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Running Pong in Browser Tabs

2025-02-20

Running Pong in Browser Tabs

A developer ingeniously runs Pong across 240 browser tabs! Using AppleScript to create a tab grid, Web Workers for efficient background updates, and Broadcast Channel for inter-tab communication, they render the game on tab favicons. This project showcases the power of browser APIs and creative problem-solving.

(eieio.games)

Development creative coding

Startup Failure After 3 Years: Founder Open-Sources All Code

2024-12-17

Startup Failure After 3 Years: Founder Open-Sources All Code

After three years, Dylan Huang's developer tools startup, Konfig, has shut down. Konfig focused on simplifying API integrations, with its core product being an SDK generator alongside API documentation and testing tools. Despite gaining some early traction, the company failed to achieve hyper-growth due to challenges in securing contracts and low pricing. A pivot to a B2B SaaS AI product also proved unsuccessful. Now, Huang is open-sourcing Konfig's entire codebase – including the core product, failed pivots, and various supporting scripts – hoping it will be beneficial to others. While the startup ended in failure, Huang emphasizes the invaluable lessons learned.

(dylanhuang.com)

Startup startup failure open source code API development tools

Alaska Rivers Turn Orange: Permafrost Thaw Unleashes Toxic Metals

2025-09-14

Alaska Rivers Turn Orange: Permafrost Thaw Unleashes Toxic Metals

Rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range, once pristine, now run orange and murky with toxic metals due to thawing permafrost. Global warming is releasing iron, cadmium, and aluminum into waterways, poisoning fish and devastating ecosystems. Researchers warn similar transformations are underway across the Arctic. This isn't from mining; it's a climate change-driven, irreversible ecological disaster, posing a severe threat to indigenous communities and the Arctic ecosystem.

(news.ucr.edu)

Tech permafrost

The Curious Case of the Public Domain Jaws Poster

2025-06-20

The Curious Case of the Public Domain Jaws Poster

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jaws, a surprising fact emerges: due to a quirk of copyright law, the iconic shark painting from the movie poster is in the public domain. Initially rejected for resembling a "vagina with teeth," the artwork underwent revisions before becoming a classic. However, the lack of a copyright notice upon its 1975 publication inadvertently forfeited the image to the public domain, leaving artist Roger Kastel to unsuccessfully fight for copyright recognition years later and missing out on millions in royalties. The original painting's whereabouts remain a mystery, adding another layer to this fascinating tale of copyright and public domain, sparking discussion on artist rights and the commons.

(ironicsans.ghost.io)

Design Jaws

Startup Winter: Hacker News' Faith in the Startup Myth Freezes Over

2025-01-21

Startup Winter: Hacker News' Faith in the Startup Myth Freezes Over

A recent Hacker News post highlights a shift in startup sentiment. While in 2013, failed founders received supportive comments, now similar stories are met with skepticism about the risks. This change is attributed to: the increased visibility of negative consequences (burnout, relationship issues, mental health struggles); high salaries at Big Tech making the financial incentive for startups less appealing; limitations of the VC model becoming clear; and the low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era being largely picked. The author suggests this signals a 'Startup Winter,' potentially leading to a more authentic and sustainable startup ecosystem.

(www.vincentschmalbach.com)

Startup Startup Winter Venture Capital

Direct3D 12 Turns 10: A Decade of Evolution

2025-09-12

Direct3D 12 Turns 10: A Decade of Evolution

Direct3D 12 celebrates its tenth anniversary! This article looks back at the significant updates to D3D12 over the past decade, including additions like programmable sample points, view instancing, and variable rate shading, as well as enhancements to the HLSL shader language. The author also shares personal development experiences, such as embracing bindless resources and using HLSL templates, and discusses improved debugging techniques. These improvements significantly enhance developer efficiency and game performance, laying a solid foundation for future graphics technology advancements.

(therealmjp.github.io)

Development Graphics API

Million-Dollar Prize for Open-Source AI Coding Competition

2024-12-16

Andy Konwinski launched the K Prize, a $1 million competition to advance open-source AI coding capabilities. The competition uses a revamped version of the SWE-bench benchmark, eliminating test set contamination for a more accurate assessment of AI models' real-world coding skills. Inspired by the Netflix Prize, Konwinski believes the competition will spur AI research and attract top talent globally.

