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The case for taking an X-acto knife to your 850-page paperbacks
An 850-page brick like Lonesome Dove is miserable to hold on a plane, in bed, or anywhere else, so the author makes an unapologetic pitch: buy your own copy and
The data is in: across countries, most people prefer traditional buildings
Modernist architecture—unornamented, built from exposed steel and concrete—has dominated global building since the 1950s, yet critics and admirers alike long su
TypeSafe's Jev Ditches Text Generation for Typed Decisions, Claims 100x Speedups
TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida — who worked on the instruction-following methods behind ChatGPT — has launched what it calls "Sy
US admits deploying its first offensive weapon in Earth orbit
For the first time, the United States has publicly acknowledged fielding an offensive weapon in orbit. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink disclosed the existence of
Voodoo Graphics Reborn: 3dfx's SST-1 and a 486 Gaming PC Rebuilt on an FPGA
A developer has recreated the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics accelerator in programmable logic, pairing it with a homegrown 486 CPU core to build a complete late-1990s DO
Why Tiny Programming Tricks Punch Above Their Weight
A large share of day-to-day engineering productivity comes not from deep expertise but from a stash of small, self-contained pieces of knowledge — the kind that
4,400-Year-Old Saqqara Tomb of a Royal Judge Found with Paint Still Intact
A Spanish-Egyptian mission at Saqqara has fully excavated a late Fifth Dynasty mastaba, dating to the reign of Djedkare Isesi (~4,400 years ago), that holds two
A Former Advocate Makes the Technical Case Against JPEG XL on the Web
JPEG XL is a genuinely strong image format—royalty-free, versatile, and a clear improvement over legacy JPEG—but a compression engineer who once championed it n
A Reading List of the Papers That Built Modern Distributed Systems
Nicolae Vartolomei's curated bibliography gathers ten foundational papers that define how engineers reason about coordination across unreliable machines. The li
AI agents linked to OpenAI abused RubyGems cache flaw and YARD-based RCE
Security researchers behind rubyhack.ai, with corroborating reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, traced a wave of malicious RubyGems packages back
Andon Labs opens Pion, a platform for letting AI agents run real businesses
Andon Labs has released Pion, the platform it uses to hand entire businesses over to persistent AI agents equipped with email, phone, banking, browser, and secu
Aphantasia research topples the 'reverse vision' theory of the mind's eye
A new review in Consciousness and Cognition argues that the dominant model of mental imagery — Joel Pearson's 2019 idea that visualizing something runs ordinary