We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

Evolved ECS (Entity-Component-System) for Lua. Contribute to BlackMATov/evolved.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.

Treasury debt continued its wild ride on Wednesday, with yields soaring amid concerns about the U.S. government’s unsustainable deficit spending.

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Even after its refurbishing, Recall provides few ways to exclude specific apps.

Dijkstra was one of the reviewers of the fours language proposals which eventually lead to the language Ada: red, green, blue, and yellow (the winning proposal was green). Here are some quotes from…

Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I a…

Build effective agents using Model Context Protocol and simple workflow patterns - lastmile-ai/mcp-agent

The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis. Contribute to KDAB/hotspot development by creating an account on GitHub.

*on macOS with an M3 chip *slightly more than 1%, on a specific benchmark, without any new unsafe code
A while ago, memorysafety.org announced a contest for …

New grads are being increasingly excluded from a job market that prefers automation and more seasoned workers.

Create custom SQLite functions in JavaScript. Extend your database with scalars, aggregates, window functions, and collations directly in JavaScript. - sqliteai/sqlite-js

Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!

What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

Warning: Math, Handwaving

I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school in lieu of whatever it is middle schoolers are
supposed to be doing. Somewhere between the Cool S’s
and Penrose triangles I stumbled upon a neat
way to fill up graph paper by repeatedly…