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Stack Overflow Says Goodbye to Physical Servers: The Cloud Journey Begins

2025-07-19
Stack Overflow Says Goodbye to Physical Servers: The Cloud Journey Begins

After 16 years, Stack Overflow and its network of sites have officially bid farewell to their New Jersey data center, with all servers decommissioned and disposed of properly. This migration marks a significant step in Stack Overflow's transition to the cloud, signifying the complete cloud-native transformation of its infrastructure. The article vividly recounts the details of the migration process, from dismantling servers and managing a massive amount of cabling to the final clearing of the data center, showcasing the team's hard work and efficient execution. This move not only improves efficiency but also ensures the security of user data.

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(stackoverflow.blog)
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Labrador Shenanigans: A Tug-of-War at Sea

2025-07-04
Labrador Shenanigans: A Tug-of-War at Sea

This charming tale recounts the author's experiences with two Labrador Retrievers. Arthur, a sea-loving Labrador, prioritizes playtime with seals over watching a sporting event, showcasing his independent nature. Lenny, the author's own Labrador, displays his herding instincts, acting as a self-appointed guide, shepherding the author back to shore during swims. The author humorously details their aquatic tug-of-war, ultimately finding peace by the seaside. The story explores the dynamic between humans and pets, and the acceptance of a shifting dynamic in unexpected settings.

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(www.irishtimes.com)
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AirBending: Plug-and-Play MIDI Controller for Universal Compatibility

2025-07-05
AirBending: Plug-and-Play MIDI Controller for Universal Compatibility

AirBending is a revolutionary MIDI controller offering seamless compatibility with popular DAWs like Logic Pro and Ableton Live, requiring no special drivers or plugins. Control external hardware synthesizers, software instruments, and effects processors with ease. Its advanced preset manager allows for customized gesture-to-music mapping, offering flexibility for both one-handed and two-handed control. Features include MIDI channel control, musical scale selection, and custom CC assignment for precise control over synth parameters like filters, effects, volume, and modulation, making it ideal for studio and live performance.

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(www.nanassound.com)
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Hinge CEO on AI, Dating, and the Algorithm Designed to Be Deleted

2025-06-24
Hinge CEO on AI, Dating, and the Algorithm Designed to Be Deleted

In this Decoder interview, Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod discusses his personal journey and how it shaped the dating app's evolution. Hinge aims to facilitate lasting connections, ultimately aiming for users to “delete” the app. The conversation explores Hinge's use of AI for personalized matching and user coaching, balancing AI with the importance of real-world connections. McLeod cautions against AI companionship, likening it to “junk food.” He also addresses Hinge's data privacy practices, government regulations, and future plans regarding AI and competition. The interview touches upon Match Group's structure, the impact of Apple's App Store changes, and Hinge's plans for alternative payment systems.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Building a Polite and Fast Web Crawler: Lessons Learned

2025-01-05

Mozilla engineer Dennis Schubert found that 70% of Diaspora's server load stemmed from poorly-behaved bots, with OpenAI and Amazon contributing 40%. This article details the author's experience building a polite and fast web crawler, covering rate limiting, respecting robots.txt, minimizing refetching, and efficient enqueuing. Using Python and gevent, the author assigns a coroutine per domain for rate limiting and leverages Postgres for efficient queue management and deduplication. This design allows for fast and efficient crawling while respecting target websites.

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(cameronboehmer.com)
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Railway: Automating Revenue, Not Sales

2024-12-18
Railway: Automating Revenue, Not Sales

Railway shares its journey of shifting from traditional sales to automated revenue growth. Initial attempts at traditional sales proved ineffective. They pivoted to a product-led growth (PLG) model and developed a regression model to predict customer upgrades or churn. This model uses factors like successful/failed builds, configured regions, support requests, and feature adoption to score customers, identifying those needing assistance. Proactive support and this targeted approach boosted revenue and customer satisfaction, leading to sustainable business growth.

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(blog.railway.com)
Startup automated revenue product-led growth regression model

Media Trust Crumbles: Is Journalism Destroying Itself?

2025-03-01
Media Trust Crumbles: Is Journalism Destroying Itself?

A new Gallup poll reveals an all-time low in public trust in the media, with only 31% expressing confidence. The article argues that the media's abandonment of objectivity and shift towards overt advocacy journalism are key factors. Journalism schools now cultivate journalists as advocates for social justice rather than objective reporters. Media executives openly declare that 'objectivity has got to go.' This trend fuels a disconnect between the media and the public, leading to audience loss and ultimately undermining journalism's crucial role in a democracy. While some media organizations are trying to reverse course, rebuilding public trust will be a long and arduous process.

