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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
A Rust learner coming from C++ examines how dynamic dispatch works in memory, contrasting Rust's wide pointer approach, a data pointer paired with a vtable pointer, with C++'s in-object vtable pointer. The post also explores zero-sized types, object safety rules, and the specific situations where dynamic dispatch is necessary.
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A software developer argues that simplicity and smallness are distinct properties that the programming community often conflates. Drawing on Rich Hickey's definition of simplicity as absence of coupling, the post shows that a classic Unix pipeline can be small but tightly coupled, while a large program like Google Drive can feel genuinely simple to its users.
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Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
The AgingGamer dissects Sony's legal argument that game purchases are licenses rather than ownership — agreeing with part of it while skewering the secondary claim that software cannot be "sold" because it is not a finite commodity. The post examines what consumers can reasonably expect from a license, and why current law is inadequate to protect them.
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Verisign and ICANN have approved the elimination of the entire third-level .name domain space, effective February 2027. Neil Fraser, who has used neil.fraser.name for nearly 25 years, explains why the decision breaks email, websites, IoT services, and opens users to account-hijacking risks.
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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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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Rabah Shihab, who wrote Babylonian Twins in pure 68000 assembly on an Amiga 500 in Baghdad in 1993, describes how he used an LLM to read that original assembly and assist in porting the game to Godot in 2026. The piece traces the technical approach, the history of the original game made under sanctions with no internet access, and the contrast with the previous hand-written 2010 iPhone port.
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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots.Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.
Nick Abe at Dayzle documents a Google App Ads campaign where the platform reported 21 installs on one day while their own backend recorded only one real user. Forensic analysis of raw analytics revealed the remaining installs bore the hallmarks of bot-farm activity, with old app versions and brief mechanical sessions.
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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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A hobbyist write-up of the finished LT6502b, a homebrew 6502-based laptop: half the thickness of the first version, a 10.1-inch 1024×600 screen, translucent orange case, and a wishlist for the next revision.
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AI didn't write our SDK. It changed how we built it.
AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster. Here's how prototypes, agent-drafted specs, and persistent guidance got ideas into reviewable shape sooner.
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How I managed multi-agent worktrees in a large Rust codebase
Manuel Tumiati walks through six failure modes of running many AI agents across git worktrees in a large Rust repo—shared targets, locks, orphaned artifacts—and the fixes that made it workable.
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Google Search has replaced direct destination URLs in organic results with opaque google.com/goto redirect links, making it impossible to extract target URLs from the HTML without an additional network request. Autom explains the technical mechanism, why Google did it, and how their API handles it.
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Which AI Is Best for College Essays in 2026? Gemini Wins
StudyArena analyzed 6,851 blind student votes across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models. Gemini is our current pick for college essay help.
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POSETTE Talk Recap: Postgres Isn't Slow. Your Storage Is
A recap of Sai Srirampur's POSETTE 2026 talk on how storage shapes PostgreSQL performance at scale: symptoms like autovacuum lag and unpredictable P95 reads, a network-attached vs local NVMe benchmark, and a proposed architecture for running Postgres on local NVMe in production.
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The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis explains how MongoDB keeps a dozen natively written drivers in a dozen languages consistent with shared specs, using language-agnostic YAML conformance tests and a unified test format, with lessons summarized from a paper co-authored with Jeremy Mikola and Jeff Yemin.
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TabPFN vs XGBoost: benchmark measured on an RTX 4070 Ti
The claim behind TabPFN and TabICL is that they predict on a table without ever training on it and still beat tuned boosting. I measured it on fourteen datasets from the Grinsztajn benchmark, with the same split and the same clock for everyone. The one that does not train wins, the advantage holds up to 32,000 rows instead of breaking, and the most-cited model can no longer be downloaded without a
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Video CDs break Windows Explorer
Clyde documents an odd Windows Explorer bug triggered by Video CDs: inserting one (or mounting an image) breaks folder browsing in a surprising way, with steps to reproduce and notes on what’s going wrong.
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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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Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy
Clay engineer Sophie Alpert explains the company-wide AI writing policy: stand behind every sentence, treat writing as thinking, respect readers' time, and reject padded AI slop.
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
Eileen Yoon revisits the Apple M1 Neural Engine three years after abandoning an open-source driver project, motivated by Apple's decision to fold standalone ANE cores into the GPU in the M5. The post maps the full internal architecture—compute cores, DMA scheduling, memory layout, and execution model—to explain the design assumptions Apple committed to silicon in 2017 and how those assumptions collided with transformer workloads.
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