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fasterthanli.me
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2025 Recap: so many projects
Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution
Does Dioxus spark joy?
Engineering a Rust optimization quiz
Making our own spectrogram
crates.io phishing attempt
color npm package compromised
The science of loudness
Summer fasterthanlime update
All color is best-effort
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TheExceptionCatcher
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My AI Movie Night Disaster
Connecting Ollama to OpenCode: A Faster Workflow
Vibe Coding
What Comes Next
GitHub Actions: The Hidden Billing Trap
gRPC: Up And Running (2020)
Is This the Future of Software Development? (2026 Predictions)
Getting Started with gRPC: A Practical Example in Go
Best of 2025: Part 3
Best of 2025: Part 2
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ResearchBuzz
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Tippett Studios, WordPress Accessibility Day, Social Media Community, More: Monday Afternoon Researc
Camera Index, PlaceDB, California Public Safety Alerts, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, October 5, 2026
Maine State Archives, FogCam, Agricultural Data Rights, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, October
Bug Bounty Programs, Facebook Data Centers, Microsoft “Community Support”, More: ResearchBuzz AI Upd
California Oligarch Index, Hawaii Cemeteries, Opt Out October, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, October 4,
Democracy & the Arts, 1970 Paris, National Archives Protection Act, More: Saturday Evening ResearchB
Illegal Snipe Hunts, Protest Art, Amazon and Data Centers, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, October 3,
Prague Post, Carbon Impacts Tracker, Apple Product Colors, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, October 3, 2
Digitized Greek Manuscripts, Aloha Stadium Events, Digital Archiving, More: Friday Afternoon Researc
Europe Food Safety, Greenland Botany, University of Guadalajara, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, October
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RISC-V International
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Community Motion: What Are RISC-V Advocates Doing?
V Questions with… Maven Silicon’s P R ‘Siva’ Sivakumar
Monte Cimone v3: Where RISC-V Stands in High-Performance Computing
V Questions with… Openchip’s Cesc Guim and Marc Fernández
For Automakers, RISC-V Isn’t Just About Ownership: It’s About Freedom of Choice
World RISC-V Days: Tel Aviv Israel
World RISC-V Days: Turin Italy
World RISC-V Days: Gujarat India
World RISC-V Days: Boston USA
World RISC-V Days: Nairobi Africa
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection » Blog »
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David Rumsey - Winner of the 2026 IMCOS/Helen Wallis Award
MacKinnonsBrookDrone102125
Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965
A Mile Long Map At Burning Man 2024
1320 Selected Maps And Images From The David Rumsey Map Collection
A Stranger Quest
John Hessler – In Conversation with David Rumsey
Online Rumsey Downloadable Maps Reach 120,000
David and Abby Rumsey on Maps and Stanford
California Map Society, 2022 Conference: David Rumsey Interview
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Recorded Future
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Recorded Future Debuts Autonomous Defense, Built for Machine-Speed Threats
Social Engineering in the Age of Synthetic Media
Recorded Future Launches MCP, the Intelligence Layer for Agentic Security Operations
Using Threat Intelligence to Stop Ransomware Attacks
Russia Escalating Hybrid Attacks Across Europe
The Lure Isn't The Malware. It's Your Logo.
Agent Running in the Age of AI
Our View on What It Takes To Be Named an Industry-Recognized Threat Intelligence Leader
The New Rules of Machine Speed Defense
Tajin Group: Guarantee Marketplace Vendor Involved in Phishing and Chinese Money Laundering Group
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Quillette
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Life in The Grim Old Days
In Defence of Academic Standards
Claire’s Weekly Letter: The Comforts of Catastrophe
Letters to the Editor
Danielle Haas on How Activism Took Over Human Rights | Quillette Cetera Episode 73
On Trauma-ism
Sceptic vs. ‘Doomer’: How Scared Should We Be of Rogue AI?
Spells that Sell
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021–26): A Primer for Foreign Scholars
Other People's Children
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chriskiehl.com
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How I Under-Engineered my Book
A phenomenal amount of work to end up with a rectangle
Euglenid Motion in flagellates
Evolving thoughts on AI
Books Jan - June 2026
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress 2026-05-10
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress 2026-02-21
Bird Seed Holder V2
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress 2026-02-02
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress 2026-01-27
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Doomsday Machines
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Wasteland wrap-up #97
“Do you know what to do in a radiation emergency?”
