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Article 11h ago 4

One Log Line Costs journald 50KB of Disk Writes

Block-layer measurements finally prove the write amplification maintainers dismissed in 2020, and config tweaks barely help.

Lenn Voss

Hyprland Ditches Its Config Language for Lua

The 0.55 release follows the Neovim playbook, kills the plugin ABI treadmill, and puts hyprlang on a short fuse.

Article · 3w ago2

Firefox Bets on Vulkan to Fix Linux Video Decoding

A pref-gated Vulkan Video path in Firefox 153 finally gives NVIDIA-on-Linux users real hardware decode.

Article · 3w ago1

Why SSAO's Dark Corners Were Never Real

Sean Barrett's 2012 photographic takedown of screen-space ambient occlusion predicted a decade of rendering research.

Article · 3w ago2

Microsoft Forked Its Own Terminal to Keep AI Out of Yours

Windows Terminal stays deliberately boring while the new Intelligent Terminal fork carries the agent experiments.

Article · 3w ago3

The Last Official Google Search API Dies January 1, 2027

The Custom Search JSON API sunset ends two decades of sanctioned programmatic access to Google results.

Article · 3w ago7

GitHub's Copilot SDK Puts Agents in Your Stack

Six language clients expose the same agent runtime as Copilot CLI, so apps can ship planning and tools without building orchestration.

Article · 4w ago7

The Tokio/Rayon Trap Kills Async Concurrency

Cooperative executors stall on CPU work, and the usual thread-pool fix just makes you the scheduler.

Article · 4w ago2

SQLite Needs Rust-Style Editions

Footgun defaults for foreign keys and types could evolve without a flag day if the library borrowed from language design.

Article · 4w ago2

Firefox in Wasm Is a Nested Browser Demo

Gecko compiled to WebAssembly runs a real Firefox UI inside a tab, with clear limits for real work.

Article · 4w ago2

FreeBSD 16 Finally Ships a GPL-Free Base

Dialog’s removal finishes a long cleanup that mostly matters to teams embedding or redistributing FreeBSD.

Article · 4w ago5

Why Software Feels Buggier Across the Board

Faster cycles and thin QA turned users into free testers. The pattern is older than it looks.

Article · 4w ago1

misa77: decode-first LZ that outruns LZ4

A young write-once codec claims 1.5–3× LZ4 decompress speeds at better ratios. Here's who should care.

Article · 4w ago1

HTMX and Go keep interactive UIs honest

Server-rendered fragments, almost no client JS, and response patterns that actually hold up.

Article · 4w ago1

Dependabot's Three-Day Cooldown Is Incomplete

The new default delays routine version PRs, but install paths and package managers still need their own age gates.

Article · 4w ago1

OpenCut Turns Video Editing Into Open Infrastructure

The CapCut alternative’s rewrite targets plugins, headless batch work, and AI agents—not just another timeline.

Article · 4w ago1