(andykonwinski.com)

AI AI competition open-source

Coding with Free AI: A Multi-Model Approach

2025-08-10

This article details a strategy for efficient coding using multiple free AI models. The author utilizes a browser with numerous tabs, each accessing a different free AI model (e.g., GLM 4.5, Kimi K2, Qwen3 Coder, Gemini AI Studio). A tool called AI Code Prep GUI helps curate code snippets for these models, avoiding information overload. The author advocates using AI for high-level problem-solving and planning, delegating code editing to other tools, maximizing efficiency with free resources. The article also cautions against using Grok.com due to concerns about its potential promotion of misinformation.

(wuu73.org)

Development free AI tools efficient coding

CONL: The Markdown of Configuration Files?

2025-04-26

Tired of the complexities of JSON, YAML, and TOML? A software engineer created CONL, a minimalist configuration file format aiming to be the "Markdown" of configuration files. CONL is easy to read and edit, features a JSON-like data model, and is simple to implement. It supports various data types including scalars, lists, and maps, with good support for multiline strings. The author also provides implementations for Rust and Go, along with a language server and Zed extension.

(cirw.in)

Development configuration files

Go's Native FIPS 140-3 Crypto Module: A Secure and Simple Solution

2025-07-16

Go 1.24 and later now natively supports FIPS 140-3 compliance through a new cryptographic module developed in collaboration with Geomys. This module, validated by CAVP certificate A6650 and undergoing CMVP review, eliminates previous friction points for Go users in regulated environments. Offering a seamless developer experience, it boasts uncompromising security, using optimized ECDSA and a NIST DRBG based on AES-256-CTR. It supports a wide range of platforms and algorithms, surpassing the capabilities and security of its predecessor, Go+BoringCrypto. This native module provides the easiest and most secure path to FIPS 140-3 compliance for Go developers.

(go.dev)

Development Cryptographic Module

NVIDIA to Build Massive AI Supercomputer Manufacturing in the US

2025-04-14

NVIDIA to Build Massive AI Supercomputer Manufacturing in the US

NVIDIA is partnering with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL to build over a million square feet of manufacturing space in Arizona and Texas for its Blackwell AI chips and supercomputers. Over the next four years, they plan to produce up to half a trillion dollars worth of AI infrastructure in the US, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and boosting economic security. This initiative marks a significant step in establishing a robust US AI infrastructure, strengthening supply chain resilience, and meeting the soaring demand for AI computing power.

(blogs.nvidia.com)

Tech AI supercomputers US manufacturing

A Time Traveler's Procrastination: A Strategy?

2025-03-18

A Time Traveler's Procrastination: A Strategy?

With eternity at your disposal, no task is truly urgent. But some crucial tasks are daunting, their failure signifying complete life failure. This article follows a time traveler who uses procrastination—listening to music, collecting old books, sightseeing, and even using tours to understand local history and culture—to study the 'memetic decay' of historical events, preparing for significant future tasks. His seemingly lazy procrastination is a part of a meticulous plan to outmaneuver his enemies.

(medium.com)

Misc time travel

Taming LLMs: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls

2024-12-12

This book, "Taming LLMs," delves into the key limitations and implementation pitfalls encountered by engineers and technical product managers when building LLM-powered applications. Instead of focusing solely on capabilities, it tackles practical challenges such as handling unstructured output, managing context windows, and cost optimization. With reproducible Python code examples and battle-tested open-source tools, it provides a practical guide to navigating these challenges, allowing readers to harness the power of LLMs while sidestepping their inherent limitations.

(www.souzatharsis.com)

Development Large Language Models Open Source Software LLM Application Development

NYC's Free E-bike Swap Program for Delivery Workers

2025-02-15

NYC's Free E-bike Swap Program for Delivery Workers

NYC's Department of Transportation is launching a free e-bike trade-in program for delivery workers. Workers who earned at least $1500 in 2024, reside in one of the five boroughs, and own a non-compliant e-bike or moped can exchange it for a new UL-certified e-bike with a spare battery. This initiative aims to improve safety for delivery workers often using uncertified, cheaper vehicles. The program has limited spots and will use a lottery system if applications exceed availability. The application deadline is March 10, 2025.

(electrek.co)

Misc e-bike safety delivery workers NYC DOT

LED Efficiency Surpasses 100%: A Low-Voltage Breakthrough

2025-03-20

LED Efficiency Surpasses 100%: A Low-Voltage Breakthrough

MIT researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, an LED that emits more optical power than it consumes, achieving an efficiency of 230%. The key is drastically reducing the applied voltage to 30 picowatts, where LED efficiency increases as output power decreases. While currently limited to low-power, dim LEDs, this breakthrough leverages excess heat from atomic lattice vibrations, opening new avenues for highly efficient electromagnetic communication and novel solid-state cooling technologies. It challenges the conventional understanding of LED efficiency being inversely proportional to brightness.

(phys.org)

Tech low voltage

Broken OBS Studio Flatpak on Fedora: A Third-Party Package Masquerading as Official

2025-02-14

Broken OBS Studio Flatpak on Fedora: A Third-Party Package Masquerading as Official

The unofficial OBS Studio Flatpak package on Fedora is reportedly broken, leading to user complaints directed at the official developers. This isn't an isolated incident; many users express frustration with Fedora's aggressive Flatpak deployment and lack of clear opt-out options. The author requests either removal of the package or clear labeling as third-party, questioning the decision to replace a functional Flatpak with a broken one, thus undermining official efforts.

(gitlab.com)

Development

Escape the Cloud Vendor Lock-in: Build Your Own Heroku with CoreOS and Dokploy

2025-08-16

Escape the Cloud Vendor Lock-in: Build Your Own Heroku with CoreOS and Dokploy

This article tackles the pain points of cloud hosting costs and maintenance, exploring the trade-offs between expensive VPSs and convenient serverless solutions. The author proposes a middle ground: combining CoreOS (a stable, secure, and maintenance-free container OS) with Dokploy (an open-source CI/CD tool similar to Heroku) to transform a VPS into a low-cost, easy-to-maintain platform. Dokploy simplifies container orchestration, deployment, and log management, offering a PaaS-like experience while retaining the cost advantages and independence of a VPS. This approach is suitable for developers with some technical experience who want to balance cost and convenience.

(nikodunk.com)

Development

Apple Q1 Earnings: Record Revenue, AI-Powered Future

2025-01-31

Apple announced its financial results for fiscal Q1 2025 (calendar Q4 2024), reporting record revenue of $124.3 billion, a 4% year-over-year increase. Earnings per share rose 10% to $2.40. Services, Mac, and iPad revenues saw significant growth, while iPhone and Wearables experienced slight declines. CEO Tim Cook highlighted this as Apple's best quarter ever, emphasizing the role of Apple Intelligence in enhancing user experience and driving future growth. Apple Intelligence will support more languages in April. The earnings call also provided guidance for the next quarter, projecting low-to-mid single-digit revenue growth.

(www.macrumors.com)

Tech Apple Earnings Revenue Growth

The 2000-Year-Old Secret of the Smurfs' Hats

2025-09-11

The 2000-Year-Old Secret of the Smurfs' Hats

Ever wondered about that iconic white hat on every Smurf's head? It's not just a cute accessory; it's a Phrygian cap with a 2000-year history, originally a symbol of freedom for Roman slaves, later adopted by the French Revolution. This article delves into the hat's origins and evolution, revealing its connection to ancient civilizations and historical events, offering a fun historical and cultural exploration.

(www.pipelinecomics.com)

Misc Smurfs Phrygian cap

Schneier's 'Data and Goliath' Prediction: A Decade Later, Privacy Lost?

2025-02-17

Schneier's 'Data and Goliath' Prediction: A Decade Later, Privacy Lost?

A decade after Bruce Schneier's book, 'Data and Goliath,' warned about government and tech giants exploiting personal data, his predictions ring eerily true. Data harvesting continues, especially for AI model training, leaving personal privacy almost completely compromised. Schneier advocates for comprehensive privacy laws and regulation of mass surveillance, but this remains unlikely in the short term. While some regions have implemented regulations, surveillance capitalism and the power of tech monopolies hinder meaningful change. Individual efforts to protect privacy are largely ineffective, and even companies like Apple offer limited protection. Schneier remains cautiously optimistic about long-term privacy, but acknowledges a long road ahead.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

China Reveals Details of Alleged NSA Attack on Northwestern Polytechnical University

2025-02-19

China Reveals Details of Alleged NSA Attack on Northwestern Polytechnical University

A blog post details publicly available Chinese reports on an alleged NSA (APT-C-40) cyberattack against Northwestern Polytechnical University. The reports claim the NSA used over 40 unique malware strains, employing techniques including zero-day exploits, MITM attacks, and spear-phishing emails, to steal sensitive data. Chinese cybersecurity firms attributed the attack based on analysis of attack times, keyboard inputs, human errors, and toolkits. The author compares Western and Chinese incident response methodologies and discusses future cybersecurity trends. The authenticity of the claims remains unverified.

