Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning. In trying to figure out where the idea of celebrating World Wide Web Day on August 1st came from I ran across Tim Berner-Lee's original code for the WorldWideWeb application for NeXT on the W3C's website:

Nature Communications - Commercial high-strength Al alloys often suffer from cracking during additive manufacturing. Here, the authors present an additively manufactured, a strong and plastically...

Something might be really wrong - because it works.

By merely enumerating terms, you can find "new algorithms". For example, if you try to solve for `f` in `f 0010 = 1010 && f 1100 = 0010`, you will quickly find the optimal binary increment algorithm. It…

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the…

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The Chinese telecom giant struggled at first under U.S. sanctions. Then Beijing stepped in, showing how hard it is to contain the country’s tech ambitions.

There is increasing concern that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may collapse this century with a disrupting societal impact on large parts of the world. Preliminary...

We recently reported on how multiple pirate streaming apps for iOS managed to get approved on the App Store by...

donut is a zero setup required SRT+MPEG-TS -> WebRTC Bridge powered by Pion. - flavioribeiro/donut

From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...

Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – and in Altman himself

Had history gone differently, it might have been EDSF or even ASXC.

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In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital's EAMR…

I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.

An explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques.