Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art's sake—that is, for beauty's sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A question we will never answer. Perhaps it's just a kind of...

Unison file synchronizer. Contribute to bcpierce00/unison development by creating an account on GitHub.

Graphite helps teams on GitHub deliver higher quality software, faster.

In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.

Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. Discover sights and destinations in your area or a travel destination.

I’ve been doing this for a year, and it’s the most helpful learning technique I’ve found in 14 years of computer programming.

Windows encryption feature defeated by $10 and a YouTube tutorial

The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to...

A lawsuit filed by American nonprofit OCLC claims that its WorldCat database was subjected to a year-long hack at the hands of Anna's Archive.

Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games.

The traditional way replicated systems are architected is to physically co-locate the write-ahead log (WAL) on the nodes where the state is being maintained. Then a consensus protocol like Paxos or Raft is used to make sure the log on each replica ag...

A sudden appendectomy as a child made Heather Smith curious about what the appendix is for and why it gets inflamed. Now as an anatomy researcher, she's finding answers.

Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB

Google workers complain about company culture, and they aren't pulling punches.

A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write noscripts in compiled languages. - igor-petruk/noscriptisto

Announcing Helix v0.5 with improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support 🎉

In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of

This is the initial work for the upcoming 3.0 release, which will be based on full rewrite in Rust.
I've contemplated this, but I didn't have as many good reasons to justify it in t...

Want to use open-source LLM models from Hugging Face on your local development environment? With localllm and Cloud Workstations, you can.

America: The Ultimate Crammer