Reddit is sunsetting RSS feeds on November 13th and further restricting Old Reddit access to accounts that have logged in and used it within the past six months, citing efforts to combat AI scraping and automated abuse. The company is also ending public API access by March 2027 for apps that don't migrate to its developer platform. Moderators will retain unrestricted Old Reddit access.
Kweepa released DOOM64, a demake of the classic 1993 Doom for the Commodore 64, featuring dynamic floor/ceiling height changes, dithered lighting via text display refresh, and hand-tweaked sprites. The project is the second in a planned id Software conversion trilogy, with two versions available optimized for different C64 setups.
Windows hot-patching on Itanium uses a simpler approach than AArch64, overwriting the first instruction bundle with a nop and a 64-bit long branch instruction to redirect execution. Itanium's fixed-size instruction bundles eliminated the need for spare patching space, and contrary to appearances, function-preceding breakpoint bundles serve alignment purposes rather than hot-patching.
This article traces the history of x86 CPUs from their origins, beginning with Intel's 4004 processor designed for Busicom's calculator in 1971, and continuing through the 8008 developed for Computer Terminal Corporation's programmable terminal. The narrative explains how architectural quirks in x86 assembly—such as the accumulator and addressing schemes—resulted from design decisions made to maintain backward compatibility across generations of chips rather than from arbitrary choices.
Researchers tested Jev, a decision-making AI model from TypeSafe AI, across ~575,000 API calls and found it often remains confident when answering questions it has no basis for answering, contradicting its promise of calibrated probabilities. While Jev performs well on familiar tasks with sufficient information, it fails to distinguish between epistemic uncertainty (lack of knowledge) and aleatoric uncertainty (inherent randomness), and asking 'Do you know?' doesn't reliably detect these gaps.
An engineer named Emily proposes the 'Brain Sandwich' framework for working with AI: using your brain first to understand the problem, then delegating to AI for implementation, then using your brain again to review and refine the work. This approach balances leveraging AI capabilities while maintaining engineering skills and ensuring code quality.
A programmer reflects on 30 years of coding alongside Phish music, from a 1998 tech support job through a 2024 PhD at Carnegie Mellon, remaining skeptical of AI until 2026 when Claude Code and similar tools demonstrated capability to rapidly build applications, prompting a reconsideration of AI's role in software development.
Local LLM models can malfunction by generating beyond their answer or ignoring instructions due to incorrect chat templates, while the same model works properly through hosted APIs. Chat templates are Jinja programs stored in GGUF metadata that must exactly reproduce the format models were trained on; mismatches cause degraded behavior without requiring weight changes.
A game where players control a swarm of units that can be programmed with dynamic code injection. Once reaching 2000 units, players can describe desired swarm behaviors in natural language, and an LLM generates code to implement commands ranging from simple formations to complex tactical strategies.
Fortinet has issued a security alert regarding an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in FortiMail. The company is warning users of the threat and urging immediate attention to the vulnerability.
Earshot SF is a tool that lets users check noise sources near San Francisco addresses before moving or signing leases, scanning for fire stations, police stations, hospitals, schools, transit stops, construction sites, noise complaints, and entertainment venues.
This article from the 'Hanami, Why?' series explains Hanami's dependency injection system via the Deps module, which allows developers to explicitly declare dependencies at the top of classes rather than scattering them throughout method bodies. The piece covers how dependencies are registered based on file paths, injected as ready-to-use instances, and discusses practical considerations like custom initialization logic and auto-registration of components.
Boston Dynamics developed a new 13-degree-of-freedom hand for its Atlas humanoid robot, designed to manipulate objects with dexterity comparable to human hands while balancing strength, ruggedness, and manufacturability for industrial work. The four-fingered design with an opposable thumb uses direct actuation and tactile sensing to enable complex manipulation tasks including tool use, prioritizing function over replicating human anatomy.
The author reflects on how computers evolved from programmer-friendly devices to consumer-focused tools, and proposes a future where AI serves as the primary interface while users retain full control and portability of their data through a decentralized base layer, allowing seamless transitions between AI environments.
AI tools like Claude Code enable rapid app development, but building a product is only valuable once customers pay for it repeatedly. Startups must focus on customer acquisition and retention rather than perfecting the initial product, since competitors can replicate the app quickly but not the established customer base.
MkDocs 2.0, a ground-up rewrite announced three weeks ago, introduces breaking changes including incompatibility with Material for MkDocs, removal of the plugin system, a rewritten theming system that limits advanced navigation features, a closed contribution model, and a shift from YAML to TOML configuration. The maintainers of Material for MkDocs present these findings and introduce Zensical, a new static site generator compatible with MkDocs 1.x, as an alternative.
Hotel Lobby AI Video Generator lets users create short two-person rap performance videos by uploading two photos, which are swapped into the original choreography and music. HD videos cost 40 credits per second with generation times of 5–20 minutes depending on length, and the tool requires Google sign-in but is independent of the original COLORS brand.
IonQ engineer built MindRoom, an open-source AI agent platform that works like a chat app, giving employees personal and team agents connected to company data sources like Slack, Jira, and code repositories. After initial slow adoption through pilots, a company-wide demo showing the agent's ability to explain complex programs drove rapid adoption, with hundreds signing up and adoption reaching about a third of eligible employees within weeks.
China's AI strategy is shifting toward restricting access to powerful AI models amid security concerns, even as Beijing promotes open-source development. Recent model releases capable of aiding cyberattacks and terrorism have prompted security officials to call for stricter oversight, while Chinese AI labs increasingly delay public releases and implement restrictive licensing terms.
Wrapper is a tool that lets you share a live terminal session from your computer to viewers on their phones via a secure WebRTC connection, with granular control over who can type. The terminal stays on your host machine, sharing is initiated with a keyboard shortcut that generates an expiring code, and all data is encrypted end-to-end with no metadata stored on relays.