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Branchless Quicksort beats std::sort and pdqsort by dodging mispredictions
A new sorting library called blqsort claims to outperform std::sort and pdqsort on both Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen hardware when sorting 50 million doubles, with mu
C++: The Documentary Charts 40 Years of Bjarne Stroustrup's Language
A new documentary tracing the 40-year history of C++ premiered on YouTube, featuring Bjarne Stroustrup alongside figures including Alexander Stepanov (STL), And
Conventional Commits gets it backwards: scope matters more than type
Conventional Commits prioritizes the type of change (fix, feat, chore) over the scope, but that ordering is exactly wrong. Contributors scanning history, debugg
Edo: How Tokugawa Japan Engineered a City to Imprison Its Own Elite
From 1600 to 1868, the Tokugawa Shogunate maintained three centuries of peace in Japan through a uniquely structured social system, with the city of Edo at its
Google ships Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints, shrinking E2B to under 1GB for mobile
Google released Quantization-Aware Training checkpoints for Gemma 4, trading the usual post-training quantization penalty for models trained with quantization s
Huawei's KVarN squeezes 3-5x more KV-cache into vLLM without losing FP16 accuracy
Huawei's CSL group released KVarN, a vLLM attention backend that quantizes the KV cache aggressively while keeping FP16-level accuracy and throughput. On Qwen3-
ISS crew shelters in spacecraft as cosmonauts patch fresh Zvezda module leaks
Five crew members aboard the International Space Station were ordered into an elevated safety posture and took shelter in their docked spacecraft while two Russ
Ladybird Closes Public PRs, Citing AI-Era Trust Collapse Ahead of Alpha
The Ladybird browser project will stop accepting public pull requests, restricting code changes to project maintainers only. All currently open external PRs wil
Marjane Satrapi, 'Persepolis' author, dies at 56
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker best known for the autobiographical comic 'Persepolis,' has died at 56. Her work chronicled g
Meta unlocks ADB on retired Portal devices, opening door to community reuse
Meta has enabled Android Debug Bridge access on its discontinued Portal video-calling devices, giving owners a path to repurpose hardware that would otherwise b
Meta's smart-glasses app ships a complete face-recognition stack, dormant by default
A teardown of version 273.0.0.21 of Stella, the Android companion app for Meta's smart glasses, found a fully assembled on-device face-recognition pipeline sitt
Microsoft open-sources pg_durable, a Postgres extension for durable workflows
Microsoft has released pg_durable, a PostgreSQL extension that brings durable execution—the pattern popularized by Temporal, Airflow, and Step Functions—directl