2025-04-18

Gemini 2.5 Flash, is now in preview, offering improved reasoning while prioritizing speed and cost efficiency for developers.

The successful IRS free tax filing program is being wound down, thanks in large part to Intuit’s copious spending in Washington.

Defold is a free, cross-platform game engine for building 2D and 3D games on desktop, web, mobile, and consoles with one streamlined workflow.

At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/georgia-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

Google tried to reinvent email. Everyone said no.

Playing around "Less Slow" coding practices in C++ 20, C, CUDA, PTX, & Assembly, from numerics & SIMD to coroutines, ranges, exception handling, networking and user-space IO - ashvardanian/less_slow.cpp

And the results surprised me

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/

Uhm, a new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem.

PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/mo"

https://xcancel.com/arithmoquine/status/1912671688874926575/

https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60,000 lines of code? Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation about Lua programming …

This change has caused a surge in formal customs clearances, which we are handling around the clock.

I'm an Apple ecosystem user, owning an iPhone ever since a past employer got it for me to test our company app some 8 years ago. Over time, as I've upgraded, I'

https://undark.org/2017/02/01/math-lesson-hitlers-germany/

The economy will literally double every year afterwards

            We're working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography,

built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography's X.509 APIs.

Reimplementing Haskell lazy infinite lists using Python generators

HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, Gemini, Amp, and Codex - coder/agentapi

2023-01-01: This project has been ongoing for a while... now its time to post some of this info and see what comes of it. I have access to several junk Milwaukee M18 batteries. Age varies a little. I thought it would be 'fun' to reverse engineer a battery just to see how it functions... That is until I actually opened

Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.

https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html

Every year Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, when he suffered agonising pain on the cross, but they refer to that day as ‘good’. Jonny Wilkes explores the origin and meaning of the name, and how one of the most important days in Christianity has been marked in history

https://misfra.me/2025/sqlite-transactions-and-virtual-tables/

There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral on social media: people are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in a photo.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3552326.3587458