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SDCC 2025: A Bonanza of Movie, TV, and Game Reveals

2025-07-27

SDCC 2025: A Bonanza of Movie, TV, and Game Reveals

San Diego Comic-Con 2025, while lacking a Marvel presence, was still a massive spectacle! Sneak peeks at films like *Tron: Ares* and *Predator: Badlands*, along with bustling toy booths, set the stage. But the real excitement lay in the plethora of TV show, movie, and game announcements. Highlights included first looks at *Avatar: The Last Airbender*'s sequel *Avatar: Seven Havens*, a *Peacemaker* season 2 trailer featuring interdimensional portals and a vengeful Rick Flagg Sr., and release dates for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy*, *Coyote vs. Acme*, *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* season 2, *Twisted Metal* season 2, and more. Gamers were also treated to trailers for *Invincible VS*. The Con proved a haven for fans of all things sci-fi, fantasy, and action.

(www.cnet.com)

Game

Android 16 Linux Terminal Now Runs Graphical Linux Apps

2025-02-01

Google's ambition to transform Android into a fully-fledged PC operating system is taking a significant step forward. The Linux Terminal app in the upcoming Android 16 beta now boasts the ability to run graphical Linux applications, including Doom. This impressive feat is due to improvements in hardware acceleration and display server support. While not yet live in the latest beta, this functionality, leveraging the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), paves the way for running more complex desktop-class programs on Android, potentially bridging the gap between Android and Chrome OS.

(www.androidauthority.com)

Development Linux Terminal Graphical Apps

Local Deep Research Assistant: A Powerful AI Research Tool Combining LLMs and Web Search

2025-03-11

Local Deep Research Assistant: A Powerful AI Research Tool Combining LLMs and Web Search

A powerful AI-powered research assistant performing deep, iterative analysis using multiple LLMs and web searches. Run it locally for privacy or configure it for cloud-based LLMs (Claude, GPT) for enhanced capabilities. It supports full webpage analysis, offers rich output options (detailed findings with citations, reports, summaries), and features local document search (RAG) for private document collections. The system intelligently selects search sources (Wikipedia, arXiv, DuckDuckGo, etc.) based on your query, offering flexible LLM and search engine support.

(github.com)

Development Research Tool

The Economist's Subscription Pricing: A Global Mess

2025-05-18

The Economist's Subscription Pricing: A Global Mess

Two years ago, a wildly inconsistent global pricing structure for The Economist's digital subscription was revealed, with prices varying over 300% depending on location. Poorer nations paid significantly more than wealthier ones. This continues in 2024, with Australia and New Zealand still heavily overcharged. An 'Economad Index' comparing subscription prices reveals even greater discrepancies than the Big Mac Index, highlighting The Economist's illogical and unfair pricing, leading one subscriber to cancel their subscription.

(halcrawford.substack.com)

Misc The Economist global pricing subscription prices

Meta's New Content Policy: A Blow to Vulnerable Users

2025-01-10

Meta's New Content Policy: A Blow to Vulnerable Users

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticizes Meta's recent content moderation policy changes, arguing they don't truly promote free speech but could harm vulnerable groups. The new policy allows dehumanizing statements about certain vulnerable groups, particularly LGBTQ+ individuals, and loosens restrictions on hate speech. EFF urges Meta to address biases in its content moderation, invest more in its global user base, improve multilingual support, reduce reliance on automated tools, and increase transparency.

(www.eff.org)

Tech vulnerable users

British Airways Pilot Annual Flight Hours

2025-06-27

British Airways Pilot Annual Flight Hours

This article details how British Airways pilots log their annual flight hours. It explains the roles of pilots (Pilot in Command PIC, Pilot 2 P2, PIC Under Supervision PICUS, etc.) and how, according to British Airways Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), responsibilities are shared between the Captain and First Officer during a sector. For example, during descent, the First Officer will fly the approach until 1000ft AGL, then the Captain takes over for landing. All approaches are monitored approaches.

