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Luthor: Hiring Their First Full-Time Engineer

2025-03-17

Luthor: Hiring Their First Full-Time Engineer

Luthor, a fintech startup building AI-powered marketing compliance agents, is hiring its first full-time engineer. The role involves collaborating directly with the CEO and CTO to design and build the platform's core architecture, directly interacting with customers to gather feedback and develop innovative solutions. The tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, and Docker. The ideal candidate is customer-obsessed, experienced in building and scaling high-performing B2B software products, entrepreneurial, and a strong communicator. Compensation is $120k-$180k, plus generous equity, commuter benefits, paid team vacations, and comprehensive health insurance.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup

RCSS: Rust-Flavored CSS Preprocessor

2025-04-10

RCSS: Rust-Flavored CSS Preprocessor

RCSS is a styling language bringing Rust-inspired syntax to CSS. Combining Rust's robustness with SASS-like features such as nesting and variables, it aims for cleaner, more maintainable styles. The current implementation boasts Rust-like syntax, supporting variables, nesting, and functions (currently without arguments), along with a VS Code extension for syntax highlighting. Future plans include adding support for functions with arguments, importing, a formatter, improved CSS output formatting, and better error handling and debugging tools. RCSS boasts impressive compilation speed, completing in a few hundred microseconds.

(github.com)

Development CSS preprocessor

arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

2025-05-17

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Archaeological Dig: Running Opera Mini in 2025

2025-05-29

Archaeological Dig: Running Opera Mini in 2025

Opera Mini, the wildly popular mobile browser from 2005, leveraged cloud rendering to conquer low-end phones. Now largely obsolete, its Java ME version still functions. This article details running Opera Mini on modern computers and experiencing its unique rendering and nostalgic interface. While struggling with modern websites, it retains features absent in modern browsers like RSS integration. It's a fascinating glimpse into mobile internet history and the twilight years of a once-giant.

(www.spacebar.news)

Tech Retro Browser

Hotline Reborn: A Swift Resurrection for Modern Apple Systems

2025-02-08

Hotline Reborn: A Swift Resurrection for Modern Apple Systems

A project is underway to resurrect the classic 1997 Mac online community software, Hotline, by completely recreating it in Swift and SwiftUI for modern Apple systems (iOS, macOS, etc.). Currently, it's a client-side application for connecting to and interacting with Hotline servers, offering features like IRC-style chat, private messaging, forum-like news, bulletin board posting, and FTP-style file transfers. The goal is a modern, open-source Hotline client, aiming to revive this beloved brand for a new generation.

(github.com)

Development retro

Pope Francis Dies: A Controversial Reformer's Legacy

2025-04-21

Pope Francis Dies: A Controversial Reformer's Legacy

Pope Francis, 88, passed away on April 1st, 2025. The first Latin American pope, he charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor, but alienated conservatives with his critiques of capitalism and climate change. His papacy was marked by contradictions: embracing refugees, showing inclusivity towards the LGBTQ+ community, and pushing for reforms within the Vatican bureaucracy and finances. However, he also faced criticism for his handling of the Chilean clergy sexual abuse scandal. He attempted to bridge the gap between conservative and progressive factions within the Catholic Church, but ultimately left a complex and controversial legacy.

(apnews.com)

Misc Pope Francis Religious Reform

Apple Unveils Stunning New Software Design: Liquid Glass

2025-06-09

Apple Unveils Stunning New Software Design: Liquid Glass

Apple today previewed a breathtaking new software design featuring a revolutionary translucent material called Liquid Glass. This dynamically adaptive design, spanning iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, brings a new level of vitality and focus to content across all Apple platforms. Liquid Glass reacts to content and context, creating a more immersive and delightful user experience. Updated controls, toolbars, and navigation elements are seamlessly integrated, and developers have access to new APIs to easily adopt this stunning new look and feel.

(www.apple.com)

Tech

Rust GPU: Bringing Shadertoy Shaders to Rust

2025-04-12

Rust GPU lets you write GPU programs (shaders) in Rust. The authors ported several popular Shadertoy shaders to Rust with ease. Rust GPU compiles Rust code to SPIR-V, integrating seamlessly into Vulkan workflows. The project leverages Rust features like traits, generics, and macros, simplifying CPU/GPU data sharing. Furthermore, the project contributed back to the ecosystem by fixing issues in wgpu and naga.

(rust-gpu.github.io)

Development

Commencement Speech: Ditch the 'Drifting,' Chart Your Course

2025-05-23

Commencement Speech: Ditch the 'Drifting,' Chart Your Course

A commencement speech recounts the speaker's post-graduation uncertainty and eventual pathfinding. Graduates are categorized: those with plans, the apathetic, and those wanting plans but lacking them. The speech focuses on helping the last group. Graduation is framed as a pivotal point, no longer following 'train tracks,' but allowing free direction. It encourages active networking, finding interesting people and work, and overcoming fear of rejection to pursue ambitious goals, even if initial ideas seem flawed.

(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)

Startup rejection

Mathematician Baez: π Has an Evil Twin!

2024-12-24

Mathematician Baez: π Has an Evil Twin!

Mathematician John Carlos Baez posted on Mathstodon that the number pi (π) has an 'evil twin,' a number he calls 'c'. This intriguing statement has sparked curiosity among math enthusiasts, prompting speculation about the nature and meaning of this mysterious 'c'. The post itself lacks detailed explanation, leaving the specifics open to interpretation and fueling further exploration into mathematical mysteries.

(mathstodon.xyz)

Misc Pi

Google's AI Monopoly: How It Silenced a Travel Website (And Thousands More)

2025-05-29

Google's AI Monopoly: How It Silenced a Travel Website (And Thousands More)

Travel Lemming, a small travel website, lost over 95% of its traffic due to Google's algorithm updates. The author argues that Google used AI updates to systematically suppress independent websites, clearing the way for its AI-first search future. Google isn't just monopolizing search; it's aiming to monopolize answers themselves, creating an information cartel. The author calls for attention to this issue to prevent the flow of information from being controlled by a single entity.

(travellemming.com)

Startup Search Engine Monopoly

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

2025-08-29

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

This project showcases the new Bluetooth HID Device API in Android P, implementing a simple air mouse and cursor keys emulator on a Wear OS device. Connect to laptops and desktops running Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, or Android TV without extra software – just a Bluetooth receiver is needed. Utilizing the Google VR library for orientation tracking ensures a stable and reliable air mouse experience.

(github.com)

Development Bluetooth HID Air Mouse

Mati Carbon Wins $50M XPrize for Novel Carbon Removal Tech

2025-04-25

Mati Carbon Wins $50M XPrize for Novel Carbon Removal Tech

The XPrize Foundation announced the winners of its $100 million carbon removal competition. Houston-based startup Mati Carbon took home the $50 million grand prize for its enhanced rock weathering technology, which involves spreading crushed basalt on farms to sequester atmospheric CO2. Mati Carbon's data-driven approach, rigorous verification process, and software platform impressed the judges. While direct air capture and ocean-based solutions didn't meet the 1,000-tonne removal threshold, several received milestone awards, highlighting their progress. Scaling up carbon removal technologies remains crucial for tackling climate change.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech

Citizen Lab Director Warns of Tech-Fascism Fusion, Calls on Cybersecurity Community to Act

2025-08-07

Citizen Lab Director Warns of Tech-Fascism Fusion, Calls on Cybersecurity Community to Act

Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, issued a stark warning at Black Hat, highlighting a growing fusion of technology and fascism, with Big Tech playing a significant role. He urged the cybersecurity community to address this challenge, preventing complicity in human rights abuses. Deibert linked recent political events in the US to a worrying slide towards authoritarianism, arguing the cybersecurity community has a responsibility to help counter this trend. He expressed concern that major tech companies might cut threat intelligence teams, weakening defenses against government spyware and severely impacting global civil society.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech government spyware

Mass-Production Ready: A 3D-Printed Soft Robot Walks Off the Printer

2025-05-31

Mass-Production Ready: A 3D-Printed Soft Robot Walks Off the Printer

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a mass-production-capable soft robot 3D-printed in a single, nine-hour process using a $500 open-source printer. The quadruped robot, made of flexible TPU, overcomes the challenges of 3D-printing this material by using a larger filament and an upside-down printing technique. Air-powered, this easily reproducible bot shows promise for applications in exploration, medicine, and search and rescue, paving the way for wider adoption of soft robotics.

(newatlas.com)

Tech soft robotics mass production

Community College Professors Battle AI-Powered Bot Students

2025-04-17

Community College Professors Battle AI-Powered Bot Students

Community colleges across the US are facing a surge in AI-powered bots enrolling in online courses to fraudulently obtain financial aid. These bots, often managed by organized rings, submit AI-generated assignments to maintain enrollment and receive disbursements. The phenomenon, exacerbated since the pandemic, cost California community colleges over $11 million in 2024 alone. Professors are spending valuable time identifying and removing these bots, impacting their teaching and creating a skeptical classroom environment. While colleges are implementing mitigation strategies, the ever-evolving nature of the bots and systemic vulnerabilities continue to challenge solutions. The situation highlights the urgent need for technological solutions to prevent bot registrations and safeguard access for legitimate students.

