Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-tha…
just crashed a chrome tab with STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (a windows error code that, afaict, means "the stack canary was overwritten") by doing A Lot Of WebUSB Requests
from my link log —
The story of Propolice stack overflow protection in OpenBSD.
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/propolice.html
saved 2025-12-11 <…
The Theory of Strategic Evolution: Games with Endogenous Players and Strategic Replicators
Kevin Vallier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07901
arXiv:2512.07901v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper develops the Theory of Strategic Evolution, a general model for systems in which the population of players, strategies, and institutional rules evolve together. The theory extends replicator dynamics to settings with endogenous players, multi level selection, innovation, constitutional change, and meta governance. The central mathematical object is a Poiesis stack: a hierarchy of strategic layers linked by cross level gain matrices. Under small gain conditions, the system admits a global Lyapunov function and satisfies selection, tracking, and stochastic stability results at every finite depth. We prove that the class is closed under block extension, innovation events, heterogeneous utilities, continuous strategy spaces, and constitutional evolution. The closure theorem shows that no new dynamics arise at higher levels and that unrestricted self modification cannot preserve Lyapunov structure. The theory unifies results from evolutionary game theory, institutional design, innovation dynamics, and constitutional political economy, providing a general mathematical model of long run strategic adaptation.
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Interesting and well-made , "The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next"
#geopolitics
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
On the Side 🆓
在边缘
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Fundamental para se compreender o que vai ser o nosso principal inimigo ao longo pelo menos da primeira metade do século XXI.
E não estou a usar palavras como "inimigo" por acaso. Estes tipos são inimigos de tudo o que é humano.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
Yes, please just use a button:
https://gomakethings.com/just-use-a-button/
Because I have still not met a [React] dev who has a clue which key activates a button on which specific event:
"In Phrack Magazine, this author learned at the end of the 1990s the subtle art of smashing the stack, an exploit that would become the starting point of many a computer security book afterward.
There is one magazine that has been around for a decade: the “International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out”, or “PoC||GTFO”.
(I should have probably warned readers about the profanity in the title, but nah, I assume them to be adults at this point.)"
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…
The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…
"Let’s stop trying to copy the West. Let’s build the web that actually works."
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-sili
I have decided that running openSUSE on my pi5 is prima facie consistent with my policy and efforts to move my devices over to the distro, but ultimately inconsistent with the underlying motivation of reducing the amount of fucking-around I have to suffer to keep my grex functioning. Debian Just Works on the Pi series, while openSUSE functions, but does so balanced on a stack of compromises. Better to leave well enough alone while it's well enough.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
Fascinating chart of the decrease in Stack Overflow questions … and fascinating thread of replies. The answer seems a bit more complex for Stack Overflow… their change in moderation policy in 2023 a…
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Auilding A Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
🔗 #postdemocratic
The new stack being hyper up to date and relevant as always.
“From Pets to Cattle: The New Mindset for Managing VMs”
Should just remove this rubbish from my RSS feed.
NFL Week 15 betting power ratings: NFC West takes top two spots, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-15-betting-power-ratings/
Anyone know if this is legit?
#palantir
@… yep.
I wonder whether it's significant that the two stack traces are different; whether either one is genuinely useful.
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Just got some shots back from a pro photographer we used in September and there's nothing like this to help puff up your chest a bit as a player 🤣
#guitar #LiveMusic #photography
Nvidia announces the Alpamayo family of AI models, tools, and datasets for AVs, and details a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Prem ghinde thinks that Alan is killing bitcoin.
Alan is paid in government money, and saves in bitcoin. He's an imaginary straw man.
Alan doesn't plan to spend his bitcoin though. Just stack it until he sells it. And this doesn't build the bitcoin network.
Without transitions, when the block rewards run out, there will be no money for miners. Miners will need fees, which means transactions.
Since he's paying in bank money, he's funding bankers instead of miners. He's encouraging retail to accept bank money instead of miners and lightning liquidity providers.
Unlike Alan, Prem lives on the bitcoin standard. All in. Spending sats because he has no bank money to spend. It can be done, he insists. Today. Mostly by using gift vouchers bought with bitcoin.
He's sad that people here are buying drinks from the hotel with bank cards instead of lightning.
Stop watching the price, he says, it's only a measure of government money's collapse. Change your yardstick. Account in bitcoin. Dollars aren't even money, they are currency. If you must measure, do it against gold.
Since moving to el Salvador he had learned Spanish, until he even dreams in Spanish. Try to dream in bitcoin.
Every transaction is a vote, so stop voting for bank money.
I think the main trouble with this is that tax event in every purchase, and the fact my employer won't set a wage in bitcoin even if they would convert to bitcoin to pay me.
#bitcoin #bitfest
Senior Microsoft Product Manager Wendy Breiding discusses in this recent post how you can now customize your IDE to include agentic AI to your project that is focused on tasks related to a specific language or UI stack, in this case: C# and WinForms. The results have been positive when comparing these agents to previous more general approaches.
"Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert"
A breakthrough for solar durability: UNSW researchers discovered that thicker aluminum oxide layers protect TOPCon solar cells from UV damage by blocking hydrogen migration.
The culprit? High-energy UV photons break chemical bonds, releasing hydrogen that degrades performance. But 7nm AlOx layers act as an effective barrier.
Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
spam of the day
> Hi there, I am [generic chinese name], a senior full-stack developer with 7 years of experience. I’m looking to partner with someone in the US who can handle the client-facing communication side of projects, while I focus on the technical work and delivery.
