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Ladybird Browser: May Update - Performance Boost and New Features

2025-06-01
Ladybird Browser: May Update - Performance Boost and New Features

The Ladybird browser project had a productive May, merging 261 pull requests from 53 contributors. The project welcomed new sponsors and officially received tax-exempt status. Key accomplishments this month include: adding 15,961 new passing Web Platform Tests (WPT) with significantly improved runtime speed; implementing a new, more tolerant JavaScript date parser; completing clipboard API and transferable streams implementations; initial support for SharedWorker; replacing the in-house BigInt implementation with LibTomMath for performance improvements; implementing var() and attr() in CSS shorthands; and performance optimizations resulting in a 10% speedup on Speedometer 2.1.

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(ladybird.org)
Development Ladybird Browser

Donkey Kong's Broken Ladder Glitch: Luck and Skill Combine for a New Kill Screen

2025-02-08
Donkey Kong's Broken Ladder Glitch: Luck and Skill Combine for a New Kill Screen

The 'broken ladder' glitch in the classic arcade game Donkey Kong, long thought impossible to exploit, has been conquered. Player Kosmic, using an emulator and a hefty dose of luck, utilized the glitch to not only complete the game but discover a new, true kill screen at level 22-6. The glitch exploits a random delay in Donkey Kong's barrel throwing, giving Mario precious extra frames. This achievement highlights the game's intricate mechanics and underscores the crucial role of both skill and chance in overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges.

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(arstechnica.com)
Game game glitch luck

Domesday Book: Not Just Taxes, But 11th-Century Big Data?

2025-07-10
Domesday Book: Not Just Taxes, But 11th-Century Big Data?

New research challenges long-held assumptions about William the Conqueror's Domesday Book. Using the earliest surviving manuscript, Exon Domesday, researchers argue the survey wasn't simply about maximizing taxes, but a sophisticated exercise in governmental control—an 11th-century form of big data. The study reveals how William's administration gathered vast economic and territorial data across England in under seven months, processing it with astonishing speed and clarity. The team also proposes a likely identity for the principal scribe, potentially Gerard, William's chancellor. This innovative approach, using only pen, parchment, and human interaction, highlights the ingenuity of the Domesday creators and its significance as a remarkable feat of administrative innovation.

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(www.ox.ac.uk)
Misc governance

Apple vs. the DMA: Arrogance and Obstruction in Brussels

2025-07-11
Apple vs. the DMA: Arrogance and Obstruction in Brussels

Apple's defiant stance against the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was on full display at a recent compliance workshop in Brussels. The company's representatives used the event as a marketing opportunity, dismissing the DMA's regulations as an 'extreme interpretation' and exhibiting an arrogant disregard for other participants. They dodged key questions, deflecting criticism onto competitors and wasting considerable time with self-congratulatory remarks. The author details the workshop's events, highlighting Apple's history of regulatory obstruction and its use of financial and political influence to hinder DMA enforcement. The article concludes with a call for fair and impartial application of the law to prevent tech giants from abusing their power and ensure a level playing field in the digital market.

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(formularsumo.co.uk)
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A Blameless Postmortem: Lessons from a Sailing Mishap

2025-06-04

The author shares a blameless postmortem of a sailing accident as a job interview assignment. The article details the incident: during a solo sailing trip, a metal shroud on an older sailboat detached, causing the mast to break. The author reflects on multiple root causes, including a lack of regular rigging inspection and insufficient decision-making skills under pressure. Successfully resolving the crisis, valuable lessons are learned about equipment maintenance and improving decision-making under stress.

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(www.danielputtick.com)
Misc postmortem sailing decision-making

arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on Experimental Projects

2025-09-23
arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on Experimental Projects

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

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Building an Idempotent Email API with River

2025-03-24

This article demonstrates building an idempotent-safe email API using River. Many email services lack APIs guaranteeing idempotency, leading to duplicate or missing emails. By leveraging River's features and combining unique account IDs with idempotency keys, the author achieves idempotent email sending. Even with network errors causing retries, the email is guaranteed to be sent only once. The article details the implementation, covering job argument definition, worker creation, handling duplicate requests, and parameter matching safety. The resulting API is concise, efficient, and production-ready, avoiding many common email sending pitfalls.

