Next.js RCE! Netflix eyes HBO! RAM crisis!

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

Key Points

• quake.exe under Windows 95 is ~25% slower than in DOS; WinQuake narrows the gap to within ~6%.
• WinQuake uses native Windows APIs (Winsock, DirectInput/Draw/Sound, WinMM) for performance and compatibility.
• Windows NT compatibility issues with DJGPP’s DPMI and near pointers motivated a Win32-only WinQuake build.

Show HN: Identifiy test coverage gaps in your Go projects

Key Points

• AST-based analysis finds actual function calls in tests to detect missing coverage.
• Default integration with go test -coverprofile filters out adequately covered functions.
• Configurable threshold reports low-coverage functions; flexible flags tailor analysis.

Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)

Key Points

• Minimal monthly task planner focused on simplicity
• Printable, offline, and no signup required
• Calendar layout with MONDAY–SUNDAY and dates 1–31 followed by 1–4

Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer

Key Points

• Saturn seeks a Senior AI Engineer for end-to-end ownership of agentic, customer-facing AI features.
• Role emphasizes defensive design, explicit orchestration, and rigorous evaluation frameworks.
• Candidates need deep LLM/RAG/prompt engineering experience and mastery of Python and backend practices.

Mirror_bridge – C++ reflection for generating Python/JS/Lua bindings

Key Points

• Mirror Bridge auto-generates Python bindings from C++ via C++26 reflection.
• Naive microbenchmarks may be dominated by Python↔C++ call overhead.
• Batching more work into C++ yields better performance than trivial per-call operations.

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

Key Points

• Deploy Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime and automatic HTTPS.
• Scale across multiple machines for high availability without using Kubernetes.
• Start on any cloud VM or on-prem server via a straightforward CLI.

Visualize 4B Years: The Trillions of Generations: LUCA to Modern Human

Key Points

• Scroll-based timeline spans ~3.8 billion years of evolution.
• Uses a familiar character to guide and connect the journey.
• Designed to convey the vast number of generations leading to modern humans.

Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation

Key Points

• Experimental C++ library using C++26 reflection to auto-generate Python, JavaScript, and Lua bindings.
• Currently requires Bloomberg’s clang-p2996 fork; not recommended for production until P2996 is standardized.
• Offers auto-discovery and config-file workflows with compile-time, zero-boilerplate binding generation.

In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

Key Points

• Stones of Stenness: distinctive thin slabs, notable heights, and wide spacing.
• Maeshowe’s midwinter solstice solar alignment highlights Neolithic architectural sophistication.
• A 2003 Ness of Brodgar find at Brodgar Farm reshaped views of prehistoric Orkney.

Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

Key Points

• AI-driven persuasion lowers costs and increases precision, enabling strategic design of preference distributions.
• Single-elite scenarios yield a “polarization pull,” intensified by better persuasion technology.
• Competing elites may seek “semi-lock” opinion regions, altering polarization depending on context.

How AI is transforming work at Anthropic

Key Points

• Employees use Claude for ~60% of work, mainly debugging and code understanding.
• Reported productivity gains are ~50%, up 2–3× vs last year.
• Only 0–20% of work can be fully delegated to AI, requiring ongoing human oversight.

The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021)

Key Points

• JSC is the JavaScript engine in WebKit powering apps like Safari, Mail, and App Store.
• The article explains JSC’s pipeline: lexing, parsing to AST, and LLInt interpretation.
• A custom CodeQL query targets side-effect modeling vulnerabilities that could enable RCE in JSC.

All the Way Down

Key Points

• The series 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + … totals 1/3.
• Visual proofs using squares and triangles partition areas into equal thirds.
• Archimedes established this result by around 200 BC.

Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust

Key Points

• Segment-based sharding with automatic leadership rotation and Raft-driven metadata coordination.
• Lease-based write fencing with 100ms sync ensures consistency; reads served from sealed or active segments.
• Simple TCP client protocol (REGISTER, PUT, GET, STATE, METRICS) and quick-start for a 3-node cluster.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

Key Points

• Free installer and patches will restore and modernize UT2004 across platforms.
• Linux/macOS builds include UCC with UnrealScript compiler and switch to SDL3.
• AntiTCC update is planned; reinstall official 3369.3 files to fix network issues.

