I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
Using alternative browser engines in Japan - Support iOS 26.2 introduces new capabilities that let iOS apps use alternative browser engines — browser engines other than WebKit — for dedicated browser apps and apps providing in-app browsing experiences in Japan.
Introducing OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
ACM is Now Fully Open Access! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverabl...
Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone Bluetooth headphones and earbuds are everywhere, and we were wondering what attackers could abuse them for. Sure, they can probably do th...
Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI 2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…
2025: The year in LLMs This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
This Post Was Edited by a Rock. Deal With It. Principal software engineer with deep expertise in full-stack TypeScript, headless and kiosk browsers, and real-time media-centric systems.
Communicating in Pull Requests Most software projects gate new contributions by a code review step, and that’s normally done by pull requests (or equivalently, merge requests). Projects may also set up additional technical requirements, such as building and testing the code, performing...
On boiling water I recently wrote . People are complaining about it. Some of them disagree about how to boil water, but most of them are complaning for the usual reasons: the...
The Cost of Translation How Product teams assist in product failure, and how your organization can retool to improve ownership.
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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki | University of Helsinki The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide.
4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm Based on Database Theory in Action: Yannakakis's Algorithm to appear at ICDT 2026
Give your agentic processes a name | Simon Hartcher Combining tools and skills with a custom name yields great results
Running out of places to move the goalposts to The history of artificial intelligence is full of moved goalposts. For example, chess was long thought to be a holy grail of intelligence. A solution to chess would be the solution to intelligence itself. But then chess got solved, and it didn’t seem like...
My most ridiculous bug of 2025 During my day job at $COMPANY, I was seeing some very perplexing service behavior that could only be explained by a certain property being unexpectedly null. The property in question:
Children and Helical Time If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
The Bug That Ruined Game Physics For Decades ❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Using DeepSeek on Lambda: https://lambda.ai/inference-models/deepseek-r1 📝 The paper "A Stream Function Solver for Liquid Simulations" is available here: https://pub.ist...
Game Physics Just Jumped A Generation ❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The paper is available here: https://wanghmin.github.io/publication/wu-2022-gbm/ 📝 My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free he...
NVIDIA’s AI Finally Solved Walking In Games ❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Using DeepSeek on Lambda: https://lambda.ai/inference-models/deepseek-r1 📝 The paper is available here: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/trace-pace/ 📝 My pa...
