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Zaid Humayun argues that zero-copy data paths are essential for high-throughput databases. Start at OS/disk copies and show how using O_DIRECT bypasses the kernel page cache, and how a buffer pool with fixed page frames reduces unnecessary copies. In Rust, instead of owned PageBytes, the design borrows bytes via lifetimes, building read/write views (HeapPageView, HeapPageMut) atop a pinned PageBytes inside a BufferFrame guarded by RwLock. The read path uses borrowed views; writes require separate mutable guards. This yields safety and fewer copies, at the cost of ergonomic complexity.
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Monero's Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) is a collaborative platform to submit ideas, track funding stages, work in progress, and completed tasks, with donations to the General Fund or specific proposals. The page lists ongoing proposals and contributors (dates in 2025–2026) such as ProbeLab P2P metrics, monero.eco compensation, Grease payment channels, SyntheticBird CCS UI/UX, CCS frontend/backend upgrades, and 39C3 support. It provides repository links (CCS Front End/Back End/Proposals) and a donation address.
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The Work Runs on Different Maps argues that projects stall due to misaligned organizational maps, not lack of skill. It identifies five maps governing execution: Constraint (org chart), Expertise (who to ask), Decision (who actually approves), Memory (why rules exist), and Spanning (boundary-spanners). The distance between maps creates friction and fragility, with “human routers” carrying context. To route effectively, start with the formal map, observe buy-in signals, and surface the why behind rules. Making maps visible exposes the true organization—who decides and who benefits from the blur.
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holos is a Docker Compose‑like tool for running VM stacks on a single host using KVM/QEMU. It replaces containers with VMs, each with its own image, resources, cloud-init seed, and qcow2 data; stacks are defined in holos.yaml. No libvirt or distributed control plane. VMs can talk by name, with two NICs and DNS via /etc/hosts on a 10.10.0.0/24 network. Features include GPU passthrough, prebuilt cloud images, Dockerfile provisioning, persistent volumes, SSH‑based healthchecks, per‑project SSH keys, and a rich CLI (up/down/ps/exec/logs/install). Not Kubernetes; designed for single-host usage.
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StackAdapt is pitching advertisers to test ads inside ChatGPT, offering CPMs as low as $15 and a $50,000 minimum for a pilot. The initiative markets itself as early access to a new “discovery layer” reaching users in mid-research on ChatGPT. The pitch deck, titled “OpenAI x StackAdapt Limited Pilot Program,” describes a partnership with OpenAI to enable advertising within ChatGPT as an early-stage test of a still-developing ad system.
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Megamerges in Jujutsu are octopus merge commits: a single merge with multiple parents that ties together several branches. You then work on top of that megamerge; the megamerge itself isn’t pushed, only the individual branches. Benefits: you always work on the combined sum of all changes, reduce merge surprises, and switch tasks with minimal context switching while keeping branches up to date via rebasing onto trunk. To create one: make a new commit whose parents are the branches you want. To incorporate changes, use absorb (auto-squash), squash (interactive or to a downstream commit), or rebase/restack. Publish branches normally.
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SOUL PLAYER C64 is a real 25K-parameter transformer that runs on a Commodore 64. A two-layer decoder-only model with 4 attention heads, 8 dims per head, 32-d embedding, and 64 FFN hidden units, quantized to int8. Implemented in 6502/6510 assembly; uses fixed-point softmax with shifted scores to enable meaningful attention. It fits on a disk image and runs in a C64 emulator (VICE). The repo includes training and build tooling (train.py, build.py, soulchat.py), a starter corpus, pre-trained weights (models/soul.bin), and disk images. Chat is lowercase-only; about 60 seconds per token; full responses take minutes. GPL-3.0.
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An in-depth look at implementing C string.h routines on x86-64 in assembly using string instructions and SIMD. It analyzes how memcpy, memset, strlen, memcmp, strchr (and strrchr) can be built from movs, cmps, scas, lods, stos, with careful handling of the direction flag and RFLAGS, and discusses vectorized variants (pcmpestri/pcmpestrm) and the imm8 control byte. The piece compares handcrafted assembly to glibc implementations, describes the runtime selection of memcpy via IFUNC, and reports benchmarks showing fast-path ERMS/AVX implementations for large data, plus practical guidelines to choose between rep vs. plain loops and when to use large-register/string instructions.
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Kimi released K2.6 and open-sourced Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) to verify the accuracy of open-source inference implementations, addressing issues from decoding-parameter misuse and deployment variability. It enforces API constraints (Temperature=1.0, TopP=0.95) in Thinking mode and validates thinking content. Six benchmarks—Pre-Verification, OCRBench, MMMU Pro, AIME2025, K2VV ToolCall, SWE-Bench—test infrastructure and model behavior, plus upstream fixes and continuous public benchmarking. Evaluation used two NVIDIA H20 8-GPU servers (~15 hours). Weights are open; seeking broader vendor coverage and lighter tests. Contact: [email protected].
