Article: 3 min

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent available in beta on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It supports various models from different providers like Claude, GPT, Gemini, and allows users to connect their existing accounts with OpenAI or GitHub.

• Integration with OpenAI or GitHub accounts

Article: 35 min

Mamba-3 is a new state space model (SSM) designed with inference efficiency as the primary goal, improving upon Mamba-2 by enhancing recurrence formula, adding complex-valued state tracking, and introducing multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) SSMs. The model outperforms previous models in language modeling tasks while maintaining similar prefill+decode latency.

• Mamba-3 designed for inference optimization
• Outperforms previous models like Mamba-2, Gated DeltaNet, and Transformer on language modeling tasks
• Maintains similar prefill+decode latency

Article: 2 min

A French Navy officer's public fitness app activity revealed the real-time location of France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean Sea.

• Fitness app data exposed military location
• Public profile setting led to exposure

Quality:
The article presents factual information without bias.

Article: 2 min

The article discusses 'molly guards' in computing, which are safety features designed to prevent accidental button presses, often named after an engineer's daughter who pressed a significant button out of curiosity.

• Definition and origin of molly guards
• Examples from hardware and software
• Thoughtful reverse molly guards

Article: 15 min

The article discusses a project where the authors rewrote their Rust WASM parser in TypeScript due to perceived performance benefits but found that it was not faster than the original implementation. The main issue was the overhead of data transfer across the WASM-JS boundary, which outweighed any potential speed gains from using Rust.

• Attempted to skip JSON round-trip with serde-wasm-bindgen, which resulted in slower performance due to many fine-grained conversions across the runtime boundary.
• Porting the full parser pipeline to TypeScript eliminated the boundary entirely and improved streaming efficiency.

Quality:
The article presents a detailed analysis of the performance implications and provides clear, balanced information.

Article: 8 min

This article provides an overview of various chopstick etiquette mistakes, known as 'kiraibashi', that should be avoided when dining in Japan. It explains the cultural significance and taboos associated with improper chopstick usage.

• Avoid raising chopsticks above the mouth.
• Do not clean chopsticks in soup or beverages.
• Properly pass food using serving chopsticks.
• Eat rice, then side dishes, and repeat.
• Don't pick up food and put it back without taking a bite.
• Hold chopsticks properly when expressing gratitude.
• Avoid pushing food deep into the mouth.
• Do not drop the chopsticks while eating.
• Serve food by turning chopsticks so tips do not touch food.
• Use chopsticks to stir food, but avoid poking around.
• Don't stab or skewer food with chopsticks.
• Pointing at people or things is considered rude.
• Use serving chopsticks instead of one's own when taking from a large dish.
• Avoid using chopsticks in different materials together.
• Do not hold chopsticks like a knife and fork.
• Place chopsticks on the table with tips pointing to the right.
• Allow sauce or soup to drip off chopsticks without wiping them.
• Grip both chopsticks in a fist.
• Lick chopsticks while eating.
• Use chopsticks as a bridge across dishes when finished.
• Push aside unwanted food using chopsticks.
• Avoid hovering over dishes indecisively.
• Stir soup with chopsticks, but don't use them like a spoon.
• Pulling a dish towards oneself is considered rude.

Article: 8 min

Ghostling is a minimal terminal project built using libghostty C API, showcasing the flexibility of this library with Raylib for windowing and rendering. It demonstrates core terminal emulation features without aiming for full functionality.

• Single-threaded
• 2D graphics renderer

Article:

This repository contains code examples and documents from the book 'Linux Application Development By Example - The Fundamental APIs' by Arnold Robbins, published in 2004 and updated in 2026. It includes errata, source code for various chapters, and a license file for author-written code.

• Documents and errata included
• Updated in 2026

Article: 24 min

This article provides an introduction to FFmpeg, a powerful tool for encoding, decoding, and transcoding multimedia files. It explains the components of FFmpeg, including its tools and libraries, and demonstrates how to use these features by walking through the process of reading a multimedia file, analyzing its content, demuxing audio and video streams, finding compatible codecs, allocating decoding contexts, extracting packets, and decoding them into raw data.

• It includes tools like ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe.
• FFmpeg uses structures such as AVFormatContext, AVStream, AVCodec, AVPacket, and AVFrame to manage media streams and data.

Article: 25 min

The article discusses the Content Scrambling System (CSS), a cryptosystem used for protecting DVDs against illegal copying. It explains how CSS works, its implementation in DVD players and player manufacturers' keys, and the controversy surrounding it, including the development of DeCSS by Jon Johansen to decrypt the system.

• CSS was developed to prevent illegal copying of digital media on DVDs.
• The system uses a crypto/authentication mechanism between DVD discs and players.
• Only licensed DVD players have the decryption key, making it difficult for unauthorized software to copy content.
• DeCSS was created by Jon Johansen in 1999 to decrypt CSS, leading to legal issues and debates on copyright protection.

Quality:
The article provides a balanced view of the topic, discussing both the technical aspects and legal implications.