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(jonathanturley.org)
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PC Gaming's Decade-Long Reign: Outperforming Consoles by a Mile

2025-01-17
PC Gaming's Decade-Long Reign: Outperforming Consoles by a Mile

A recent Epyllion report reveals PC gaming's continued dominance over the last decade. The report highlights that since 2011, PC gaming content spending has surpassed console revenue by over 65%, totaling over $30 billion (excluding hardware). This success is attributed to factors like a vast game library, near-full backward compatibility, multitasking capabilities, lower entry costs, and better esports suitability. Even with an $18 billion increase in console spending in 2024 compared to 2011, PC gaming's content spending remains significantly higher.

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(insider-gaming.com)
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Building Websites with Browser-Based XSL: No Server-Side Code Needed

2025-08-23
Building Websites with Browser-Based XSL: No Server-Side Code Needed

This article demonstrates building websites using browsers' built-in XSL support, eliminating the need for server-side code, static site generators, or JavaScript. By defining templates within XML files, the browser renders custom tags as HTML, creating a consistently themed website. Advanced examples showcasing templating with fields and nested templates are also provided.

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(github.com)
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C++ Modules: A Broken Promise?

2025-09-01

This article takes a pessimistic view on the progress of C++ modules. The author argues that if C++ modules cannot demonstrate a 5x (preferably 10x) compilation speedup across multiple existing open-source codebases, they should be abandoned. The article highlights the challenging development journey, citing the tight integration required between compilers and build systems as a major hurdle. The author emphasizes that the focus should be on improving compilation speed rather than addressing relatively rare issues like macro leakage. He recounts the standardization process, pointing out underestimation of implementation difficulties. Finally, the author suggests an alternative approach – `import std` – while acknowledging its limited potential for improvement.

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(nibblestew.blogspot.com)
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Google Mocks Apple's Year-Long Siri AI Upgrade Delay

2025-08-05
Google Mocks Apple's Year-Long Siri AI Upgrade Delay

Apple promised a major AI-powered Siri upgrade for iPhone 16 users via Apple Intelligence last year, but a year later, the upgrade is still missing, prompting Apple to pull related ads. Seizing the opportunity, Google's latest Pixel 10 ad subtly mocks Apple's delayed “soon-to-arrive” AI features, suggesting users switch phones. The ad, released on YouTube and X, teases the Pixel 10 launch on August 20th. Reports indicate Apple's delay stems from issues with Siri's hybrid architecture. Apple's software chief, Craig Federighi, confirmed they're working on a significantly improved Siri.

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(www.theverge.com)
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From DIY Pi-hole Hell to NextDNS Nirvana: A $20 Solution

2025-02-19
From DIY Pi-hole Hell to NextDNS Nirvana: A $20 Solution

The author initially used a Raspberry Pi to set up a Pi-hole ad blocker. While easy to set up and user-friendly, it frequently caused network outages, requiring constant troubleshooting and consuming significant time. Eventually, the author switched to NextDNS, a SaaS service, resolving all issues for $20/year. This eliminated the need for tedious maintenance and troubleshooting, providing a more stable ad-blocking experience. The author concludes that the cost is well worth the time and effort saved.

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(mattsayar.com)
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Building a Docker Container from Scratch: Unveiling the Secrets of Mount Namespaces

2025-09-17
Building a Docker Container from Scratch: Unveiling the Secrets of Mount Namespaces

This article provides a clear and concise explanation of how to build a simple Docker-like container using only stock Linux tools: unshare, mount, and pivot_root. It focuses on the crucial role of the mount namespace in container isolation, and the complementary roles of other namespaces (PID, cgroup, UTS, network). Through step-by-step practical exercises, readers will understand how mount namespaces isolate mount tables and how mount propagation affects interactions between namespaces. Ultimately, readers will be able to create fully featured, Docker-style containers using only standard Linux commands.

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(labs.iximiuz.com)
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Giant Emojis in Your Terminal: A 1978 Tech Hack

2025-06-24

This article explores a clever way to display enlarged emojis in your terminal using the VT100's DECDHL escape sequence. By printing the top and bottom halves of an emoji on consecutive lines, you can achieve a vertical scaling effect. The article demonstrates how to combine different emojis to create novel results, such as merging an expressionless face and a face without a mouth into a new emoji. It also mentions Kitty terminal's more modern approach to resizing text. Overall, it's a fun and insightful look at manipulating emojis in the terminal, showcasing both vintage and modern terminal technology.

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(dgl.cx)
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Marble Mayhem: Collect Gems, Conquer Obstacles!

2025-06-24
Marble Mayhem: Collect Gems, Conquer Obstacles!