(jameshard.ing)

Misc flight hours British Airways pilot roles

xtool: A Cross-Platform Xcode Replacement

2025-05-17

xtool: A Cross-Platform Xcode Replacement

xtool is a cross-platform tool (Linux/WSL/macOS) that replicates core Xcode functionality using open standards. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM without needing Xcode. Key features include building SwiftPM packages into iOS apps, signing and installing apps, and programmatic interaction with Apple Developer Services. It also offers an XKit library for interacting with Apple services and iOS devices within your own apps.

(github.com)

Development Cross-Platform

2025 Task Runner Census: GitHub Actions Reigns Supreme, Make Endures

2025-07-17

2025 Task Runner Census: GitHub Actions Reigns Supreme, Make Endures

A 2025 census of task runners on GitHub reveals GitHub Actions dominating the CI/CD landscape, while the venerable Make utility remains surprisingly prevalent. Emerging package managers like uv (Python) and pnpm (JavaScript) are also gaining traction in new repositories. Analyzing the top 100,000 starred repos, the study found GitHub Actions in nearly 40% of repositories, with Make holding a strong 19%. In the JavaScript ecosystem, npm leads but pnpm is rising; for Python, uv offers a significantly improved task management experience.

(aleyan.com)

Development Task Runners Package Managers

Universe's Missing Matter Found!

2025-06-17

Universe's Missing Matter Found!

For decades, scientists have searched for the universe's 'missing' ordinary matter, accounting for 5% of the universe. Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Caltech have used fast radio bursts (FRBs) to solve the mystery: over three-quarters of ordinary matter resides in hot, low-density gas between galaxies. FRBs slow down when traversing intergalactic gas; measuring this slowdown reveals the gas density. This study provides the first detailed measurements of ordinary matter's distribution, confirming cosmological simulations and illustrating matter's movement across the universe. It also highlights the efficiency of intergalactic feedback mechanisms.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech Fast Radio Bursts

A Novel Complex Constant Derived from the Golden Ratio and its Transcendence Conjecture

2025-06-22

A research paper by Tristen Harr introduces and analyzes a new complex constant, ΛG1, derived from inverse powers of the golden ratio, ϕ. Defined as ΛG1 = T + iJ, where T = 1/(2ϕ) and J = 1/(2ϕ²), it's proven to be an algebraic number with a magnitude less than one, suitable as an argument for the Polylogarithm function, Lis(z). High-precision numerical evaluations for Dilogarithm (s=2) and Trilogarithm (s=3) suggest Lis(ΛG1) is transcendental for all integers s≥2 and lies outside the field extension Q(π, ln(2), ϕ). This research is partly motivated by potential applications in quasicrystal studies, where the golden ratio is fundamental.

(zenodo.org)

Math transcendental number

AI to Write All Code Within a Year? Anthropic CEO's Bold Prediction

2025-08-16

AI to Write All Code Within a Year? Anthropic CEO's Bold Prediction

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that within a year, AI will replace software developers, writing all software code. He foresees AI writing 90% of code in three to six months, and essentially all code within a year. While human developers will still play a role in the short term, designing features and conditions, Amodei believes AI will eventually handle all tasks currently performed by humans, impacting all industries. This prediction is supported by Y Combinator president Garry Tan, who reported that 25% of their Winter 2025 batch used AI to generate 95% of their code. The managing director of the IMF also noted AI's potential impact on roughly 40% of global jobs.

(www.businessinsider.com)

Development

Rohlang3: A Minimalist Dependently Typed SK Calculus

2025-01-06

Rohlang3: A Minimalist Dependently Typed SK Calculus

Rohan Ganapavarapu's Rohlang3 is an experimental minimalist language written in Rust. It attempts to combine point-free style, homoiconicity, and dependent typing atop an SK-calculus foundation. While built on the standard S and K combinators, Rohlang3 adds reflection (q and e), partial evaluation (z), and environment reordering (i, E, D) combinators, along with a simplified Pi/Sigma dependent type system (p and g). The project isn't aiming for perfect consistency, but rather explores the interplay of these concepts. Homoiconicity allows runtime manipulation of the AST, and the reflection and partial evaluation features enable powerful metaprogramming capabilities.