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(riverqueue.com)
Development idempotency email API

Record-Breaking Memorial Day Weekend at the Box Office: Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible Dominate

2025-05-26
Record-Breaking Memorial Day Weekend at the Box Office: Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible Dominate

This Memorial Day weekend shattered box office records. Disney's live-action "Lilo & Stitch" remake raked in a massive $145.5 million opening weekend and an estimated $183 million through Monday, setting a new Memorial Day record. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" achieved a franchise-best $63 million opening weekend and $77 million through Monday. The combined success of these films, along with other releases like "Final Destination Bloodlines," propelled the overall Memorial Day weekend box office to a record-breaking $322 million, exceeding the previous record set in 2013. This marks a strong start to the summer blockbuster season, providing a significant boost to the movie industry after a disappointing 2022.

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(variety.com)
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Award-Winning Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar: Your Guide to the Cosmos

2025-08-18

The Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar is a monthly guide to skywatching for all ages. Each month's calendar features diagrams tracking the moon, planets, and bright stars. The reverse side provides a simplified star map for mid-evening viewing across the continental US. Used in classrooms, planetariums, and astronomy clubs, this highly illustrated calendar has won awards and received praise from publications like Scientific American. A yearly subscription (12 issues, mailed quarterly) costs $12.

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Florida's Elderly Face Medicaid Cuts: A Looming Crisis

2025-03-16
Florida's Elderly Face Medicaid Cuts: A Looming Crisis

Proposed spending cuts in Washington, D.C., threaten Florida's nursing home residents who heavily rely on Medicaid for care. Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing home care in Florida, crucial for two-thirds of residents to afford daily assistance. Potential cuts could lead to nursing home closures, job losses for caregivers, and increased burdens on families. The average annual cost of nursing home care in Florida is between $104,000 and $117,000, making Medicaid essential for most. The uncertainty surrounding the extent of these cuts has Florida's elder-care advocates deeply concerned about the future of senior care in the state.

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(www.tampabay.com)
Misc Medicaid cuts Elder care Nursing homes

Employer.com Acquires Bench Accounting: A New Chapter in Small Business Financial Management

2025-01-01

Employer.com, a leader in workforce management and business support solutions, announced the acquisition of Bench Accounting, a provider of bookkeeping services for small businesses. This acquisition ensures Bench customers will continue receiving the same high-quality service while gaining access to future enhancements and capabilities powered by Employer.com's resources. Employer.com is committed to empowering small businesses with the tools and support they need to thrive, and Bench's financial management expertise aligns perfectly with this mission. The acquisition is a win-win for both companies; Employer.com integrates Bench's technology and expertise into its platform, offering a tailored suite of services for growing businesses, while Bench customers continue working with their trusted in-house bookkeepers and retain full access to the Bench platform.

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(www.bench.co)
Startup acquisition financial management

Online Circle Image Cropper: No Downloads, No Hassle

2025-05-31
Online Circle Image Cropper: No Downloads, No Hassle

This online tool effortlessly crops images into perfect circles or other shapes. It's free, works on all devices, and requires no downloads. Simply upload your image, adjust the circular frame, and download a PNG with a transparent background—ideal for profile pictures, designs, and presentations. Your images are processed in your browser and never stored, ensuring your privacy.

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(circlecropimage.io)
Design image cropping circle avatar

Scraperr: Precise Web Data Extraction with XPath

2025-05-11
Scraperr: Precise Web Data Extraction with XPath

Scraperr is a self-hosted web scraping application that uses XPath selectors for precise data extraction. It offers a clean interface to manage scraping jobs, view results, and export data in various formats. Features include queue management, domain spidering, custom headers, media downloads, results visualization, and notification channels. Remember to respect robots.txt, terms of service, and implement rate limiting. Use only on websites that explicitly permit scraping.

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(github.com)
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Right-Nulled GLR Parsing: Gracefully Handling Context-Free Grammars

2025-01-15

This article delves into Generalized LR (GLR) parsing and its improvement, Right-Nulled GLR (RNGLR) parsing. GLR parsing can handle any context-free grammar without restrictions, making it a useful prototyping tool. However, traditional GLR parsing suffers from efficiency issues when dealing with hidden left and right recursion. RNGLR parsing elegantly addresses these issues by cleverly handling right-nulled rules, improving parsing efficiency. The article explains the principles of RNGLR parsing and demonstrates its advantages in handling conflicts and constructing Shared Packed Parse Forests (SPPFs) through examples.

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(blog.jeffsmits.net)
Development GLR parsing context-free grammar compiler theory

ZJIT: A Next-Gen Ruby JIT for Improved Code Reuse

2025-03-05
ZJIT: A Next-Gen Ruby JIT for Improved Code Reuse

YJIT speeds up Ruby code, but its repeated compilation of the same code in large-scale production environments is inefficient. To address this, companies like GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe have designed ZJIT, a next-generation Ruby JIT compiler aiming to save and reuse compiled code between executions. This aims to eliminate redundant work and allow the compiler to focus on optimization for better performance.

