New blog post on speeding up the separating axis test (SAT) using inscribed spheres: box2d.org/posts/2026/09/insc…

An interesting video on octtree-based irradiance caching by frozein. It uses screen space size to adjust precision and is able to keep light info across adjustments. Denoising is done by picking lower LODs, which accumulate samples from subnodes. piped.video/nc9-v_5cYF4

AI companies, basically:

bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-… "Debugger very slow during stepping" has been solved and released (in JDK 27) after 16 years!

if I was Dumbledore I would've hid the philosopher's stone in the aws console

Off by one errors is the bane of math, logic and programming. Did you for instance know that the earth rotates about 366 times around its own axis in a year? The rotation of the earth around the sun accounts for one apparent rotation being deducted, giving you 365 days.

A C++ map with string keys doesn’t need a temporary std::string for every lookup. A transparent comparator lets you search using string_view directly. useful when your parser already has a view into the input.

POV: Software Engineering in 2026 be like 😭

god is dead and the most efficient way to pack 17 squares into a square killed him

I'm not liking the nomenclature of std::expected. First off, calling it Result or Either would be more intuitive since it signals having two possible results. "expected" signals one. Secondly, "has_value()" is unclear. Then "error()"; shouldn't that be "unexpected"? Inconsistent.

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A command for comparing your rebased feature branch with the one on the remote: git range-diff $(git merge-base HEAD origin/main) @{u} HEAD

Hello! Version 1.0.10 of Syster is now available, fixing a bug with checkpoint restore and also potentially giving you a bonus item when completing the game :) play.google.com/store/apps/d… apps.apple.com/us/app/syster…

How to win in engagement: 1. Post controversial opinion or incorrect statement 2. Agree with all the pushback 🥳🤔 3. ??? 4. Profit? 🤔

I'm a bit confused seeing so many posts about std::hive without any comparison to std::deque or mentions of plf::colony

Oof. See, this is why I’m not worried about “pure” LLMs in the long run. There’s new evidence that the human brain doesn’t use natural language centers for logical reasoning at all. Study just came out where stroke patients with complete aphasia (near-chance on written comprehension) performed….great on pure logic tasks! Even in healthy adults, fMRI showed language area activation didn’t scale with logical difficulty. tl;dr words are too ambiguous for formal thought and our brain doesn’t use language symbols for logic

idk why but i find it so funny that the euro banknotes featured FICTIONAL bridges so as to not cause conflict between member states but then a dutch town decided to just build all of the bridges to claim them??!?

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space