rework Webpages

Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that leverages LLMs to transform HTML into markdown, rendering it directly in your terminal. Built as a weekend project, its practicality was significantly boosted by the release of Google's faster Gemini 2.5 Pro Lite. Spegel allows for personalized views through custom prompts, such as extracting only essential recipe information. While lacking POST request support, it streamlines browsing by focusing on user-defined needs, offering a cleaner, less cluttered experience than traditional terminal browsers.

(simedw.com)

Development terminal browser personalized browsing

Customize Games with Canvas Language: Build Your Own Game World

2025-03-10

This is an online game editing platform based on Canvas Language, allowing users to customize and modify existing games, even reprogramming the gameplay. The platform provides several preset games for users to choose from. Users can upload their own images and edit using SCL language. Once finished, users can publish their game to a custom domain, such as itch.io. This platform aims to showcase the ease of use and customizability of Canvas Language, providing users with a convenient game creation experience.

(playscl.com)

Game Canvas Language game customization

TScale: Training LLMs on Consumer Hardware

2025-05-04

TScale: Training LLMs on Consumer Hardware

TScale is a transformer model training and inference framework written in C++ and CUDA, designed to run on consumer-grade hardware. It achieves significant cost and time reductions through optimized architecture, low-precision computation (fp8 and int8), CPU offloading, and synchronous and asynchronous distributed training. Even a 1T parameter model becomes tractable with clever indexing techniques, enabling training on typical home computers. TScale demonstrates immense potential in lowering the barrier to entry for LLM training.

(github.com)

AI Distributed Training Low-Precision Computing

Cheap Port Radar Uses Existing Cell Towers

2025-06-30

Cheap Port Radar Uses Existing Cell Towers

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a novel security system that repurposes existing cell towers as a low-cost radar system for ports. The system uses Passive Coherent Location (PCL) to detect ships, even small ones, up to 4 kilometers away. By analyzing reflections of cell tower signals, the system creates a dynamic map of port traffic. This eliminates the need for expensive radar installations, making it a budget-friendly solution for enhancing port security, especially in remote locations.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech Port Security Passive Coherent Location Cell Tower Radar

My Keyboard Odyssey: Maltron vs. MoErgo Glove80

2025-07-23

After years of hand pain from using traditional keyboards, the author tried both Maltron and MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboards. While the Maltron, despite its dated looks, offered a superior thumbpad design for ergonomic comfort, the Glove80, though customizable, suffered from less-than-ideal thumbpad placement and key latency issues. Ultimately, the author returned to the Maltron, highlighting the often-overlooked importance of thumbpad design in ergonomic keyboards.

(tratt.net)

Hardware keyboard design

Firefly's Blue Ghost Makes History with Successful Moon Landing

2025-03-02

Firefly's Blue Ghost Makes History with Successful Moon Landing

Firefly Aerospace announced the successful lunar landing of its Blue Ghost lander, marking the first fully successful commercial soft landing on the Moon. Carrying 10 NASA instruments, Blue Ghost executed a precise landing and is conducting various scientific experiments, including subsurface drilling and imaging. This achievement represents a significant milestone for commercial space exploration and paves the way for future lunar missions and deeper space exploration.

(fireflyspace.com)

Tech Commercial Space

AI Solves Factorio's Belt Balancer Conundrum

2024-12-30

AI Solves Factorio's Belt Balancer Conundrum

This blog post details the author's journey in automating the design of Factorio's belt balancers, a notoriously complex problem. Using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) and Constraint Programming SAT (CP-SAT) solvers, the author tackled the challenge. While the MIP model struggled with numerical instability for larger balancers, the CP-SAT approach, employing discretization of flows and incorporating Banes networks and memory optimization, successfully solved the design for a 16x16 balancer—a feat practically impossible by hand. The process highlights the crucial role of modeling techniques, algorithm selection, and optimization strategies in achieving efficient solutions.

