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I am continuing the interactive tour series for Go 1.27, showcasing hands-on examples of new features like generic methods and struct literal field selectors. This guide covers generalized function t…
Meet cycloidal_gearbox, an open-source project by a 15-year-old engineer featuring a fully functional 3D-printed cycloidal gearbox and a custom Python script for generating its design. This project b…
This collection showcases a wide variety of futuristic and imaginative user interfaces found in popular anime series. From the tactical displays in Macross Plus to the whimsical screens in Dirty Pair…
Wiki Workers United U.S. demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation on July 20, but the Foundation declined, insisting on a secret-ballot NLRB election. The union accuses the Founda…
The European Commission has ordered Alphabet to open up eleven Android features, including wake word detection, to third-party assistants under the Digital Markets Act. The Open Home Foundation, whic…
New data shows Linux desktop usage has crossed the 10% mark in North America, a milestone driven by growing adoption among developers and privacy-conscious users. The increase reflects broader shifts…
Wafer runs Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, on a single node of AMD MI355X GPUs, achieving 952 tok/s aggregate and 118 tok/s single-stream decode. This outperforms a two-node B200 setup and offers be…
Tailwind CSS is popular for good reasons—it standardizes spacing, colors, and sizes, and its documentation is excellent. But for medium or large projects, the author argues, the costs can outweigh th…
I argue that Atom is technically superior to RSS and should be the standard for all feeds. While many differences seem minor, Atom offers clear encoding semantics for titles and a better distinction…
Bor is an open-source policy management platform for Linux desktops, now in v0.8.0. This release adds policy types for Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones, alongside a redes…
Plug-in batteries, which charge from a wall socket and discharge to offset peak-time electricity, could cut household energy bills by up to £2,400 over a decade, according to Regen. Unlike traditiona…
I share my complete setup guide for the ASRock BC-250, proving it offers unbeatable value for budget gaming projects. Key optimizations include allocating 6GB of VRAM, disabling Steam shader precachi…
Meshdiff is a free, client-side tool for visually diffing STL, 3MF, and OBJ files. It parses files locally, so nothing is uploaded. The current version offers voxel-based diffing with adjustable tole…
In July 2019, a remotely operated vehicle captured footage of a goblin shark 2 kilometers below the surface near Jarvis Island in the central Pacific. Five years later, researchers spotted the same s…
Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group has started mass producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet lithography machines. This move supports Beijing's semiconductor self-suffi…
In this first-person account, the author rebuilds a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150 and upgrades it with more RAM, a faster CPU, and various video cards to run MkLinux alongside classic Mac OS. The…
The US Treasury has launched an unprecedented intervention in the yen market, marking the first such move by the US government. The intervention aims to address the yen's rapid depreciation, which ha…
I investigated the Coldcard hack and found a critical failure caused by a developer trying to fix a compiler error without understanding the code. By disabling the hardware RNG to silence a duplicate…
This document deprecates Diffie-Hellman and RSA key exchanges in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 due to critical security flaws like the Raccoon attack and lack of forward secrecy. It also discourages static El…
Long before Neo's instant kung fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars sought a shortcut to learning. The Ars notoria, a magical manuscript from the 13th century, promised to fast-track university knowle…
Holocloth is a web-based project that explores the concept of a fabric that can display dynamic images and patterns, essentially a programmable textile. The demo showcases a virtual cloth that respon…
Elena is a 2.9kB library that lets you build web components with HTML and CSS first, then progressively enhance them with JavaScript. It solves common issues like accessibility, SSR limitations, and…
On June 20, 2006, RISC OS Open Ltd was incorporated with the ambitious goal of open-sourcing the proprietary RISC OS operating system. Twenty years later, the project has largely succeeded, with RISC…
Syncular is an offline-first sync framework for TypeScript that keeps a real local SQLite database on the client (using OPFS in browsers) and Postgres on the server, with a single ordered commit log…
While building Catalyst, a quantum compiler for PennyLane, we aimed to optimize hybrid workflows using MLIR. In the process, we discovered that our pipeline could compile pure JAX code directly to LL…
IBM i, formerly OS/400, is a unique operating system where the database is built into the kernel, not an add-on. It uses object-based architecture, single-level storage, and the TIMI abstraction laye…
Cyber is a new scripting language designed for speed and ease of use. It combines dynamic and static typing, supports concurrency via fibers, and is memory-safe. The language features a fast VM and J…
Noam Brown announced on X that an internal version of OpenAI's next major model family, Astra, has solved 10 long-standing open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer s…
Fuse is a statically typed, purely functional language that combines modern type system features with clean syntax inspired by Rust, Python, Scala, and Haskell. It offers higher-kinded types, ad-hoc…
A common argument for explosive AI-driven growth cites the Industrial Revolution, when UK per-capita GDP growth accelerated ~15x. But this post shows that 10x-above-average growth was already common…
I discovered that random manual commits hidden deep in my codebase were breaking atomicity, causing data loss despite using transaction managers. The solution is strict: the database abstraction laye…
A UCLA-led study in mice shows that a single dose of the immunosuppressant rapamycin rapidly—within about two hours—reverses autism-like brain and behavior changes in adult offspring of mothers expos…
I have identified four distinct time scales for technology: research ideas taking decades, hype cycles rising and falling quickly, mass deployment requiring twenty years or more, and economic reshapi…
