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Bedrock 2.0 is a refreshed minimal Emacs starter kit that requires Emacs 31 and brings lexical binding, automatic package installation, improved tree-sitter configuration, and several other quality-of-life changes. The project remains a pair of files users copy once and then own outright.
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So you want to use OpenRouter?Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
Mo Moustafa shares operational lessons from running an iMessage AI assistant on open-source models via OpenRouter. Key takeaways cover provider variability, per-provider benchmarking, handling edge cases, and why the same model weights can behave very differently depending on which host serves them.
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Why C Strings Suck And How I Fixed Them
Elias Ebner explains how NUL-terminated strings work in C and why they cause bugs and inefficiency, then walks through a small single-file open-source C library built around length-carrying string view and owned string types, with design decisions, API examples and a note on unity builds.
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster)
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyoneCloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
Zack Polizzi launches Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source personal cloud platform built on Ubuntu that runs containerised, rootless apps with unified authentication and a polished web dashboard. The goal is to make self-hosting feel as simple as using a smartphone, without requiring sysadmin expertise.
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# No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc
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Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
Rustunit explains dropping Swift from Bevy iOS crates in favor of objc2—why the Swift glue went away, what the new crates look like, and what it means for Bevy-on-iOS maintainers.
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we have a year to fix security everywhere
jyn argues cheap open models capable of dangerous hacking are arriving fast—citing GLM 5.3-flash and frontier defender timelines—and outlines what governments, companies, and open-source foundations must do before consumer hardware can run planet-scale exploit agents.
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The Document Foundation on LibreOffice’s “no AI” stance as a deliberate product feature — privacy, local control, and community reaction after 26.8.
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Polars is releasing its first 2.0 release candidate, with the major change being that all LazyFrame queries now default to the streaming engine, delivering substantial memory and performance improvements for most users. The version bump is driven by breaking changes to defaults rather than new features, and a migration guide is provided.
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Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Mohamed Elashri argues CERN and Fermilab undervalued Scientific Linux’s option value: after CentOS and RHEL source-access shifts, accelerator controls are now moving thousands of machines to Debian to keep old hardware alive.
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Goroutine Leak ProfilesGo 1.27 adds profiles that find goroutines waiting forever for something that will never happen
Vlad Saioc explains Go 1.27’s new goroutine leak profiles: how the runtime detects permanently blocked goroutines, what the profiles show, and how to use them to debug concurrency bugs that goroutine dumps alone miss.
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Frontis.AI / Horizon Research open-source OpenMLE (gym, RL, Evo) and Frontis-MA1-35B, lifting MLE-Bench Lite medal average to 71.21% under a single RTX 4090 budget toward executable RSI research.
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Extracting AI rules from an existing codebase
How Laravel Boost learns project conventions from an established app: why hand-written detectors fell short, and how an agent skill gathers evidence so developers can approve scoped rules.
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This Month in Redox - August 2026
# This Month in Redox - August 2026 ##### By Ribbon and Ron Williams on Redox OS is a complete Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust. August was a very exciting month for Redox! Here’s all the latest news. Sorry for the delayed report, a combination of busy development, time off, conference attendance, other work, and various random factors got in the way. ## Donate to Redox If you would like to support Redox, please consider donating or buying some merch! - Donate - Patreon - Merch has moved from Teespring to Amaze Commerce:…
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Inside Forge: Writing a Container Runtime From Scratch
A from-scratch walkthrough of Forge, a container runtime built in Go on Linux primitives—covering namespaces, cgroups, rootfs setup, and lessons from building the runtime by hand.
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
A Rust developer's first real Zig project: how the language feels for systems work—manual memory, comptime, error handling, and where it differs from Rust's ownership model and tooling.
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Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Tuta explains Google's plan, rolling out globally in 2027, to require all Android app developers to register and verify their identity with Google before their apps will install on devices running Google Play Services. Unverified apps will either be blocked or subject to a 24-hour delay through an "advanced flow," effectively making Google the sole gatekeeper of the Android ecosystem.
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by Rüdiger Klaehn It is done. After four years of work and various pivots we have released iroh 1.0. We have an expanding web site describing how iroh works under the hood, but we think it is important to also understand why we made the decisions that led to the current iroh. So here is a trip down memory lane / our commit history which highlights major turning points and design decisions.
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A playful but carefully argued encoding proposal that extends UTF-8 to arbitrary length while preserving ASCII compatibility and self-synchronization, with a reference pipx implementation.
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