Jon Pena

John Carmack praised Wouter van Oortmerssen's new Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks and efficient memory-mapped data structures.

America's creative industries have lost over 200,000 jobs in four years amid the rise of generative AI and ongoing shifts in digital media consumption.

A critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Google Brotli decoder affects multiple HTTP libraries and runtimes, enabling potential remote code execution.

Physicists successfully trapped a single positron in an electromagnetic vacuum container for a month, enabling precise quantum measurements to compare matter and antimatter.

FreeDNS provides free and premium static and dynamic DNS hosting, subdomain hosting, and URL forwarding services.

A practical guide reviews current AI image generation models, API pricing, prompting techniques, historical milestones, and methods for integrating generation into code and agents.

Benchmarks show that a DEFLATE compression library written in the functional language Roc achieves performance within ten percent of the highly optimized C library libdeflate.

A new Linux kernel module unlocks professional-grade FP and BF16 instruction issue rates on consumer Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards.

The GVS5H harness uses multiple Qwen3.8-27B instances to coordinate via a shared filesystem, matching Claude Fable 5 coding performance on LiveCodeBench Hard at lower cost.

Cerebras explains how it distributes multi-trillion parameter AI models across multiple wafer-scale chips using pipelining and on-chip SRAM to achieve high token throughput.

SpeedCrunch 1.1 is released as a free, open-source scientific calculator featuring up to 50 digits of precision, complex number support, and cross-platform compatibility.

Tiny programs and minimalist language implementations provide approachable ways to understand complex software concepts by revealing their fundamental Kolmogorov complexity.

EPFL researchers developed a low-power implantable neural chip that tracks cross-regional brain communication and decodes cognitive and emotional states in real time.

A hardware hacker designed a custom Linux-based stereo vision board utilizing the Rockchip RV1103 SoC and an onboard hardware accelerator for depth processing.

A phlog post reflects on the appeal of the Gopher protocol in 2026 as a way to escape modern tech noise and subscriptions.

Simple tools with strict limitations often spark more creativity and engagement than complex platforms with endless options.

Data from Apollo shows that artificial intelligence investments have not increased revenue, profit margins, or productivity outside of the tech sector.

AI text is harder for humans to understand because models prioritize high information density and technical tasks over natural human communication patterns.

Small air purifiers make effective white noise machines while simultaneously filtering smoke and airborne particles from the room.

A peer-reviewed academic paper about Z-Library published by Taylor & Francis contains multiple fake citations and hallucinates references, likely due to improper AI tool usage.

Microsoft's new AI diagnostic tool outperformed generalist physicians in accuracy and cost efficiency during simulated trials, with hospital testing scheduled to begin soon.

Developers built a 214-page AI-generated wiki from 45,000 Enron emails, with every fact cited to a specific message and date.

Kimi Code has released the K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed models, featuring a 1M context window and mandatory thinking mode.

Analysis of the php2shell vulnerability shows that mass exploitation is unlikely because successful attacks require precise build knowledge, multi-request worker manipulation, and extensive brute-forcing.

The initial ISO balloting for the C++26 standard draft was disapproved after failing to meet the required percentage of favorable votes.

Developers should be more ambitious with their software projects because modern AI tools allow complex systems and performance improvements to be built in hours instead of years.

Astral released an experimental integration between the uv package manager and the ty type checker, adding unified dependency management and script checking capabilities.

Wild version 0.11.0 is released with default WebAssembly support, improved GNU linker script compatibility, enhanced macOS port progress, and numerous performance and bug fixes.

Numerous Indian government websites, including MeitY bodies and UIDAI, continue serving TLS certificates that eMudhra revoked following policy and security incidents.

Log files attached to bug reports often contain sensitive data like personal information, tokens, and screen text, so users should carefully inspect them before sharing.

By analyzing the open-source code of SimCity, we can see how the game maintained performance on 16 MHz hardware by spreading simulation updates across multiple frames.

Compilers exploit C and C++ undefined behavior to aggressively optimize code, resulting in unexpected execution paths, dead-code elimination, and unpredictable runtime outcomes.

Using the `kirigami` package, an Emacs user unifies multiple distinct folding engines like Tree-sitter, Hideshow, and Outline under a single keymap and consistent fringe interface.

A retrocomputing enthusiast released a software extension pack and setup guide enabling classic Mac OS to run on vintage Apple Network Server hardware.

A critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Brotli compression library (CVE-2026-111497) affects multiple languages and HTTP clients, allowing potential remote code execution.

Go 1.26 and 1.27 introduce experimental packages, including simd and archsimd, enabling developers to write portable SIMD instructions directly in Go.

A developer modified the Zig compiler to add an `@xkcdRandom` builtin that always returns the number four, mirroring the classic webcomic joke.