"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

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Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of
corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source
accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to
corporate capture.

If you have ever tried communicating with a device on a private network, you may have encountered Network Address Translation (NAT). Because the number of connected devices has long outpaced the number of unique addresses in the IPv4 address space, public…

This summarizes the frustratingly ambiguous state of the evidence for pretty much any "Does X cause Y?" question you might have.

From the Zed Blog: A tool that predicts your next move. Powered by Zeta, our new open-source, open-data language model.

Go 1.24 enhances WebAssembly capabilities with function export and reactor mode

This paper introduces an open-source benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks in dynamic video environments. We present a curated dataset...

The owner behind a company called Full Colour Black argues that the artist has failed to use his “Banksy” trademark, while Banksy denies this.

Read on to learn how we used network packet captures and BPF to debug web server performance, ultimately uncovering a Linux kernel performance issue. This investigation was a collaboration between ...

I created a tiny, hand-crafted book for my wife, using AI, a pen plotter and 3D printer. Here's how I over-engineered a simple gift into a full blown passion project.

A deep dive into Google Translate (and other browser extensions) interference breaking React and other web apps.

AI coding assistants are React evangelists.

“68.37% of CPU [...] with a one-line code change [...] went down to 31.82%”

Jooki was a dream come true for parents—an intuitive, screen-free audio player that let kids enjoy music and stories with the tap of a token. But that dream turned into frustration when the company behind Jooki went bankrupt, leaving countless devices bricked…

It controversially updated the Gulf's name for US users after President Trump ordered it to be changed.

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.