Update (Sep. 29): Since this post has now gone semi-viral on X, Hacker News, etc., with people arguing about how trivial or nontrivial was GPT5’s “discovery,” it seems worthwhile …

Denmark is closing its entire airspace to civilian drones. The ban comes as the Nordic country prepares to host European leaders after a flurry of suspicious drone activity in recent days.

What makes three the perfect blade count for wind turbines? Why not two for simplicity, or five to catch more wind? The answer connects physics,

Abstract. The remarkable ability of a single genome sequence to encode a diverse collection of distinct cell types, including the thousands of cell types f

The Fibonacci numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …) are one of the most famous sequences of integers.

With a map!

Safe, ergonomic interoperability between Rust and C/C++ was a popular topic at RustConf 2025 [...]

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over the rise of drug-resistant 'nightmare bacteria'.

This is the story of how we turned a failed filter prototype into a production system running at 178.6B rows/sec in 30 days.

The buyers of distressed brick-and-mortar companies like RadioShack and Modell's Sporting Goods, are accused of running a Ponzi scheme.

Democratizing silicon

A couple of days ago, I wrote a piece noscriptd “What if there’s an overinvestment in AI?”

I received some thoughtful emails in response to that piece. One reader named Craig Melillo took the time to share a more detailed thoughts which he granted me the permission…

Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he's promoting "med beds" — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can heal any sickness.

Real cleanup in a big Nx monorepo. I used Knip to flag unused deps, verified removals, handled false positives, and shaved about a minute off yarn install with lower CVE risk.

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Decompiler from Java bytecode to Java, used in IntelliJ IDEA. - JetBrains/fernflower