Thanks for key conversations & early feedback: Andrew Payne, Luke Piette, George Church, Michael Retchin, Flora Guo, Merrick Smela, Misha Yagudin, Tyler Cowen, Helena Rosengarten.

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DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware. Commonly used as a cache, it offers a familiar interface while enabling real-time data updates through query subnoscriptions. It delivers higher throughput and lower…

As I’m getting older I look back on all the things I’ve done as a creative developer, and I see so many cool projects! But I never wrote down any development

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms

The “Exo 2” language allows programmers to write “schedules” that explicitly control how the compiler generates code. This allows performance engineers to transform simple programs into complex programs that do the same thing as the specification, but faster.

Edit: The article originally said Intel’s BVH nodes were 4-wide, based on a misreading of QuadLeaf.

In the quantum double-slit experiment, did the particle go through the slits or did the wave function? 1920's quantum physics has a simple answer: "NO".

Cohere Command A is on par or better than GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 across agentic enterprise tasks, with significantly greater efficiency.

Global Privacy Control (GPC) is on the way to becoming a formal privacy standard with the recent publication of its first working draft. Let's take a look at what the implications are for developers and users.

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

LLMs are making software engineers dumber.

Maybe putting the designer of the IBM PCjr in charge of this wasn't the best idea

The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.

I've been experimenting with the HTML dialog element recently, for example in my Prompts.js JavaScript library.

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