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Lucebox-hub is an open-source project that provides hand-tuned LLM inference optimized for specific consumer GPUs. It currently comprises two self-contained projects: Megakernel, a fused Qwen3.5-0.8B kernel for RTX 3090 delivering a single-CUDA-dispatch pass and high token-per-watt; and DFlash-DDTree, a port of DFlash speculative decoding for Qwen3.5-27B on RTX 3090 with GGUF target and up to 128K context. The aim is private data, no per-token billing, one-chip-one-model optimization. Requires NVIDIA Ampere+ GPUs, CUDA 12+, PyTorch 2.0+; MIT license.
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The F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war: expensive, hard to replace, and ill-suited for a prolonged peer conflict against China. Real combat in the Pacific would demand sustained, dispersed operations with fragile forward basing, heavy maintenance, and limited sorties. The authors advocate a mixed force: keep F-35s for missions requiring stealth and sensor fusion, but shift procurement to unmanned, expendable systems that are cheaper, easier to replace, and less dependent on vulnerable infrastructure. Invest in a larger unmanned mass to deter and fight peer threats.
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Stephvee.ca argues that public resistance to AI is growing and active. It describes anti-AI tactics like the r/PoisonFountain group that encourages feeding crawlers poisoned data to degrade AI training, including a plan for a terabyte of poison daily by 2026. Tools such as Miasma disseminate garbage data, with strategies to catch bots. The author contends data should be sourced ethically, or operators should not aid crawlers, and urges peaceful, lawful resistance to push industry change.
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Apple announces a leadership transition: Tim Cook will become executive chairman and John Ternus will become CEO on Sept. 1, 2026. Cook remains CEO through the summer to ensure a smooth handoff. The board unanimously approved the plan as part of long-term succession planning; Ternus will join the board and Arthur Levinson will become lead independent director. Cook, CEO since 2011, oversaw major products (Apple Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro) and growth to a $4 trillion market cap; Ternus has led hardware across iPad, iPhone, Mac, AirPods, and Apple Silicon initiatives.
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Modern rendering culling stacks multiple techniques to skip unseen work. Basics: distance, backface, and frustum culling (with screen-space size to avoid pop) prune obvious cases. Occlusion: hardware queries or software solutions (MSOC) plus Hi-Z depth pyramids (one- or two-pass) skip occluded objects. Scene-level: PVS and portal culling reduce entire regions. GPU-driven: indirect drawing and meshlet/cluster culling test geometry at finer granularity on the GPU. Nanite-like virtualized geometry combines hierarchical clusters with GPU visibility and a software path for tiny triangles. Light/shadow culling uses tiled/clustered lighting and per-light bounds. Layering with conservative correctness.
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Quantum computers threaten asymmetric cryptography but not 128-bit symmetric keys. Grover’s algorithm offers a quadratic speedup, but practical attacks are limited by serial depth and massive parallelization, making AES-128 and SHA-256 still secure. Major standards bodies (NIST, BSI) conclude there is no need to double symmetric key sizes during the post-quantum transition. Breaking AES-128 would require enormous, impractical resources, while Shor’s attacks on 256-bit elliptic curves remain the more pressing concern. Focus on post-quantum changes for public-key cryptography is advised.
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Kefir is an independent C17/C23 compiler for x86-64/System-V AMD64 ABI, validated against large real-world test suites (GNU coreutils, binutils, Curl, Nginx, OpenSSL, Perl, PostgreSQL, Lua, etc.) on Linux and BSDs. It uses an SSA-based optimizer across multiple IRs (stack-based, optimizer SSA, target IR) and produces bit-identical bootstrap code with DWARF-5 debugging, position-independent code, and a cc-compatible CLI. It can emit freestanding assembly and relies on a minimal runtime; licensed GPLv3 for the compiler and BSD-3 for runtime. Developed by Jevgenij Protopopov since 2020; distributed via Sourcehut, Codeberg; note: single-user project with limited support.
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An ardent, dystopian critique of Palantir and Silicon Valley, arguing they seek to privatize sovereignty through a surveillance state. It attacks a 'Technological Republic' that urges universal national service and hard power built on software, predictive policing, facial recognition, and mass biometric/data collection. The piece portrays Palantir as a 'ghoul' driving an agenda of control via data fusion across finance, reputation, and biometrics. In response, XORD LLC publishes a provisional patent and a 'Dynamic Fair Social Score' concept to spur debate about this future and its feasibility.
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New research warns that heavy reliance on AI chatbots for thinking may erode cognition. MIT Media Lab researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and colleagues found that students who used ChatGPT to write essays showed up to 55% less brain activation in creativity and information-processing areas, poorer recall of their own writing, and essays that appeared similar and "soulless." Other studies report "cognitive surrender" to AI, and professionals who used AI for three months performed worse at spotting tumors without it afterward. While AI can help, long-term brain health may require "hybrid intelligence": think first, use AI to challenge, not replace, thinking.
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Global Tetrahedron takes over InfoWars and turns it into a hyper-monetized propaganda platform. The piece imagines a dystopian site of endless ads, scams, and mind-altering content that democratizes psychological torture and collapses voices into a single, consumable slurry. It ends with a grim pledge that the future of InfoWars—and American discourse—will be long and bad.
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