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16 Bytes of x86 Assembly That Sing Sierpinski and Render Matrix Rain
Demoscener HellMood released a 16-byte DOS intro at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026 that simultaneously generates a Sierpinski triangle fractal on screen and
AI Amplifies Skilled Developers Rather Than Replacing Them
Josh Comeau pushes back on the assumption that capable LLMs spell the end of professional development work. The evidence he sees points the other way: the devel
Amazon Sunsets Older Kindles, Leaving Longtime Readers Hunting for Workarounds
Amazon is pulling support for a swath of older Kindle e-readers, cutting off cloud sync, store access, and over-the-air updates for devices that many owners had
AMD drops Linux support from free-tier Vivado 2026.1, angering FPGA hobbyists
AMD's upcoming Vivado 2026.1 release removes Linux support from the free Standard Edition, leaving the no-cost FPGA design suite as a Windows-only product. Paid
C# 15 adds first-class union types via new 'union' keyword in .NET 11
After years of community requests, C# 15 (shipping with .NET 11) introduces native union types through a new `union` keyword. A declaration like `public union S
California declares emergency over volatile chemical tank at GKN Aerospace plant
Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County after a 7,000-gallon tank of methyl methacrylate began heating uncontrollably at a GKN
Five Years of PHP: Where Arrays and Type Declarations Still Bite
A developer reflects on half a decade maintaining a PHP backend and zeroes in on two recurring sources of bugs. The first is PHP's array, which is really an ord
Hengefinder: The Spherical Geometry Behind Predicting Manhattanhenge Anywhere
A Recurse Center project called Hengefinder calculates when the sun will align with any street on Earth, generalizing the twice-yearly Manhattanhenge phenomenon
ICE Hands Bi2 a $25M No-Bid Deal for 1,570 Iris Scanners by Late June
ICE has finalized a $25.1 million sole-source award to Massachusetts firm Bi2 Technologies for iris-recognition hardware and access to a biometric database of m
If You're Not Reading LLM Code, Move the Rigor to Specs and Tests
The author argues that if an organization mandates LLM-driven coding to maximize speed, engineers can reasonably stop reading generated code—treating their high
Microsoft releases oldest known DOS source code, predating MS-DOS branding
Microsoft has published what it calls the earliest discovered DOS source code, going further back than its prior historical releases. The drop includes the 86-D
Prusa accuses Bambu Lab of AGPL violations in BambuStudio slicer fork
Josef Prusa, founder of Prusa Research, has publicly accused Bambu Lab of violating the AGPL license terms of PrusaSlicer, the open-source slicing software that