How far back in time can you understand English?
Whitby at night, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) A man takes a train from London to the coast. He’s visiting a town called Wulfleet. It’s small and old, the kind of place with a pub that’s been pouring pints since the Battle of Bosworth Field. He’s going to write about it for his blog. He’s excited. […]
AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation
If you compile your app for AVX2 and it runs on Windows ARM under Prism emulation, is it faster or slower than compiling for SSE2-4.x? I assumed it would be roughly the same — maybe slightly slower due to emulation overhead, but AVX2’s wider operations would compensate. The headline gives it away: I was wrong. […]
Show HN: CEL by Example
CEL (Common Expression Language) evaluates expressions against data—simple values, a Protobuf message, or a JSON object. CEL’s fast, portable, and safe: it’s used in Kubernetes admission control, Google Cloud IAM conditions, Firebase security rules, Envoy Proxy routing, and Protovalidate’s constraint rules. Let’s explore CEL together, starting with a simple User message: { ”name”: ”Alice”, ”roles”: […]
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony
WHAT HE SAID WHAT THE EVIDENCE PROVES “No one should have to go through the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and are going to continue doing industry leading efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families […]
macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken
I have no idea of what is happening since I can’t even find any decent logs in Console.app, but it seems that the latest update to macOS Tahoe (26.3) has a serious bug. My desktop (a Mac Mini M2 Pro) has been crashing repeatedly since the update, and the symptom is always the same: it […]
Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don’t doom scroll
Hi HN, I built https://rebrain.gg. It’s a website which is intended to help you learn new things. I built it for two reasons: 1. To play around with different ways of interacting with a LLM. Instead of a standard chat conversation, the LLM returns question forms the user can directly interact with (and use to […]
Zep AI (Building the Context Graph, YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers
The privilege of working on products for developers and giving back to the open source community. Also I enjoy working as part of the team of very seasoned engineers; I never feel stagnant and I always feel challenged to become a better engineer. Paul Paliychuk, Software Engineer Current Employee
Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it – this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wrote Integrating FreeBSD 15 with FreeIPA: Native Kerberos and LDAP Authentication recently. Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share […]
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for. The big one Asahi Linux turns 5 this year. In those five years, we’ve gone from Hello World over a serial port to being one of the best supported […]
I Don’t Like Magic
I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of UX—“don’t make me think!”—but it […]