This is a cartoon-style marble game where players navigate a landscape filled with moving platforms and perilous hazards. The goal is to collect hidden gems and race to the finish line for the best time. Power-ups like speed boosts, enhanced jumps, and flight assist players in overcoming obstacles. The game features various hazards including duct fans, tornadoes, trapdoors, bumpers, landmines, and oil slicks, adding a layer of challenge. The game also details its Torque game engine and credits involved teams.

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(marbleblast.vaniverse.io)
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illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

2025-08-21
illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

Following the success of the BSD Cafe, the illumos Cafe project has launched. Similar in spirit to the BSD Cafe, illumos Cafe aims to provide services running on illumos-based operating systems, demonstrating their usability and promoting open-source OS diversity. Currently, it hosts Mastodon and snac instances, with plans to expand services. The project embraces a positive and inclusive philosophy, seeking to create a free and independent community, free from the control of large tech companies.

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(it-notes.dragas.net)
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Coalton Powers Quantum Compiler Breakthrough: Implementing Discrete Compilation

2025-05-08

Quilc, a state-of-the-art quantum compiler written in Common Lisp, faced challenges due to limitations of dynamically typed languages. Researchers leveraged the strictly-typed Coalton language to implement a new feature called discrete compilation. This feature improves the precision and efficiency of quantum computation by discretizing continuous quantum operations. Using the Ross-Selinger algorithm, arbitrary unitary matrices are decomposed into combinations of Clifford+T gates. Coalton's type class system simplified operations across different algebraic rings, making it an ideal tool for implementing this complex algorithm. This work successfully integrated discrete compilation into Quilc, paving the way for practical applications in quantum computing.

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(coalton-lang.github.io)
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Servo Engine Makes Strides: Windows Multi-process Support Lands!

2025-07-18

The open-source web layout engine Servo continues to advance. This month's update highlights significant progress in incremental layout, performance optimizations, WebDriver server support for automation, viewport meta tag support, DOM scroll event support, basic IndexedDB support, improved AbortController abort handling, experimental multi-process support on Windows, and enhanced DevTools and screen reader capabilities. Servo is steadily maturing into a robust embeddable browser engine.

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(www.phoronix.com)
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tinymcp: Control Embedded Devices with LLMs

2025-07-07
tinymcp: Control Embedded Devices with LLMs

The tinymcp project enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It leverages Golioth's LightDB state and Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to achieve this. Existing devices can expose RPCs without firmware modification by updating LightDB state. A simple blinky example demonstrates exposing LED control to an LLM via tinymcp. Users need to connect a device to the Golioth platform and run the tinymcp server locally. Tools like MCP Inspector and Claude Code are available for testing and interaction with tinymcp.

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(github.com)
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Microrim's Rapid Port of R:BASE System V to OS/2

2025-08-11

In late 1986, Microrim, a database software company, faced a monumental task: porting their flagship product, R:BASE System V, to IBM's newly emerging OS/2 before its official launch. Leveraging their modular software design and expertise, they systematically converted the largely FORTRAN-based application to C using a translation tool, then efficiently ported it to OS/2 by isolating OS-specific calls. This feat, accomplished in a remarkably short timeframe, showcased Microrim's prowess and offered valuable lessons for other developers facing similar challenges. The resulting OS/2 version benefited from OS/2's expanded memory and multitasking capabilities, enhancing performance and user experience.

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(gitpi.us)
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Raspberry Pi E-Ink Commute & Weather Tracker: Closing the Agency Gap

2025-03-29
Raspberry Pi E-Ink Commute & Weather Tracker: Closing the Agency Gap

The author built a Raspberry Pi-powered e-ink display that shows real-time subway arrival times and weather forecasts, solving a daily morning commute problem. The device displays date, time, upcoming F & G train arrivals for the next 30 minutes, and a 12-hour weather forecast. The project details cover hardware and software design, including data acquisition from the MTA API, display engine, and update strategies to minimize screen flickering and ghosting. The final product is aesthetically pleasing and functional, loved by the author's wife, successfully bridging the 'agency gap'.

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(sambroner.com)
Hardware E-ink

Conquering Rust: Practical Tips to Avoid Common Pitfalls

2025-05-13
Conquering Rust: Practical Tips to Avoid Common Pitfalls

This article summarizes common mistakes Rust learners make and offers practical advice. The core is shifting your mindset: treat the compiler as a collaborator, not an adversary, and actively use its error messages to learn. The author suggests starting with simple examples, gradually increasing complexity, and mastering core concepts like ownership and lifetimes. Furthermore, the article emphasizes attention to detail, reading standard library documentation, and improving skills through practice and code reviews.

