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Conway's Game of Life, but musical
Breed unique melodies with genetic algorithms! Explore Conway's musical life and cultural evolution patterns. Interactive AI music lab
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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped…
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Behind the scenes of Bun Install
Learn how Bun is able to cut install times by up to 25×. Bun skips Node.js's overhead with direct system calls, cache-friendly data layouts, OS-level copy-on-write, and full-core parallelism.
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The rise of async AI programming
The workflow that's changing how software gets built.
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Reshaped is now open source
After five years of closed-source, Reshaped is finally open for all – both in React and Figma.
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PgEdge Goes Open Source
pgEdge is now fully open-source under the Postgres license. What that means for distributed PostgreSQL, the Spock extension, and our enterprise customers.
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DOOMscrolling: The Game
Can a game work where all you do is scroll?
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You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
Figuring out how to lean in to my thinking style
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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different results. This by itself is not surprising, since getting a result from…
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Introduction to GrapheneOS
In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS
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Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
Ride in Zoox’s purpose-built autonomous robotaxi. Now serving Las Vegas. Download the app and ride in a Zoox.
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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for critical thinking, despite promises of instant information access.
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The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works
Journaling doesn’t need to be a chore. In this post, I share The Socratic Journal Method, my simple twist on journaling that turns blank pages into meaningful conversations. It’s a method designed to help you reflect, stay consistent, and actually enjoy the process.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 10
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
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Tarsnap is cozy
I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the…
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Kerberoasting
I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me w…
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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of the OrioleDB patent to all OrioleDB users in accordance with the OrioleDB license.
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A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
why people pretending CSV is dead are wrong
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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
Picture Tom Nook greeting you with a sentence nobody at Nintendo wrote. That is what “animal crossing llm” usually points to: an experimental fan…
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Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype
The future is here: LinHT booted up successfully for the first time. We believe that Software Defined Transceivers will be the next big trend in amateur radio.
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Hypervisor in 1k Lines
Write your first hypervisor from scratch, in 1K LoC.
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How Ruby executes JIT code
Where does JIT-compiled code live? How does Ruby switch between bytecode and native execution? Why does TracePoint slow everything down? This post answers the JIT questions most Ruby developers have but rarely see explained.
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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
The researchers demonstrate that an engineered antibody improves a class of drugs that has struggled to make good on its early promise.
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Memory Integrity Enforcement
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices …
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Apple Debuts iPhone 17
Apple today announced iPhone 17, featuring the new Center Stage front camera, a 48MP Fusion Main camera, and a new 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide camera.
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iPhone Air
Apple today debuted the all-new iPhone Air, the thinnest iPhone ever made, with pro performance.
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
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The value of bringing a telephoto lens
Learn darktable step-by-step and dive deep into…2025122 points131 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
They usually aren't light, and they certainly aren't small, but the unique perspective a telephoto lens brings makes it an indispensable part of your kit, even when traveling. Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight.