AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?

In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…

Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.

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Vanity Activities A few weeks ago, I came across a ~4,000-word guide to something called “credit card churning”. The essay had gone viral. Plenty of...

Ever wondered what protons sound like? Learn how to create a circuit that lets you hear them in action.

This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 Peruvian rural primary schools. We use administrative data on academic performance and grade progression over 10 years to estimate the long-run effects…

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Time travel debugging. #2910
Animation API for application code. #2757
Headless mode testing. #2698
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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

: New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters

A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.

An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.

Earth's radiation is harvested to power a Stirling engine for air circulation, mechanical work, and electricity.

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Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories

How bipartisan lawmakers (and “your voice at the IRS”) helped improve the tax system.

Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.