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(corrode.dev)
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US Visa Changes Spark Rise in South Korea's 'Digital Undertaker' Services

2025-06-28
US Visa Changes Spark Rise in South Korea's 'Digital Undertaker' Services

The US Embassy in Seoul has resumed accepting student and exchange visa applications, but with a new requirement: applicants must make all social media accounts public. This has caused anxiety among South Korean students seeking to study in the US, leading many to seek help from 'digital undertaker' services. These services, offered by online reputation management firms, remove potentially damaging posts and photos from social media. The cost ranges from ₩100,000 to millions of won, highlighting the tightening of US visa policies and the impact of social media on personal reputation.

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(www.koreaherald.com)
Misc US visa social media scrutiny digital undertakers US Visa Digital Undertaker

Mysterious B-2 Bomber Deployment: Iran?

2025-03-27
Mysterious B-2 Bomber Deployment: Iran?

A significant, and largely unacknowledged, deployment of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers has been tracked from Whiteman AFB to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Open-source intelligence indicates at least four or five B-2s were involved, with one diverting to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam due to an emergency. The scale of this deployment is unprecedented, exceeding typical Bomber Task Force or Global Power Missions. Accompanying the B-2s are numerous C-17 transports carrying personnel and equipment. Runway closures at Diego Garcia until May 1st suggest a prolonged stay. While official comment is lacking, the timing, coinciding with heightened tensions in the Middle East, particularly US sanctions and threats against Iran, leads many to speculate a connection to Iran. The B-2’s capability to carry the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator further fuels this theory.

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(theaviationist.com)
Tech B-2 Bomber Military Deployment Middle East

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-01-31
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new features directly on the arXiv website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who adhere to them. Have an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID: A Surprisingly Basic Bot Protection System?

2025-06-30

This post delves into Vercel's newly released BotID anti-bot system, focusing on its free Basic mode. The author reveals that the Basic mode's current detection mechanisms are surprisingly rudimentary and easily bypassed by manipulating browser properties. While BotID collects various signals including browser fingerprints and GPU information, its processing of these signals is basic, failing to effectively identify sophisticated bots. The author speculates that Vercel is using Basic mode to quietly gather data for training future, more robust anti-bot models. The paid Deep Analysis mode, utilizing Kasada's anti-bot scripts, is significantly more complex than Basic mode.

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(www.nullpt.rs)
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US Debt Crisis: Economic Models Crash, Predicting Disaster

2025-07-17
US Debt Crisis: Economic Models Crash, Predicting Disaster

Concerns about the massive US debt are resurfacing. Economists used powerful computing models to simulate future economic trends, with shocking results: the models failed to converge, meaning long-term economic projections are impossible under the current rate of debt growth. This isn't just another 'boy who cried wolf' scenario; it signals a potential economic catastrophe. Continued debt escalation could lead to soaring interest rates, economic contraction, and other severe consequences. Experts suggest reforms like raising the retirement age, implementing a carbon tax, and reducing social security benefits, but the probability of success is only 5%.

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(www.marketplace.org)
Tech Economic Models

Ontology Is Overrated: Links, Tags, and the Death of Categories

2025-03-09

This essay challenges the conventional wisdom of ontology-based categorization in the digital age. The author argues that pre-defined categories, reminiscent of library catalogs, are constrained by physical limitations and human biases, ill-suited for the dynamic nature of the web. Instead, they propose a more organic system based on links and tags, allowing for free-form user labeling and valuable insights from large, messy datasets. Using Yahoo! and Google as examples, the author demonstrates the superiority of link-based search over pre-defined categories, showing how tagging systems better adapt to the scale, diversity, and dynamism of online information.

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(web.archive.org)
Misc ontology categorization

Self-Folding Origami: Art Meets Engineering

2025-06-19

This art explores the natural equilibrium forms achieved by folding paper along curved creases. The resulting sculptures, transforming flat paper into swirling surfaces, feel surprisingly alive. This research has implications for deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. The artist's work, including pieces like '200 Circles' (2018) and the 'Holderness Series' (2013), has been featured in prestigious galleries and even entered the permanent collection of MoMA.

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(erikdemaine.org)
Design origami deployable structures

Open-Source 5-Band Equalizer a5eq.lv2 Released

2024-12-18
Open-Source 5-Band Equalizer a5eq.lv2 Released

ashafq has released a5eq.lv2, an open-source 5-band equalizer LV2 plugin. This plugin features a low shelf, three peaking filters, and a high shelf, designed for precise audio sculpting by both amateur and professional audio engineers. It boasts high-precision filter coefficients, stereo processing, and a user-friendly interface. Compatible with any LV2-supporting host software such as Ardour and Audacity, it's easily installed and used via command line. Users can submit issues or contribute code via GitHub.

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(github.com)
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