As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now to be applied to virtually every lever of power. While…

The Codex desktop app doesn't change everything - but it's part of a larger trend worth paying attention to. Where IDEs are headed and why specs matter more than code.

Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers.
If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run…

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Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.

Idempotent schema management for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL Server

This blog covers design, philosophy and reflections from a life long search for increased computing agency. It is the high level counterpart to the...

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

Click Anywhere to see the faces rotate. Try not to scream. - An Optical Illusion and Explaination

Hot-housing promising youngsters works—but not as well as you might think

Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past

Learn more about an often-overlooked bottleneck in scaled postgres systems: postmaster contention. This deep dive into a production issue highlights how this surfaces and explains the underlying causes.

(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.