Daily Tech News 31 August 2026

• Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast)
  
  Oh no.
  
  
  
• Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system has stalled out 99% control by communist infiltrators. (LinkedIn)
  
  Anyway.
  
  
  

• Nvidia's DLSS 5 upscaling technology is here. Don't use it. (WCCFTech)
  
  Play Deep Rock Galactic - a fun but not graphically challenging game - on an RTX 3080 - an older but still powerful card - drops frame rates from 138 fps to 4.
  
  
  
• Omarchy Linux, the new flavour, has a teeny tiny bug. (0xcc)
  
  The default user has access to everything.
  
  
  
• Chess.com has launched a poker website. (The Verge)
  
  Apparently their Eight Queens Hold'em site wasn't bringing in the views.
  
  
  
• Oops. My language blew its budget; compiler, runtime, and standard libraries now come to 7.5MB or 2.5MB compressed, making it 8% the size of Python. The two culprits were TLS (a.k.a SSL, the encryption used by every website), and regular expressions across Unicode, each contributing 20% of the total. For embedded use it automatically drops those and clocks in at a far smaller size.
  
  Also landed today: A full "math" library (those funny buttons on a scientific calculator), alongside autovectorising vector and matrix functions (vectors 100x faster and matrices 1000x faster than native), and a more general linear algebra library built on those, hashing, cryptography, passwords, HTTP client and server modules, and a curl / Python Requests style library.
  
  Claude has actually impressed me; it's a brand new programming language with precisely zero training data, and it's writing working code in it. Yes, it has specs; yes, it has access to the compiler and runtime internals; but the former is up to the developer and the latter will be open source.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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