Wasteland wrap-up #96
The Way Nukes Work (*Sort of)
Wasteland wrap-up #95
Une apocalypse française
The secret to avoiding dirty bombs
Wasteland wrap-up #94
Wasteland wrap-up #93
Doomsday Puppers
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Hacker Hurricane
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The Windows Registry Auditing Cheat Sheet update! Aug 2019, v2.5
Come learn how to hunt on Windows quickly - SANS Threat Hunting & IR Summit
Sample WinLogBeat.yml file for ELK and Humio users
New Incident Response Podcast
Looking at APT28 latest Talos Security write up and how YOU could catch this type of behavior
Microsoft is breaking our security improvements with the new Windows 10 cumulative updates/upgrades
Fileless Malware? Not so fast, let's consider new terms
The Windows Logging, File and Registry Auditing Cheat Sheets updated for Windows 10 and some cleanup
Avoiding Ransomware with built in basic changes
LOG-MD Selected For Blackhat Arsenal Based On The 'Windows Logging Cheat Sheet'
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A List Apart: The Full Feed
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Designed for a Dead Language
Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna
Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership
From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.
User Research Is Storytelling
To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop
The Wax and the Wane of the Web
Opportunities for AI in Accessibility
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Julia Evans
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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
Learning a few things about running SQLite
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Links to CSS colour palettes
Testing Vue components in the browser
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
Notes on clarifying man pages
Some notes on starting to use Django
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
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viralinstruction
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What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
Asynchronous programming in Julia
Review: Julia trimming for Advent of Code 2025
The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings
A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
Julia's latency: Past, present and future
What's great about Julia?
How to optimise Julia code: A practical guide
In defense of complicated programming languages
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Six Colors
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(Podcast) Upgrade 640: Moving Through Space
Secretive helps you keep your SSH keys secret, keep them safe
Apple is changing Full Disk Access in macOS
Support St. Jude and watch the 2026 Relay Podcastathon ↦
Amazon introduces new Kindles and accessories ↦
Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence
‘Shop Different’ Review: The Genius of Retail (The Wall Street Journal/Jason Snell)
(Podcast) Clockwise 676: Mad at a Supermarket
Numbers update get statistical and trigonometry functions, and Apple tells you what they all are ↦
(Podcast) Designed in California 10: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: The Bake-Off (Part 6)
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Andrew Helwer
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Can we have reachability properties in TLA⁺?
Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
The changing role of finite-state model checking
Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership
A supposedly worthwhile contract I'll never do again
The current state of TLA⁺ development
TLA⁺ is more than a DSL for breadth-first search
TLA⁺ Unicode support
Wrangling monotonic systems in TLA⁺
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Blog – HomeHackerCamp – Robotics and Programming Classes, Camps, Cirriculum
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SpaceX Starbase Tour
Alumni at College Student Rocket Competition
Great Homeschool Convention
Special Guest! Tesla VP of Energy & Charging – Visits Home Hacker Camp Class
Special Guest! Tesla VP of Energy & Charging – Visits Home Hacker Camp Class
SpaceX – Starship’s 10th Test Flight is Tonight!
Navigating AI in Homeschooling
Student Visits at GHC OH
Gateway to Mars: Talk and Q&A
Intro to 2D Computer Animation, Summer Mini Course
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Blogs on The Hare programming language
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Hare 0.26.0 released
Hare meetup at FOSDEM 2026
Introducing builtwithhare.org
Upcoming changes to Hare's event loop library
Hare 0.25.2 released
hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
A tour of upcoming RFCs
Hare 0.24.2 released
Introducing for-each loops for Hare
Online documentation improvements for harelang.org
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LWN.net
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RustConf recordings
[$] An update on the Sashiko patch-review system
Picard 3.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6
Zig 0.17 released
Seven stable kernels for Saturday
[$] Beyond the &
Linux Test Project suite stable release for September 2026
Security updates for Friday
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Narratively
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The Sunday Epic: He Murdered My Uncle...Then Wrote a Fake Memoir About It
In Prison, I Finally Shared the Story That Had Haunted Me for Years
The Sunday Epic: The Invention of Fake News
He Murdered My Uncle...Then Wrote a Fake Memoir About It
The Sunday Epic: A Rom-Com Turned Thriller
Listen: He Took Me Belly Dancing in the Middle East. I Didn’t Know I Was His Cover.
Call for Columns + Series: Help Us Invent What Narratively Does Next!