(voiceofsandiego.org)

Tech financial aid fraud

Google Closure Library Resurrected: Saving ClojureScript's Stability

2025-05-16

The stability of Google Closure Library (GCL) started declining around 2019, with Google eventually ceasing maintenance last August. A team has forked GCL to maintain ClojureScript's ecosystem, reverting several breaking changes and aligning it with the latest Google Closure Compiler. This restores functionality to many older ClojureScript libraries and provides a solid foundation for ClojureScript in various JavaScript contexts beyond just browsers. It offers a powerful, framework-agnostic solution for tasks like DOM manipulation, internationalization, and animation, without bloating the final JavaScript artifact.

(clojurescript.org)

Development

Alibaba's ZeroSearch: Training AI Search Without Search Engines

2025-05-09

Alibaba's ZeroSearch: Training AI Search Without Search Engines

Alibaba researchers have developed ZeroSearch, a groundbreaking technique revolutionizing AI search training. By simulating search results, ZeroSearch eliminates the need for costly commercial search engine APIs, enabling large language models (LLMs) to develop advanced search capabilities. This drastically reduces training costs (up to 88%) and provides greater control over training data, leveling the playing field for smaller AI companies. ZeroSearch outperformed models trained with real search engines across seven question-answering datasets. This breakthrough hints at a future where AI increasingly relies on self-simulation, reducing dependence on external services.

(venturebeat.com)

AI Cost Reduction

Distro (YC) Hiring a Business Development Representative

2025-01-02

Distro (YC) Hiring a Business Development Representative

Distro, a Y Combinator-backed AI platform assisting sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors, is hiring a Business Development Representative. The role requires 2-3 years of BDR/sales associate experience in vertical SaaS, CRM and marketing tools proficiency, and event management experience. Responsibilities include lead generation, qualification, pipeline advancement, demo management, and CRM maintenance. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup

SeedLM: A Novel LLM Weight Compression Method Using Pseudo-Random Number Generators

2025-04-06

SeedLM: A Novel LLM Weight Compression Method Using Pseudo-Random Number Generators

Large Language Models (LLMs) are hindered by high runtime costs, limiting widespread deployment. Meta researchers introduce SeedLM, a novel post-training compression method using seeds from a pseudo-random number generator to encode and compress model weights. During inference, SeedLM uses a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) to efficiently generate a random matrix, linearly combined with compressed coefficients to reconstruct weight blocks. This reduces memory access and leverages idle compute cycles, speeding up memory-bound tasks by trading compute for fewer memory accesses. Unlike state-of-the-art methods requiring calibration data, SeedLM is data-free and generalizes well across diverse tasks. Experiments on the challenging Llama 3 70B show zero-shot accuracy at 4- and 3-bit compression matching or exceeding state-of-the-art methods, while maintaining performance comparable to FP16 baselines. FPGA tests demonstrate that 4-bit SeedLM approaches a 4x speed-up over an FP16 Llama 2/3 baseline as model size increases.

(machinelearning.apple.com)

AI

Rust to C Compiler Update: 96% Core Test Coverage!

2025-04-12

Significant progress has been made on a Rust to C compiler project, achieving a 95.9% core test pass rate and culminating in a presentation at Rust Week. The post details fixes for 128-bit integer intrinsics, checked arithmetic, and subslicing bugs. Improvements in C compiler compatibility are also discussed, along with a move towards a more memory-efficient internal IR. Challenges such as difficulties obtaining compilers for certain platforms are acknowledged, but the author remains committed to increasing C99 compliance and broader platform support. Future plans include completing a deep dive into Rust panics and developing a memory profiler.

(fractalfir.github.io)

Development C Compiler

Brain's Active Role in Creating Mental 'Chapters' Revealed

2024-12-19

Brain's Active Role in Creating Mental 'Chapters' Revealed

A new study in Current Biology unveils how the brain segments the continuous stream of daily experiences into distinct, meaningful events. This 'event segmentation' isn't just a passive response to environmental changes; it's an active process shaped by internal scripts based on past experiences and goals. Researchers used audio narratives and fMRI to demonstrate that brain activity, particularly in the medial prefrontal cortex of the default mode network, aligns with event boundaries determined by prioritized scripts. This active construction of mental 'chapters' is crucial for understanding, memory formation, and prioritizing information.

(www.psypost.org)

AI event segmentation brain activity memory

Small Contributions, Big Impact: The Power of Foreign Aid

2025-03-14

Small Contributions, Big Impact: The Power of Foreign Aid

This article explores the impact of foreign aid on global health and development. Using the eradication of polio as a case study, it demonstrates that even though wealthy nations spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid, its impact is substantial. Through the combined efforts of governments and private donations, global polio cases have fallen by over 99%. The article also highlights other successful aid programs, such as PEPFAR and the Global Fund, and calls for increased foreign aid budgets and improved efficiency in aid spending.

