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Booting Arch Linux 32 onto a 2009 Eee PC netbook
A developer pulls a 2009 ASUS Eee PC 1000HE out of storage and documents rebuilding it around Arch Linux. The hardware is a period piece: a single-core Intel At
Communities Run on Organizers, Not Free Riders — So Become One
The fastest way to break into a new social scene isn't to keep showing up to other people's events — it's to start running your own. The author argues that acro
FAA restores Boeing's authority to self-certify 737 MAX and 787 airworthiness
The FAA has returned to Boeing the power to issue airworthiness certificates for its 737 MAX and 787 Dreamliner jets, closing out a restriction imposed after th
From hand-drawn leaflets to 3D software: how LEGO instructions evolved
LEGO's step-by-step building instructions grew out of a 1955 shift in the company's product strategy. Before then, buyers got only box-art inspiration and separ
Gleam Moves Its Repository to Tangled
The Gleam programming language — a type-safe, friendly language aimed at building systems that scale — has relocated its project home to Tangled, a git collabor
GoPro on the brink: founder floats $20M lifeline as buyer hunt drags on
GoPro is running out of runway. Founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman is personally lending the company $20 million at 6.5% interest to keep it afloat while advisers
Hiding video inside a single JPEG by abusing progressive scans
Progressive JPEGs split their compressed data into sequential "scans," each declaring its own spectral (DCT) range so a partially downloaded image renders as a
Kaiser call-center nurses say AI monitoring and call-time quotas erode patient care
Kaiser Permanente advice and triage nurses tell CalMatters that algorithmic management is pushing them to cut patient calls short at the expense of care. Seven
LG and Dell monitors auto-install bloatware via Windows Update, no consent asked
Plugging certain LG monitors into a Windows PC can trigger Windows Update to silently pull down LG's Monitor App Installer and related components — with no cons
Project Orion: The Nuclear Pulse Rocket Nobody Was Brave Enough to Fly
Nuclear pulse propulsion — most famously Project Orion — proposed powering a spacecraft by detonating a stream of small nuclear bombs behind a heavily shock-abs
Rebuilding search: an S+ tree that beats binary search by 40x
Ragnar Groot Koerkamp takes the static B-tree (S+ tree) design from Algorithmica and pushes it to the limit for one narrow but common problem: given a sorted ar
Running SQLite in Production: ANALYZE, Single-Writer Pain, and Backups
Julia Evans documents lessons from running a Django site on SQLite, her fourth SQLite-backed project but the first where the Django ORM pushes the database hard