If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

Why controlling total luminance is a better bet

Did Plato really espouse ideas that led eventually to totalitarianism?

I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Brendan Carr wants "patriotic" shows for Trump's yearlong America 250 celebration.

Uncovering Insiders and Alpha on Polymarket with AI

Every company building an AI assistant is funded by advertising. They are also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.

Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.

A massive leadership shakeup at Microsoft's gaming division sees Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond leaving the company.

Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Bluesky promises decentralization, but nearly every user's data sits on Bluesky's servers, and every new ATProto app reinforces that centralization. T

2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser

On Friday, July 18th, 2025, the Arch Linux team was notified that three AUR packages had been uploaded that contained malware. A few maintainers including myself took care of deleting these packages, removing all traces of the malicious code, and protecting…

Interactive map of US mines with MSHA data: commodities, operators, safety classifications, and production history for 91,000+ mines.

Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens

Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"

Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called…

How is is possible that we’ve made incredible gains in the performance of models, but virtually no gains in the infrastructure that supports them?.
.. or what I like to call: the worst enemy of chatbots is page refresh.
There are some large GIFs in this article…

Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world