Toyota Fluorite: ”console-grade” Flutter game engine
Fluorite Game Engine Fluorite is the first console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter.Its reduced complexity by allowing you to write your game code directly in Dart, and using all of its great developer tools. By using a FluoriteView widget you can add multiple simultaneous views of your 3D scene, as well as share state […]
AI-First Company Memos
Three philosophies, one format Reading these memos side by side, a pattern emerges. They all use the same format (CEO writes to all employees about AI transformation) but contain three fundamentally different philosophies about what ”AI-first” means. AI as gate. Shopify, Duolingo, and Fiverr share a version of this: before you get resources (headcount, budget, […]
Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way
Run Renovate on your own infrastructure with CRD-based scheduling, parallel execution, auto-discovery, and a built-in UI. If you self-host Renovate and already run Kubernetes, this operator gives you the control and observability that plain self-hosted setups lack. Comparison with Mend Renovate CE Feature Mend Renovate CE Renovate Operator Fully open source, no signup or license […]
Who Smeared Feynman
One of the many physicists who came under official FBI scrutiny during the Cold War was Richard Feynman. Feynman’s work on the bomb at Los Alamos, combined with his fame, penchant for telling stories about safe-cracking, and occasional consideration for being on government committees led him to be investigated a few times, to see where is loyalties lay. […]
Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?
Ever think about that? And wonder which side should face the food? Robert L. Wolke, in his ”Food 101” Washington Post column, explained it all for us. Here’s what he wrote: First, a brief bit of history. In the 19th century, Thomas Edison invented a phonograph machine, in which a sound-driven vibrating needle impressed grooves into […]
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport. A notice posted on the FAA’s website said the temporary flight restrictions were for “special security reasons,” but did not provide additional details. The […]
Exposure Simulator
Exposure Simulator -3..2..1..|..1..2..3+ ↑ Shooting Mode: Shutter Priority Aperture Priority Manual Camera Settings: Note! The exposure portion of this simulator currently does NOT work with Internet Explorer! Please use Chrome or Firefox instead. This tool attempts to roughly simulate a final photograph given a particular set of camera settings. The simulation includes demonstrating depth-of-field based […]
Do not apologize for replying late to my email
by Ploum on 2026-02-11 You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and if I didn’t explicitly tell you I was waiting for your answer within a specific timeframe, then please stop apologizing for replying late! This is a […]
Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle
Transmitted 20260209 · · · 369 days before impact If you’ve ever used Photoshop or another image editing program, you know the paint bucket tool. Here is its primordial form: The paint bucket icon, Susan Kare The operation executed by this tool is “flood fill”: color stretches out from the cursor, transforming everything until it reaches an unbroken […]
Chrome extensions spying on 37M users’ browsing data
Summary We built an automated scanning pipeline that runs Chrome inside a Docker container, routes all traffic through a man‑in‑the‑middle (MITM) proxy, and watches for outbound requests that correlate with the length of the URLs we feed it. Using a leakage metric we flagged 287 Chrome extensions that exfiltrate browsing history. Those extensions collectively have […]