Good news: JavaScript is 30yo today Sad news: its own name doesn't belong to it

Key Points

• The letter argues the “JavaScript” trademark meets abandonment criteria under U.S. law.
• Ownership moved from Sun Microsystems to Oracle in 2009, without a product named “JavaScript.”
• Oracle’s cited uses (Node.js, JET) are portrayed as insufficient bona fide use.

Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On

Key Points

• A reconstructed VisiOn SDK specification enabled a clean-room application.
• Pyramid Game is released as the first published third-party VisiOn app.
• VisiOn’s early GUI design and lack of icons reflect 640×200 display constraints.

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

Key Points

• Embeddable PostgreSQL runs locally in WASM, with a build under 3MB gzipped.
• Supports dynamic extension loading, including pgvector.
• Offers reactive features: data loading, synchronization, and live queries.

Tunnl.gg

Key Points

• Instant public URLs for local web servers
• No installation; uses SSH
• No signup needed for random subdomains

Interop and MathML Core

Key Points

• MathML Core enables feasible, consistent browser implementation of math rendering.
• Chromium shipped a MathML Core-based implementation in 2023 after removing legacy support in 2013.
• Ongoing work includes RTL mirroring using Unicode BiDi and rtlm to ensure correct right-to-left math rendering.

Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)

Key Points

• Ofcom fined AVS Group Ltd £1m plus £50,000 for non-response and set a 72-hour compliance deadline.
• Broader enforcement includes actions against deepfake apps and an unnamed social platform; 4Chan refused a £20,000 fine.
• Stricter age checks correlate with reduced UK traffic, with Pornhub’s parent reporting a 77% visitor drop.

NextJS Security Vulnerability

Key Points

• CVSS 10.0 RSC protocol flaw can lead to RCE in unpatched Next.js App Router environments.
• Patched Next.js releases (15.0.5 through 15.5.7 and 16.0.7) include hardened RSC.
• No config mitigation; upgrade or downgrade per guidance to remediate.

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

Key Points

• Hotwire’s <turbo-frame> and <turbo-stream> exemplify custom elements in Rails.
• Use attributeChangedCallback with observedAttributes for reactive custom element updates.
• Safari’s lack of support for the “is” attribute favors autonomous custom elements.

Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

Key Points

• Human-editable text format with fractional beat timing and one event per line
• Rust library and CLI enable MIDI↔MTXT conversion and multiple transforms
• Supports transitions, microtonal notation, global tuning, and real-time event streaming

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

Key Points

• 28 companies endorsed JavaScript as an open standard for future products.
• JavaScript is complementary to Java and HTML, designed for client and server scripting.
• Draft specifications for JavaScript and Java were planned for publication and submission to standards bodies.

Programming Peaked

Key Points

• Modern workflow centers on TypeScript/JavaScript, VS Code, and package repositories.
• Deployment relies on containers and Kubernetes/YAML, with security and dependency overhead.
• Cloud VMs underpin infrastructure; PR-driven processes add build/review cycles.

I Ignore the Spotlight as a Staff Engineer

Key Points

• Infrastructure/devtools work at Google prioritizes context and long-term stewardship over speed and visibility.
• The team operates bottom-up with direct engineer feedback, rather than executive-driven priorities.
• Internal customers include engineering teams across Android, Chrome, and Google.

NRC Completes Safety Review of TerraPower Natrium [pdf]

Key Points

• NRC’s final safety evaluation found no issues preventing a construction permit for Kemmerer Unit 1.
• The reactor is a 345 MWe sodium-cooled design with storage to boost output to 500 MWe.
• Commission review and vote are the next steps; an operating license is still required for operation.

Shrinking Elephants: Managing large projects with Gradle

Key Points

• Baseline no‑op sync: 8.4 minutes using 36 GiB total heap.
• Cold sync: 24.7 minutes, ~26,000 files and ~4 GiB downloaded.
• Target experience: ~15-second sync using ~3.5 GiB heap.