(gianlucaventurini.com)

AI Optimization Algorithms

The Smart Glasses Arms Race: Giants and Underdogs Clash

2025-09-12

The Smart Glasses Arms Race: Giants and Underdogs Clash

The smart glasses market is heating up, with established giants like Ray-Ban and Google battling it out alongside a surprising number of startups. Big tech companies leverage their existing ecosystems and access to cutting-edge components, but smaller players are making their mark with innovative designs and features. From AI-powered glasses like Solos AirGo V2 and Xiaomi's AI Glasses to HTC's Vive Eagle, the diversity is remarkable. Beyond displayless options, HUD glasses like Even G1, Brilliant Labs Halo, and XRAI AR2 offer unique functionalities. While true consumer AR glasses remain scarce in the West, companies like RayNeo (with the X3 Pro) and Snap (with their upcoming Specs) are pushing the boundaries. This battle will define the future of wearable tech.

(www.uploadvr.com)

Tech

International Homicide: Tech Forensics Uncovers Hidden Truth

2025-07-21

A baffling missing person case morphed into a gripping international homicide investigation. A lawyer, through meticulous technical investigation, particularly analyzing the IP address and timestamps of a crucial "proof of life" email, along with corroborating witness testimony and diverse evidence, ultimately exposed the husband's culpability in his wife's murder. This case powerfully demonstrates the importance of digital evidence in modern criminal investigations and highlights the necessity of international cooperation in combating crime.

(www.andrewwatters.com)

Tech Tech Forensics International Case Digital Forensics

Real Thinking vs. Fake Thinking: Staying Awake in the Age of AI

2025-02-03

Real Thinking vs. Fake Thinking: Staying Awake in the Age of AI

This essay explores the difference between 'real thinking' and 'fake thinking.' The author argues that 'real thinking' isn't simply thinking about concrete things, but a deeper, more insightful way of thinking that focuses on truly understanding the world, rather than remaining trapped in abstract concepts or pre-existing frameworks. Using examples like AI risk, philosophy, and competitive debate, the essay outlines several dimensions of 'real thinking' and suggests methods for cultivating this ability, such as slowing down, following curiosity, and paying attention to the motivations behind thinking. The author calls for staying awake in the age of AI, avoiding the traps of 'fake thinking,' and truly understanding and responding to the changes ahead.

(joecarlsmith.com)

AI real thinking cognition

Fauna Database Shutting Down, Core Tech Going Open Source

2025-03-19

Fauna Database Shutting Down, Core Tech Going Open Source

Fauna, a document-relational database service, announced it will be sunsetting its service in the coming months. Unable to secure the funding needed for global expansion in the current market, the company made the difficult decision to cease operations. However, Fauna is committing to open-sourcing its core database technology, drivers, and CLI tooling, making its unique transactional features, document-relational data model, and FQL language available to the wider developer community. Existing customers will receive migration support to ensure a smooth transition.

(fauna.com)

Development

Agno: A Full-Stack Framework for High-Performance Multi-Agent Systems

2025-06-02

Agno: A Full-Stack Framework for High-Performance Multi-Agent Systems

Agno is a full-stack framework for building multi-agent systems with memory, knowledge, and reasoning capabilities. It supports five levels of agentic systems, ranging from simple tool-using agents to collaborating teams, and integrates with various models and tools. Key features include model agnosticism, high performance (agents instantiate in ~3μs and use ~6.5Kib memory), built-in reasoning, multi-modality, advanced multi-agent architecture, and real-time monitoring. Agno is designed for building high-performance agentic systems, saving developers significant time and effort.

(github.com)

AI

flint: A Modern KVM Management UI

2025-09-07

flint: A Modern KVM Management UI

flint is a single binary, self-contained KVM virtualization management solution for developers, sysadmins, and advanced home labs. It features a sleek web UI, CLI, and API, enabling efficient VM management without the overhead of complex platforms. The 8.4MB binary requires only libvirt (no other dependencies), offering a streamlined setup. It supports Cloud-Init, a managed image library, and multiple import options, while remaining non-intrusive. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.

(github.com)

Development

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Return of Wrongfully Deported Salvadoran Migrant

2025-04-12

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Return of Wrongfully Deported Salvadoran Migrant

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador. The case highlights the administration's disregard for due process in deportation proceedings and the court's determination to check executive overreach. While the Court's opinion was cautiously worded, the justices broadly condemned the administration's actions, setting a precedent for future cases. The case also reveals a secretive agreement between the US and El Salvadoran governments involving the deportation of gang members, the details of which remain unclear. The ultimate outcome hinges on the lower court's enforcement of the Supreme Court's ruling and whether the administration complies with the order to return Abrego Garcia.

(harrylitman.substack.com)

Misc judicial review executive power

Bluefin LTS & GDX: The Reign of Achillobator Begins

2025-09-21

Bluefin LTS & GDX: The Reign of Achillobator Begins

After nine months, Bluefin LTS (Long Term Support) and Bluefin GDX (AI Workstation) are generally available. Bluefin LTS, built on CentOS Stream 10, offers a stable GNOME 48 desktop with long-term support and an optional Hardware Enablement branch (lts-hwe) for newer kernels. Bluefin GDX targets AI/ML professionals, integrating Nvidia drivers and CUDA, and collaborating with Red Hat on open-source AI/ML tools. Both boast improved installation and secure boot support, aiming for a stable, efficient desktop experience.

(docs.projectbluefin.io)

Development AI Workstation

MathB.in, a 13-Year-Old Math Pastebin, is Shutting Down

2025-02-27

After 13 years of service, MathB.in, an online mathematics pastebin, will be shutting down on March 16, 2025. Its creator, Susam Pal, explains the closure is due to the increasing difficulty of complying with regulations and the burden of single-handedly maintaining the service. Despite attempts to improve spam detection and explore alternatives, the challenges of regulatory compliance proved insurmountable. Pal expresses gratitude to users and offers the open-source code and suggests alternatives like MathCask for those seeking similar functionality.

(susam.net)

Development

Little Sisyphus: A Month-Long NES Platformer Odyssey

2025-02-19

Little Sisyphus, a physics-based platformer for the NES, was developed in just one month for the 2023 NESDev Compo. The game centers around rolling a ball up a mountain, offering challenging gameplay with a unique art style inspired by ancient Greek pottery. The developer details the creation process, from concept to completion, highlighting the use of NESFab, impulse-based and position-based physics, water effects, and music composition. Limitations of the NES hardware led to compromises, but the final product is a polished testament to efficient development and creative problem-solving, even incorporating AI-generated art assets.

(pubby.games)

Game NES game development

Republican Poison Pill: Millions of Acres of Public Land Up for Sale

2025-06-21

Republican Poison Pill: Millions of Acres of Public Land Up for Sale

Following the passage of the disastrous House reconciliation bill, Senate Republicans have unveiled their own version—a bill that funds President Trump's agenda by selling off vast tracts of public land. The bill mandates the sale of 2 to 3 million acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service across 11 states. Alarmingly, exemptions are minimal, leaving Wilderness Study Areas, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, and critical habitats vulnerable. This potentially opens up over 250 million acres to sale to "any interested party."

(www.wilderness.org)

Misc public land sale

Europe's Missing Tech Titans: Regulation, Innovation, and Power

2025-04-11

Europe's Missing Tech Titans: Regulation, Innovation, and Power

Critics argue that Europe's over-regulation, red tape, and high taxes stifle the creation of trillion-dollar companies like Amazon, Google, or Tesla. However, Europe's lack extends beyond mere size. The continent also lacks the powerful tech oligarchs who control these behemoths, whose influence often surpasses reality. There are no European equivalents of tech executives wielding vast political influence, or boasting on social media about abusing state resources. While European unicorns are scarce and innovation lags, this absence may also signal a different approach, avoiding some of the negative consequences associated with unchecked tech power.

(www.economist.com)

Tech

Homeworld 2's Stunning Background: A Vertex Color Gradient Masterpiece

2025-03-23

This article unveils the secret behind the stunning background art of Homeworld 2. By analyzing game data, the author discovered that the backgrounds aren't created using textures, but rather a clever implementation of vertex color gradients. This bold solution not only avoids texture compression artifacts but also subtly controls detail, keeping the background where it belongs and preventing it from overpowering the foreground. This technique mirrors the 2.5D tree approach in Diablo 3, showcasing a perfect blend of technology and artistry.

