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A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers
A visual and intuitive intro to complex number system providing a historical overview of how it was developed and why it is useful.
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AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
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Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?
There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative...
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Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive…
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Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
Archaeologists have uncovered a royal archive of cuneiform tablets in the ancient Hittite city of Samuha, modern-day Sivas, central Turkey. This year’s excavation unearthed 131 cuneiform tablets and fragments which record an epidemic of fever, military logistics, religious practices and events of royal daily life…
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A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS…
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LittleJS is 2D and 3D now
LittleJS just got the biggest update since it launched! It is still the small, fast, dependency-free HTML5 game engine it always was. Now it also has a full 3D renderer sharing the canvas with your…
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The Origin Story of Kid Pix
The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman
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I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.
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Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD – Fused Multiply-Add of Packed Double-Precision Floating-Point Values…
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a friend’s house. Obviously, they never came even slightly close - but now, many…
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
This was posted in the TIL section, the low-effort section of my website where I post things that I find useful, but that don't get the full quality checks content elsewhere on this site does.
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Ludeon Studios is an independent game developer. We love deep PC games and story generators.
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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out
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My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping. You can see the entire discussion here. I posted an introduction to the AMA, which I am sharing here: __ Hi everyone, and...
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Thinking will become a hobby
These lines are very difficult for me to write because I feel like digging my own grave. AI systems are improving by leaps and bounds. From the early 2022 fumbling release of ChatGPT, which couldn’t correctly count the number of a’s in my name (it claimed two), we reached OpenAI’s release of math papers where an…
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Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder is Meta's frontier AI model that keeps track of what matters to you with Active Memory & Active Focus to work towards your goals at work & life.
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A Modern Web App in C
A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights
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Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent.
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Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers
Team82 researched the attack surface of the Danfoss AK-SM 800A refrigeration controller platform and identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the embedded web management interface. Team82 disclosed the vulnerabilities to Danfoss, which addressed them in a new firmware version. Successful exploits of the…
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
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Fable Took My Job
Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman
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I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it carried inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across Google's developer sites.