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Last updated: August 29, 2026, 6:13 AM ET

Open Source & Community

A rediscovered manifesto from Autistici/inventati (2002) is gaining traction, restating the case for free, autonomous digital spaces and collective self-hosting as a political act. The project asks the community to revisit its founding principles in an era of centralized platforms.

Editor Tools

For developers seeking a fresh take on extensible editing, paveluv/e is a customizable, self-aware Emacs-like editor built entirely in Chez Scheme. It advertises deep introspection and scriptability, positioning itself as a lightweight alternative for Scheme enthusiasts who want their editor to be fully programmable from within.

Hardware & Performance

Over at Hot Chips, Samsung detailed its Processing-in-Memory (PIM) design for LPDDR5X. The deep dive covers how PIM offloads workloads like attention mechanisms directly to the memory arrays, which promises substantial energy savings per bit-operation — a critical piece for mobile and edge inference.

Databases & Systems

The Rust ecosystem gains another high-throughput option with TurboKV, a key-value store claiming “insanely fast” embedded reads and writes. Its design optimizes for low-latency persistence with a simple API, aiming at applications that need speed without spinning up a full server. The project is open source and ready for inspection.