Robots grow bigger, faster, and more capable by absorbing and integrating material in their environment.

connmap is an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time - h2337/connmap

This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from…

New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed ...

Stress testing enterprise AI systems to find failure modes.

It was called the J-Damper, a mysterious device at the heart of the biggest spy scandal in Formula 1 history. For years, its true nature was a closely guarded secret, giving one team a massive advantage while rival engineers with the stolen plans were left…

By default, log based on fixed time intervals rather than number of messages.

My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.

Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs : a venerable (1983?), fast, small Emacs clone that was originally written for 2.8BSD on PDP-11. Some of us have been using and contributing to it since 198...

Julie Inman Grant targets YouTube as Australia moves to impose digital ID rules.

I'm working on, from what I can tell, the most sophisticated open-source io_uring runtime and every time I try to shill it, developers will simply scoff at io_uring, saying, "isn't io_...

Have you wondered what a medieval king did on a typical day? Thanks to Christine de Pizan, we have an account of what daily life was like for King Charles V of France.

ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units. Contribute to revk/ESP32-Faikout development by creating an account on GitHub.

This article is a quick how-to guide for using the WMMA intrinsics with our new AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture GPUs.

: AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

SIOF (Scheme In One File) is a minimal interpreter for R7RS Scheme - false-schemers/siof

Many engineers have a strained relationship with Bash. I love it though, but I’m very aware of it’s limitations when it comes to error handling and data structures (or lack thereof).
As a result of these limitations I often see Bash noscripts written very defensively…

TL;DR

A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we struggle to face.