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IOCCC 2025: 29th Obfuscated C Contest Crowns Winners, Triple Hat-Tricks
The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest has announced its 2025 winners, marking the second consecutive year the competition has run after a four-year h
Lathe: A CLI that turns LLMs into hands-on tutorial generators instead of code-writers
Lathe is a Go-based CLI and skill bundle that flips the usual LLM workflow on its head: instead of having Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex write code for you, it p
Meta confirms 20,000+ Instagram accounts hijacked via AI chatbot password-reset flaw
Meta has disclosed in a Maine attorney general filing that at least 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts taken over after attackers exploited the platform'
New grads now face higher unemployment than the average worker — and it started in 2019
For decades, a fresh U.S. college degree was a buffer against joblessness, with new grads consistently posting lower unemployment than the workforce overall. Th
ntsc-rs: Rust-based open-source emulator for authentic NTSC and VHS artifacts
ntsc-rs is an open-source video effect that recreates the look of analog TV broadcasts and VHS tapes by modeling the underlying signal processing, rather than f
Poincake: An Infinite Notes Canvas Built on the Poincaré Disk
A developer has released Poincake, a browser-based note-taking tool that abandons the standard flat plane in favor of the Poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geom
Prenatal Vitamin D3 Supplementation Linked to Better Child Cognition at Age 10
A JAMA Network Open study examined whether vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy affects children's cognitive performance later in life, following partici
Public Domain Image Archive Offers Searchable Trove of Out-of-Copyright Visuals
The Public Domain Image Archive is a curated online collection of images that have aged out of copyright and entered the public domain. The project aggregates a
Science weighs the mental-health cost of remote work's isolation
A Science piece examines what years of distributed work have done to workers' mental health, focusing on the isolation that comes from swapping office hallways
Speculative KV Coding: Lossless 4x Compression of LLM Cache via Predictor Models
As LLM contexts balloon and agentic workflows push memory demands higher, the KV cache that makes long contexts affordable is itself becoming the bottleneck. Lo
Symbolica 2.0 Ships User-Defined Symbols, JIT Compilation, and Double-Float Math
Symbolica, a symbolic computation framework for Python and Rust, has reached version 2.0 with a focus on letting users define mathematical objects that behave l
A Homelabber's Tour of IP KVMs: From PiKVM to the $70 Box That Drew FBI Attention
IP KVMs let you control a machine remotely at the hardware level, picking up where VNC, RDP, and SSH fall short—when a system is locked, powered off, or you nee