A software engineer created a custom tracking system using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology to monitor whether household trash bins have been put out for collection, integrating the data with Home Assistant for automated reminders.
Read full article →Modern ceiling fans have evolved into bizarre combinations of lighting and airflow, featuring non-replaceable LEDs and decorative blades that often don't function.
Read full article →Optimization techniques for the Playdate handheld console leverage its fast CPU but slow memory architecture, using instruction cache efficiency, tightly-coupled memory, and careful code alignment to maximize performance in C code.
Read full article →Vincent Bernat’s blog post shows how to expose a local web service using just OpenSSH for port forwarding and nginx as a reverse proxy with signed URLs, avoiding third‑party tunneling services.
Read full article →Andrew Plotkin uncovered a severe memory‑corruption bug in Infocom’s Infidel that overwrites the Z‑machine’s abbreviation table, causing garbled text and possible crashes, due to a compiler mishandling of a default argument.
Read full article →This article explains how foldl and foldr differ in associativity, evaluation order, and space usage in both strict and lazy languages, and when to prefer each variant.
Read full article →A 2016 article presents a compact C program that shows how Linux containers are assembled from namespaces, capabilities, cgroups, and seccomp, illustrating the minimal primitives needed to isolate a process.
Read full article →Daniel Lemire proposes ephemeral testing—a method where an AI agent builds temporary applications on top of a software component to assess the component's quality through the agent's success or failure, turning integration testing into a throw‑away prototype.
Read full article →Huawei and Qualcomm have entered a multi‑year patent licensing deal covering 5G, compute, AI, and networking, with Qualcomm purchasing certain Huawei U.S. patents. Despite early reports suggesting otherwise, the agreement does not include Huawei’s LogicFolding chip‑stacking technology.
Read full article →A guide to avoiding frequent pitfalls in technical writing, from meandering introductions to excessive linking, based on analysis of common beginner blogger mistakes.
Read full article →North Richland Hills, Texas is demanding $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request for information about its Flock automated license plate reader system, claiming the fee covers 14 years of labor to search a terabyte of data. The request came from the Texas Privacy Coalition, which calls the amount 'ludicrous' and designed to stifle oversight. The demand exemplifies wide inconsistencies in how Texas agencies handle Flock records requests, with some providing hundreds of thousands of pages for free while others charge tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Read full article →Munich-based robotics company RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation via a secondary share sale that lets long‑standing employees realize value while attracting new investment, as it prepares to launch its autonomous industrial robot Alfie in 2027.
Read full article →Med-El has launched the TICI Unico, a cochlear implant with all components—including microphone, sound processor, battery and charger coil—placed under the skin, offering users invisible, round‑the‑clock hearing.
Read full article →A data breach in Denmark's central personal data registry (CPR) has exposed the names, addresses, and social security numbers of approximately 8.8 million individuals, including deceased and emigrated persons, after hackers exploited a company's authorized access to the system.
Read full article →Fervo Energy announced that its Cape Station enhanced geothermal power plant in Utah has started supplying electricity to the grid, marking the first commercial milestone for the technology. The initial phase, completed in 23 months from groundbreaking, delivers a third of the planned 100‑megawatt capacity, with commitments from Google and Southern California Edison and a potential expansion to up to 4 gigawatts.
Read full article →Oxide Computer Company announced a $445 million Series D round, underscoring its recent profitability—marked by paying income tax from ordinary operations—and a large order backlog. The round includes existing investors Eclipse, USIT, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart, with new lead investor Atreides Management and strategic partner AMD.
Read full article →The creators of Deno are joining Cloudflare to integrate their work with the Workers and Durable Objects platforms, announcing timelines for Deno runtime support, Deno Deploy shutdown, and the future of JSR and celld.
Read full article →Vivien Henz argues that Common Lisp's live image system, condition-based debugging, and code-as-data uniformity make it uniquely suited for AI-assisted development, offering instant feedback, safe experimentation, and concise programs that reduce token usage.
Read full article →An exploration of how Hetzner Cloud built and evolved its network infrastructure for virtual machines, detailing the progression from early Linux bridges to the current Open vSwitch-based stack with Flusskrebs orchestration, and examining the limitations driving development of a new self-built solution.
Read full article →A tour of an individual's designer lamp collection reveals how iconic lighting designs from the Artemide Tolomeo to the Isamu Noguchi Akari series balance artistic significance with practical functionality, addressing specific needs like task lighting and ambient illumination while reflecting personal design sensibilities.
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