Fossil fuels are about 40% of maritime tonnage but roughly half of freight energy, which changes the shipping fuel transition.

I’ve been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to write about! The optimizations that actually made it in require some higher level background / explanations that will have to wait until another day :)

ATProto gives your PDS operator full control of your signing and rotation keys, letting them impersonate you across every app in the ecosystem or kill

MiniPCs.zip ranks the best value-for-money mini PCs from Amazon and eBay in real time — compare CPU and graphics benchmarks, RAM, storage, and price to find the best deal for your budget.

With a retro look and T9 texting, the Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone taps into the nostalgic yearning for simpler days. It can run Spotify and Uber, but Instagram is blocked.

Lodash creator John-David Dalton reflects on the project’s growth, the pressures of maintaining software used across the world, and the personal journey that led to stepping back and eventually rebuilding a sustainable path forward.

The issue has exposed thorny questions for the city’s affordable housing sector.

Generative AI is rapidly undermining the reliability of traditional hiring signals, making it easier for candidates to manufacture polished résumés and perform convincingly in remote interviews with real-time assistance tools. Interviews with 120 talent-acquisition leaders and an analysis of more than 6,000 screening sessions show that companies now risk selecting for candidates who are best at navigating the hiring process rather than best equipped to do the job. To adapt, organizations must redesign early-stage hiring around authentic reasoning, judgment, and adaptability instead of static credentials and scripted interviews.

An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy. Contribute to w84death/floppinux development by creating an account on GitHub.

We report results from our latest test of whether Claude can help Anthropic employees perform sophisticated robotics tasks. We found that Claude Opus 4.7, operating without human assistance, was about 20 times faster than the fastest human team at all tasks completed by participants less than a year ago.

Flip the script on AI slop. Direct your own agent, funded by the community who cares about your project. You approve the plan, review the diff, merge on your terms.

I bought a cute little 4 bit cpu kit from Aliexpress called the TD4. It has 2 registers, some LEDs, and 16 bytes of program ROM. Quite limited but still very cool and teaches a lot of principles of computer architecture.

At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in.

As the delivery vehicles increasing take to US streets, bans and protest groups are springing up.

A from-first-principles guide to wavefront occupancy on AMD

David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games. Contribute to proteanthread/bcg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Local, zero-dependency dashboard for Claude Code: live token usage and context, lost-session recovery, full-text search, and approve tool calls from your phone. - nikitadoudikov/claude-pulse

At the largest ACA Marketplace insurers, in-network claim denial rates ran from 13% to 35% in 2024, and the 2 highest denied about 1 in 3 claims.