Website Automatically Plays Powerball and EuroJackpot Every Second
TL;DR A site streams automatic plays of Powerball and EuroJackpot every second, displaying picks, match percentages and a running history.…
BYD Overtakes Tesla as World’s Largest EV Maker After 2025 Market Shift
TL;DR Full-year 2025 electric-vehicle sales data show China’s BYD has surpassed Tesla to become the global leader. Wired reports the…
Can Bundler Match uv’s Speed? Analyzing Bottlenecks and Fixes
TL;DR A recent investigation compared Bundler's performance to uv and examined lessons from uv's design. The author argues many speed…
Exploring Whether Bundler Can Match uv’s Package Installation Speed
TL;DR A Ruby developer revisited why uv is much faster than many package managers and examined which of uv’s design…
Python Performance and Memory: Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
TL;DR A set of microbenchmarks and memory measurements for CPython 3.14.2 on an M4 Pro Mac Mini shows common operation…
Testing Popular Functional Coffee Add-Ins: Protein, Mushrooms, and Creamer Science
TL;DR A WIRED reviewer spent a week with each of eight functional coffee add-ins, mixing the manufacturer's serving into an…
zpdf: a high-performance PDF text extractor library written in Zig
TL;DR zpdf is an alpha-stage PDF text extraction library implemented in Zig that emphasizes speed through memory mapping, SIMD-accelerated routines…
S&P 500 Priced in Gold: 1880–2012 Data Reveal Large Real Decline
TL;DR When measured in gold rather than dollars, the S&P 500 has fallen substantially since its 1999 peak and remains…
Zpdf: Zig PDF text extraction library — up to 5x faster than MuPDF
TL;DR Zpdf is a zero-copy PDF text-extraction library written in Zig that emphasizes memory-mapped I/O, SIMD string ops and parallel…
Flame Graphs, Tree Maps and Sunbursts Compared for Disk Usage
TL;DR Brendan Gregg compared several ways to visualize the same filesystem dataset (linux 4.9-rc5), showing flame graphs, tree maps, sunburst…