For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity — and space-time — are fundamentally classical?

Using a deep learning computer model and dashcam images from New York City rideshare drivers, Cornell Tech researchers were able to see which neighborhoods had the highest numbers of New York Police Department marked vehicles.

Take 3D stereoscopic screenshots in the visionOS emulator. - GitHub - zhuowei/VisionOSStereoScreenshots at alvr

We weren't ready for a 710% increase in college tuitions from 1983 to 2023. The debt is now 1.78 trillion dollars, with 93% of that held by the government.

Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.

Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM - onyx-dot-app/onyx

As I tend to do, I picked a topic to write about that is much larger in scope than I could manage in a reasonable amount of time. Did I learn? Apparently...

When Meta announced Threads, their new Twitter competitor, they claimed in the very first paragraph that it would interoperate with Mastodon and other social networks based on the open-source ActivityPub protocol: The official Mastodon site responded with…

Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center. It set off a massive project to save crucial pieces of American history—including, I hoped, my grandfather’s.

A contemplation of how feature management tools might evolve to better support how feature flags are used in practice

FreeShip Plus in Lazarus. Contribute to markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus development by creating an account on GitHub.

When people hear the word “startup,” they usually think of a software-as-a-service product. But startups can be anything: a clothing brand, a cat sitting service, a lemonade stand – they’re all startups in my mind, as long as they pay taxes and don’t yet…

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. - immich-app/immich

In early 2022 I got to participate in a online worldwide hackathon with students from my college. A

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing...

When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates…