New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of …

I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...

Starting January 2028, the Netherlands is set to require that residents pay tax on paper profits they have not yet cashed in, pending Senate approval.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit. Contribute to davidgiven/ack development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar - Geek-1001/arcmark

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good set of drawers, must be in want of a good organization system.
Neat.
Last year, I bought a Bisley chest of drawers on wheels (it also doubles as a handy pull-out seat if you slap a…

a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

An extensive test and review of M Disk archival durability.

A header-only C vector database library. Contribute to abdimoallim/vdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

While exploring the file system on a jailbroken iPhone 6s, I stumbled upon an interesting folder:

why compression is (almost) always worthwhile

I recently ported the Hardcaml_step_testbenchlibrary, one of the libraries thatwe use at Jane Street for Hardcaml simulations, from using monads to using alg...

A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.

Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS