Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...
InfoQ

QCon London 2026: Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Silva, both Engineers at Netflix, presented “Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale ...

Java 26 with JVM optimizations, HTTP/3, and finally no Applet API

The current OpenJDK 26 is strategically important and not only brings exciting innovations but also eliminates legacy issues ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...
Wired

Drip Coffee Was My First Taste of Adulthood. The Ratio Four Brewer Offers It Pure

I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...
IEEE

Generating Adversarial Examples for 3D Point Clouds Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Abstract: We propose a general attack framework based on evolutionary algorithms to quickly and efficiently generate low-perturbation adversarial samples for 3D point cloud data. Specifically, we ...