Tim Gorree @digistar

Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.

@HendrikVoetbal1 yup. Second this opinion.

Creating Digistars youtu.be/zzoSK8mmQfw?si… #DIGISTARS #PROMO

Un tipo armo una app para dejar de estar todo el dia en internet Cada cierto tiempo te aparece un gato gordo y te tapa toda la pantalla para que no puedas ver nada kjj

Nostalgia Bloom youtu.be/aIRaGIVpf7o

All my life, I’ve waited for this invention!!!!!

Built to last.

Tomi Valkeajärvi @TomiValkeajarvi

2 months ago

Torstaina Nokian markkina-arvo kävi hyvän Q1-raportin siivittämänä jo päälle 54 miljardissa euroon, millä yhtiö otti hetkellisesti takaisin asemansa Helsingin pörssin arvokkaimpana yhtiönä ohittaen pitkään kruunua hallinneen Nordean. 4/4

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@g900ap Misschien heb je weleens van Salora gehoord, dat komt van 'Salo Radio'. Al ruim 40 jaar een redelijk bekend merk in Nederland Zie: salora.nl

German photographer Christian Vieler captures the hilarious moments when dogs try to catch treats mid-air. [📹 vieler. photography]

Bitmagic is the most advanced text to game AI in 2026 You can describe any type of game (incl. online multiplayer) into the prompt bar and Bitmagic will turn your vision into reality in minutes. #gamedev #GenerativeAI

THIS GUY GOT TIRED OF MANAGING AI AGENTS THROUGH TERMINALS AND DASHBOARDS SO HE BUILT THEM AN RPG WORLD 5 agents and each one has a pixel character, a station, and they actually walk around the space when enough unresolved issues pile up, the agents walk to a meeting point and hold a council session. four different models debating what to do next, not scripted. each one reads the live system state independently. in one session an agent pushed for cold outreach to close leads at 2am. another one said that's a terrible look for an autonomous system contacting strangers while the operator sleeps. they ended up pivoting to an inbound strategy that none of them originally proposed. single HTML file, node bridge, and phaser. runs on a Mac Mini. instead of reading logs and checking dashboards you just watch your little pixel agents walk around and talk to each other this is the most creative way i've seen anyone manage AI agents so far

@BEBischof Made me laugh

This is CRAZY. Unilever stopped reading your resume years ago. Instead, they make you play video games and it's working better than anything they've ever tried. They put 250,000 job applicants through 12 neuroscience based games before a single human ever looks at their application. The games were built by Pymetrics, a company founded by neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT. Harver acquired them in 2022. The games don't test what you know. They measure how your brain actually works, how you handle risk, how fast you adapt, how you decide under pressure. It cut their hiring time from four months to four weeks and it saved over 50,000 hours of recruiter time. JPMorgan, BCG, Accenture, Mastercard, and McDonald's all use the same platform. Now here is where it gets serious and there is hard science backing all of this. Researchers at three European universities, Liechtenstein, Rotterdam, and Münster ran 40 business students through Sid Meier's Civilization, then put them through a Fortune 500-style management assessment. Students who scored highest in the game also ranked highest in problem-solving, organization, and planning, according to a 2020 study published in the Review of Managerial Science. In 2013, scientists at Queen Mary University of London ran 72 volunteers through 40 hours of StarCraft. The StarCraft group showed a massive improvement in cognitive flexibility, your brain's ability to switch between tasks and think on the fly compared to a group that played The Sims. The statistical evidence was 40 times stronger than what chance would predict. SimCity has been used in university urban planning courses since as far back as the early 1990s, when professors began assigning it to teach systems thinking. Now step back and look at what this all means. Your resume tells an employer what you have done while a video game tells them how your brain actually operates. One is a highlight reel, the other is a live test. The gamification industry is now valued at over $43 billion globally and is projected to reach $172 billion by 2030. This market did not get that large by accident. Companies figured out that traditional hiring was broken. Cover letters measure writing skills, interviews measure charm and neither one measures whether someone can actually think. Games measure thinking and that is why corporations are quietly replacing the old system not with interviews, not with degrees but with joysticks. The Civilization study only had 40 students and that matters. But it was one piece of a much larger pattern across multiple games, multiple labs, and multiple decades of research pointing in the same direction. The resume is not dead yet but its days are numbered.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

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Séb Krier @sebkrier

3 months ago

This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…

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🚨 Someone compiled every "build it from scratch" tutorial on the internet into one place. It's called build-your-own-x and it's the most starred repo in GitHub history. 466,000 stars. More than React. More than TensorFlow. More than any tool ever built. And it's not code. It's a curated collection of step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to rebuild the technologies you use every day. From scratch. Richard Feynman said: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." That's the entire philosophy. Here's what's inside: → Build your own Database from B+Trees to a full Redis clone → Build your own Docker containers in 500 lines of C → Build your own Git finally understand what a commit actually is → Build your own Neural Network not import tensorflow, real backpropagation from scratch → Build your own Operating System write a kernel in C → Build your own Programming Language interpreters, compilers, garbage collection → Build your own 3D Renderer ray tracing, pixel by pixel → Build your own Web Server, Web Browser, Search Engine, Shell, Regex Engine, Game, Blockchain, BitTorrent Client, Physics Engine, and more Every category has multiple tutorials in multiple languages. C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Haskell, TypeScript, and more. Here's the part most people miss: This isn't a beginner resource. This is the most advanced learning material that exists for software engineers. Because rebuilding something from scratch forces you to confront every design decision the original creators made. You can't skip anything. You can't hide behind a library. In the age of AI-generated code, this is the knowledge that becomes MORE valuable, not less. AI can import libraries. AI cannot replace an engineer who understands WHY systems work the way they do. 466K stars. 43.7K forks. Every tutorial is free. No paywalls. No sign-ups. The best way to learn how something works is to build it yourself. 100% free. 100% Open Source. GitHub link in the comments 👇

Kind of groundbreaking development

Nav Toor @heynavtoor

3 months ago

🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser. No downloads. No installs. No VMs. Just a Docker command. It's called Neko. It runs a complete desktop environment inside a Docker container and streams it to your browser using WebRTC. Not a screen share.

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@heynavtoor Bad design leading to bad outcomes, revisited.

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