(rohan.ga)

Development

47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

2025-08-16

47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

An iOS developer's frustration with PureGym's app (47 seconds to check in!) led him on a wild ride. He discovered laughably insecure APIs – an 8-year-old unchanging PIN was more secure than the minute-refreshing QR code. Using mitmproxy, he reverse-engineered the system, built an Apple Wallet pass using PassKit, and slashed check-in time to 3 seconds. The article details the process: reverse engineering, certificate wrestling, Swift backend development, and more. He even integrated it with Home Assistant. A humorous and technically detailed personal project highlighting the importance of user experience.

(drobinin.com)

Development

Page Objects: Making Your UI Tests Less Brittle

2025-09-15

Page Objects: Making Your UI Tests Less Brittle

Testing web pages requires interacting with elements, but directly manipulating HTML makes tests fragile. Page Objects solve this by encapsulating a page or fragment as an application-specific API. This allows interacting with elements without directly accessing HTML. The goal is to mimic user actions, providing a clean interface that hides underlying widgets. Text fields use string accessors, checkboxes booleans, and buttons action-oriented methods. Good Page Objects model the user's perspective, not the UI's internal structure, returning basic data types or other Page Objects. There's debate on including assertions within Page Objects. The author prefers keeping assertions in test scripts, avoiding bloated Page Objects and using assertion libraries to reduce redundancy. This pattern works across various UI technologies, useful not just for testing but also as a scripting interface for applications.

(martinfowler.com)

Development Page Objects

Linus Torvalds Cracks Down on Useless Links in Git Commits

2025-09-08

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is fed up with pointless "Link:" tags in Git commit messages for the Linux kernel. He finds that many of these links simply redirect to the same patch already present, offering no additional context. Moving forward, he'll be stricter about accepting pull requests with these useless links. While he appreciates links for multi-part patch series cover letters, he's pushing for better automation to filter out valueless links, even suggesting AI could help determine a link's usefulness. He urges developers to ensure any "Link:" tags add genuine value, avoiding time-wasting redundancy.

(www.phoronix.com)

Development

Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

2025-05-08

Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

Tattoo removal is no longer a nightmare! Today's picosecond laser technology is revolutionizing how we remove unwanted ink. These lasers shatter ink particles into tiny pieces, allowing the body's immune system to clear them. While the process isn't painless, multiple sessions can effectively fade or remove tattoos. Advances in technology and affordability are making tattoo removal commonplace, comparable to routine maintenance. This boom signals a potential shift in tattoo culture itself, questioning the permanence of body art.

(www.gq.com)

Tech tattoo removal aesthetic medicine

Ladybird: A Novel Web Browser Built on Web Standards

2025-02-28

Ladybird: A Novel Web Browser Built on Web Standards

Ladybird is a truly independent web browser using a novel engine based on web standards. Currently in pre-alpha, it's intended for developers. Its multi-process architecture—with a main UI process, multiple WebContent renderers, an ImageDecoder, and a RequestServer—prioritizes robustness against malicious content. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2), and many other *nix systems and leverages several core library components from SerenityOS. Developers are invited to join the Discord server for discussions and contributions.

(github.com)

Development web standards multi-process architecture

Unicon Programming Language: An Extension and Enhancement of Icon

2024-12-28

Unicon is a powerful programming language that extends and improves upon the Icon programming language. It inherits many of Icon's strengths, such as concise code, powerful string processing capabilities, and goal-directed evaluation, while adding modern features like object-oriented programming, a POSIX layer, and networking capabilities. Unicon supports multiple programming paradigms, including imperative, procedural, concurrent, and object-oriented, and boasts a rich set of built-in functions and a powerful graphics library. This document details Unicon's syntax, semantics, features, and installation methods, and provides numerous code examples.

