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Why 'living in Emacs' works: it turns everything into a client-server call
Charles Choi pushes back on the tired claim that Emacs is an operating system, offering a more precise framing: Emacs sits above the OS kernel and orchestrates
Why Striped Floors and Flickering LEDs Give Your Brain a Headache
A large international research team argues in the journal Vision that visual discomfort — headaches, eye strain, nausea, and perceptual distortion triggered by
Your AI-Written Shortcuts Become the Codebase's House Style
Coding with LLMs makes it tempting to skip good engineering hygiene: when the model can regenerate anything on demand, why bother extracting a shared helper ins
Apple commits $30B+ to Broadcom for 15 billion U.S.-made chips
Apple has signed a new multiyear deal with Broadcom worth more than $30 billion to design and manufacture custom silicon and wireless connectivity components in
Bonnie Tyler, 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' singer, dies at 75
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins in a Neath council house, has died at 75. Discovered in a Swansea club after seven years playing rugby and workin
Building a Fast Lock-Free MPMC Queue in Rust With Bounded Waiting
A developer walks through their design for a bounded, array-based multi-producer/multi-consumer queue built on ticket-lock semantics. The core idea models each
Byzantine-era city with intact church and 200 inscribed shards found under Egyptian desert
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved 1,600-year-old settlement at the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert, dating to the 4th century when Egyp
Colibrì: a 1,300-line C engine runs a 744B model on a 25GB PC by streaming from disk
Colibrì is a dependency-free inference engine, written as a single ~1,300-line C file, that runs GLM-5.2 — a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model — on
EU Parliament fast-tracks revival of expired voluntary message-scanning rules
The European Parliament has voted 331–304 to fast-track legislation that would restore the EU's expired 'Chat Control 1.0' framework, using an urgency procedure
Good Tools Disappear: Why 'Fun' Workarounds Are a Design Failure
Gingerbill argues that a well-made tool should become invisible—it fades into the background when you're proficient, and only reappears the moment it can't hand
Hashimoto on Ghostty: why terminals need a standards body, not a browser rebuild
Mitchell Hashimoto, the HashiCorp founder behind Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad, explains why he pivoted from distributed-systems tooling to building Ghostt
IERS confirms no leap second for December 2026 — UTC stays put
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has issued Bulletin C confirming that no leap second will be added at the end of December