Humans have been using anesthesia for almost 175 years, but we’re still not sure how it works. Researchers have come at the problem from…

Flash is gone, but not forgotten. You can use libraries in modern browsers to emulate the Adobe Flash plugin.

Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.

It was a weird year.

The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language modelling data set that consists of 22 smaller, high-quality datasets combined together.

Oh, you hit the fire road again with your lifted Wrangler? Cute.

Aging, which kills 100,000 people per day, may be solvable. Here's a summary of the most promising anti-aging research, including parabiosis, metabol…

A Lisp interpreter for Raspberry Pi implemented in a single ARM assembly file - marcpaq/arpilisp

Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, SQL, O…

Taking on the x86 duopoly

A design system for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI.

'The year 1925 was a golden moment in literary history,' writes the BBC's Jane Ciabattari. 'Ernest Hemingway’s first book, In Our Time, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby were all published that year.

:syringe: Stuff which works in Chrome and maybe Acrobat and Foxit. - osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments

Reflecting on one year of growth, going from live collaboration to end-to-end encryption, and the role of community contributions.

Software made by Indie developers is getting harder and harder. Microsoft now renders downloads suspicious by default. Binaries are properly signed, even my address is in plain sight. But not commonly downloaded... I wonder why??