Functional Quadtrees

Key Points

• Functional Quadtree in Clojure adapts detail to camera/mouse position.
• Splitting uses distance-to-center threshold and a minimum size guard.
• Tree traversal leverages Clojure’s postwalk/prewalk for declarative processing.

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

Key Points

• Samsung Semiconductor reportedly rejected Samsung Electronics’ long-term DRAM order, forcing pricier short-term negotiations.
• AI data center demand is diverting memory supply, pushing consumer RAM and device prices higher.
• TeamGroup forecasts continued price increases and supply constraints potentially extending into 2027.

Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows

Key Points

• Hair is pulled upward by coordinated outer root sheath cell movements, not pushed by division.
• Actin disruption reduces hair growth by >80%, while blocking cell division has minimal effect.
• 3D time‑lapse microscopy and modeling were essential to reveal and validate the pulling mechanism.

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back

Key Points

• House panel reviewed 19 online safety bills, including KOSA and a proposal to bar users under 16 from social media.
• Fight for the Future leads a week of actions against ID-based age verification, citing censorship and surveillance risks.
• Missouri’s law and moves in the UK and Australia show rapid expansion of age verification and youth access limits.

Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership

Key Points

• Servant leadership as obstacle-clearing can create single points of failure.
• “Transparent leadership” emphasizes coaching, connection, problem-solving, and values clarity.
• Managers should become redundant, then return to technical work rather than adding bureaucracy.

A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia

Key Points

• LiDAR, surveys, and excavations revealed extensive ancient earthworks and water-management systems.
• Sites show repeated occupations from 600–1400 CE, with evidence of maize-based farming and intensified management.
• The study area is part of a UNESCO-recognized Ramsar wetland complex, highlighting ecological and cultural importance.

Imo.im – Instant Messenger

Key Points

• Free, secure, HD audio/video calls with Windows download available.
• Privacy and security features include end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages, and 2-step verification.
• Instant message translation and multiple feature modules (Public Group, VoiceClub, imoPay, Premium).

Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years

Key Points

• Honda’s K-Series remains central to its ICE strategy for nearly 25 years.
• K-Series introduced modern valvetrain and i‑VTEC for efficiency and performance.
• K20C adds closed-deck block, DI, and turbo-ready design for emissions compliance.

Contextualization Machines

Key Points

• Transformers are framed as contextualization machines, with layers adding incremental context.
• Residual chains serve as the backbone; hidden states change minimally across layers (cosine similarity evidence).
• Tokenizer vocabulary and embeddings perform initial contextualization that influences model behavior.

The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X

Key Points

• FSFE deleted its X account due to misalignment with its values and rising hostility/misinformation.
• Cites algorithmic amplification of polarisation and privacy/data concerns as key factors.
• Encourages supporters to engage via the Fediverse, including Mastodon and Peertube.

What Is "Open Recursion"?

Key Points

• Open recursion is explained via building OOP from functions and records.
• A Dart-based counter example exposes the need for mutual method visibility.
• Mutually recursive definitions (e.g., letrec) solve inter-method calling limitations.

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Key Points

• Microsoft reportedly cut AI sales growth targets after widespread quota misses.
• Azure AI Foundry (“Foundry”) quotas were reduced following underperformance.
• New Microsoft 365 Copilot agent features and tooling were announced but adoption is slower than expected.

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available

Key Points

• Release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 for centralized, multi-cluster management.
• Cross-cluster live migration enables workload shifts and maintenance without downtime.
• RBAC-powered custom views and comprehensive search improve governance and discovery.

Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame

Key Points

• Manufacturers are categorized by how restrictive their bootloader unlocking policies are.
• Carrier-locked devices typically prevent bootloader unlocking, often even post-unlock.
• SoC-specific tools and exploits are listed for Kirin, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Unisoc devices.

Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC

Key Points

• Hiring for a senior Technical Customer Success Manager in NYC with in-person expectations.
• Role requires martech expertise (GTM, Meta Events Manager, Google Consent Mode) and technical troubleshooting.
• Compensation $155k–$217k plus 0.1%–0.25% equity; fast, structured interview process.

Feynman vs. Computer

Key Points

• A four-line JavaScript function estimates integrals via uniform random sampling.
• Integrals correspond to expected values over a uniform distribution scaled by interval length.
• Naive Monte Carlo struggles near singularities; sampling strategy matters.

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

Key Points

• Autism is diverse and should not be treated as a single condition.
• Sensory environments can overwhelm autistic individuals, while talents may be notable.
• Better biological understanding can enable tailored, more effective interventions.

FLUX.2

Key Points

• Production-grade AI image generation/editing with 4MP outputs
• Multi-reference control for integrating elements from multiple images
• Example prompt shows detailed scene editing and subject replacement

Multivox: Volumetric Display

Key Points

• Supports two spinning HUB75 orb devices (Rotovox and Vortex) with distinct performance traits.
• Driver/client architecture uses a shared-memory voxel buffer; simulator renders to X11.
• Runs on Raspberry Pi 4 with memory-mapped GPIO; build via CMake and run `sudo ./vortex`.

The End of the Train-Test Split

Key Points

• Traditional train-test splits are inadequate for complex LLM classification tasks.
• Label quality and policy ambiguity capped performance of an LLM decision tree (~85% P/R).
• Use blind, unlabeled evaluation and clearer rules instead of dataset training for LLMs.

The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived

Key Points

• Automatic NVIDIA driver detection and support for nvidia-open in the ISO.
• Broadcom-wl disabled by default, with prompts to enable when required.
• Systemd-boot issue affects Windows 11 dual-boot on separate drives; GRUB works.

Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?

Key Points

• Elite universities report high disability rates: up to 38% at Stanford.
• Most claims involve mental health or learning conditions (e.g., anxiety, ADHD).
• ADA rules and doctor’s notes facilitate broad access to accommodations.

Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead

Key Points

• Micron is retiring the Crucial brand to prioritize AI and enterprise customers.
• AI-driven memory demand is raising prices; OpenAI has major DRAM supply deals.
• Crucial products will ship until February 2026 with warranty support maintained.

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

Key Points

• Beginner-focused, real-time collaborative Python IDE with live cursors, drawings, chat/voice, and autosave.
• Modern stack: Django/DRF, Channels/WebSockets, Celery, PostgreSQL via Supabase, Redis, React/Tailwind/CodeMirror, Skulpt.
• Simple setup and deployment: Vercel frontend, Dockerized Django backend on VPS with Nginx, CI/CD via GitHub Actions.

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

Key Points

• Memory prices are spiking across DDR4, DDR5, and LPDDR4, with large jumps documented by retail listings and price trackers.
• Raspberry Pi raised prices and released a 1 GB Pi 5; small SBC vendors report severe BOM pressure from memory costs.
• Micron’s exit from the Crucial consumer business and reported supply shifts at Samsung and Nvidia signal tightening consumer memory supply.

Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25,000 vehicles go?

Key Points

• Hammersmith Bridge has been closed to vehicles since April 2019; no funded restoration plan exists.
• Roughly 9,000 of 25,000 pre‑closure daily trips have vanished; air quality and congestion improved.
• A lower‑cost, car‑free solution may better align with post‑closure realities than a £250m restoration.

Yawning Abyss of the Decimal Labyrinth

Key Points

• Prime-composite asymmetry supports cryptographic use of large primes.
• Gödel’s encoding and incompleteness challenge a complete rule-based view of arithmetic.
• Numogram and Tic Xenotation present structured, number-based frameworks for representation.

EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally

Key Points

• CJEU ruling found Russmedia liable for a harmful user-generated ad despite rapid takedown.
• A Romanian court had earlier deemed Russmedia exempt as a hosting provider under e-commerce safe harbor.
• The case highlights heightened EU platform liability where user content includes personal data.

Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

Key Points

• The machine traditionally uses a punched cardboard book to encode and play music.
• A laptop has reportedly been connected to enable digital audio (MP3) playback.
• The author has contacted the museum and is awaiting details about the modification.

Plane crashed after 3D-printed part collapsed

Key Points

• AAIB: 3D‑printed induction elbow softened under engine heat, causing power loss.
• Crash at Gloucestershire Airport; pilot injured slightly, aircraft destroyed.
• LAA to issue safety actions and an alert on the use of 3D‑printed parts.

A Most Important Mustard

Key Points

• Laibach identified Arabidopsis’s five chromosome pairs and built a large seed collection.
• A 1943 paper outlined Arabidopsis’s advantages as a model organism.
• György Rédei transferred key Arabidopsis accessions to the University of Missouri in 1955.

CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication Through RL

Key Points

• Reports speedups over torch.matmul and cuBLAS/cuBLASLt across 1,000 A100 configurations.
• Release includes A100 HGEMM kernels with 16-bit accumulators; 32-bit support is planned.
• Setup requires PyTorch 2.6.0+, CUTLASS v4.2.1, and specific env vars, with a provided evaluation script.

Django 6 Released

Key Points

• Django 6.0 adds built-in CSP support with middleware, a context processor, and new settings.
• Supports Python 3.12–3.14; Django 5.2.x is last to support Python 3.10–3.11.
• Third-party authors should drop pre‑5.2 support and test with python -Wd to handle deprecations.

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

Key Points

• Go’s design emphasizes minimalism and long-term stability, with conservative feature additions like generics arriving in Go 1.18.
• Go’s slices can grow and abstract memory placement, unlike Rust’s Vec<T> and Zig’s ArrayList which require explicit handling.
• The article evaluates languages by the values reflected in their trade-offs, using Go’s contrast with C++ as key context.

Some models of reality are bolder than others

Key Points

• Digital physics frames reality as computation via simple rules, often modeled by cellular automata.
• A lattice gas automaton on a hexagonal grid is cited as approximating the Navier–Stokes equations for fluids.
• The article contends that mathematics emerges from simple rules, making digital physics a metaphysically bold stance.

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

Key Points

• OpenAI’s o1 (Strawberry) marks a shift to multi-step inference with improved reasoning.
• Study leverages a 100T-token OpenRouter dataset to examine real-world LLM usage.
• Analyses cover open vs. closed adoption, agentic inference, and task category distributions.

Countdown until the AI bubble bursts

Key Points

• Satirical project, not a real prediction of an AI crash
• Nightly Gemini-driven web scans update a hypothetical “burst date”
• Updates include reasoning based on sentiment and economic indicators

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

Key Points

• Eight-month, time-filtered backtest of five LLMs trading $100K in paper funds.
• Grok led performance; DeepSeek was close second; Gemini trailed with more non-tech exposure.
• Next steps include expanding tests, live paper trading, and moving to real-world trading.

SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers

Key Points

• Phishing domains spoof T-Mobile (and AT&T) to push rewards scams via iMessage and RCS.
• Stolen card data plus a bank one-time code enables enrollment into Apple/Google mobile wallets.
• Fake e-commerce storefronts advertised on Google/Facebook are difficult to detect and reveal malicious code only at checkout.

Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's

Key Points

• Roberto Mercade leads Coca‑Cola’s McDonald’s Division, overseeing the global partnership in 100+ markets.
• His career spans leadership roles across Venezuela & Caribbean, South Africa, South Pacific, Latin Center, and Mexico.
• He holds an industrial engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.

StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

Key Points

• Unikernel OS with static linking produces immutable VM images.
• Supports multicore, preemptive threads, drivers, and POSIX libraries.
• Ecosystem includes Rust re-implementation and a Xen-focused debugger.

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

Key Points

• SVG filters applied to iframes enable complex interactive clickjacking and data exfiltration.
• Filters like feColorMatrix and feDisplacementMap work on cross-origin iframe content.
• A demonstrated example uses feTurbulence + feDisplacementMap to mimic a CAPTCHA and solicit sensitive user input.

Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)

Key Points

• JEP 450 compacts Java object headers in JDK 24 by embedding the class pointer into the mark word.
• The mark word encodes lock state, GC self-forwarding, GC age, and Valhalla-reserved bits.
• The article outlines a debugging scenario where objects vanished during testing of these changes.

AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming

Key Points

• AV1 powers about 30% of Netflix streaming and is set to become its top codec.
• Rollout progressed from Android software decode to TVs, web, and Apple hardware decode.
• AV1 delivers better quality at lower bitrates, aiding users on constrained networks.