(simonschreibt.de)

Game vertex coloring

Visualizing the Collatz Conjecture with Langton's Ant: Similarities and Differences

2025-01-13

This post continues a previous one, visualizing the Collatz conjecture using Langton's ant. By simulating the ant's movement on a grid, the author observes that Collatz sequences with similar final patterns often have similar stopping times. However, the inverse isn't true: sequences with the same stopping time can have significantly different trajectories. The author quantifies the similarity between sequences by calculating the size of the intersection of their sets, finding that sequences with small initial number differences have higher similarity, which decreases as the difference grows. This research offers a novel perspective on understanding the complexity of the Collatz conjecture.

(gbragafibra.github.io)

Misc

Australia's Youngest Art Director: The Making of Bluey

2025-08-04

Australia's Youngest Art Director: The Making of Bluey

In 2017, the author rejoined Ludo Studio, working on various 2D animation projects. He was then invited to be the art director for the children's show, Bluey, becoming Australia's youngest art director for an animated series. The director's love for Brisbane fueled a desire to showcase the city's unique beauty in the animation. Initial design phases combined Brisbane's stunning scenery with fundamental animation design principles, ultimately creating the acclaimed show.

(www.itsnicethat.com)

Design animation production art direction Bluey

TernFS: XTX's Exabyte-Scale Distributed Filesystem

2025-09-18

Facing exploding data storage needs, algorithmic trading firm XTX built TernFS, a distributed filesystem scaling to tens of exabytes and millions of concurrent clients. TernFS employs sharded metadata storage, a decentralized design, and supports multi-region deployment, achieving high availability and performance. Key features include immutable files, redundant data storage, fault tolerance, and flexible storage policies. TernFS is already used extensively at XTX and is open-sourced for community use, offering a novel solution for large-scale data storage.

(www.xtxmarkets.com)

Tech big data storage

Why Top-Posting Always Wins (and Why It Shouldn't)

2025-05-25

The author draws a parallel between top-posting in emails and procrastination, using the example of leaving dishes unwashed. While top-posting is efficient for short email threads, it becomes a burden in longer conversations, forcing the recipient to sift through a large amount of text to find the relevant reply. The author argues that top-posting, like procrastination, is inherently human – easy and immediate – and will likely prevail unless inline replying becomes effortless, mandatory, and rewarding.

(www.solipsys.co.uk)

Misc email etiquette communication efficiency

Claude Generates a Mandelbrot Fractal in x86 Assembly

2025-07-02

Claude Generates a Mandelbrot Fractal in x86 Assembly

Inspired by a tweet, the author challenged Claude AI to generate x86 assembly code to create a Mandelbrot fractal. Initial attempts failed to compile, but leveraging Claude Code's iterative debugging and modification capabilities, the author successfully compiled and ran the code within a Docker container, generating a satisfying ASCII art fractal. This showcases Claude Code's impressive code understanding and debugging abilities.

(simonwillison.net)

Development

Broadcom's VMware Bundling: Value Proposition or Cost Trap?

2025-06-20

Broadcom's VMware Bundling: Value Proposition or Cost Trap?

Broadcom's shift to subscription bundles for VMware software, following its acquisition, has angered smaller customers who report cost increases of 8 to 15 times. Broadcom counters that 87% of its top 10,000 customers have adopted VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), arguing many weren't fully utilizing the bundled components. Customers are discovering VCF's capabilities in configuration, security, and cost management, previously unavailable with their piecemeal solutions. However, industry analysts remain skeptical, suggesting aggressive sales tactics may have forced purchases of unnecessary software. The situation highlights ongoing enterprise exploration of private and hybrid cloud strategies, driven by concerns over public cloud costs and data sovereignty.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

Google AI Studio: Supercharged AI App Development with Gemini 2.5 Pro

2025-05-21

Google AI Studio: Supercharged AI App Development with Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google AI Studio received a major update, integrating the Gemini 2.5 Pro model for significantly enhanced code generation. Developers can quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps using simple text, image, or video prompts. The new version also incorporates multimodal models like Imagen, Lyria RealTime, and Veo, offering one-click deployment to Cloud Run, and convenient code version comparison and rollback. Plus, new native audio support and a URL Context tool enhance interactivity and information retrieval.

(developers.googleblog.com)

Development

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