OpenAI
The Download: how the World Cup ball will fly and OpenAI’s “super app”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far Much is new about this month’s FIFA World Cup tournament. It hosts more teams than ever before. It’s the first…
AI Hardware
Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea
Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Rowan Red and Green Trees
Open Source
History of CentOS
AI Coding Tools
Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot
Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)
EVs and Transportation
Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London
Software Engineering
Doing Nothing at Work
Software Engineering
Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
GentleOS - A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — best practices (so far)
The traditional approach of working with current large language models (LLMs) through free-form conversations (a.k.a. vibe coding) typically leads to: accumulation of technical debt, architectural inconsistency, unmet requirements, gradual model drift away from our intent (a.k.a. intent drift). What if there were a way to tame the pain points of coding agents and actually boost our productivity? The answer to the limitations of current LLMs in autonomous software development is Spec-Driven De...
zalloc: Use zig allocators in your c code
A fast, zero-copy Transit-format reader and writer written in C
The EU Open Source Strategy
The Cypherpunk Library
Privacy
Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
Premature Optimization is Fun Sometimes
Do agents.md files help coding agents?
Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)
Stefanie Janine Stölting: pgsql_tweaks Version 1.0.3 Released
pgsql_tweaks is a bundle of functions and views for PostgreSQL Changes In The pgsql_tweaks 1.0.3 Release pgsql_tweaks is a bundle of functions and views for PostgreSQL The source code is available on Codeberg. The extension is also available on PGXN. The extension is also availabe through the PostgreSQL rpm packages. Changes In The pgsql_tweaks 1.0.3 Release This release has been tested against PostgeSQL 19 beta 1 which was released on June 4 2026. All tests against this new have bee...
Technical details of the attack described by Markoff in NYT
Cannibalism
Linux Kernel
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: data_sync_retry
data_sync_retry is a boolean, it defaults to off, and its context is postmaster so changing it needs a restart. You will almost certainly never change it. It exists as the visible scar tissue from the single most unsettling thing the PostgreSQL community ever learned about its own durability assu…
Embeddings
Playing with Vision Embeddings
How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?
Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation
An ode to self-optimizing query plans
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C++
A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm
Dopamine Fracking
Computational Complexity
Alternative Inductive Proof of Dilworth's Theorem
arXiv:2606.06513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Several elegant inductive proofs of Dilworth's theorem can be found in the literature. In this note, I present another inductive proof with an algorithmic flavor based on a merging lemma.
Graphics and Rendering
Differentiable 3D Triangle-Triangle Intersection Energy
arXiv:2606.06511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Obtaining intersection-freeness or global injectivity is important in computer graphics. However, it is challenging, especially for the non-oriented deformation primitives. Most methods often rely on an intersection-free initialization and track the continuous trajectory to keep the legitimacy and cannot be used for the task without such an initialization. For the latter one in 3D space, we introduce a novel second-order differentiable energy d...
GPU and Parallel Computing
FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail
arXiv:2606.06510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional HPC dogma holds that native hardware FP64 silicon is the irreducible foundation of scientific computing -- the "holy grail" of double-precision simulation. This paper argues the dogma is wrong: on AI-optimised GPUs of the B300 generation and beyond, abundant FP8 tensor throughput combined with the Chinese Remainder Theorem-based Ozaki Scheme II recovers memory-roof execution at full FP64 accuracy across the canonical HPC kernel spe...
Graphics and Rendering
Compatibility and Accuracy Verification of CADmesh-Based Complex Geometry Modeling in Geant4
arXiv:2606.06508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation relies on the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) method for complex geometric modeling. This method has low efficiency and a high application threshold. Importing triangular facet formats such as STL/OBJ via CADmesh is a promising alternative, but systematic evaluations of format compatibility, geometric accuracy, and physical simulation deviations are lacking. Construct open-source experimental environment based on...
RAG
Subtle Injection for Ground-truth Inference of LLM Training Data
arXiv:2606.06502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained on scraped web corpora without authorisation, content owners require forensic methods to prove that their documents were included in a model's training set. We propose \textbf{SIGIL} (\textbf{S}ubtle \textbf{I}njection for \textbf{G}round-truth \textbf{I}nference of \textbf{L}LM training data), a framework that embeds imperceptible \emph{canary sequences} into protected text and code such...
Artificial Intelligence
Enhancing Malware Detection with Generative AI: Using Variational Autoencoders to Boost Machine Learning Classifiers' Performance
arXiv:2606.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of malware poses obstacles for cybersecurity, necessitating the development of advanced detection techniques. This paper proposes an approach to enhance malware detection through the use of a generative artificial intelligence model. Specifically, variational autoencoders (VAEs) are used with the random forest, XGBoost and sequential model machine learning classifiers. Generated synthetic malware samples are used to address the ...
Generative AI
Semantic-Structural Alignment for Generative Pictorial Charts
arXiv:2606.06498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional statistical graphics are precise but often lack the visual appeal, memorability, and engagement of pictorial charts. We present a generative framework for the automated synthesis of pictorial charts that bridges the gap between semantic expression and structural faithfulness. Rather than treating charts merely as images to be stylized, we frame the problem as a dual-conditioned generation task guided by two parallel external control...
Generative AI
Real-Time AttentionBender: Granular Interactive Network Bending of Video Diffusion Transformers
arXiv:2606.06497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet their prompt-only interface offers thin creative agency and obscures the model's material process from the artists working with it. We present Real-Time AttentionBender, a tool that extends the practice of network bending across the full depth of the video diffusion transformer (DiT) and brings it into live, interactive generation. Built as a plugin within the DayDream Scope ...
Privacy
1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960)
90210 – running the show without property tax
Artificial Intelligence
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm'
Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
Homelab & Self-Hosting
Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
Software Engineering
Back end is full of hidden workflows
A critical look at the UX of various linux desktops
A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
Search Engines
KNN early termination in Manticore Search
The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
Software Engineering
Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)
Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
CSS
Crashing cars and improving hover detection
Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE
VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system
AI Hardware
Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US
What Are Tokens in LLMs?
Artificial Intelligence
If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?
Anthropic
Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts
AI Psychosis
Loss of Prefrontal Cortical Higher Cognition with Uncontrollable Stress (2019)
Meta
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
The week I lost the plot at a startup where the tools worked as advertised
Uber
Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?
A visual introduction to kernel functions
The complete IPv4 address space, mapped
Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
JavaScript and TypeScript
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
My automated doubt development process
Go
Dancing mad with sandboxing
Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser
Anthropic
Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption
Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
Entropy
gonum
sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
The User Doesn't Care – But you should
Java