Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole
University of Portsmouth
What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole
In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation writes for The Conversation.
Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved-to-git-and-i-loved-devex/
danielsada.tech
Part 7: Office Migration from Source Depot to Git, or how I learned to love DevEx. | Daniel Sada Caraveo | Developer Productivity…
Part 7 of my software journey, getting to know developer experience.
Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932
arXiv.org
Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
Maximizing revenue for grid-scale battery energy storage systems in continuous intraday electricity markets requires strategies that are able to seize trading opportunities as soon as new...
A receipt printer cured my procrastination https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
Laurieherault
A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD]
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
Rust compiler performance https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/06/09/why-doesnt-rust-care-more-about-compiler-performance.html
Kobzol’s blog
Why doesn’t Rust care more about compiler performance?
Perhaps the most often repeated complaint about Rust is its slow feedback loop and long compilation times. I hear about it all the time; in Rust podcasts, blog posts, surveys, conference talks or offline discussions. I also regularly complain about it, being…
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security
Tailscale
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/
Krebs on Security
Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online…
Jemalloc Postmortem https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
jasone.github.io
Jason Evans
The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development…
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor
wvutoday.wvu.edu
WVU student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD’s inventor
Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used…
Implementing Logic Programming https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming
Substack
Implementing Logic Programming
I just think it's neat!
SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016) http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html
0x80.pl
SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching
I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
GitHub
GitHub - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion: A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch
A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_gets_world-first_views_of_the_Sun_s_poles
ESA
Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s…