A violent 24-hour kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife ended in their rescue by French police following demands for cryptocurrency ransom.

C++11 introduced parameter packs to provide a safer way to pass an undefined number of parameters to functions instead of relying on variadic functions. While packs are a useful feature, and since C++17 it’s so easy to use them in fold expressions, extracting…

VMs are much harder to understand these days. Linux provides many building blocks for virtualization, but only a select few kernel engineers know how to stitch them together. So, we compiled our understanding into this blog that describes four reference architectures…

This is a minimal implementation of the file browser, which would probably cover a lot of requirements in #200. The whole thing works analogous to the https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fi...

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Powerful AI Client. Contribute to chatboxai/chatbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Minimal reproduction of DeepSeek R1-Zero. Contribute to Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fizzbuzz is a toy algorithm that used to be popular in the context of technical interviews.

Loops is a Fediverse TikTok alternative by the creator of Pixelfed. We try the app out for a spin, and give our honest thoughts.

Gradient descent is the preferred way to optimize neural networks and many other machine learning algorithms but is often used as a black box. This post explores how many of the most popular gradient-based optimization algorithms such as Momentum, Adagrad…

How far can you travel in 40 minutes from each NYC subway station? Explore transit accessibility in New York City on this interactive map.

When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make…

YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?

A threat actor targeted low-skilled hackers, known as "script kiddies," with a fake malware builder that secretly infected them with a backdoor to steal data and take over computers.