2251
The End of an Athlon
When I was researching the mess related to strange and poorly documented CPUID bits in the Athlon MP and XP processors , I had to swap a lot of CPUs. This was uneventful in most cases… but only most.
2252
Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
Software engineer, Warsaw.
2253
Go.sum is not a lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
2254
How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
2255
2256
Permacomputing
By Devine Lu Linvega
2257
Monte-Carlo Simulations
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] .
2258
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
Did you ever wonder why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64?
2259
Feeling Sad about AI
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
2260
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
2261
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.
2262
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
This computer was so good and so far out there, we didn't know what we had.
2263
Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
2264
KDE onboarding is good now
And my history with KDE
2265
It's Not Just X. It's Y
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking. "It's not x, it's y.
2266
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
2267
Box to save memory in Rust
dystroy - blog
2268
Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game
Recovering and preserving Crimsonland, the 2003 top-down shooter, through reverse engineering of its original binary.
2269
Building a Shell
I built a tiny shell in C to learn what fork, execvp, and dup2 are doing under the hood.
2270
Blackholing My Email
How Counter-Strike map credits led to my email address being harvested by worms, and why I had to ask my ISP to blackhole it.
2271
Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-face…
2272
Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
What statistics can teach us about observing 3 deaths at Burning Man in 2026.
2273
I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
2274
2275
Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
I had seen many talks about coroutines but it never really clicked where I could use them outisde of async IO. Until I looked at how Unity uses them in C#.
2276
Agentic coding notes
I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience . An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that.
2277
The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and ensures consistency across the toolchain, making it easier to manage…
2278
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
2279
2280
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
Edit: Woah, this took off! If you want more details you can subscribe at the bottom of the post or on YouTube. I’m working on a more detailed highlights/commentary post and video. Previously: We got Claude Code playing Factorio, Towards beating Factorio autonomously, and Faketorio: an agent testbed I got GPT-5.6 Sol…