Achieve 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser

Two weeks ago my buddy @fulligin pulled me aside and said "I have something to show you." That something was the Daylight Computer, which I was previously unaware of.

I've since bought one and am using it fairly extensively for reading. Vincent recorded…

Super fast web build tool written in Rust

GitHub copy of the NTS/TeX source code from 2001. Contribute to jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system development by creating an account on GitHub.

A typical USB-C portable battery can power it for at least an hour.

“We are letting the data drive our decision."

A hearing has been scheduled for February.

How a 10 year old design choice for Swift’s type checker still haunts us to this day

Rectangular substrates to unlock more power are also being tested by Intel and Samsung

How can an engine be used to answer positional questions?

I was talking with someone today that really really wanted the sqrtps to be used in some code they were writing. And because of a quirk with clang (still there as of clang 18.1.0), if you happened to use -ffast-math clang would butcher the use of the intrinsic.…

A popular free, open-source and super fast client for Old School RuneScape

The Atari 520ST was released in the US in July 1985, but because Atari did not provide magazines with pre-production models (like Commodore did with the Amiga), it took a while before magazine reviews appeared.

One weird hobby of mine is reasonable properties of cryptographic schemes that nobody promised they do or don’t have. Whether that’s invisible salamanders or binding through shared secr…

I'm in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn't an "m" in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded with "d'uh". We've seen this phenomenon for years and didn't…

Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although this representation…

The world's first Spatial Computing hack (CVE-2024-27812). Apple Vision Pro vulnerability fills victim's room full of spiders and bats.