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tokio.rs

Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages.

lolchat.rip - a 1996 chat room

pick a name and walk in.

OilPrice.com

U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 | OilPrice.com

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to its lowest level since 1982 as emergency oil exchanges and the prolonged Hormuz disruption erode America’s supply buffer.

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | Iain Cambridge

The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

One random Friday at RC, I was bored and playing around with a puzzle someone had 3d printed:

BBC News

Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker

Hacker Jan Krissler claims to have cloned the fingerprint of a German politician using standard photographs taken at an event.

SB 923 Signed: CCPA Deletion Now Covers Bought Data

SB 923, signed September 27, 2026, extends the CCPA right to delete to data obtained from third parties and requires online-only businesses to offer a web form. It takes effect January 1, 2027.

jamiesimon.io

How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics

My longtime labmate-turned-student/friend1 Dhruva Karkada recently wrote a sick paper on data statistics which deservedly went viral on Twitter, in part beca...

LWN.net

Typst makes big strides

Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progre [...]

Deploy web apps from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket in seconds · Light Cloud

Push to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and get a live URL. Light Cloud hosts static sites, containers, and managed Postgres, with a preview for every branch. Start free.

Launching Vespper DOCX MCP: 3× faster, 2× cheaper, more accurate

Today we're launching Vespper DOCX MCP: the first model fine-tuned specifically for editing Word documents, shipped as an MCP. On our internal benchmark, it allows agents to be 3× faster, 2× cheaper, and more accurate than the closest alternative.

MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser

Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.

HomelabFest

September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.

GitHub - git-bug/git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git - git-bug/git-bug

There are no “rogue” AI agents

Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.

blog.wirelessmoves.com

GrapheneOS – When An App is Slow… – WirelessMoves

Token-space font compiler

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

Four CHI ’26 papers I wish I wrote

In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, “I wish I wrote this paper!” And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I’m on the hunt fo…

Tell HN: Codex Is Down | Hacker News

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

Nox Lune World

10 Cartoon Network Episodes That Were Much Darker Than We Remember - Nox Lune World

But every once in a while, an episode appeared that felt completely different. The music became quieter. The shadows became darker. Familiar characters

What reverse engineering and modernising an old war game tells us about the economic impact of the transformer — Georg

Some observations from my War of the Lancehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaroftheLance%28videogame%29 1989 Code Harness assisted modernisation WIP I gave Qwen-3....

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa

This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt

Tokyo is raising the bar for permanent residency amid a broader rightward shift in the Asian nation's politics.

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.

HUMANOS

HUMANOS | Your life, in full view

One person. A thousand connections. Discover the HUMANOS connected-life vision.

tinyaiarena.com

Tiny AI Arena

PacBench

PacBench: how well a model and harness can recreate Pac-Man from a single prompt.

The Failed “Hostage Theory” of Nikole Hannah-Jones

Parents should fight for their children in education, not against them.

General Robotics Lab

General Robotics Lab | Duke University | Discovery Robotics Research

Building discovery machines that learn, act, and collaborate by discovering how the world works. Research in embodied intelligence, robotics, AI, and machine learning.

Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space • Information for Media and Journalists • Freie Universität Berlin

God

God

Every well-documented UFO/UAP encounter on a 3D globe, with replayable flight paths, the official U.S. files and footage, and the tools to check each sighting yourself.

Lightspeed Magazine

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 - Lightspeed Magazine

You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites your hand. The area around the bite turns purple and swollen. You run down a long metal hallway to the Medical Clinic, grateful for the artificially generated gravity that defies the laws of physics and yet is surprisingly common in fiction

The Educators Room

Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? - The Educators Room

Dr. Martin argues that violence against educators has become dangerously normalized, with society and school systems increasingly treating physical and verbal abuse as an expected part of teaching rather than an urgent workplace safety crisis.

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

Global Warming at 4 Hiroshima Atomic Bombs Per Second

The earth

An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk | Hacker News

Definitely Not Windows — Windows 11½

The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. An interactive parody of Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Copilot, updates, ads, and subscriptions.