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Pennsylvania residents at a town hall meeting voiced strong opposition to the rapid growth of data centers, citing inadequate zoning, tax breaks, and lack of transparency. State legislators proposed a moratorium and reforms to give communities more control.
This blog post details how to set up Frigate with a Hailo AI coprocessor on a Raspberry Pi for object detection, including steps to fix a PCIe descriptor page size error. The setup works with the cheaper Hailo-8L and achieves low inference times.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces plans for libghostty, an embeddable library for terminal emulation, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency terminal sequence parser extracted from Ghostty.
Routine vaccines like those for flu, shingles, and Tdap are linked to lower dementia risk, with a new hypothesis suggesting they may train the innate immune system, previously thought untrainable, offering potential new avenues for dementia prevention.
Apple has removed the secure erase option from Disk Utility in macOS Tahoe, forcing users to use the Terminal command `diskutil secureErase` to securely wipe hard drives.
This article argues that a comprehensive specification is not equivalent to code, because a spec defines a set of possible implementations while code is one concrete instance. It discusses the role of abstraction and why programmers are still needed to write specs even with automated code generation.
Zig 0.15 shows significant compile-time improvements over 0.14, with build script compilation dropping from ~7s to ~1.7s and full builds from 41s to 32s, even while still using LLVM. The article highlights progress toward self-hosted backends and incremental compilation.
A roundup of space industry news covering SpaceX's upgraded Starship test flight, NASA's SLS hardware progress, Russia's successful Sarmat ICBM test, and Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace nearing its first orbital launch.
TopResume offers professional resume writing and career services to help job seekers navigate AI-driven application tracking systems. Packages start at $179 with additional features like LinkedIn makeovers and dedicated career coaches.
Jeff Geerling upgrades his Pi-based open-source surveillance server using the Exaviz Cruiser CM5 carrier board and DeskPi mini rack enclosure, running Frigate with a Coral TPU for local AI object detection.
Mitchell Hashimoto details how he used agentic AI coding tools to develop an unobtrusive macOS automatic update feature for Ghostty, walking through each AI session and his iterative process.
A critical analysis of a company's claim to harness the Casimir force for free energy, explaining why the proposed mechanism is unlikely to yield useful energy.
Ghostty, a terminal emulator, has become a non-profit organization fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, ensuring its open-source future and allowing tax-deductible donations.
TLA+ semantics guarantee nonordered updates, but the TLC model checker breaks these guarantees by requiring ordered assignments and adding effectful operators like PrintT, causing confusion for beginners.
The author reflects on how local LLMs (GPT-OSS 20B, Qwen3 Coder 30B) helped him migrate his blog from Drupal to a static site, comparing them to junior developers who deliver code quickly but need review. He argues that 'expert beginners' and 'lone wolves' will thrive in the early LLM era.
Honda announced plans to launch 15 new hybrid models by 2030 in North America, targeting a 10% increase in fuel efficiency and 30% cost reduction, while absorbing a $9 billion loss from its EV business and converting US factories for hybrid production.
A detailed technical post on diagnosing and fixing a major memory leak in the Ghostty terminal emulator, caused by a logic bug in scrollback pruning with non-standard page sizes. The fix has been merged and will be in the upcoming 1.3 release.
Total Wireless offers 50% off select plans, plus device discounts and referral bonuses for switching to its prepaid 5G network.
Explores the distinction between illegal and unwanted states in software systems, arguing that unwanted states are sometimes necessary and must be explicitly modeled.
Built a pint-sized Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico running Pico Micro Mac firmware, with VGA output and USB keyboard/mouse.