> The idea is simple:
> You handle communication − I build the solution − We share the profit.
I should have setup per-contact email long ago, so I know how I got on the spam list of John …
"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."
I only suggested Microsoft #dropthedot, but it seems the Aspire team has gone full "drop .NET" in its branding.
There's only one mention of “.NET" on the page, and it's from a quote. 🤔
https://aspire.dev/
I have been using Codex extensively to fix crashes. Usually when I get an obscure crash I go “well there goes my afternoon”. These days, I paste the stack trace into codex and go “fix this”, and it does a remarkable job at finding clues I miss, and to find the root causes.
It doesn’t always work, but it has a very solid hit rate. What seemed like a daunting uphill mountain of despair is now a quick sweeping job.
Well this is interesting.
I've successfully determined which core is active. Core 1 correctly takes the branch, loads a valid initial stack pointer, and jumps into the infinite loop I wanted it to.
Core 0, on the other hand, crashes when doing basically the same instructions. Weird.
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
When I try to change my password, if you block paste I don't feel more secure, I wonder what other incompetence is hiding in your site's software stack.
And if you aren't letting me paste, _and_ you want annoying bullshit in my password, at least let give me a button to let me see what the fuck I am typing.
Having a password length limit, especially one as low as 15 characters, just makes me think you're doing something fundamentally wrong like storing passwords in clear text and confirms my opinion that there's a ton of other incompetence in your software stack.
This all came up when I was trying to add the mysubaru app on my wife's phone.
And a HUGE fuck you for claiming I had the wrong password when I tried to log in with the one in my password manager, but when I did a password reset, not letting me use the one from my password manager because "You can't change it to your current password."
This came in my feed, and I can't disagree. I have worked with #StackOverflow developers in the past, and I think the result will be the same, or even worse.
https://www.<…
from my link log —
Fast GPU bounding boxes on tree-structured scenes via the bracket matching stack monoid.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11659
saved 2025-11-04 https://…
@… I have a question about the https://howsmydrivingny.nyc/ site? I just ran a plate on it for a car that was illegally parked and had a stack of summons under the wipers and it only t…
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
I recently debugged sound staying mute. Yet the speakers, bluetooth, pipewire, gnome all claimed everything is fine and connected.
That day I learned you can mute a tab group in a Sideberry.
via @…
https…
#Politik und wie sie eine Post-Demokratie implementieren. Und
NFL Week 10 betting power ratings: Bills leap as several top teams lose, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
Enjoyed parts of this conversation about "justice on a burning planet," especially Thea Riofrancos' comments. She's consistently insightful here; I have her book Extraction in my to-read stack and now I'm extra looking forward to it. I recommend skipping over the excessively long intro to 32:55 where the guests begin.
http…
Error chaining in JavaScript: cleaner debugging with Error.cause
Error handling in JavaScript has always felt a bit chaotic. Throwing errors is easy, but tracing them back to the root cause? Not so much. That’s where the cause property comes in.
🧑💻 https://all…
»In the old days, technical writers produced documentation in near isolation, surrounded by complex and similarly isolated corporate cultures. From an anthropological perspective, old manuals are like tribal artefacts. The resulting docs show surprisingly rich design and content patterns, more refreshing than we’re used to in the age of googling for Stack Exchange questions and of bowing to Stripe docs.«
If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…
Cohomology theories in the moduli of ring stacks
Dhilan Lahoti, Deven Manam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09582 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09582
Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-new-claude-opus-4-5-reclaims-…
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
A feasibility study of passive ventilation via origami-driven stack effect
Ahmad F. Zueter, Ahmad S. Dalaq, Mohammed F. Daqaq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09639 https://
from my link log —
Compressing callstacks: a bitpacked DAG powered by a keyless hashmap.
https://superluminal.eu/compressing-callstacks/
saved 2025-12-01
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there "isn't really another choice" but to use AWS and "the entire stack" is "owned by 3-4 players" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal…
NFL Week 18 betting power ratings: How the market is treating starters resting, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-18-betting-power-ratings…
Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (Katie Collins/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/qualcomm-announces-dragonwing-iq10-…
Beautiful post explaining ATProto, the stack behind Bluesky by Dan Abramov:
overreacted.io/open-social/
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
from my link log —
Thread stack layout and ASLR on various unixes.
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/thread-stacks.html
saved 2025-10-30 https://
NFL Week 14 betting power ratings: Patriots keep rising, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-14-betting-power-ratings-patriots-rising/…
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-claude-code-comes-to-web-and-mobile/
Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/0
NFL Week 13 betting power ratings: Rams No. 1 as top tiers separate, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/robotic-brain-building-star…
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning (Prime Intellect)
https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-3
Let's simulate the rest of the 2025 NFL season: The last three weeks, plus playoff and Super Bowl results https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47326035/2025-nfl-season-simulation-final-three-weeks-standings-pl…
Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1977755427569111362
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i
NFL Week 17 betting power ratings: Correlated money line parlays to know, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-17-betting-power-…
Dak Prescott: Cowboys growing confident along three-game win streak, ready for 'hard-fought game' vs. Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/dak-prescott-cowboys-growing-confident-along-three-game-win-streak-ready-for-…
NFL Week 12 betting power ratings: Good luck figuring out which team is No. 1, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-12-betting-power-ratings-spread/
NFL Week 16 betting power ratings: Broncos elite, Packers sink without Parsons plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-16-betting-power-ratings-bro…