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

Key Points

• 4chan rejects Ofcom’s “age assurance” rules on First Amendment grounds.
• The article claims U.S. Congress may consider a federal “GRANITE Act.”
• 4chan is pursuing a U.S. federal lawsuit against Ofcom over the UK Online Safety Act.

BMW PHEV: When EU engineering becomes a synonym for "unrepairable" (EV Clinic)

Key Points

• Locked MCU prevents clearing crash flags, making full module replacement necessary.
• BMW’s process requires pre/post vehicle flashing, adding time and risk of bricking.
• Registration of new modules needs costly OEM tools (ICOM, IMIB, AOS).

NeurIPS best paper awards 2025

Key Points

• Seven papers honored: four Best Papers and three runner-ups.
• Awards cover both Main and Datasets & Benchmark tracks; one Best Paper from the latter.
• Highlighted paper introduces Infinity-Chat, a 26K-query dataset for LLM output diversity.

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?

Key Points

• A text column with a CHECK constraint is demonstrated and measured as a baseline.
• Bulk loading and post-load maintenance (indexes, VACUUM ANALYZE) are shown to optimize performance.
• Storage bloat from repeated strings is quantified (392 MB), motivating enum or lookup table alternatives.

Brussels writes so many laws

Key Points

• EU passed ~13,000 acts (2019–2024), far exceeding U.S. output.
• Amsterdam Treaty and post‑2008 reforms enabled faster First Reading adoptions.
• Trilogues give the Commission pen‑holder influence; marathon sessions risk errors.

Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about

Key Points

• Oedipus Rex is framed as a single-day whodunnit with Oedipus as the investigating detective.
• The central twist is Oedipus discovering he is the murderer of the former king.
• The article compares this narrative device with modern films and highlights its rarity.

Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

Key Points

• Ultrasonic device recovers water from AWH sorbents in minutes.
• Proposed solar cell integration to power and automate extraction cycles.
• Study published in Nature Communications by MIT research team.

Nice Functions [pdf]

Key Points

• All finite-dimensional differentiation-invariant spaces are direct sums of N(r, m) (polynomial–exponential) subspaces.
• The method of undetermined coefficients yields particular solutions; resonance requires increasing polynomial degree by multiplicity.
• Laplace transforms produce rational Y(s); inverse transforms yield Green’s functions as 'nice' functions.

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

Key Points

• Res Obscura ran from 2010–2023 and its archive remains available.
• Viral posts on niche history topics led to international media and a radio interview.
• Breen seeks support for the publication on its 15th anniversary.

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

Key Points

• Death by Scrolling launched in October as Gilbert’s action-focused rogue-lite.
• Influences include The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, and Dead Cells.
• A year-long attempt at a large open-world RPG was shelved due to resource limits.

Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void

Key Points

• AI tools were used to simplify and refactor the blogs, not to build them from scratch.
• External JS and third-party dependencies were removed, and minimal responsive HTML/CSS adopted.
• The site build moved from WinterSmith to a simple inline page generator script.

Fast trigram based code search

Key Points

• Zoekt enables fast, code-aware search with substring/regex and boolean queries.
• Supports local CLI usage and large-scale deployments via indexserver/webserver.
• Offers web UI, JSON API (streaming, BM25, context lines), and gRPC API for advanced access.

What's the Deal with Euler's Identity?

Key Points

• Euler’s identity follows from Euler’s formula by setting α = π.
• Multiplying by −1 models a 180° rotation; fractional powers yield smaller rotations via i.
• Complex numbers x + i·y provide a coherent algebraic model of 2D rotations.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

Key Points

• State Department memo targets H-1B applicants tied to “censorship” of protected U.S. speech.
• Guidance references a May policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
• Reflects the administration’s broader campaign against online content moderation.

Netflix in exclusive talks to buy HBO

Key Points

• Netflix leads with a ~$28/share bid for WBD’s studio/streaming assets and entered exclusive talks.
• Paramount’s ~$27/share offer targets all of WBD, including CNN and cable networks.
• WBD is pursuing a split into two publicly traded halves, shaping deal structure and valuations.