Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs, a museum of accidental art. Open for submissions!

A map of the security territory

A weekly deep dive into the craft of pen plotting—covering techniques, tools, and the artists pushing the boundaries.

This is my battle-worn, falling-apart laptop rocking an #i486SX CPU from the early ’90s. It’s so ancient that it doesn’t even have an FPU (Actually, that’s not true, they just cut-out F…

Professor Martin Elliott reflects on how watching a Formula 1 race two decades ago led to an unlikely partnership with Ferrari that transformed practices at Great Ormond Street and other hospitals

As AI algorithms quietly take over life’s most important decisions, the right to opt out is fading – and with it, our autonomy.

This blog post documents my time figuring out how to monitor a Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Dash0.

We're excited to release INTELLECT-2, the first 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional centralized training efforts, INTELLECT-2 trains a reasoning language model using fully asynchronous RL across…

Introducing Continuous Thought Machines: a new kind of neural network model that unfolds and uses neural dynamics as a powerful representation for thought.

Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as an educational project - erikgrinaker/toydb

The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projec…

I often get distracted.
I obviously don’t like it.
So I decided to turn my computer’s clock into a constant reminder to help me focus.
Implementation This hack requires:
Ubuntu with GNOME desktop environment The Panel Date Format extension A simple bash noscript…

: Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson

In this post I will briefly describe the journey I went through while implementing defendnot, a tool that disables Windows Defender by using the Windows Security Center (WSC) service API directly.
Even though this is most likely not what you expected to see…

See how we slashed PyPI’s test suite runtime from 163 to 30 seconds.
The techniques we share can help you dramatically improve your own project’s
testing performance without sacrificing coverage.

The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.

: Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI