2. (Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (www.blender.org)
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
3. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
mine is an integrated development environment for Coalton and Common Lisp for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
π Download the latest release.
mine comes in two flavors:
mine-app for Windows and macOS is a complete, all-in-one, packaged application with no dependencies. It Just Worksβ’, or itβs a bug. mine-core for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a hacker-friendly βbring your own compliant terminalβ variant. It allows you to use mine at the command line, but requires a terminal that has a Unicode font and supports the Kitty keyboard protocol. Coalton and Common Lisp Coalton? Common Lisp? Both? The editor is exclusive to neither, and both come built-in. If you want strong, static types with a flavor of functional programming, Coalton is available. If you want free-wheeling dynamicism and an advanced object system, Common Lisp is available. You can use one, the other, or mix-and-match as your project demands.
π Download the latest release.
mine comes in two flavors:
mine-app for Windows and macOS is a complete, all-in-one, packaged application with no dependencies. It Just Worksβ’, or itβs a bug. mine-core for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a hacker-friendly βbring your own compliant terminalβ variant. It allows you to use mine at the command line, but requires a terminal that has a Unicode font and supports the Kitty keyboard protocol. Coalton and Common Lisp Coalton? Common Lisp? Both? The editor is exclusive to neither, and both come built-in. If you want strong, static types with a flavor of functional programming, Coalton is available. If you want free-wheeling dynamicism and an advanced object system, Common Lisp is available. You can use one, the other, or mix-and-match as your project demands.
4. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests (www.jakeworth.com)
After reviewing a lot of pull requests, Iβve settled on a simple default: if my comments are all nitpicks, suggestions, questions, or non-blocking issues, I leave them and approve the PR at the same time.
5. Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (lute.luau.org)
Luau for General-Purpose Programming
6. PCR Is a (Surprisingly) Near-Optimal Technology (nikomc.com)
Photonic PCR is a technology that can be used to do an entire PCR in about six minutes. But there are several reasons why it's unlikely to catch on.
7. Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS β Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Do you remember the vaporware software known as Windows 1.0? Well, it has truly evolved now, and it wants to become the true successor to MS-DOS! Will it make it? Or will its rival, OS/2, steal the spotlight?
8. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (blog.sebastianwick.net)
Itβs a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:
very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, donβt trust anything If you are an app developer, youβre lucky and itβs almost always the first answer. If you develop something with a security boundary which involves files in any way, the correct answer is very likely the second one.
very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, donβt trust anything If you are an app developer, youβre lucky and itβs almost always the first answer. If you develop something with a security boundary which involves files in any way, the correct answer is very likely the second one.
9. You don't want long-lived keys (argemma.com)
The security of keys and credentials is a function of time. You can, and should, avoid most long-lived keys and replace them with ephemeral credentials.
10. Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
Kloak - Kubernetes eBPF Secret Interceptor for HTTPS. Secure secret management without application changes or sidecars.
11. Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes (www.nytimes.com)
12. A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (allbrainsbelong.org)
13. What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story (www.mnot.net)
Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety -- we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining.
15. Panipat: The Rise of the Mughals (www.historytoday.com)
16. HEALPix (en.wikipedia.org)
17. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (www.sciencedirect.com)
18. A Man Who Invented the Future (hedgehogreview.com)
Francis Bacon is arguably the philosopher most responsible for championing the empirical technocracy that our world has largely become.
19. Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)
20. Oxford All Souls College General Examination [pdf] (www.asc.ox.ac.uk)
21. A Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots (www.quantamagazine.org)
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots.
22. Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (www.nbcnews.com)
U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack β including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses β and repairs could cost billions of dollars.