As someone who closely follows the ebbs and flows of the internet, I can’t help but find the sudden, overwhelming hype around “Web3,” essentially the blockchainification of the internet, to be something of a massive bubble.As anyone who has read a Gartner…

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has put forward a new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that aims to tackle the network's gas fee problems by adding a limit on the total transaction calldata.

Susan Kare (https://kare.com/), graphic designer on the Macintosh team, explains the ergonomics and human interface design of the original 1984 Macintosh.
Full episode can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxLqWu23zFE

This might get me some looks, but I have pretty solidly decided to go in on using XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AE of choice for my future open source work. There are numerous reasons for this decision, but it mainly comes down to the desire for defense in depth…

Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who took his own life on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. Also includes an obituary with some explanatory notes.

Engineering physics PhD student Khadijeh Miarabbas Kiani has fabricated a laser on silicon using a simple, cost-effective method — something that has been a longstanding challenge in the field of silicon photonics.

A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop's potential as a valuable resource

Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News

A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency.

On why GPT-3 as is will not cost many people their jobs or soon lead to AGI

A REPL for x86-64 assembly language. Contribute to tenderlove/asmrepl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative....

A python library to artfully visualize Factorio Blueprints and an interactive web demo for using it. - piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer