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.

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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

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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.
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Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world

AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependencies, parallelism, and context that need...

Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

Bug Denoscription Starting from today's morning with the updated to CC 2.1.1 - the usage is ridiculous. I am working on the same projects for months, same routines, same time. But today it hits 5...