(www.inversecos.com)

Tech APT attack

The Unexpected Advantages of Slow Thinking

2025-09-15

The Unexpected Advantages of Slow Thinking

The author reflects on their slow processing speed, initially feeling disadvantaged in competitive environments like volleyball and university. However, they've realized slow thinking isn't a weakness but a strength. By focusing on strategic planning and long-term thinking, they've compensated for their speed, finding success in science and writing. Choosing work that suits their style—theoretical physics and coding—and using writing for communication, the author demonstrates that slow thinkers can thrive.

(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

Misc slow thinking

Minimalist Agentic Coder in 200 Lines of TypeScript

2025-03-25

A minimalist agentic coder, mycoder-mini, built using Anthropic's Claude 3 LLM, is implemented in just 200 lines of TypeScript. It receives user prompts, generates shell commands via Claude 3, executes them, and iterates until the task is finished. While limited by synchronous execution, lack of browser integration, and a restricted toolset, mycoder-mini clearly demonstrates the core principles of agentic coding, providing a great starting point for learning and exploring more sophisticated systems.

(benhouston3d.com)

Development Agentic Coding

Dover Website: JavaScript Required

2025-01-13

A visit to a website called Dover reveals a prompt requiring JavaScript to be enabled to run the application. This strongly suggests the site heavily relies on JavaScript for front-end rendering or interactive functionality. It likely uses dynamic content, animations, or a complex interactive interface that necessitates JavaScript for proper operation. This raises questions about website design choices and the degree of JavaScript dependency.

(app.dover.com)

Development front-end

Extending Futhark's Backend: Not Easy, But Not Impossible

2025-03-28

This post delves into the complexities of adding a new backend to the Futhark compiler. Futhark uses a staged compilation process: the frontend parses and type-checks, the middle-end optimizes and transforms, and the backend translates the intermediate representation (IR) to target code. Backend implementation isn't a simple tutorial; it involves multiple IR dialects and a deep understanding of internal APIs. The author suggests choosing the appropriate IR dialect based on the target language's level of abstraction and leveraging existing infrastructure to simplify development. The ultimate goal is a new backend invokable via the command line.

(futhark-lang.org)

Development backend development

bioRxiv and medRxiv Become Independent Non-Profit: openRxiv

2025-03-11

bioRxiv and medRxiv Become Independent Non-Profit: openRxiv

The preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, previously managed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), have launched as the independent non-profit organization openRxiv. This transition, supported by a $16 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), ensures the long-term sustainability of these crucial platforms for sharing biological and medical research preprints. Since their inception, bioRxiv has hosted over 268,000 preprints, and medRxiv nearly 64,000, collectively attracting over 11 million monthly readers. The creation of openRxiv marks a significant step in the maturation of preprint servers and underscores their vital role in the scientific publishing ecosystem.

(www.nature.com)

Tech biology open science

Reclaiming Sensor Data: Breaking Free from the Cloud

2024-12-18

Reclaiming Sensor Data: Breaking Free from the Cloud

This article details how an embedded software engineer regained control of data from a cloud-connected radon sensor by bypassing the manufacturer's servers. By analyzing network traffic, the engineer discovered a vulnerability where the sensor didn't properly validate server certificates. Leveraging a local DNS server and a custom Python web server, the engineer successfully intercepted and read the raw sensor data. This grants programmatic access and ensures continued functionality even if the manufacturer's servers go down. The article highlights the importance of network security and the privacy risks associated with DNS traffic.

(embeddedartistry.com)

Development IoT security data autonomy embedded systems

The Apple-1 Registry: Tracking the Legacy of Apple's First Computer

2025-08-12

The Apple-1 Registry: Tracking the Legacy of Apple's First Computer

This registry meticulously documents the known Apple-1 computers, Apple's first creation. Each entry includes location data, batch information, verification status, associated images and videos, historical context, and auction history. The registry highlights the rarity of these machines and encourages community contributions to preserve the history of this iconic piece of computing history.

(www.apple1registry.com)

Hardware Apple-1

Critical Microsoft Partner Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-49035)

2025-03-05

A critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-49035, has been discovered in Microsoft's Partner Center, allowing unauthenticated attackers to elevate privileges on a network. This improper access control vulnerability is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Microsoft advises users to apply mitigations, follow BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use by March 18, 2025.

(nvd.nist.gov)

Tech privilege escalation

American Singer Caught in East German Underground

2025-03-09

American Singer Caught in East German Underground

Popular American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany for a music festival and falls for the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, becoming entangled in an underground resistance movement. He teams up with Agent Cedric and Hillary to rescue her father, Dr. Paul, a scientist captured by the Germans who want him to build a new naval mine.

(binocularshot.com)

Game spy

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