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Rubish: A Bash-Compatible Unix Shell Built Entirely in Ruby
Rubish is a Unix shell written in pure Ruby that parses shell syntax, compiles it to Ruby code, and runs it on the Ruby VM. It aims for full bash compatibility
SpaceX Flies Starship V3 for First Time, Loses Engines but Hits Trajectory
SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starship Version 3 on May 22 from a new second pad at its Starbase facility in South Texas, marking the rocket's first missi
SpaceX Launches Starship V3 Prototype After Scrubbed Attempt
SpaceX got its Starship V3 prototype off the pad on May 22, 2026, one day after scrubbing the originally scheduled launch over unspecified technical issues. The
sp.h: A 15K-line single-header C library that ditches libc and null-terminated strings
A developer has spent the past year building sp.h, a single-header C99 library that aims to replace libc rather than wrap it. The library talks directly to roug
Texas town jails resident over Facebook post about contaminated water it later confirmed
Trinidad, Texas police arrested Jennifer Combs on a state jail felony charge after she posted on her community Facebook page that residents had reportedly been
The Underused <dl> Element: HTML's Semantic Tool for Name-Value Pairs
The description list element trio—<dl>, <dt>, and <dd>—offers a semantic way to mark up name-value pair patterns that developers routinely build with nested <di
USCIS ends in-country green card adjustments, forcing applicants to consulates abroad
The Trump administration is rolling back the long-standing ability for many green card seekers to adjust status from inside the United States, requiring them in
Waylandcraft Mod Embeds a Full Wayland Compositor Inside Minecraft
A new Linux-only Minecraft Java Edition mod called Waylandcraft turns the game into a working Wayland compositor, letting players launch real desktop applicatio
What It Actually Takes to Ship a Used MacBook to a Ugandan Refugee Camp
A developer recounts trying to send a spare MacBook to Django, a Congolese refugee in western Uganda completing a University of London CS degree on solar power
Why Japan's toilet maker now sells the chips powering the AI boom
Toto, the Japanese company behind 80 percent of the country's bidet-toilets, is up 60 percent year-to-date and saw first-quarter 2026 profit jump 230 percent. T
Why Your GPU Isn't Going Brrrr: Compute, Memory, and Overhead from First Principles
Performance tuning for deep learning often devolves into superstition, but Horace He argues it becomes tractable once you classify where time is actually being
yt-dlp deprecates Bun support, citing lockfile bug and Rust rewrite concerns
The yt-dlp project is narrowing and deprecating support for Bun as a JavaScript runtime for its ejs companion package. Going forward, only Bun versions 1.2.11 t