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'l' aims to be a drop-in runtime for the k and q languages
A new runtime called 'l' is positioning itself as a compatible replacement for the k4 and q languages long associated with kdb+ and time-series analytics. The p
LineageOS Publishes Live Dashboard of Anonymized Install Stats
LineageOS, the community-maintained open-source Android distribution, runs a public statistics dashboard at stats.lineageos.org. It aggregates anonymized check-
Microsoft Guts idTech Engine Team at id Software in Sweeping Xbox Layoffs
Microsoft is reportedly eliminating most or all of the engineers working on idTech, the game engine developed at id Software that has powered decades of first-p
MIT Releases SICP Video Lectures from 1986 Under Creative Commons
MIT OpenCourseWare hosts the complete set of twenty video lectures for 6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, taught by Hal Abelson and Geral
Much of the 'Microplastics in Your Blood' Panic May Be a Measurement Error
Environmental chemist Cassandra Rauert argues that a lot of what the public thinks it knows about microplastics inside the human body rests on shaky measurement
Netherlands' €50M Tulp Fund lures 34 top researchers, 29 tied to the US
The Dutch government's newly created Tulp Fund has awarded its first grants, bringing 34 senior researchers to Dutch institutions. Of those, 29 currently come f
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna go public Thursday after US lifts curbs
OpenAI is opening its GPT-5.6 model family to the public on Thursday, July 9, ending a roughly two-week period in which access was restricted to about 20 vetted
PgDog: A Rust Postgres pooler that stops connection pooling from breaking your app
Connection poolers like PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and Pgpool-II let many clients share a database without blowing past its connection limit, but they impose a hidde
Rowboat: a local-first, open-source AI desktop that keeps a persistent memory of your work
Rowboat is an open-source desktop AI assistant pitched as an alternative to Claude Desktop, built around persistent memory rather than on-demand retrieval. Inst
Skip TrueNAS: A Bare-Bones ZFS NAS With Just zpool and Samba
For anyone who wants network storage without the overhead of appliance software like Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS, this walkthrough shows that a functional NAS is
That obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt is a Peace-for-All Easter egg
A shopper noticed an alphanumeric block printed on the back of a Uniqlo t-shirt and recognized it as a base64-encoded bash script—complete with a shebang—piped
This TrueType Font Turns Bracketed Text Into Scannable QR Codes
Jim Paris has built an experimental OpenType font that renders any text wrapped in square brackets as a live QR code, while leaving the surrounding characters a