An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge - ThinkPol By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not what most people...
Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes" The most influential piece of writing about staff engineers in the last decade has to be Will Larson’s Staff engineer archetypes. He argues that the “staff engineer” title covers at least four very different roles: the team lead, the architect, the solver...
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DO_NOT_TRACK A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
What do CPUs do when there's nothing to do? Dave explains what happens to unused cycles on your PC and why Task Manager can only display an approximation of the CPU used!
Well, I got hacked It wasn't too serious, it didn't really break containment that much... I was noticing that the qBittorrent app in my TrueNAS is constantly sitting at elevated CPU usage even though it was idle, but restarting it was usually enough for it to go back to ze...
wolfCOSE vs The Field: The Smallest, Most Complete COSE Implementation The Smallest, Most Complete COSE Implementation
Squaring the circle on employee equity People work for startups for many reasons. They may like being part of a smaller team, getting more responsibilities, working at a faster pace with less red tape, feeling more connected to the mission. But despite regular advice to ignore equity, many emp...
Path to Vibe Engineering 2026, what a year to be alive. AI, LLMs, agents, agentic coding. On one side, the hype train. On the other, narratives built to invalidate everything the hype
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, or trad coding as Twitter likes to c...
How a Broken Bike Sync Led Me to Reverse Engineering My Wahoo’s Hidden Debug Mode Reverse engineering the Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt v3 BLE protocol to unlock a hidden developer debug mode
Servers with Personality · Caolan By which, I mean: a server I can point to. Not just an anonymous virtual machine but a physical device that somebody cares for.
Why the Closest Large Galaxy Is Simultaneously 2.5 Million Years Away and Just Around the Corner – Josh Pearlson Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years away. At the speed of light, that’s a 2.5 million year trip. So why does the physics say the journey could feel like a short hop?
Why won't SQLite give back my disk space? I found a 77GB database file that only had 145MB of real data. Here is why SQLite hoards space and how I finally forced it to let go. I thought I had plenty of space, but a single libSQL file was hoarding 77GB of "nothing."
Your App Should Ship an MCP Server I embedded an MCP server inside a native Rust prose editor. It became the single most impactful architectural decision I've made, not for users, but for how I build the product itself.
VideoLAN / dav2d · GitLab dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast; similar to dav1d, but for AV2.
Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.
NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6.
AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderation. This dual adoption raises a critical question: do LL...
How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-like Container From Scratch | iximiuz Labs Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and per...
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | Noctua Wonder why chromax.black fans take longer to launch? Black colouring additives alter how advanced polymers mould, meaning they require entirely new toolings and months of testing.
