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Jeff Geerling's benchmarks show Dell's XPS 13 with Intel's Core 5 320 hitting 6.21 Gflops/W, beating the MacBook Neo's 5.38. The efficiency crown is no longer ARM-only.
Game difficulty isn't a single rising line — it's a sawtooth of mechanics, each with its own curve. Dave breaks down why the 'difficulty saw' beats the 'difficulty curve' and how to keep players in flow without making the game brutally hard.
The Triton Windows driver, paired with the Neptune protocol, delivers full DirectX 11 support to QEMU VMs by implementing the DirectX DDI and translating it back to API calls, avoiding the pitfalls of previous approaches.
TinySol, a tiny Klondike Solitaire written in x86 assembly, fits in 3KB and runs on everything from an IBM 5150 to a Pentium. It's a masterclass in retro-optimization and a reminder that software can be both tiny and functional.
Shirt Pocket's SuperDuper 4 is a complete rewrite of the classic macOS backup utility, promising up to 40x faster Smart Updates, background execution, and support for any file system.
A physicist rigged his hamster's wheel with a hall sensor and ESP32, auto-uploading nightly runs to Strava. The hamster logs 6-mile nights, and the build is a neat lesson in DIY fitness tracking.
A landmark LSE study across 18 countries and 50 years finds that tax cuts for the wealthy increase inequality without improving growth or employment. The authors explain why the idea persists despite the evidence.
Cloudflare revamps its community program with two tracks: Ambassadors for community builders and Community Engineers for open-source maintainers, backed by an additional $1M in funding.
Cloudflare is unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single control plane, bringing automatic observability, unified billing, and a path to model-first routing.
A developer recompiled the Pokémon Emerald decompilation from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and reimplemented the GBA's video hardware in software on the second core of an RP2350. Full game, 60 fps HDMI output, saves to flash.
One DISTINCT keyword switches off parallel query for the entire statement in PostgreSQL, forcing a serial sort of the whole table. A GROUP BY rewrite restores parallelism.
Cloudflare's AI Search now automates the crawl-ingest-embed-retrieve pipeline, adds public /search and /mcp endpoints, and previews predictable pricing with free embedding and reranking.