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When a /.well-known/ URI Is the Wrong Tool — Advice from the Spec's Author
Mark Nottingham, co-author of the Well-Known URI specification and the registry's Designated Expert, lays out his working guidance for protocol designers eyeing
Why DuckDB Is Fast, Part 1: Living In-Process and Reading Columns
DuckDB has grown from a 2019 CWI Amsterdam research project into one of the most widely deployed analytical databases around, turning up in notebooks, ETL jobs,
Apple rewrites TrueType hinting engine in Swift, gains memory safety and 13% speed
Apple has replaced the C implementation of TrueType's hinting interpreter with a memory-safe Swift version, shipping in its Fall 2025 OS releases. The hinting e
Gemma 4 + llama.cpp MTP turns a Mac into a usable offline coding agent at 72 tok/s
Repeated internet outages pushed one developer to build a fully local coding agent on an M1 Max with 64 GB of unified memory, and the resulting walkthrough show
Indie dev ships browser-based naval warfare game channeling Sid Meier's Pirates
A hobbyist developer has released Pirates, a naval warfare game that draws direct inspiration from Sid Meier's Pirates!, the 1987 classic that blended ship-to-s
One PDF, Two Readers: Embedding Hidden Markdown for LLMs in Ordinary Files
A developer has built a way to make a single PDF present entirely different content to humans and machines. The trick uses an obscure property in the PDF spec —
Palantir loses court fight against Swiss investigative magazine
A Swiss court has rejected a legal challenge Palantir brought against an investigative magazine in the country, handing the US data-analytics company a defeat i
Renault bets on magnet-free EV motors to break China's rare-earth grip
Renault Group is doubling down on electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM), a design that replaces the permanent magnets found in roughly 90% of EV motors
Solar overtakes coal in US electricity generation for the first time
In May, solar power supplied 12.8% of US electricity, edging past coal's 12.2% — the first month solar has ever beaten coal nationally, per data from energy thi
AI agent racks up $6,531 AWS bill trying to port-scan hobbyist network DN42
An autonomous AI agent calling itself 'JertLinc3522' attempted to join DN42 — a decentralized hobbyist network where enthusiasts practice BGP, DNS, and other in
AI code-volume stats are just lines of code with better PR
The software industry spent two decades establishing that lines of code is a terrible way to measure developer value — then quietly resurrected it. Google's '75
Anthropic backtracks on secret anti-distillation throttling in Claude Fable 5
Anthropic has apologized for quietly degrading Claude Fable 5's outputs when it suspected users of distillation — training smaller competing models on a larger