Tech World

Loss32 sketches a clear, opinionated goal: make Win32 a first-class runtime on a Linux kernel, not just a compatibility layer you coax into working. What’s notable here isn’t inventing from scratch-Wine/Proton, DXVK, and friends already do the heavy lifting-but packaging those pieces as a coherent ABI with

FediMeteo is a tidy reminder that smart systems design still beats raw spend: a €4/month FreeBSD VPS powering a weather service with global reach. What’s notable here isn’t another glossy app, but the discipline-lean processes, text-first payloads, and predictable jobs-turning minimal compute into dependable utility. Under the

“Go away, Python” tends to surface when teams hit performance ceilings, cold-start pain, or packaging fatigue. What’s notable here is the emergent pattern, not a wholesale exodus: CPU-bound or latency-critical paths are increasingly moving to Rust or Go, while Python remains the glue at the edges. Under the hood,

ManusAI says it’s joining Meta, bringing another specialized AI team in-house at a hyperscaler. What’s notable here is the signal: Meta continues to fold focused AI product talent into its Llama-centric stack rather than leaving it to compete independently. Under the hood, these acqui-hire style moves are less

AI can draft code, but developers still design systems, choose trade-offs, and carry the pager. Under the hood, today’s code assistants are powerful probabilistic pattern matchers: great at scaffolding, repetitive boilerplate, and surfacing idioms from large corpora. What’s notable here isn’t replacement-it’s a reshaping of the

“All delisted Steam games” sounds simple; in practice, it’s a moving target with messy metadata. What’s notable here is the technical shape of the problem: delisting isn’t a single switch. Store pages can be hidden, purchase toggled off, packages retired, or regional availability narrowed without changing app

The best software emerges when the people shaping it also live with its constraints. Under the hood, latency budgets, data models, failure modes, and observability hooks contour what’s feasible far more than mockups do. If you never ship or operate the thing, you’ll underweight edge cases like backpressure,

What’s notable here isn’t another chatbot demo-it’s the constraint. Z80-μLM runs an interactive, text-generating “conversational” engine within roughly 40KB on a Z80-era platform, proving you can deliver responsive language behavior without GPUs, gigabytes of RAM, or even floating point. Under the hood, anything at this footprint isn’

Censorship tech leveled up in 2025, moving beyond blunt DNS/SNI filters to layered controls: TLS/QUIC fingerprinting, IP/ASN-wide blocks, and pressure on app stores and CDNs. Under the hood, the shift is from static rules to adaptive traffic classification-and from network edges to platform chokepoints. What’s notable

A long-time Mockito maintainer is stepping down after ten years, a meaningful moment for one of Java’s most widely used testing libraries. Under the hood, maintainers don’t just merge PRs; they govern API stability, adjudicate breaking changes, manage JDK compatibility, and keep release trains on time. What’s