has anyone coined the term "fast tech" yet? used in the same sense as "fast fashion" - stuff that's designed to be cheap and disposable, chasing short term fads and tends, built in wasteful quantities in full knowledge that many units will go to landfill…

It's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year

Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex,…

What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

Imagine Zero Tape-out Day (Z-Day), the moment where no further silicon designs ever get manufactured. Advanced core designs fare out very badly.

Assuming we keep our existing supply, here’s how it would play out:

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This repository contains the official implementation of "FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models" - CVPR 2025 - apple/ml-fastvlm

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.

Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots - pirxthepilot/wtfis

In this 2001 feature, William Leonard Pickard, a major player in the LSD underground, told his story for the first time.

In Lorena's latest instalment, learn about the foundations of Elixir's power and reliability with the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).

The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser. - mozilla-firefox/firefox

How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of…

In this paper, we present TransMLA, a framework that seamlessly converts any GQA-based pre-trained model into an MLA-based model. Our approach enables direct compatibility with DeepSeek's...

Nature - Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.

Insider tips to drive results, accelerate decisions, and build consensus from a former Google Engineering Director

In my book Understanding the Odin Programming Language I wrote that “Odin incorporates some of my favorite C best practices, straight into the language”. But I didn’t really elaborate on the details. Let’s do that here!
This brings me to talking a bit about…

Exclusive: Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition