1. PHP's Oddities (flowtwo.io)
flow2 | Blog post: 'PHP's Oddities' in Tech
2. The Quadratic Sandwich (fedemagnani.github.io)
If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two concepts define a “sandwich” of quadratic bounds around your function that tells you exactly how well-behaved it is. If the sandwich is tight, life is good. If one slice of bread is missing, things get ugly fast.
3. z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
5. Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (horses.extension.org)
6. Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 (www.righto.com)
7. DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost (www.cato.org)
9. Don't Roll Your Own (susam.net)
10. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (www.scientificamerican.com)
A massive digitization project has nearly doubled the known extent of the first continent-scale road network
11. Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly" (arstechnica.com)
Ebola outbreak risk level increased as deaths reach 177 with nearly 750 cases.
12. New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Immigration lawyers say the change could impact a wide swath of people and marks an escalation in the administration’s efforts to curtail legal migration.
13. ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor (arcbrush.com)
Build non-destructive image pipelines with 79 composable nodes. One graph produces every color variant, every format, every export, automatically. Free native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
14. Highest Random Weight in Elixir (jola.dev)
A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.
15. AI Engineering from Scratch (aiengineeringfromscratch.com)
435 lessons. 20 phases. Write the backprop, the tokenizer, the attention mechanism, and the agent loop by hand before any framework gets imported. Python, TypeScript, Rust, Julia.
16. Solving the "Zork" Mystery (www.dpolakovic.space)
personal website and git server
17. Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.
18. A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick) (old.reddit.com)
Posted in r/electronics by u/krauseler • 1,528 points and 120 comments
19. Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium (theconsensus.dev)
20. What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The storage control blocks were destroyed.
21. Lisp in Vim (2019) (susam.net)
22. We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it (microsandbox.dev)
We replaced our user-space filesystem with a real disk image that the VM mounts directly. Here's how we got there, and what fell out along the way.
23. GitHub introduces staged publishing and new install-time controls for NPM (github.blog)
Today we're shipping two updates focused on supply-chain security for npm: Staged publishing is generally available. New --allow-* install source flags (--allow-file, --allow-remote, --allow-directory) complement the existing --allow-git flag. Both…
24. "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout (cosmiciron.github.io)
25. Fast Factorial Algorithms (www.luschny.de)
26. A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos (www.lanl.gov)
The FPUT problem, chaos theory, and the rise of nonlinear dynamics—how Los Alamos scientists changed how we understand complex systems.
27. Why We've Filed a Referendum (www.stopstratos.org)
B.E.A.R. is a political issues committee (PIC) organized by Box Elder residents to stop the Stratos Project Data Center. This project moved forward with far too many unanswered questions around water, power, cost, and transparency. Our referendum is about restoring accountability and giving Box Elder voters a real say before irreversible decisions are made.
28. JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it (www.dusanmalusev.dev)
JWT promises stateless authentication and delivers neither. It
29. TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election (www.psypost.org)
A new study of TikTok’s algorithm reveals a distinct political imbalance. During the 2024 election, the platform consistently exposed users to more conservative and anti-Democratic videos, regardless of their initial political interests or engagement habits.