The rise and fall of IBM’s 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much of the flight, was really […]
Stop Publishing Garbage Data, It’s Embarrassing
Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data. The first instance is the UK government’s fuel finder data. This is a downloadable CSV file of fuel station locations and prices from around the UK. A potentially very useful database, especially during the current conflict in the Middle East. A customer suggested it as […]
AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust
A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust. Designed to run as a sidecarless DaemonSet in Kubernetes, providing kernel-native visibility into node-wide network traffic with minimal overhead. Built on the Aya eBPF framework. Architecture
Say No to Palantir in Europe
To European governments and the EU Petition We call on European governments to: Stop signing new contracts with Palantir. Review and phase out existing contracts with the company. Invest in transparent, publicly accountable European alternatives. And we call on the EU to urgently investigate Palantir’s use across Europe, ensure full transparency over contracts and data use, […]
Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt
Terminal emulator for Emacs built on libghostty-vt, the terminal emulation library from the Ghostty terminal emulator. This project follows the same architecture as emacs-libvterm but uses Ghostty’s terminal engine, which offers: SIMD-optimized VT escape sequence parsing Better Unicode and grapheme cluster support Text reflow on resize Kitty graphics protocol support Active development and maintenance Status: […]
Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND
A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their […]
Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges
Globe — Where Your Code Runs | MCPaaS Live edge execution map 2.7KB Zig WASM · 300+ locations Use mouse to zoom/rotate · Keyboard ← → Space Top Locations ◀ ⏸ ▶ Cloudflare Edge MCPaaS Live — Executions — Active Locations 2.7KB Zig WASM Binary 60 Refresh 𝕏 Share
Chess in SQL
What if I told you SQL could play chess? Not ”store chess moves in a database.” Not ”track game state in a table.” Actually render a chess board. With pieces. That you can move around. In your browser. Using nothing but SELECT, UPDATE, and a bit of creative thinking. Loading chess board… No JavaScript. No […]
Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation
Hello hello hello! In this week-late-but-worth-the-wait edition of ROM, I’m back to my old hijinks with a meaty interview for one of the most exciting open source projects on the scene right now: ReXGlue, the Xbox 360 recompilation tool. You may have seen some videos of early days PC ports for 360 games floating around […]
The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
Even Pausewang’s admirers concede that the books can be painful. ”It was so overwhelming, this scenario, so huge, that I didn’t know how to cope with it, as a child,” says Rémi, recalling the effect of reading The Last Children of Schewenborn. Then again, she argues, it’s a realistic depiction of how children experience systemic […]