PHP's biggest problem Written on 2026-05-07 The language itself is solid. The ecosystem is incredibly rich. Tooling has seen significant growth in the past decade. The Foundation ensures sustainable

I was debugging a polygon-overlap test that worked locally and failed on the server. Same code. Same input. Different answer. The function deciding the answer was small. Three points A, B, C; return

I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but... This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, bu

To Whom It May Concern Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; President and Representative Director: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter) hereby announces that it has decided to revise

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AI hallucinations are getting ambitious. A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death. “Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.” After s

We replicated the cost analysis we did on Opus on the new GPT-5.5 model. GPT-5.5 launched with a 2x price increase over GPT-5.4: input tokens increased from $2.50/M to $5.00/M and output tokens from $

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02 Blog The most direct way to compress an embedding (other than quantization) is to fit PCA on the corpus and keep the top-d eigenvectors. It works, but PCA is a linear projection, and neural-networ

Last August, we announced that users could create, edit, and view Notion pages without an internet connection. "Offline Mode" was our #1 requested feature for many years, but Notion's unique block arc

Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score. Benchmark suites try to address this by running a set

A year ago, Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” to describe a gleefully reckless way of programming: you prompt, hand the keyboard to an AI, accept everything it spits out, don’t read the diffs, iter

Agents used to be a thing you talked to synchronously. Now they’re a thing that runs in the background while you work. When you make that change, the transport breaks. But a lot of folks are saying:

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In the original 1881 version, the book ended in chapter fifteen with the puppet hanging dead from an oak tree. Carlo Collodi serialised the story in Il Giornale per i bambini, the first Italian child

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In just the past week, France has banned its public officials from using American technology, more governments are considering keeping young people off Silicon Valley’s biggest social media platforms,

The Traveling Salesdog Problem How I used numerical optimization to plan my greyhound’s week Posted on May 4, 2026 by Adam Wespiser Bebop, my Greyhound, is a big dog. 85lbs, and starting to slow do

It’s World Password Day, and there’s really no better way to celebrate than with news that a majority of supposedly secure password hashes can be cracked with a single GPU in less than an hour, some i

Introducing Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love ???? May 6, 2026 by Slavi Pantaleev 7 min read At etke.cc, we host Matrix servers for a living. Almost a decade ago, we were dissatisfie

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed 411 advertisements from 88 licensed gambling operators in Ireland and found that young men were reached 2.3 times more than women across Meta pl

On Tuesday, education tech giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal email addresses, and messages sent between teach

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Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in

Harley Maranan / SoundGuys According to a Bloomberg report, Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods are in the final stages of development and nearing mass production. The earbuds will look mostly like AirPo

Raising the next generation of crafts person As an adult, I’m often asked what my parents did that all their 6 children craft things with their hands. It’s often asked with a tone of assumption that

TL;DR: OpenClaw had a rough week. 2026.4.29 made it obvious. Sorry. We are making core smaller, moving optional stuff to ClawHub, and announcing LTS separately later in May. The trouble started aroun

Marc Andreessen Egg Game It's Time to Build Eggs That Look Like Marc Andreessen May 7, 2026 Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen. Loading.

AI hallucinations were found in the Department of Home Affairs' revised white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection. The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is the latest arm of gover

The disbelief was palpable when Mozilla’s CTO last month declared that AI-assisted vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered” and “defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.” Afte

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system (LMS), confirmed a cyber incident and subsequent data breach affecting its cloud‑hosted environment. The ShinyHunters ransomware

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Creating for a niche The bespoke mechanical keyboard designer I prefer, MtnKBD, is closing up shop and selling off his stock. It isn’t a big surprise, as I imagine shipping a niche product from Austr

There’s a growing number of reasons to be skeptical about camera-equipped smart glasses, and you can now add extortion to that list. According to a report from the BBC, a woman who asked not to be nam

This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a m

published 5/6/2026 OpenAI’s WebRTC Problem OpenAI posted a technical blog a few days ago. This blog post triggered me more than it should have. I urge to slap my meaty fingers on the keyboard. You