The concept of a 'Ballmer Peak' was first proposed in 2007, postulating that there exists a very specific blood alcohol content which confers superhuman programming ability. More generally, there...

A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude. - anthropics/claude-cookbooks

New models

WizardLM 2: State of the art large language model from Microsoft AI with improved performance on complex chat, multilingual, reasoning and agent use cases.

wizardlm2:8x22b: large 8x22B...

Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …

Free TailwindCSS HTML UI Components - built to create landing pages and websites. Easyfrontend UI components are free and open-source. show your support and love, don't forget to give us a ...

This has to be the most infuriating bug report I've ever submitted. I went to type in my 2FA code on a website - but no numbers appeared on screen. Obviously, I was an idiot and had forgotten to press the NumLock button. D'oh! I toggled it on and typed again.…

There is this thumb rule in cooking rice. It is the one knuckle rule. Pun intended. The water in the rice should be one knuckle above the surface o...

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

A farmworker, advocate and member of the medical community weigh in on Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a bill that will prohibit local governments enacting laws to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat.

A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine.

The birth of the real-time strategy game

It's the new Got Milk? for the social media era.

Our electric Atlas robot is here. With decades of robotics R&D and practical expertise, Boston Dynamics is tackling the next commercial frontier.

We are unveiling the next generation of humanoid robots—a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The new Atlas builds on decades of research and furthers our commitment to delivering the most capable, useful mobile robots solving…

“A contract is only as good as the people who sign it,” was a saying often quoted by an elderly attorney I worked with for the first fifteen years of my practice and I always nodded in his general direction when he said that and smiled as if agreeing. I liked…

In the 1960s, while ITS was developed at MIT, AT&T Bell Labs fostered a similar hacker spirit, creating Unix and the C language. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, transitioning from the Multics project, aimed for simplicity and efficiency, developing Unix…

Researchers at TU Graz were successful with three different side-channel attacks on graphics cards via the WebGPU browser interface. The attacks were fast enough to succeed during normal surfing behaviour.

Free Stars: Children of Infinity launches on Kickstarter on April 16th at 7am PT! Check out some of what we have planned for backers.

Farewell, hydraulic Atlas

The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in - geissomatik/geiss