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Getting DeepSeek-V4-Flash Running on AMD's MI300X: A Worklog
AMD's MI300X offers 192GB of HBM3 and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, but software gaps keep it underused — especially on newer models. Doubleword
Gmail's Pushy AI Features Drove a 16-Year User to Fastmail
A long-time Gmail user describes leaving the service after Google's generative AI features became impossible to ignore. Unsolicited message summaries appear abo
HP revives the HP-16C, the programmer's calculator from 1982
HP has reissued the HP-16C, a calculator originally released in 1982 and aimed squarely at programmers and computer scientists. The device handles arithmetic an
Inside BYD: CT scans reveal the engineering behind a vertically integrated EV maker
Lumafield's industrial CT scans dissect four BYD components — a Blade-chemistry LFP prismatic battery cell, the Tang SUV's driver-door switch panel, the Type 2
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Drop X11 Session, Ending a 15-Year Wayland Transition
KDE has removed the X11 session from Plasma's development branch, making Plasma 6.8 — due in roughly five months — the first release that boots only into Waylan
Living legends of code are still online — go email them
A 46elks blog post argues that today's programmers occupy a rare historical moment: many of the field's foundational figures are still active and reachable. The
Microsoft debuts MAI-Code-1-Flash, a Copilot-tuned model that undercuts Haiku 4.5
Microsoft has released MAI-Code-1-Flash, an in-house coding model now rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in VS Code through both the explicit model
One month with Clojure: a developer's honest first impressions
A developer reflects on roughly a month of hands-on work with Clojure, sharing the practical lessons learned from picking up the Lisp dialect on the JVM. The po
Open Repair Data Standard aims to unify global electronics repair data
The Open Repair Alliance maintains ORDS, a shared schema for capturing data about attempted repairs of small electrical and electronic devices at community repa
OpenFOV brings free webcam-based head tracking to iRacing
OpenFOV is a project that uses a standard webcam to deliver head tracking for the iRacing simulator, letting drivers look around the cockpit by moving their hea
Pluto.jl Hits 1.0 After Six Years of Reactive Notebook Development
Pluto, the reactive notebook environment for Julia, has reached version 1.0 after six years of development. The 1.0 release itself contains only deprecation rem
Reverse-engineering the world maps of Test Drive III after 5 years
A developer spent five years on-and-off reverse-engineering Accolade's 1990 DOS racing game Test Drive III: The Passion, with AI assistance recently pushing the