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We Audited 10 Popular Open-Source Robot Datasets. Here's What We Found.
Traceplane ran automated quality checks on ten widely used open robotics datasets and found structural or semantic issues in every one—arguing trajectory data needs ingest-time QA like every other data-intensive field.
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A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
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How nytpu built a terminal-friendly curl version of their site with ANSI styling, content negotiation, and practical notes for serving pretty pages to curl.
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Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
OpenAI engineer Ryan Lopopolo on harness engineering: how Codex and agent-first workflows reshape the scaffolding around models, from prompts and tools to evaluation and production loops.
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Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agentsUnattended coding agents that produce more than a thousand merged PRs a week at Stripe.
Stripe’s Minions are fully unattended coding agents that one-shot tasks end-to-end. Humans review the PRs; the agents write the code—here’s how the harness works.
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How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
Adrian Garcia Badaracco explains how Pydantic Logfire uses dynamic shredding of semi-structured OpenTelemetry attributes into separate Parquet columns, so queries on JSON attributes that once timed out now finish in under a second, plus plans for indexes and usage-based shredding.
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Some notes on starting to use DjangoOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
First impressions of Django from a developer seeking a mature framework with explicit structure. Julia Evans examines its administration interface and the experience of returning to a small project after time away.
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Comparison of Arena Architecture in malloc()
When multiple threads simultaneously allocate or deallocate memory from the allocator, the allocator will serialize them. Programs making intensive use of the allocator actually slow down as the number of processors increases.
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Software occlusion culling in Block Game
Eniko walks through software-rendered occlusion culling for a voxel/block game on a weak integrated GPU—why CPU-side culling mattered, how the technique works, and the performance wins on modest hardware.
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I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 yearsWhat I learned operating ClickHouse at scale: the wins, the failures, and the lessons that only come from production experience.
Tinybird co-founder Javi Santana shares five years of operational experience running petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters, covering architecture decisions, the challenges of storage-compute separation, zero-copy replication trade-offs, and how the upgrade process evolved from a three-hour ordeal into a CI/CD-integrated routine.
1 min · 280 wordsagent-written
How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
A look at how the original SimCity ran a full city simulation on a 16 MHz 386SX: its Simulate() function only runs a slice of the systems each frame, a frame-distribution trick that also shows up in Assetto Corsa's cubemap reflections and Unreal's Lumen lighting.
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Notes on switching to Helix from vimOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A Vim user's account of trying Helix, with attention to built-in language-server support, contextual search, keyboard help, and multiple cursors. The post describes the everyday tradeoffs of changing editors.
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The Many Many Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06
Isaac Marovitz, working on the Marathon Recompiled project, digs into Sonic 06's rendering and cut content to show how much unfinished lighting, effects and polish the game shipped without, and what the recompilation can restore.
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That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
Chris Jones recounts stepping in as interim IT manager and discovering six new MacBooks missing, then how an IT contractor's stories of dead batteries, suspicious repair cases filed on a personal Apple account and oddly shipped replacements unravelled into the discovery that he had been stealing and reselling laptops for over a year.
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Dave Pacheco walks through how Oxide's control plane propagates DNS configuration and argues for building detailed observability tooling during development, so operators can see exactly what a distributed system is doing when something goes wrong.
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Matt Keeter writes a hand-tuned AArch64 assembly interpreter for the Uxn virtual machine and finds it about 30 percent faster than his safe-Rust baseline, explaining why dispatch dominates interpreter time, how keeping VM state in registers and per-opcode dispatch help, and follow-up experiments from readers.
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The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography
Sudheer Apte recalls how Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Gold-Bug, read in middle school in India, introduced him to cryptography. He explains how Poe came to write the 1843 story, how its substitution cipher is cracked with letter-frequency analysis, the link to Claude Shannon, and why many reprints of the cipher contain errors.
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I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn't need one
Clayton Ramsey describes building dumpster, a cycle-detecting garbage collector written in Rust for Rust, covering its reference-counting design, a concurrent implementation, benchmarks, and the fuzzing that caught subtle bugs.
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Website footers are (literally) bigger than ever. Here's why
Elizabeth Goodspeed on The Big Footer™: full-viewport logos at the bottom of sites, how print/fashion logo culture and better screens revived ornate marks, and why footers became the unexpected stage for brand recognition.
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I finally figured out how to take notes!Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
Sam Rose describes a note-taking workflow built around practical requirements from meetings and follow-up work. The post explores reducing friction with tags and automation so that the habit becomes easier to sustain.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written