2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (245+ words) [caption id="attachment_891481" align="alignright" width="400"] The cache hierarchy of the 2008 Intel Nehalem x86 architecture. (Source: Intel)[/caption] Writing good, performant code depends strongl... The cache hierarchy of the 2008 Intel Nehalem x86 architecture (Source: Intel) Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (93+ words) This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? ht... This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (440+ words) The bot sits on the Eurostar website, and is a simple HTML and JavaScript client that talks to the LLM back-end itself through an API. The API queries contain the whole conversation, because as AI toy manufacturers whose products have…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (236+ words) The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming'Hackaday Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late "90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems to be a counter-movement…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (518+ words) It should be clear that there is no obvious course here yet, and that opinions are very much divided. The idea of "Linux" becoming a more singular OS appeals to some, while to others it"s the antithesis of what…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (191+ words) If you're building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library from [dejwk] to be "read more If you're building a project on your ESP32, you might…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (586+ words) Other than Netscape's Plugin API (NPAPI) being great for making even 1990s browsers ready for 2026, there are also very practical reasons why WASM and JavaScript-based approaches simply cannot do certain basic things. One of the Achilles heels of the plugin-less WWW…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) This is a batteries included system which aims to have everything you might need available out of the box. [neos-builder] said their vision is to create a robotics framework that is "thick" as a whole (we can't avoid this as…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (221+ words) [String art rendering of a face]Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art " also known as pin and thread art, or filography " is an art form where "read more [String art rendering of…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (370+ words) [Two threads running concurrently]If you're gonna be a hacker eventually you're gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you're gonna have to deal with concurrency. Concurrency is what we "read more [Two threads running concurrently]…...