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Why C Compilers Took Decades to Get Tail-Call Optimization
Tail-call optimization is often assumed to be a long-standing C compiler feature, but it arrived surprisingly late—and the delay was baked into the language's c
Amazon Texas Data Center Reportedly Tied to U.S.'s Dirtiest Power Plant
A New York Times report says a new Amazon data center is set to be served by what would become the most polluting power plant in the United States. Full details
Claude Code makes auto mode the default, swapping approval prompts for a classifier
Starting August 14, 2026, Anthropic will flip new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans into "auto mode," which drops per-command approval prompts in
Constant navigation may shield the brain — what it means for map workers
A 2024 analysis of roughly 9 million U.S. death certificates found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest Alzheimer's mortality of 443 occupations — abo
Ditch the Chatbot Explainer: Building Game-Like Sims to Learn Hard Topics
Frustrated by the oversimplified, emoji-laden style of typical LLM explanations, one engineer describes a different way to learn dense technical subjects: inste
Docker ships microVM sandboxes to run AI coding agents in YOLO mode safely
Docker has launched Sandboxes, a tool that runs AI coding agents inside disposable microVM environments isolated from the host machine. Each sandbox enforces us
Gravity-only trebuchet breaks the sound barrier at 776 mph
YouTube engineer Tom Stanton has built a trebuchet that flings a projectile past the speed of sound using nothing but a falling weight — no springs, motors, or
Historian Jill Lepore: Tech's "artificial state" is quietly displacing democracy
Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues in her forthcoming book "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" that private tech corporations are steadily absorbing f
How a wrong clock bricked a reMarkable 2 — and the SSH fix that revived it
A reMarkable 2 e-paper tablet left unused since 2021 refused to sync (a cryptic 'error 0') or update. The root cause was a badly drifted system clock, which blo
How VC Pressure Turned HackerOne from a Hacker Haven into a Sales Machine
A veteran bug bounty hunter who worked both sides of HackerOne — as a researcher since 2017 and as a program manager through 2025 — argues the platform has lost
John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of 'solid-state intelligence' erasing humanity
In a passage from his 1978 memoir The Scientist, neuroscientist John C. Lilly recounts a vision received during ketamine-fueled sensory isolation: humanity as a
Klepton runs Android VR APKs natively on Apple Vision Pro — no JIT needed
Klepton is a compatibility runtime that lets Android ARM64 VR apps run on Apple's Vision Pro and macOS without emulation or just-in-time compilation. Its klepto