How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the translation. Introduction This blog post should be the final part of the “Running Your Own ISP at Home” series, and we’re going to talk about […]
Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries
A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it’s really meant to work. Indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala kept calendars for more than two millennia before Europeans invaded the Americas, helping them to predict the timing of important […]
Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
How it works This program is designed for developers who host mini apps and games, which are experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 or JavaScript and distributed within a larger, native app. Participating apps are required to support certain App Store technologies, including the Declared Age Range API and the Advanced Commerce API […]
Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering
Published 2025-11-13 Based on the insights from part 1, we have the means to define illuminant and reflectance spectra for our scene data. Then the color of a pixel arises from an integral over a product of spectra. The main goal of this blog post is to find efficient ways to evaluate such integrals using […]
What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
Peter Matthiessen in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images. When Peter Matthiessen’s name comes up in conjunction with The Paris Review, two facts are sure to emerge. The first is that Matthiessen was one of the magazine’s founders, and that his enchantingly shabby Paris apartment provided a bumptious gathering place in its […]
Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
By Tabitha Sable (Kubernetes SRC) | Wednesday, November 12, 2025 To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to […]
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign [pdf]
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650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
cluster fatigue I recently tried to light the tinder for what I hoped would be a revolt — the Single Node Rebellion — but, of course, it sputtered out immediately. Truth be told, it was one of the most popular articles I’ve written about in some time, purely based on the stats. The fact that I […]
Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, following Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It’s an accomplishment that will help the new rocket system become an option to […]
OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios
OpenMANET is an open-source project for building Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios on Wi-Fi HaLow (915 MHz) using Morse Micro chipsets. A MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) is a self-forming wireless mesh where each node connects directly without centralized infrastructure. This technology is especially useful in the civilian space for search and rescue, disaster response, airsoft events, […]