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Aug 04, 2026 from kmcd.dev

The CPU Cost of Protobuf Varints in Go

Do fixed-size integers serialize faster than varints? We benchmark the CPU overhead of continuation-bit parsing using Go, vtprotobuf, and hyperpb.

Aug 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Calvin Coolidge’s Homestead Oath of Office

Studying and comparing four eyewitness accounts of the night Calvin Coolidge became president and had his father administer the oath of office in his childhood home.

Aug 04, 2026 from William Lyon's Blog

Google's Open Knowledge Format Meets Neo4j

Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is already a graph - it's just serialized as markdown files. Here's how to materialize OKF bundles in Neo4j and build GraphRAG that never serves deprecated know...

Aug 03, 2026 from Above the Law

The Explosive Look Inside Paul, Weiss — See Also

The Man Now Running Paul, Weiss Reportedly Didn't Want A Trans Partner Working On His Clients: Before Scott Barshay took the corner office, he allegedly decided Lex Korberg was bad for business. Up...

Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday

Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604

Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electr...

Aug 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

This Complaint Feels Shady

Read This Complaint Feels Shady Customer: "I bought one of your phones, but it already needs replacing!" Me: "I'm sorry to hear that. What's wrong with it?" Customer: "The screen's too dark!" Me: "...

Aug 03, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

A guest post by Georgetown legal scholars Peter E. Harrell and Jennifer Hillman.

Aug 03, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Lichtschachtbäume: Sommeredition

Die Bäume im Lichtschacht, über die ich im März schon geschrieben habe, leben noch.

Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google Health finally adds two-way Apple Health sync for importing & exporting health data

Google Health has released version 5.05 with two ways Apple Health syncing on iPhone, allowing the app to both import HealthKit data and export Google Health and Fitbit Air data to Apple Health. Pr...

Aug 03, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Spam callers face penalties of up to R1,000,000 in South Africa

So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry is ...

Aug 03, 2026 from The Jaxson

UF Jacksonville Campus LaVilla Neighborhood Workshop planned for this Thursday

Be part of the conversation about honoring LaVilla's past while helping shape its future. -

Aug 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 3 August 2026

Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition Top Story The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers in the feet. (WCCFTech) This would be an intelligent and obvious move meaning th...

Aug 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Unique Roman Funerary Monument Is Discovered in the Ancient City of Emona, Present-Day Ljubljana

The Potniški Center intersection, in the heart of Ljubljana, has become a genuine hive of archaeological activity in recent weeks. Excavation work, being carried out against the clock due to schedu...

Aug 03, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Pokémon comes to McDonald’s Japan for new Happy Meals toys, brings every generation’s starters

You can’t celebrate 30 years of Pokémon without 30 years of starters, plus a few more Pocket Monster all-stars. The Pokémon franchise is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and the latest p...

Aug 03, 2026 from Peter's Path

Monthly update #0435 • July 2026

Posts The following posts were written last month. Books 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham Can I Trust The Bible? by R.C. Sproul 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Ne...

Aug 03, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

Hot Tea or Iced Coffee - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147

Recently, the temperatures in my city have been breaking historical records. Since the end of July, we've been stuck in a stretch of scorching weather lasting more than ten days, with temperatures ...

Aug 03, 2026 from It's FOSS

AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead

The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.

Aug 03, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Chinese Research Details Distillation for Military Use

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Aug 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Downfall of the Lords Appellant

The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King ...

Aug 03, 2026 from Jordi Villar

2026W30

GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going from 61 to 66, it’s how the agent got there. Under a 24 hour deadline it paid T...