In a 1995 Usenet post, John Mashey of Silicon Graphics analyzed the prospects for 128-bit processors, predicting they wouldn't be needed until around 2043 based on physical memory growth, or possibly…
A study of 14,419 self-published genre-fiction books on Amazon from 2023 to 2026 found that books with substantial AI-generated text (>25%) make up a large share of the catalog but a smaller share of…
Isaac Su challenges the growing habit of crediting LLMs for work, arguing that tools deserve no credit and that doing so dilutes personal accountability. He explores why people disclose LLM use—from…
Marcin Wichary, a well-known designer and writer, recently noticed that Google Search's time filter has been broken for a few days, and he's surprised by the lack of attention. He recalls a time when…
OpenAI announced that an unreleased model solved ten open problems in mathematics, a milestone that has mathematicians and observers scrambling to rationalize its implications. The author, a software…
FoldingGlobes.com offers a stunning collection of free, printable paper globes. From the Sun and Moon to Mars, Jupiter, and even Pluto, you can download, print, and fold your own 3D models of celesti…
The ESP32-C3 SuperMini's tiny SMD antenna severely limits WiFi range. A simple modification—adding a 31 mm quarter-wave wire antenna—yields 6-10 dB signal improvement, effectively doubling range. The…
CostPerPrompt delivers live pricing for over 232 AI models and specialized calculators for chatbots, agents, RAG, and voice AI. It transforms complex token rates into accurate monthly cost estimates…
Maze Toys offers a variety of maze puzzles, from classic rectangular mazes to immersive first-person corn mazes and circular mazes. Challenge yourself with faultless mazes where any backtracking or w…
F* is a general-purpose proof-oriented programming language that combines dependent types with SMT-based proof automation and tactic-based interactive theorem proving. It compiles to OCaml by default…
Across American and European dance floors, clubgoers are falling for 3-MMC, a synthetic stimulant said to be 'coke without the irritation.' It's cheaper, longer-lasting, and enhances libido, making i…
The author reflects on how nerd culture, once a niche interest, has become mainstream, thanks in part to the tech industry's rise and the wealth of its founders. While this has brought benefits like…
Katharos is a Python library that brings functional programming and message-passing concurrency together. It provides algebraic abstractions like Functor, Applicative, Monad, Semigroup, and Monoid, a…
Logan BASIC is an online BASIC interpreter that runs directly in your web browser, supporting both text-based and graphics-based programs. It offers a user-friendly code editor, a collection of examp…
A developer treats his Gaggia espresso machine as a distributed system, instrumenting it with OpenTelemetry and shipping telemetry to ClickHouse Cloud. He details the hardware challenges: flattening…
Police departments in the US are increasingly producing their own true crime podcasts to solve cold cases. From a California podcast that helped capture a fugitive murderer to an Illinois podcast tha…
Icons serve as essential interface elements that must balance simplicity with clarity. I emphasize simplifying designs for legibility while avoiding overly literal or complex shapes. Consistency in v…
Despite Australia's world-first ban on social media for under-16s, a new study reveals that over 80% of teens are still online three months after the restrictions took effect. The government defends…
During a penetration test, the author discovered that IBM i's QSYRUPWD API returns encrypted password data that doesn't match existing John the Ripper formats for QPWDLVL 2-4. Using system tracing an…
In this Paris Review interview, Bill Buford discusses his 1991 book 'Among the Thugs', recounting his immersion in English football hooligan culture in the 1980s. He explains how he moved from litera…
A personal blog post details the author's plan to build a reliable NAS for lifelong data storage, using four 8TB drives in a two-site btrfs RAID1 setup. The author analyzes failure modes—whole-drive…
legionlinuxtui is a powerful terminal user interface designed specifically for Lenovo Legion laptop users on Linux. By leveraging the Lenovo Legion Linux Drivers and lm_sensors, this tool allows you…
I present a formal framework for Large Language Model attention using Persistent State Machines with stationary in-memory cells. My work includes complete mathematical proofs for quantization error b…
I explore the hidden world of test engineers who ensure our modern world works safely. From Kobuk the Destroyer testing bear-resistant coolers to engineers firing frozen chickens at jet engines, thes…
Most CRMs are databases with forms, and AI ones bolt on a chat box. This open-source CRM flips that: the durable research agent is the product, and the database is just where it writes notes. It runs…
Temporize is a zero-dependency TypeScript library offering debounce, throttle, batching, retries, concurrency limits, and React/Vue adapters. Every scheduled call returns a real promise for the wrapp…
Tone Generator is a free, browser-based tool that lets you play any tone from 1 Hz to 20,000 Hz with no installation required. It offers four waveforms (sine, square, sawtooth, triangle), individual…
The Rust All Hands 2026 brought 166 Rust project members and guests to Utrecht for three days of collaboration. Sessions covered governance, language evolution, and interoperability, including topics…
I explore two distinct approaches to using agentic AI: the Greenhouse mode for chaotic exploration when goals are unclear, and the Lens mode for focused execution on known targets. Frustration often…
We developed a low-cost, open-source AI system to automate cognitive testing of wild capuchins in Costa Rica. By integrating facial recognition with interactive touchscreens, we bridge the gap betwee…
I believe the coming AI revolution will drastically lower the cost of goods and services, creating immense wealth. However, without policy shifts to tax capital like companies and land instead of lab…
I built Walsh, a multi-agent stock research system where Fundamental, Technical, Sentiment, and Macro analysts generate parallel theses. A Portfolio Manager aggregates these views, but a strict Rule-…
I am designing a new experimental type system for Uiua that balances dynamic flexibility with static safety. Unlike traditional approaches requiring separate syntax, this system uses Uiua arrays them…