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OrgWebAlchemy: Benchmarking, Profiling, and the Long Road to Real Org Support
Josep Bigorra details how the Guile OrgWebAlchemy Org-mode parser gained Markdown output, figures, named elements and table rows, and got up to 6.4x faster after profiling uncovered a quadratic collapse pass and a per-character scanner.
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Drew Silcock walks through a week of severe vulnerabilities and incidents, from the PHP2Shell CVEs and a compromised eMudhra intermediate CA to GitLab, musl, LiteLLM and leaked Linux kernel bugs, then asks whether AI-accelerated bug discovery makes this the new normal and what teams can do about it.
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James Yu catalogs literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, from Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi prizes that allowed AI from the start to contests where AI use surfaced later.
8 min · 1,782 words
Is it still worth learning to code in 2026? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked Yes. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,585 words
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine profiles avionics engineer Michael Newton's open source Recreate Apollo project, a 1:1 3D-printed Apollo DSKY replica driven by a Raspberry Pi running the Virtual AGC emulator with the Apollo 13 Command Module software.
6 min · 1,372 words
Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov
Fyra Labs examines three benchmarks behind claims that the Tov language (TypeScript-like, compiled via C) beats Rust, argues they are crafted to slow Rust down, and shows improved Rust versions match or beat Tov.
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Kevin Coleman recounts falling for a phishing campaign that began with a fake YouTube support ticket and a lookalike Google login, and argues the scariest part was the attacker quietly registering a new passkey on his account, which would have let them back in even after a password change.
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Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker
Simone Marzulli describes getting hooked on Beyblade X, then reverse engineering the Beybattle Pass launch tracker: sniffing its Bluetooth traffic, decoding the payloads that record each launch's RPM, and building DiZZi 0.2, an AI companion app inspired by the anime with a spinning 3D bey and voice callouts.
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How we deploy trillion-parameter frontier models on Cerebras
Sarah Chieng explains how Cerebras splits a frontier model too large for one 44 GB WSE-3T wafer across many wafers, using the ~3T-parameter open model Kimi K3 as the example: fitting weights and request state in on-chip memory, mapping layers across chips as a pipeline, and serving many concurrent requests at 1000-2000+ tokens per second.
5 min · 1,185 words
Attention people who think UB is fine
Thomas Habets follows up his post on undefined behaviour in C with a concrete example showing that UB is not 'at worst a segfault': the same line can run whatever is next in memory, write a random value and crash, or do what you naively expect.
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Agents fail like engineers, so I review them like engineers
The founder of Greenflagged argues coding agents make strikingly human mistakes and describes reviewing their work with three reviewer agents (a Skeptic, a Logician and a Steward) modelled on how engineering teams catch process failures.
7 min · 1,563 words
How close can pure FP get to C?
Richard Feldman takes up the lean-zip versus libdeflate result and explores how far a DEFLATE implementation in Roc, a pure functional language, can be pushed toward C performance, with benchmarks, compiler work, and reproduction scripts.
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Nick of Code and Cake shares surprising lessons from starting a hobby container runtime: containers are just restricted processes built from several Linux kernel features, images are just folders, Go is awkward for a runtime, and rootless networking must be reimplemented in userspace.
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SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home
Fly.io's Daniel Botha introduces the Sprites Block Device (SBD), a simpler object-storage-backed block device that replaces the clever custom filesystem Sprites launched with, explaining why dumber checkpoints and 'just a disk' made Sprites more reliable.
6 min · 1,282 words
Murat Demirbas's notes from day 1 of HPTS 2026 at Asilomar, including Ion Stoica's keynote 'Reality is the Final Verifier' on gaps in agentic software engineering, plus talks on storage, metastable failures and Little's Law, CXL memory, LLM training resilience on TPUs and inference.
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The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure
GitHub engineers explain how they moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure, how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets Git reads scale independently as agent traffic grows.
7 min · 1,714 words
UCLA or USC? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked UCLA. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
10 min · 2,341 words
Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability
Cloudflare describes the default WAF Managed Ruleset protections it deployed for the newly disclosed php2shell PHP vulnerabilities ahead of public disclosure, how the rules detect exploitation attempts, and why customers should still update PHP while keeping the protection enabled.
5 min · 1,162 words
Garmin Revamps and Opens Up Connect Developer API Program: All the Details
DC Rainmaker's Ray Maker breaks down Garmin's reopened and revamped Connect Developer API program after a seven-month freeze driven by a flood of AI-generated app applications, covering the new access tiers, what data third-party platforms can send and receive, and what it means for developers.
9 min · 2,058 words
Your MCU Likely Escaped the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
Daniel Mangum explains why most microcontroller-based devices likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise disclosed on October 20, 2026: embedded firmware usually ships only the specific root CA certificates it needs rather than a broad trust store.
7 min · 1,579 words