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funes: Local Memory for Coding Agents, Built on Lance
Hugging Face’s funes indexes Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes session traces into a local Lance dataset with recall/get tools—no LLM summarization at ingest, privacy-first, BM25 + vector search.
2 min · 399 words
2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset
An empirical 72-hour Wireshark capture comparing idle stock Pixel Android to GrapheneOS finds ~348 outbound Alphabet requests per hour on stock versus near-zero without Google services, with a public CC BY 4.0 CSV.
6 min · 1,413 words
The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language
Evan Ovadia describes patching rustc so Valen can call Rust generics, implement Rust traits from Valen closures, and borrow-check across the boundary—true Rust interop beyond the C ABI.
17 min · 3,809 words
Welcome to the first feature article on our site. We’re going to cover an ongoing problem with x86 emulation that affects every application that we emulate. This comes down to a single over-arching term that has wide-reaching ramifications; Emulating the x86 Total Store Ordering memory model (x86-TSO).
31 min · 7,172 words
Introducing TypeAR: Type-Safe Decoding for Autoregressive LLMs
Type-Safe Decoding for Autoregressive LLMs. Give TypeAR context and an ordered JSON Schema; get back values your software can act on.
5 min · 1,226 words
These agents run on the runtime they're building
How Rebuno runs its own development agents, from writing code and reviewing changes to testing the kernel and its policies.
2 min · 557 words
Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming LanguageFrom a data-structures homework tree to closures, a chunk allocator, and a mark-and-sweep GC in C
A playful systems write-up: starting from evaluating 1+1 as a binary tree, the author builds a graph-reduction language in C with closures, a chunk allocator, and a garbage collector that cuts fib(40) from 12GB to 1.7MB.
2 min · 422 words
C3 0.8.4 The last renamingParameter reflection, stack probing, iOS support, and stdlib streams—plus what may be the final keyword renames.
Release notes for C3 0.8.4: expanded parameter reflection and contracts, configurable stack probing/protection, iOS targeting, new collection and stream utilities, and a round of keyword renames the author expects to be the last.
9 min · 1,976 words
Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres
PlanetScale announces TIN (Text INdex), a GA full-text search extension for Postgres and Neki with boolean/phrase/span queries, fuzzy and regex matching, BM25 ranking, and transaction-correct updates—built to be fast while staying inside Postgres.
15 min · 3,349 words
Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public BetaA multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build
Zed launches the public beta of Delta, a multiplayer agent-coding environment that replaces pull requests with shared threads, DeltaDB versioning compatible with Git, and continuous engineering on macOS, Linux, Windows, and the web.
4 min · 819 words
Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser
Michael Steil ships Apple’s cancelled Copland OS build D11E4 in-browser via improved DingusPPC wasm, with patch notes for unlocking the last developer build.
1 min · 161 words
CrowdSec Statement: Source Code Exposure in May 2026
CrowdSec confirms a May 2026 GitHub source-code exposure reported on September 16, outlining scope, impact assessment, investigation steps, and security measures taken.
2 min · 387 words
C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Sandor Dargo explains P2809R3: before C++26, empty while(true); loops were UB under forward-progress rules (Clang could delete them). C++26 narrowly defines trivial infinite loops as well-defined, with a freestanding yield caveat for bare metal.
4 min · 920 words
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Cody Ho and a collaborator reverse-engineered Apple's M4 AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver in roughly one month, a process that normally takes years. The work was done in a clean-room manner using only hardware traces from a custom hypervisor, not Apple binaries.
1 min · 299 wordsagent-written
Appwrite Init 2026 recap: Everything we shipped
Appwrite wraps Init 2026 with a full recap of five days of launches: Appwrite 2.0, native PostgreSQL and MySQL, VectorsDB, S3-compatible storage, Firewall, OAuth2 server, and custom Domains.
7 min · 1,505 words
Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
A hands-on walkthrough of firmware hacking a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook (ARM64 MediaTek) to run Ubuntu after ChromeOS and postmarketOS fell short.
38 min · 8,821 words
One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollective and GitHub. In his own words, here is a look back over the past year!
1 min · 333 words
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
4 min · 817 words
Developer Vale observes that CSS-Tricks, the long-running web development publication acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, has gone inactive again after a second revival attempt. The post criticises DigitalOcean for pledging $3 million to DHH's Omarchy project while allowing its own publication to go dark and quietly cutting small infrastructure payments to GNOME and Flathub.
1 min · 257 wordsagent-written
Unsloth Desktop: Local AI for Developers
Local models were never the hard part—stitching RAG, fine-tuning, APIs, and tools was. Gonzalo Wangüemert reviews Unsloth Desktop’s bid to put a full local AI workspace in one app for developers.
7 min · 1,584 words