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SBCL 2.6.7 lands: interactive manual, AVX-512 support, and ARM64 SIMD gains
Steel Bank Common Lisp, the widely used open-source Common Lisp compiler and runtime, has shipped its 2.6.7 release as part of its regular monthly cadence. The
AI Didn't End Burnout — It Just Gave Us More Ways to Overcommit
The promise of AI was that automating grunt work would leave people underworked and stress-free. The author, a serial startup founder, found the opposite: becau
Colossus, the WWII codebreaker that birthed modern computing, named IEEE Milestone
In 1941, British listening stations picked up a high-speed binary teletype signal that turned out to be traffic from a new German cipher machine, built by the B
Data-Oriented Design: Lay Out Data for the Cache, Not the Object Model
This DICE slide deck by Daniel Collin argues that game engine programmers should design around how data is read and written rather than around object hierarchie
Decathlon Germany goes live with Wero, testing Europe's bank-backed payment push
On July 20, Decathlon switched on Wero at checkout on decathlon.de, making Germany the first country in the retailer's international network to support the Euro
Decker revives HyperCard's spirit for the browser, with a scripting twist
Decker is a free, open-source multimedia platform for building and sharing interactive documents that combine sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. I
DeepSeek reportedly halts raise after leaked transcript on US compute gap
A Hacker News submission points to a GitHub-hosted PDF billed as a translated transcript of a July 22, 2026 investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng
DOJ Charges Atlanta Man Over GrapheneOS Phone Wipe in First-of-Its-Kind Case
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta have charged Sam Tunick under a statute that criminalizes destroying property to prevent its seizure, after his phone wiped itsel
Fed up with resetting bedside clocks, one tinkerer 3D-printed his own
An Ars Technica writer's decades-long reliance on cheap red seven-segment LED clock-radios hit a breaking point after a power flicker forced yet another round o
FFmpeg scripts recreate the sound of vintage cassette tapes
A bash-and-FFmpeg toolkit runs audio through processing chains that mimic specific cassette tapes, layering in tape hiss, wow-and-flutter pitch modulation, band
Fly.io Bets the Company on Sprites, Cloud Computers Built for AI Agents
Fly.io founder Kurt Mackey uses this post to reset the company's direction after a public jolt: developer influencer Theo Browne, while praising the platform, n
French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
No article body was supplied to summarize — the source payload contained only the headline, so a faithful summary cannot be written without fabricating details.