No Graphics API

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Tooling How can we debug code that doesn’t bind buffer and texture objects and doesn’t call an API to describe the memory layout explicitly? C/C++ debuggers have been doing that for decades. There’s no special operating system APIs for describing your software’s memory layout. The debugger is able to follow 64-bit pointer chains and use […]

Too Fast to Think: The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding

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After vibe coding for some time, I feel fatigue. I’m coding Marvai – a package manager for prompts on my own, with a combination of Claude Code and Cursor. I use Claude Code for code generation, bug fixing, test writing, test fixing, security checks etc. Claude Code is especially useful to fix linting errors from […]

The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free

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What’s happening? GitHub just announced changes to Actions pricing. Previously, GitHub Actions had a free control plane. That meant if you used GitHub Actions but ran jobs outside of GitHub-hosted runners, whether that’s on Blacksmith, on your own machines, or in your own AWS account, you paid nothing to GitHub for those minutes; you only […]

GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026

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Release December 16, 2025 • 1 minute read Table of Contents Menu. Currently selected: Deeper investment in the Actions self-hosted experience On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same. On March 1, […]

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Today we’re announcing updates to our pricing and product models for GitHub Actions. Why? When we shipped Actions in 2018, we had no idea how popular it would become. By early 2024, the platform was running about 23 million jobs per day and our existing architecture couldn’t reliably support our growth curve. In order to […]

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Senior Enterprise AES

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About Artie Artie is a fully-managed change data capture (CDC) streaming platform that replicates production databases into data warehouses and lakes – in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams. Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, […]

Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Government Meetings

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AIsbom – open-source CLI to detect “Pickle Bombs” in PyTorch models

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AIsbom is a specialized security and compliance scanner for Machine Learning artifacts. Unlike generic SBOM tools that only parse requirements.txt, AIsbom performs Deep Binary Introspection on model files (.pt, .pkl, .safetensors) to detect malware risks and legal license violations hidden inside the serialized weights. ⚡ Quick Start 1. Installation Install directly from PyPI. No cloning […]

Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++

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This was a fun project for a couple of days, but I will probably shelve it for now so I can continue what I was already working on before. Read on to follow along with my journey. Spoilers: I didn’t get very far. Get ready for an Opinion Dump of an intro: I have fond […]

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity

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For almost three decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been one of the main tools in brain research. Yet a new study published in the renowned journal Nature Neuroscience fundamentally challenges the way fMRI data have so far been interpreted with regard to neuronal activity. According to the findings, there is no generally valid […]