Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
Earlier this year, we shared an update on our renewed focus for VR and Horizon. We are separating the two platforms so each can grow with greater focus, and the Horizon Worlds platform will become a mobile-only experience. This separation will extend across our ecosystem, including our mobile app. To support this vision, we are […]
A Decade of Slug
Eric Lengyel • March 17, 2026 What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception. I published a paper in JCGT about the technique in the middle of 2017, […]
Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel
Hi, I’m Alex, padel, chess and tech enthusiast. I’ve been playing padel for 2 years and chess since I was 8. I still struggle with both but I feel they’re related in some way. So I created this app to make learning tactics fun and effective for everyone.
Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the future
Java 26 is here! Six months ago, we welcomed Java 25 into our hearts, which means it’s time for another fresh helping of Java features. This time, the set of features is a bit smaller compared to some of the previous releases, which can only mean one thing: the focus for this release was to […]
The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s a deceptively simple-looking finish line: the end of a roughly 300-mile (or […]
Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track
17 Mar 2026 (JIT performance as of 17 March (PST). Lower is better versus interpreter. Image credits to https://doesjitgobrrr.com/). Great news—we’ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the CPython JIT over a year early for macOS AArch64, and a few months early for x86_64 Linux. The 3.15 alpha JIT is about 11-12% faster on […]
Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
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Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox
Today we are incredibly excited to open source Edge.js, a JavaScript runtime specifically designed to safely run Node.js workloads for AI and Edge computing. The goal is simple: run your existing Node.js applications safely and with density and startup times that are impossible to get with containers. Edge.js takes a different approach from existing JS […]
If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems
It’s Tuesday morning. Your VP of Engineering is standing in front of a slide deck, vibrating with the kind of excitement usually reserved for people who just discovered cryptocurrency in 2017. They’ve just come back from a conference. Or maybe a vendor dinner. Three glasses of pinot noir and a demo, and now they have […]
Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Specialist
$80K – $100K•0.10% – 0.50%•San Francisco, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Product Experience Any (new grads ok) Visa US citizen/visa only Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › Richard Kreger Founder Richard Kreger Founder