(ourworldindata.org)

Misc foreign aid global health

PhysicsForums: How AI-Generated Posts Are Killing the Internet?

2025-01-24

An investigative article exposes the widespread falsification of user posts on PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001, with AI-generated content retroactively added to the site. This microcosm highlights the 'Dead Internet Theory' – the idea that much of the internet isn't human-created. The article analyzes how AI-generated content undermines the authenticity of the forum and the compromises websites make for survival, prompting reflections on the future of the internet and human-computer interaction. The authors examine the ethical implications of using LLMs to generate content under the guise of existing users, blurring the lines between human and machine-generated information.

(hallofdreams.org)

Tech

Langfuse Open Sources All Product Features: Building the Open LLM Engineering Platform

2025-06-04

Langfuse Open Sources All Product Features: Building the Open LLM Engineering Platform

Langfuse is open-sourcing all its product features, including managed vector databases, evaluation tools, and the Playground, to accelerate community application iteration and gather feedback. This move stems from Langfuse's vision to be the leading open-source LLM engineering platform. By opening core features, they aim to foster trust, collaboration, accelerate adoption, and iterate faster. Langfuse started as an open-source project and remains committed to this principle. Only Enterprise security and platform team features (e.g., SCIM, audit logs, data retention policies) remain commercially licensed; the rest are MIT licensed. With over 8,000 monthly active self-hosted instances, this move solidifies Langfuse as the top choice for a powerful, truly open-source platform in LLMOps.

(langfuse.com)

Development

Linux Hardware Guru: Michael Larabel and Phoronix

2025-06-05

Michael Larabel, founder of Phoronix.com (2004), is a leading figure in Linux hardware performance. He's authored over 20,000 articles on Linux hardware support, performance, graphics drivers, and more. He's also the lead developer behind the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org – automated benchmarking software.

(www.phoronix.com)

Tech

GNU Interface Layer (GIL) for g++

2025-09-23

GNU Interface Layer (GIL) for g++

This repository provides an implementation of the GNU Interface Layer (GIL) and standard library for g++. It includes a simple "Hello, world!" example in C++, along with other examples like a calculator and merge sort. Running the code requires g++ and careful attention to path settings. The project showcases a non-traditional approach to C++ programming using a custom standard library.

(github.com)

Development

Tailscale's NAT Traversal: A Deep Dive

2025-01-05

Tailscale's NAT Traversal: A Deep Dive

This Tailscale blog post details how their VPN overcomes the challenges of NAT (Network Address Translation) to enable direct device-to-device connections. It explains NAT's workings and various techniques to handle NAT and firewalls, including STUN for discovering public IPs, the birthday paradox for faster port probing, and DERP as a fallback relay. Finally, it introduces the ICE protocol, which automatically tries various methods, selecting the best connection to ensure reliable connectivity.

(tailscale.com)

Development

Hosting.com Acquires Rocket.net: A WordPress Hosting Powerhouse Merges

2025-08-27

Hosting.com Acquires Rocket.net: A WordPress Hosting Powerhouse Merges

Fast-growing managed WordPress hosting company Rocket.net has been acquired by Hosting.com. This acquisition brings Rocket.net's robust SaaS platform and strong brand under Hosting.com's umbrella, while providing Rocket.net with access to significant capital and global reach. Rocket.net will continue to operate independently, with founder and CEO Ben Gabler appointed as Hosting.com's Chief Product Officer. The acquisition strengthens Hosting.com's capabilities and expands its reach to new regions including Mexico, UAE, and Australia. Both companies reaffirm their commitment to WordPress and open source.

(nerds.xyz)

Tech WordPress hosting

DIY Glow-in-the-Dark Strontium Aluminate: A Homemade Chemistry Challenge

2025-01-19

A blogger attempted to synthesize glow-in-the-dark strontium aluminate (SrAl2O4) at home, a material known for its persistent luminescence. The synthesis involved multiple steps, including the preparation of aluminum nitrate, mixing oxide precursors, and high-temperature calcination. However, due to a lack of appropriate equipment and high-purity reagents, the blogger only achieved short-lived luminescence, falling short of the persistent glow seen in commercial products. This post meticulously details the entire experimental process, including chemical equations, procedures, and challenges encountered, serving as a valuable resource for chemistry enthusiasts.

(maurycyz.com)

Misc chemical synthesis glow-in-the-dark material strontium aluminate

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