Postgres is great, but there are some very common problems that people have that can pretty easily lead to outages with Postgres. These aren’t just theoretical issues. From talking to a lot of startups, these are the...
California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York,...
My book club is reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson this month. The core idea fits on a napkin, so before the meeting I decided to actually check it against real data. Here's what I found, and where it...
Published: July 11, 2026 The beginning About a couple months ago I purchased an Arduino Nano ESP32 dev board. I had this sudden itch and I wanted to play around with hardware. I don't really have much experience in this...
I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did and didn't...
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar...
A list of illustrated literature spanning Western comics, Japanese manga and graphic novels. Sorted by publication date. The Long Tomorrow By: Dan O’Bannon & Moebius Setting Date: Far Future Published: 1975 Type:...
[Github] [MiniMax Paper] [Trainer] Flash-MSA vs Flash-Attention isolated train step. 1 Several frontier models [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] use sparse attention to greatly speedup their inference, though no one has posted code to...
Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks ESP32-P4 + C5, an AMOLED touchscreen, wireless, sensors and real I/O in something that fits in your hand. You write the code, and it becomes whatever you need...
So You Want to Learn Physics… SECOND EDITION Introduction to the Second Edition April 20th, 2021 Nearly six years ago, I sat down at my desk and typed up a detailed guide for anyone who wanted to learn physics on their...
Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my...
ON-PREM Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium...
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Abstract For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism and large-scale coherence...
The new world is intent on inculcating short attention spans and insatiable dopamine cravings in its people. Reading has become more difficult and less common. In this piece, Sam Kahn —one of the greatest living...
It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately. We set up the infrastructure that makes...
Every useful company stands on rails that were once somebody’s stubbornly useless research. I invest in useful for a living. This essay is about the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the...
The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech: SK Hynix...
The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young...
We demonstrate the effect of network-aware routing in navigation apps on improving network efficiency. Vehicle transportation underpins much of modern life, enabling the movement of goods and people, productivity, and...
I’ve read roughly a book a week for a few years, and I can tell you it’s doable. I didn’t always read this much. When I started, I read fewer than ten volumes per year, but making it a goal made me switch gears and...
Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register. "The bad news is it also increased...
I’m currently on a quest to find at least one Remote Code Execution vulnerability per router vendor. This is the story of how I found an unauthenticated RCE in Motorola’s MR2600 router. The first problem I had to solve...
"I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs," John Carmack posted Thursday to his 2.8 million followers on X.com: My "Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand"...
Ghostel is an Emacs terminal emulator powered by libghostty-vt - the same VT engine that drives the Ghostty terminal. A native dynamic module written in Zig handles terminal state, rendering, and local PTY I/O; Elisp...
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear algebra courses, to...
Introduction In our last blog post, we delved into the inner workings of Lucee and took a look at the source code of Masa/Mura CMS, and the vastness of the potential attack surface struck us. It became evident that...
Facial recognition technology in U. K. shops "will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders," reports The Guardian, "with civil liberties groups warning of a 'dangerous escalation' towards...
Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history. While speaking via video feed at the Open...
10 Million Cubans Suffer Nationwide Blackout - For The Second Time This Week (cnn.com) 1 The Associated Press reports: An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly...
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) A measured, reproducible teardown. Findings are backed by captured artifacts (endpoint, HTTP method, status code, byte size, host) and...
This hard-hitting blogpost by Ken Murray, a retired Los Angeles family doctor, helped open up discussions about why doctors routinely administer treatments to dying patients that they would adamantly refuse for...
Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has...
When people picture running a large language model, they picture a data center. Racks of GPUs that belong to someone else, a metered API, and a bill that grows every month you succeed. You send your prompts off to a...
I'm a million times more likely to send an email or a text than to pick up the phone. But I had a question I thought was worth an actual call, so I scheduled one with someone senior enough to have real scar tissue, the...
Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated sandbox, and Wasm support...