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Why io_uring Is Quietly Retiring epoll for Linux Async I/O
A developer recounts how building an educational reverse proxy called TinyGate pushed his team through three architectures in pursuit of nginx-class throughput:
Why Your p50 Lies: Customers Live in the Tail of Your Latency
AWS engineer Marc Brooker explains a measurement gap that makes service operators and their users both correct when they disagree about speed. An operator measu
AlphaFold Lead John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the Nobel-winning researcher who led DeepMind's AlphaFold protein-structure work, is leaving Google DeepMind after almost nine years to join Anthro
Amateur linguist claims AI-built tooling helped crack Minoan Linear A
Tom Di Mino, a self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist based in the Hudson Valley, says he has deciphered Linear A — the Bronze-age Minoan script that has
Bigger isn't better: open GLM-5.2 hallucinates ~3x less than giant GPT-5.5
The piece argues that the parameter-scaling era is hitting diminishing returns. Its headline evidence: Z.ai's MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (753B total, ~40B active) lan
Bobby Prince, the composer behind Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, dies at 81
Robert "Bobby" Prince III, who scored some of the most recognizable shooters of the 1990s, died June 16, 2026, at age 81. Before he ever touched game audio, Pri
CSSQuake brings a browser-native Quake-style FPS to the web
CSSQuake is a browser-based first-person shooter modeled on id Software's Quake, playable directly from a web page with no install. The interface exposes the fu
Data Compression Explained: Why Perfect Compression Is Mathematically Impossible
Matt Mahoney's free 2012 book is a self-contained primer on how data compression actually works, aimed at programmers with some math background. Every compresso
Developer Encodes a Working Website Into a 9x9-Pixel Favicon
A developer encoded an entire (tiny) HTML page into the pixels of a favicon by treating the image as raw storage rather than an icon. The approach borrows from
EFF Backs Open Courts Act to Kill PACER Fees and Modernize Federal Filings
The EFF has joined a coalition supporting the Open Courts Act of 2026, which would eliminate the fees charged by PACER, the federal judiciary's electronic recor
Ex-OpenAI researcher builds a desk-side robotic manipulation lab for under €5K
A former OpenAI robotics researcher argues that real-hardware manipulation research has crossed a price and capability threshold where individuals, not just wel
F-15 Strike Eagle II reverse-engineering hits playable milestone, wants DOS testers
A hobbyist reconstructing the C source of MicroProse's 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II from its original binaries reports the project has jumped far ahead of sch