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(rubykaigi.org)
Development

Eight Years of Self-Hosted Email: A Mail-in-a-Box Migration Story

2025-03-15
Eight Years of Self-Hosted Email: A Mail-in-a-Box Migration Story

This post recounts eight years of using Mail-in-a-Box (MiaB) for self-hosted email, culminating in a recent migration from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. Challenges included persistent deliverability issues with Hotmail (resolved by switching hosting providers), and database conflicts during a Nextcloud upgrade (manually fixed). The author details the complexities of DNS configuration and the backup/disaster recovery strategies employed during the migration. The successful migration underscores the author's commitment to software freedom and independence, highlighting the learning and persistence involved in tackling technical challenges.

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(nilsnh.no)
Development self-hosted email server migration

Smithsonian's 2.33-Carat Winston Red Diamond: A Journey Through Color, History, and Geology

2025-06-14

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's newly unveiled 2.33-carat Winston Red diamond is the fifth-largest Fancy red diamond known and the only one on public display. This article details the scientific and historical investigation of this rare gem, from spectroscopic analysis to geological origins. It reveals its pure crimson color stems from a careful balance of absorption features linked to plastic deformation and specific defects, tracing its history from 1938 to the present. The study concludes that its likely origin is Venezuela or Brazil.

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(www.gia.edu)
Misc red diamond gemology

Compiler Explorer: The Promise of URLs That Last Forever

2025-05-28

Compiler Explorer's URLs have evolved from encoding compiler states directly in URLs to using goo.gl short links, and finally to a self-built storage solution. With goo.gl sunsetting in August 2025, the author is rescuing old goo.gl-based links, recovering over 12,000 so far. This post highlights the author's commitment to 'URLs that last forever' and reflects on the reliance on third-party services.

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(xania.org)
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Astro: A Content-First Web Framework That Redefines Speed

2025-07-09
Astro: A Content-First Web Framework That Redefines Speed

Astro, launched in 2021, is a game-changer in web frameworks. It prioritizes content and server-side rendering, shipping zero JavaScript by default for blazing-fast load times. Its unique 'Island Architecture' loads JavaScript only for interactive components, leaving the rest as static HTML. This results in significantly faster sites, improving SEO and user experience. It's incredibly versatile, letting you integrate React, Vue, or other frameworks seamlessly. If you're building content-heavy sites, Astro offers a compelling alternative, prioritizing speed and developer happiness.

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(websmith.studio)
Development web framework

Palantir CEO Slams Europe's Slow AI Adoption

2025-05-14
Palantir CEO Slams Europe's Slow AI Adoption

At a Riyadh investment forum, Palantir CEO Alex Karp praised Saudi engineers for their meritocracy and patriotism, while criticizing Europe's slow AI adoption. He highlighted the US and the Middle East as leaders in AI implementation, contrasting this with Europe's lagging progress and what he perceived as a sense of resignation among its players. This is attributed to Europe's stringent AI regulations and its low market share in crucial AI infrastructure areas like raw materials, cloud infrastructure, and supercomputers. While Europe leads in AI semiconductor equipment manufacturing, its market share in these other areas is below 5%.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
Tech

A Global Language List Revealed!

2025-04-23
A Global Language List Revealed!

This code snippet showcases an impressive list of languages from around the globe, spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It highlights the globalization of the internet and the flourishing exchange of global cultures. This is a valuable resource for developers creating multilingual applications or websites.

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(www.vaticannews.va)
Development

China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs After Trump's Escalation

2025-04-04
China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs After Trump's Escalation

Following President Trump's imposition of a 34% tariff on all Chinese imports, China has retaliated with identical tariffs on all US imports, escalating the global trade war. The move sent shockwaves through global markets, causing a significant drop in US stocks. Beyond tariffs, China added 11 US companies to its 'unreliable entities list' and implemented export controls on rare earth minerals, further intensifying the conflict. Analysts predict severe consequences for both US and Chinese economic growth.

