Vite 8.0 Is Out
March 12, 2026 We’re thrilled to announce the stable release of Vite 8! When Vite first launched, we made a pragmatic bet on two bundlers: esbuild for speed during development, and Rollup for optimized production builds. That bet served us well for years. We’re very grateful to the Rollup and esbuild maintainers. Vite wouldn’t have […]
Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators
[ Update 2025-03-24: Commenting is disabled permanently. Previous comments are archived at web.archive.org. ] Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu). It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, […]
Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran
François-Xavier Ricardou Published on December 4, 2025 Launched eight years after its predecessor, Gitana 18 embodies a major technical evolution in ocean-going trimaran design. More than just an improvement, it’s a reinvention, designed for full flight and high performance. Read on for details of the technological choices that set this giant apart from the rest. […]
“This is not the computer for you”
There is a certain kind of computer review that is really a permission slip. It tells you what you’re allowed to want. It locates you in a taxonomy — student, creative, professional, power user — and assigns you a product. It is helpful. It is responsible. It has very little interest in what you might […]
Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don’t use Yjs
In part 1 of this series, we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live collaborative editing (since presence cursors help users to […]
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud
A Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation. Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank […]
In space, no one can hear you kernel panic
When you’re millions of miles from home, it’s hard to install an operating system update—but not impossible. From the dawn of the Space Age through the present, NASA has relied on resilient software running on redundant hardware to make up for physical defects, wear and tear, sudden failures, or even the effects of cosmic rays on equipment. The […]
Enabling Efficient Sparse Computations Using Linear Algebra Aware Compilers
Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran, et al. ”Enabling Efficient Sparse Computations using Linear Algebra Aware Compilers.” , Sep. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2172/3013883 🗎 Copy to clipboard Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran, Kelley, Brian Michael, Sadayappan, Ponnuswamy, Rountev, Atanas, Roose, Jonathan, Eydenberg, Michael Shannon, Alvey-Blanco, Addison Jordan, Vaidya, Miheer, Singh, Shreya, & Mantri, Devanshu (2025). Enabling Efficient Sparse Computations using Linear Algebra Aware Compilers. […]
The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
2026 • March • 11 TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I’ve felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I’ve been all along.
AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case
FARGO — A grandmother from Tennessee is working to get her life back after what she says was a case of mistaken identity that nearly cost her everything. Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police connected her to a bank fraud case in the metro. ADVERTISEMENT It’s a crime she says […]