August 2025

“What is the minimal LISP language that can interpret itself? What is the smallest LISP that can compile itself?”

“The program was designed to comply with contracting rules, but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk.”

“After World War II, the allies did a tremendous job of re-educating the German population. This led to a society which I would say is peace-minded, and of course there’s nothing wrong with that. But it is also non-military.”

“It’s actually pretty incredible what HTML and CSS alone can achieve.”

“If you build a smaller tunnel, OK, it’ll be cheaper, but it can carry less water. So what have you saved?”

“I can legally talk about how I did this to a certain degree, and if someone else wants to do this, they can open source it if they want to.”

“A visual archive.”

“At the outset of Texas’ abortion ban, medical experts worried women like Porsha and Brenda would die from delays in care.”

“Good APIs are boring. An API that’s interesting is a bad API.”

“The important detail is this www-authenticate header is telling OCI clients to send their user credentials to that https://ghrc.io/token API.”

“We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software.”

“I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu).”

“I think there’s a lot of fun to be had tweaking the objects we use every day to our liking.”

“Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone.”

“These providers violated FCC rules by failing to maintain accurate Robocall Mitigation Database certifications, thereby shirking their obligations to protect consumers from illegal robocalls.”

“For a bot to say ‘Come visit me’ is insane.”

“Meta will rely on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its massive AI data center buildout, as the company ramps up capital spending into the tens of billions.”

“The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky…Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of ‘what on earth?’ vibes.”

“Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728.”

“The analogy would be to Cargo: cargo fmt just runs rustfmt, but you can also run rustfmt separately if you want.”

“Go says it doesn’t have exceptions. Go makes it extremely awkward to use exceptions, because they want to punish programmers who use them.”

“This means that a busy web server can serve all of its queries without even once (after setup is done) needing to do a syscall.”

“Give them masks” — the repeated recommendation from Forest Service researchers that the agency rejected, despite CDC findings that crews were breathing carcinogens and harmful chemicals.

“In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs.”

“That scared the crap out of me because I didn’t know if after 12 months I was going to have to pay that 12 months back in full…”

“It would be easy. You hire a hundred gunmen for a month, get a few Toyota pickups, and you’re in business.”

“We knew we were giving Wedding all the contacts he needed to return to a life of crime, but there was nothing we could do about it.”

“ArchiveTeam is like a bucket brigade carrying books from a burning library, while the Internet Archive provides a place to put them.”

“You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming.”

“Build web apps like you’re sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure.”

“If you’re going to get those wrong, then everything just falls down.”

“At the end of the day, someone’s going to break your legs.”

“If you care about outcomes, the motives don’t really matter… the point isn’t sainthood; it’s sustainable, shared innovation.”

“A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.”

“Succession is always a time of uncertainty for those who like the way things are, and opportunity for those who do not.”

“There was an entire class of bug that kept popping up in the Ghostty GTK application that could basically be summed up as: the Zig memory or the GTK memory has been freed, but not both.”

“Loud and rowdy. Everyone involved. Everyone engaged. A kaleidoscopic assortment of jokes, stories, anecdotes and philosophical insights…”

“Kill a n—-, hire another. Kill a mule, buy another.”

“Temperatures were 12C above the norm for the last few decades.”

“This is a truly game-changing capability,” said Andrew Builta of L3Harris Technologies regarding the satellite’s software architecture that allows in-orbit reprogramming.

“The Best Ranger Competition pushes two-person teams through 60 hours of continuous physical and mental challenges with virtually no sleep.”

“All I want is a mainstream-supported fast, simple, clean browser with an efficient rendering engine.”

“This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests because I’m traveling, and if you can’t follow that rule, at least make the pull requests good.”

“SpaceX’s Starlink is currently the dominant provider of low-earth orbit satellite internet, with a constellation of roughly 8,000 satellites and about 5 million customers worldwide.”

“The result is smooth, responsive performance with high frame rates and superior contrast, ideal for dynamic content and fluid interactions.”

“Any selected text being sent to both servers over unencrypted HTTP, including potentially sensitive information like passwords from password managers or confidential documents.”

“Hollywood’s portrayal left me unprepared for the reality of Vietnam—visiting with my parents revealed a much more complex, authentic place.”

“The party is primitive and amorphous. It exists within us and it cannot die.”

“When the team heated ground-up tissue and bodily fluids from sick stars to kill pathogens before injecting the mixture into healthy stars, none got sick.”

“Three-quarters of proposals will not meet this deadline,” according to Wood Mackenzie, regarding the shortened qualification window for Biden-era tax credits.

“The Court has an opportunity in this case to set a global precedent for protecting public interest projects online.”

“All the post-quantum algorithms implemented by OpenSSH are ‘hybrids’ that combine a post-quantum algorithm with a classical algorithm,” ensuring the hybrid is never weaker than classical alternatives alone.

“A curated gallery showcasing exemplary pricing page designs from various companies, filterable by components and design patterns.”

“500 microseconds is half a millisecond. That’s how fast my laptop searches through a whole book, 200,000 words, cover to cover. This is why computers are so powerful!”

“A toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick.”

“The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM and 2TB storage costs $1,876—less than half the price of an equivalent Mac Studio ($3,299) while delivering significantly faster performance for development workflows using Docker.”

“You don’t have to bother with any networking configuration. You don’t have to distribute keys. You just install the client, and login.”

“The walls were covered with mold. Blue-green spores were everywhere. The floorboards were warped; some had come loose.”

“We didn’t know what we were selling! We didn’t advertise it or offer it up to museums, the phone has exploded.”

“A business card that runs a fluid-implicit-particle (FLIP) simulation.”

“For this new attack to work, all that is needed is a single button-press capture from the keyfob, without any jamming.”

“Eleven women, nine dogs, not much drama, and no guys.”

“Communication technology is a very important technology that Sony has cultivated for a long time.”

“The five-person team will operate independently, maintaining its YouTube channel with 1.5 million subscribers and Patreon support generating approximately $200,000 annually.”

“The kernel driver connects a much larger UMD to the actual GPU…a key aspect of GPU drivers is allocating GPU memory.”

“We’ve cut that down memory usage by over 10x, sometimes dramatically more, making Automerge feasible to use in a much wider range of scenarios.”

“By 2015, Sherpa climbers were making first ascents sans clients and promoting their feats on social media.”

“Maybe people think that when you walk down the street breathing the air; you drink your water, you eat your food…the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.”

“I dip into my RSS feeds several times a day. It is my main immediate source of information.”

“The data are of exceptionally high quality.”

“The app uses declarative filtering, meaning it doesn’t require a continuous background process.”

“The pipe operator has one of the highest ‘bangs for the buck’ of any feature in recent memory.”

“If we can guarantee that serializing an object will not trigger any side effects, we can use a much faster, specialized implementation.”

“This agreement is significant in that it allows us to participate from the early stages of this project and contribute to the creation of the world’s largest integrated energy and artificial intelligence campus.”

“There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens.”

“Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics.”

“Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more intuitive developer experience.”

“We were all shocked, absolutely. I don’t remember ever seeing anything like that.”

“In California, a 15% increase in solar power at noon was associated with a reduction of 147.18 metric tons of CO2 in the first hour.”

“Google is changing its mind about killing off all goo.gl short links…only going to disable goo.gl links that haven’t seen any activity since late 2024.”

“Production costs have grown tenfold over the past decade while sales have not increased proportionally.”

“The announcement enables users to deploy their complete network infrastructure independently, eliminating reliance on cloud services.”