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(edition.cnn.com)
Tech Global Economy

Turning the World Upside Down: Christopher Hill and the History from Below

2025-05-23
Turning the World Upside Down: Christopher Hill and the History from Below

This article examines the life and work of Christopher Hill, one of the most prolific and influential historians of the 20th century. Shaped by both the Old and New Left movements, Hill's scholarship, particularly *The World Turned Upside Down*, pioneered 'history from below,' focusing on the agency of ordinary people. His unique interpretations of the English Revolution, unwavering commitment to social equality, and meticulous attention to detail profoundly impacted historical studies. Even amidst debates with revisionist historians, Hill's contributions remain undeniable, inspiring generations to view working people not as mere subjects, but as active agents in shaping history.

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(www.thenation.com)
Misc English Revolution Social History

The Crisis of Academic Conferences: Formalism Stifles Innovation?

2025-04-28

In computer science, top academic conferences have become the primary metric for research value, but their increasing bureaucratization and formalism threaten the vitality of academic innovation. The article argues that conferences have devolved into annual 'promotion exams,' with reviews focusing more on formal rules than on the inherent value of research, stifling many promising, innovative works. The author calls for a change in conference review culture, shifting the focus back to academic innovation itself. Recommendations include eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic rules and entrusting decision-making to senior experts in the field to foster academic advancement.

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(cacm.acm.org)
Development academic conferences

Whisky, the macOS Gaming Wrapper, Shuts Down Due to Developer Burnout

2025-04-21
Whisky, the macOS Gaming Wrapper, Shuts Down Due to Developer Burnout

The open-source macOS gaming application Whisky has ceased active development. Creator Isaac Marovitz, facing overwhelming user expectations and limited resources, made the difficult decision to shut down the project. CodeWeavers CEO James Ramey expressed empathy and acknowledged Whisky's significant contribution to the macOS gaming community. Despite the closure, Marovitz remains involved in Mac gaming, currently collaborating on a recompilation of Sonic Unleashed. The shutdown highlights the considerable pressures faced by developers of open-source projects.

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(arstechnica.com)
Game

Birds' Brains: Convergent Evolution of Cognitive Power

2025-04-08
Birds' Brains: Convergent Evolution of Cognitive Power

New research using single-cell RNA sequencing reveals surprising similarities in the brain structures of birds and mammals, despite their distinct evolutionary paths. Scientists have long puzzled over how birds, lacking a neocortex, possess complex cognitive abilities. The study found that the avian dorsal ventricular ridge (DVR) functionally mirrors the mammalian neocortex, but its development, cell types, and generation timing differ significantly, suggesting independent evolution rather than inheritance from a common ancestor. This challenges long-held beliefs about brain evolution and suggests our understanding of 'optimal intelligence' may be too narrow.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
Tech Evolutionary Biology Avian Brain

DeepSeek's smallpond and 3FS: Scaling DuckDB to Petabytes

2025-03-02
DeepSeek's smallpond and 3FS: Scaling DuckDB to Petabytes

DeepSeek AI has released smallpond and 3FS, designed to extend the DuckDB database to handle petabyte-scale datasets. smallpond is a lightweight distributed data processing framework enabling DuckDB to process data in parallel across multiple nodes, while 3FS is a high-performance parallel file system leveraging SSDs and RDMA networking for extreme throughput. However, deploying and using these tools is complex, requiring specialized hardware and DevOps expertise. For datasets under 10TB, a single-node DuckDB instance or simpler solutions are more efficient. Only when dealing with massive datasets do smallpond and 3FS show their advantages.

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(www.definite.app)
Development high-performance storage

75+ Open Problems in Computational Geometry

2025-05-17

The Open Problems Project website compiles over 75 unsolved problems in computational geometry and related fields. Started in 2001 with 30 initial problems, it's now a comprehensive resource categorized by topics such as convex hulls, graph theory, and Voronoi diagrams. While no longer accepting new submissions, the site encourages updates to existing problems, particularly those solved (fully or partially), fostering collaboration and advancement in the field.

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(topp.openproblem.net)
Development open problems

Android's Ethernet Adapter Mystery: A Stupid Regex

2025-06-08
Android's Ethernet Adapter Mystery: A Stupid Regex

This post details the author's frustrating attempt to use a USB Ethernet adapter on their Android phone. The investigation revealed the problem wasn't driver support, but rather Android's `EthernetTracker` service using a regex `eth\d` to match Ethernet interface names. CDC Ethernet adapters create interfaces named `usbX`, resulting in non-recognition. The author meticulously documents the debugging process, including obtaining kernel configuration and analyzing Android source code. The root cause? A simple, restrictive regex. The post showcases impressive problem-solving skills but also highlights a potential flaw in Android's design.

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(jordemort.dev)
Development USB Ethernet Kernel Debugging
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