Millions trust their lives daily to floppy disks and Windows 95.

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

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A controlled concurrency testing framework for the JVM - cmu-pasta/fray

A federal jury convicted the CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC (DMERx) for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion.

3k words, 14 minutes reading time

Learn to bend notes on your harmonica with real-time visual feedback. Free app for all skill levels.

How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire

I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn.
Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements.…

Nature Communications - Resting T cells are difficult to manipulate, and are a reservoir for latent HIV. Here, the authors develop a lipid nanoparticle formulation with the ability to transfect...

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional idea was a "giant firework".

A detective story with a silly ending

Hypercharge suddenly has become a PS5 top-seller

Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it's expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore. Reducing costs would encourage ...

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.

Welcome to the Dolphin Progress Report for Release 2506! As we've alluded to a few times, we've had major changes in the pipeline that we've been very excited to show off. Some of those changes are finally here! Headlining this report are major adjustments…

A detailed walkthrough of how I built my own AI server from scratch, with a budget of $1.3K.

A week ago, I knew absolutely nothing about Swift. Today, I have a working iOS app sitting on my Mac and my test device