(btiffin.users.sourceforge.net)

Development

Lua: An Underrated Programming Language

2024-12-26

Lua: An Underrated Programming Language

Lua, a concise and efficient embedded scripting language created in 1993, remains surprisingly underrated despite its strengths. This article highlights Lua's advantages: ease of learning and mastery, an excellent C API, multi-paradigm support, and exceptional embeddability. While widely used in games and embedded systems, the author also points out some unique aspects of Lua, such as its indexing conventions (starting at 1 but not mandatory), error handling, and nil-terminated arrays, which developers should be aware of. Overall, Lua is a powerful language deserving more recognition; its efficiency is evident in applications like Neovim plugins.

(nflatrea.bearblog.dev)

Development scripting language embedded

Danish Metal Detecting Hobbyists Unearth Ancient Treasures, Rewriting History

2025-06-21

Danish Metal Detecting Hobbyists Unearth Ancient Treasures, Rewriting History

A Danish engineer's casual metal detecting hobby led to an extraordinary discovery: a hoard of 1,500-year-old gold artifacts, including an amulet inscribed with "He is Odin's man." This inscription, the oldest known written mention of Odin, pushes back the known history of his worship by 150 years. Denmark's unique approach to metal detecting, allowing hobbyists to search and turn over finds, has revolutionized archaeological research, resulting in a wealth of discoveries far exceeding those of neighboring countries.

(www.scientificamerican.com)

Tech metal detecting

Serving 200M+ Requests/Day with a Modern CGI Setup

2025-07-06

Serving 200M+ Requests/Day with a Modern CGI Setup

Revisiting the 90s CGI technology, the author built a Go + SQLite CGI program on a 16-thread AMD 3700X, achieving over 200 million requests per day. This experiment challenges the long-held belief of CGI's inefficiency, highlighting that modern languages (Go, Rust) and powerful hardware make CGI surprisingly effective in multi-core environments. While not advocating widespread adoption, the author demonstrates the fascinating evolution of technology and the value of re-examining past assumptions.

(simonwillison.net)

Development

Minecraft Gets a Gigantic, Blocky Britain

2025-04-15

Minecraft Gets a Gigantic, Blocky Britain

A massive Minecraft map of Britain is coming, featuring every county and a 15km buffer zone around each, resulting in over a billion blocks! Players can explore iconic landmarks, familiar towns and cities, rivers, beaches, and more. Creative mode allows for building, redesigning, and even creating minecart railways. Players can even map Britain themselves using the in-game mapping tools, recreating the work of the Ordnance Survey. Get ready to remake Britain, your way!

(www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)

Game Map Britain

ArkFlow: A High-Performance Rust Stream Processing Engine

2025-03-14

ArkFlow: A High-Performance Rust Stream Processing Engine

ArkFlow is a high-performance stream processing engine built on Rust and Tokio. It supports multiple data sources like Kafka, MQTT, and HTTP, and offers various processors including SQL queries, JSON processing, and Protobuf encoding/decoding. Its modular design allows for easy extension, and configuration is managed via YAML files. Users can define inputs, pipelines, and outputs to handle diverse stream processing tasks, such as Kafka-to-Kafka data processing or generating and processing test data.

(github.com)

Development

Roame Hiring: Lead Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Travel Booking with AI

2025-05-11

Roame Hiring: Lead Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Travel Booking with AI

Roame, a flight search engine leveraging credit card points and miles, is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer. Backed by top-tier investors, Roame empowers millions to maximize their points' value. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of experience, mastery of Next.js, Firebase, and Go, and a strong understanding of AI pipelines. The San Francisco-based role requires in-person work. Roame offers competitive salary, equity, benefits, and a culture emphasizing collaboration and rapid iteration.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Travel Booking

Nine-Day Milestone: Gene-Edited Pig Lung Transplanted into Human

2025-08-27

Nine-Day Milestone: Gene-Edited Pig Lung Transplanted into Human

A team from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University achieved a groundbreaking feat: successfully transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a brain-dead human, maintaining function for nine days. While the experiment was ultimately terminated due to organ rejection, it represents a significant advancement in xenotransplantation. The focus wasn't on immediate success, but on observing the human immune response. The pig lung underwent six gene edits to minimize immune and inflammatory responses. Results highlighted challenges such as pulmonary edema and antibody-mediated rejection. Future research will focus on optimizing immunosuppression, refining gene editing, and ultimately achieving clinical translation.

(www.sciencealert.com)

Tech Xenotransplantation Organ Transplant

TikTok Ban Fuels Mass Migration to Xiaohongshu

2025-01-19

TikTok Ban Fuels Mass Migration to Xiaohongshu

Facing a potential TikTok ban in the US, a wave of American users are migrating to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, creating an unusual surge in US-China online interaction. These self-proclaimed "TikTok refugees" are sharing their lives and engaging with Chinese users, fostering a unique cross-cultural exchange. Xiaohongshu's welcoming atmosphere and openness have provided fertile ground for this unexpected migration, creating new opportunities for understanding and communication between users from both countries.

(abcnews.go.com)

Tech US-China cultural exchange

Reviving LISP 1.5: A C and Odin Implementation

2025-09-03

Reviving LISP 1.5: A C and Odin Implementation

This project recreates the core functionality of the 1962 LISP 1.5 interpreter in both C and Odin, boasting less than 500 lines of code (around 600 for the Odin version). It features a semi-space copying garbage collector based on Cheney's algorithm and limited tail-call optimization. While simplifying error handling and thread safety, the project successfully executes test programs, demonstrating the elegance and conciseness of LISP.

(github.com)

Development

Hans Christian Andersen: A Life Less Ordinary

2025-07-31

Hans Christian Andersen: A Life Less Ordinary

This article delves into the extraordinary life of Hans Christian Andersen, the celebrated author of beloved fairy tales. Born into poverty and marked by unconventional appearance, Andersen faced relentless ridicule, yet his talent and perseverance propelled him to become a literary icon across Europe. From early forays into acting and poetry to his eventual mastery of the fairy tale form, Andersen's journey reflects the imaginative power and profound understanding of life found within his stories. His life, much like his tales, is a captivating blend of drama and inspiration.

(www.newstatesman.com)

Misc Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales

OSI Board Election Roiled by Open Source AI Definition Debate

2025-03-08

OSI Board Election Roiled by Open Source AI Definition Debate

The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 board election is mired in controversy, sparked by its open source AI definition (OSAID) released last October. The rejection of candidate Luke Faraone for allegedly missing a deadline has ignited debate about OSI's communication and process transparency. Beyond the procedural issues, the OSAID itself is facing strong opposition from key players in the open source community, with prominent figures like Richard Fontana and Bradley Kuhn advocating for a 5-10 year delay in formalizing an open source AI definition. The election proceeds, leaving the future of the OSAID uncertain.

(thenewstack.io)

Development Board Election

Modeling API Rate Limits as Diophantine Inequalities

2025-06-30

This article explores a mathematical approach, specifically using Diophantine inequalities, to solve API rate limiting problems. The author uses a scenario with a 10-requests-per-hour limit and three retry attempts per task as an example, demonstrating how to transform the task scheduling problem into an integer feasibility problem. By analyzing the task retry pattern and time windows, the author establishes an inequality model and uses Go to write a program that determines whether a new task can be safely scheduled without exceeding the rate limit. The article also mentions optimizing the algorithm to reduce time complexity from O(n^2) to O(n*log(n)).

(vivekn.dev)

Development API Rate Limiting Diophantine Inequalities

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