Please read https://annas-archive.li/volunteering#bounties carefully before working on a bounty. Google Books has lots of scanned books, but which are only...

A bare-metal x86 utility to dump physical RAM directly to disk. Built and tested for Cold Boot Attack experiments on frozen memory. - pIat0n/BareMetal-RAM-Dumper

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.” According to the study, no more than 100…

Finland's last landline call has been made as the Nordic country becomes the latest to retire copper-wire phones in favour of fibre.

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids ( review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon Family"). But the new app doesn't work for watch-only accounts…

Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone & iPad — real engine (EA GPL v3 source, via GeneralsX), DXVK/MoltenVK renderer, RTS touch controls. No game a...

A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp

After the Great Recession, office vacancy peaked at 22%. Right now, it is at 37% and shows no sign of dipping.

Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building…

Powerscourt Hotel and Spa event was to be hosted by Dialog and attended by senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials

About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.

A streamable 4D gaussian splat format with tunable error bounds. 16–58× smaller than raw; streams and seeks over plain HTTP Range requests.

Rob (@rob_pike) is a software pioneer. His influence is everywhere: Unix, Plan 9 OS, The Unix Programming Environment book, UTF-8, and most recently the Go programming language.

Summary I found an aggregate pattern in Codex token_count metadata: gpt-5.5 responses disproportionately land at exactly reasoning_output_tokens = 516, with additional fixed-boundary spikes around ...

New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies.

A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time.  An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago…

Albert Camus Reflections on the Guillotine 1957

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address…