!!Con 2019- Tail Call Optimization: The Musical!! by Anjana Vakil & Natalia Margolis

“Stack overflow”! “Maximum call stack size exceeded”!! “Too much recursion”!!!

You may have seen errors like these thrown when you attempt to run a deeply recursive function.…

Open source, non-destructive 2D image graphics editor

When was the first time you had to use LaTeX? If you are like most people, it was probably suddenly forced upon you during your first math or CS class where you had to start writing proofs, with minimal guidance on how to get started. Unfortunately, this…

Notable improvements and fixes

By default, Control-R now opens the command history in the pager (#602). This is fully searchable and syntax-highlighted, as an alternative to the incremental search...

The trials and tribulations of betting against crypto's biggest stablecoin.

A bookmarklet for translating marketing speak into human-readable text. :poop: - mourner/bullshit.js

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex game...

The company harvested iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent, a French regulator ruled. It's a rare privacy misstep for Tim Cook.

Editor’s Note (6/14/2023): We have a new article that reevaluates the cache latency of Navi 31, so please refer to that article for some new latency data. RDNA 3 represents the third iteratio…

The New York attorney general filed a civil lawsuit Thursday against the co-founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Networks for allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of investors who deposited billions of dollars into the platform.

I think the online ads ecosystem is most likely illegal in Europe, and as more decisions come out it will become clear that it can't be reworked to be within the bounds of the GDPR. This is a strong claim, but before I get into backing it up here's some background…

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands

Step by step guide to becoming a modern backend developer in 2026

In 1910, two beardy Belgians started a project: to collect the entirety of human knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone. It sounds like they wanted to create Wikipedia or Google - but unfortunately, no-one had invented web servers or home…

We’re all (well, at least I am) getting pretty excited by what we see with ChatGPT and other large language models - it’s amazing progress in a ridiculously short space of time.