Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running out of the store. But there was a catch — the “security guard” was a professional sprinter, Méba Mickael…

With the help of Web MIDI API, we can use Google Sheets as a music sequencer.

For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones

It's annual Wii U exploit time! 😄 Image of the Wii U connection test screen on the GamePad. After reverse engineering parts of the Wii Us' ...

Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.

🔍 Better text detection by combining multiple OCR engines (EasyOCR, Tesseract, and Pororo) with 🧠 LLM. - junhoyeo/BetterOCR

I am an indie iPhone developer, and I've been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way…

We have successfully created an independent, bit-by-bit-identical rebuild of the nixos-minimal ISO published by Hydra 🎉 Why is this useful? While there are a number of ‘side-benefits’, the main point of Reproducible Builds is that it gives us a reliable…

A mental model for service businesses.

That could help check whether reforestation projects work as advertised

The beast’s near-extermination had a devastating effect on Native American tribes

One of the things I’ve been doing for quite a while, other than tracking myexpenses, has been keeping my CV up-to-date as much as I could. Every three ...

I'm no stranger to quirky USB power systems; indeed I have ranted about USB chargers for over ten…

New work attacks a long-standing barrier to understanding how prime numbers are distributed.

In Scratch Projects, bilman66 posts using Scratch as a RISC-V emulator running the Linux 6.1.14 kernel: A real build of the Linux 6.1.14 kernel running in pure scratch code! This is done by running…

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. - donnemartin/system-design-primer

Chemical changes inside Mars's core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?