The Sunday Epic: The Gutsiest Undercover Cop
I Was at Ground Zero—The Thing I Remember Most Is a Plate of Rigatoni
4 Unforgettable Stories to Get Lost in This Week
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NVIDIA Blog
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From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
Fall Into 25 New Games on GeForce NOW This October
Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment
NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000
From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI
How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
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John D. Cook
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Miquel’s pentagon theorem
Topological models of modal logic
Modal logic and topology
Miquel’s pivot theorem
Servers in dawn-dusk orbit
Navigation with only addition, subtraction, and tables
Nathaniel Bowditch
Haversine law
Why fitting a logistic is nearly impossible from early data
Empirical fractal
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Superconductivity News - Physics News, Quantum Physics
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Cooper pairs found above superconducting critical temperature in pair density waves
Scientists discover first type I superconductor that breaks time-reversal symmetry
Scandium's electrons may explain predicted room-temperature superconductivity
Picosecond pulses push superconductors beyond their critical-current limit
Vertical quantum sensor could reveal nanoscale magnetic patterns in quantum materials
One-atom-high rails steer superconducting vortices, with temperature and magnetic field tuning their
Chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductors
Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor
Spinons may help electrons pair along stripes in some superconductors
Three quantum phases in chromium-based material hint at a spin-triplet superconductor
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Slashdot
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Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement
Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI
Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
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JoeTaxpayer
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Death of the Stretch IRA?
The #FightFor15
When feeling good costs you $20,000 (The failure of the Debt Snowball)
Rich Country / Poor People
Roth Recharacterization R.I.P.
Looking at Credit Card Offers
2018 tax rates announced
Tax Reform 2017 – The AMT
Tax Reform 2017 – The Estate Tax
Off to College – The Tax Mistake to Avoid
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Recent blog posts on Haiku Project
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Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2026
GSoC 2026 Final Report | Modernizing Haiku's Bluetooth Stack: HID Profile Implementation
[GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Progress Rep
[GSoC 2026] Expanding the functionality of the Haiku Devices Application - Final Report
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2026
GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap
[GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Mid-Term Pro
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, June 2026
[GSoC 2026] Midterm progress on the Devices application
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, May 2026
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Xe Iaso's blog
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How to Solve: AAC Heavyweight M1 (Savage)
This is why we play
You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Conflict resolution is “fun”
"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
If your VS Code remotes stopped working, downgrade to v1.124.x
How to make VS Code go back to the old UI
Anubis continues to expose new ways people configure webservers
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rsyslog
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liblognorm 2.1.1: Bug-fix release
libfastjson 1.2609.0 release
rsyslog Windows Agent 26.09 Technical Release Notes
rsyslog Windows Agent 26.09: Monthly Patch + Feature Drop
rsyslog 8.2608.0 Released
rsyslog Windows Agent 26.08: Monthly Patch + Feature Drop
rsyslog Windows Agent 2026 — New major release, new licensing, new release cycle
New Liblognorm 2.1.0 release
rsyslog 8.2606.0: stream compression, Elastic Beats input, and ongoing defensive hardening
Rsyslog Windows Agent 8.4 Released
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Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
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Long-term logging experiment reveals how protecting the forest floor helps preserve soil carbon
Experts deem empowering neurologists and neurology trainees to perform lumbar punctures at bedside a
Ancient DNA evidence narrows down when people first reached the Americas
Standard 3D printers let labs build and adapt tools for bacterial research
Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
How game publishers set international prices: A study reveals four pricing approaches on Steam
A health app designed for teachers
Atomic motion could help push solar cells beyond conventional limits
Quantum systems never quite forget where they came from
Unmowed strips attract insects, but many abandon partially mowed dikes
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q-fin updates on arXiv.org
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Axient: Canonical Protocol-Graph Composition for Leveraged Event Markets: Single State Authority, At
Axient: Manifest-Bound Evidence for On-Chain Financial Protocols: Seven-Layer Derivation, Correlatio
Multi-Agent AI as a Nested Principal-Agent Problem in Private Wealth Management: Mandate Representat
Event History Over Scale: Compact Transformers for Low-Latency Limit Order Book Forecasting
Shapley-based Structural Analysis of Neural Calibration for Stochastic Volatility Models
No Women No Innovation? The Effect of Women on Boards on Hard and Soft Innovation in SMEs
Mixture-of-Experts for Cryptocurrency Order Execution: Training Stability, Tail Risk, and Failure Mo
PreFER: Interactive Robo-Advisor with Scoring Mechanism
When a Correct Reward Is Not Enough: Diagnosing and Guiding PPO in an Analytically Solved Broker-Tra
Expected Utility Regret Rule: Minimax and Bayes Optimal Portfolio Choice
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Quanta Magazine
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Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture
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Roll Call
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Behind the Byline — A look at the most vulnerable Senate and House incumbents
Crypto industry PAC gives to 32 House incumbents, on both sides
Obama will campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
Trump expressing concern about GOP midterm chances
State climate suits face skeptical Supreme Court
Disgraced former Speaker Hastert dies
Employee question could stall Senate college sports bill at midfield in House
As Congress leans on ‘pro formas,’ bills become law without Trump signature
Jeffries says Democrats are poised to win the House majority
Court challenges mount over Trump’s funding clawback
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Survival Life | 2,000+ Grid-Down Ready Scenarios, Expert Prepper Training
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Flood Safety Plan for Families and Pets: Radios, Power Loss and a Way Out
The Blackout Weekend Drill: A Power Outage Drill That Finds Your Gaps Before a Storm Does
Battery Shelf Life: How to Test, Store and Restock Emergency Batteries
Old-Timer Meat Preservation Advice: Which Half Still Holds Up, and Which Half Can Make You Sick
When Monsoon Storms Knock Out Power: A Household Readiness Checklist
Boil Water Advisory Checklist: What to Do at Home When the Water Plant Loses Power
Home Security That Works Without Power or WiFi
15 Canning Tips To Make Food Last For A Long Time
What is a Go-Bag? (And How to Build One)〡2026 Update
3 Budget-Friendly Home Water Filter Builds (Specs & Setup)
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Human Progress
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Scientists Identify New Penguin Species
AI Beats Top Human Stratego Players for the First Time
First Enhanced Geothermal Plant Sells Power
Tests Find Simple Deterrents Cut Seabird Deaths
Vehicle Thefts Continue to Fall Across the US
Experimental Combo Boosts Weight Loss in T2D
Ethiopia’s Forest Cover Is Rising as Deforestation Slows
Lab Tests: Watermarked AI Proteins Stay Functional
Idaho Nearly Halved Its Regulatory Code
Pakistan Creates Indus Dolphin Sanctuary
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ThePlywood.com
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French Cleat Weight Capacity: How Much Can a Cleat Wall Hold?
Plywood Load Capacity: 1/2 vs 3/4 Inch
Basement Window Condensation: Causes, Fixes & Prevention
Low Ceiling Basement Ideas for Walls, Floors and Color
Best Plywood Thickness for Walls: Chart + Which One to Use
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monkbent.net
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UHO: Audio
UHO: Computing
The Ultimate Home Office (UHO)
“Wireless Is a Trap”
What Is a Blog?
Where to Blog
Project Gutenberg
Welcome to monkbent.net
Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children
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Nanophysics News - Nanotechnology News, Nanotech News
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Waste plastic yields carbon quantum dots with emissions tunable from UV to yellow-green
Heat-induced nanoscale structures unlock electromechanical properties in ceramics
Mirror-image crystals reverse the direction of light-driven currents
Bending nanoribbons tunes diamond's light emission without doping
Dyed liquid crystals enable light-only control of optical components
Light and electricity offer new way to control ion separation in membranes
Modification of magnetic nanoparticles improves RNA isolation
Spin waves inside a nano-oscillator imaged for the first time
Tiny quantum nanostructures could make AI less of an energy hog
Carbon nanotube foams reveal a new kind of mechanical memory
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Sovereign Nations
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Vance takes his first economic punch in the 2028 primary
The Kids Are Not Okay With AI, And They Know It…
The Arctic: China Taking Over the Top of the World
Marxism Has No Place, Left or Right
A Conference on Christian Nationalism
United Arab Emirates’ ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Crypto Company
The Postliberal War on Economics
To Serve Man: The Rapid Rise Of AI Compute And AI Data Centers
Who Counsels Qatar and Turkey, Hamas’s Representatives on Trump’s Board of Peace?
Trump Hands 21st Century to China, Reverses Biden’s Ban on Selling Advanced Chips
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Kat Haas Outdoors
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Kids & The Outdoors
Crafting Tradition: A Foolproof Guide to Perfect Sourdough Bread at Home
Collection of Protein Shakes
Author Interview: Liz Lazarus
A New Beginning!
Shinesty for Christmas Never Fails!
Giving Away 4 Hats!
Christmas Pajamas for the Whole Family? – Get Shinesty!
A Rifle for the Generations – Boyds’ Gunstocks At-One Thumbhole
An Air Rifle for Adults – Umarex USA Gauntlet
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Farnam Street
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[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs
Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life
Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Steve Jobs in Exile
Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Turnaround
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
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Farnam Street
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[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs
Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life
Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Steve Jobs in Exile
Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Turnaround
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
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TechCrunch
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OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI
Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era
5 startups that caught VCs’ attention at the latest PearX demo day
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
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Yossi Kreinin
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Fun won't get it done
Hiring (self-driving algos, HLL compiler research)
Things want to work, not punish errors
Patents: how and why to get them
Don't ask if a monorepo is good for you – ask if you're good enough for a monorepo
I have risen
refix: fast, debuggable, reproducible builds
Managers have no human rights
The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
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Slower News
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|Transports| Voyager 1 is close to being one light-day away from Earth.
|Geopolitics| Jakarta is now the largest city in the world.
|Media| Grokipedia.
|INFO| Slower News Semiannual - Autumn Issue.
|Media| AI is changing the internet.
|Sports| Holding breath for 29 minutes.
|Work, education and skills| Surviving the LLMs.
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Gun Carrier | Holster Reviews, Gun Safe Reviews & Concealed Carry Guides
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Texas Permitless Carry 2026: What HB 1927 Actually Allows
Best Beginner Handguns Low Recoil Home Defense
Carry Appendix in High Heat: Comfort Tips That Actually Work
The Magazine Capacity Challenge: What’s Legal Where You Are
Concealed Carry for Senior Adults
Federal CCW Reciprocity: The Smart Framework Guide
Springfield XD-S Recall: What Owners Actually Need to Know
Hornady Critical Defense: Availability, Pricing, and Practice-Ammo Strategy
New York Red Flag Law: What Every CCW Holder Needs to Know in 2026
Springfield XD-M Elite Compact Pistol Review: A Real-World CCW Verdict
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Mark's Dev Blog
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My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools
My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey
Presentations: A Guide to React Compiler Rendering
Presentations: How I Made Immer Twice as Fast: Performance Optimization in Practice
Presentations: The State of React and the Community in 2025
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Presentations: Maintaining a Library and a Community
React Advanced 2024: Designing Effective Documentation
React Summit 2024: Why Use Redux Today?
React Summit US 2023: What's New in Redux Toolkit 2.0
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Tiny Projects
}
Tiny Website | Tiny Projects
Tiny websites are great | Tiny Projects
How to code a tiny website | Tiny Projects
Silicon Valley Domain Names | Tiny Projects
I bought netflix.soy | Tiny Projects
Building a Battle Royale game | Tiny Projects
One Item Store | Tiny Projects
Snormal | Tiny Projects
I Sell Usernames on the Internet | Tiny Projects
Six months of Tiny Projects | Tiny Projects
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Bear Blog Trending Posts
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Slowing down
got a job, not struggling anymore
what is political?
a night in the hospital
nice things i’ve done for myself lately
First Images
a quick blogpost about funny software licenses
Photo
Let's make /photo pages
I don't want or need AI, ya, I'm Good
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Beautiful Public Data
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WWII Tank, Aircraft, and Ship Identification Guides
50,000 boat names
The footprints of every building in NYC
San Diego Photologs from the 1970s
The USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map
How LiDAR measures the toll of climate disasters
NASA Ames Research Center Archives
WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration collections
Cold War Military Slides
US Government UFO (UAP) Footage
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ZeroHedge News
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IRS Employees Caught Snooping Through Tax Records Of Public Figures, Watchdog Finds
Surprise Republican Senator Admits He's Considering Running For President In 2028
Houthis Unleash Large Missile, Drone Barrage On Saudi Arabia, Target Riyadh Airport & Aramco Facilit
Our Country...?
SpaceX "Looks Unusually Cheap" On The Forward: Morgan Stanley
Watch: UK Police Clear Streets Of Entire Town So Migrant Boat Can Offload
Trump Plans To Ease Off-Road Diesel Restrictions Ahead Of Midterms
Over 250,000 Visas Revoked During Trump's Second Term
Pentagon Backs Ambitious Plan To Beam Solar Power From Space
Fuel Price Shock Pushes Gas Cars Under 50% Of Global New-Auto Sales For First Time
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Reuser's Information Services
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An OSINTians prompt tips
The OSINT yellow pages
There’s an AI for that
New EU social network
There is no such thing as intelligence collection
OSINT Pathfinder LV training programme
OSINT Intelligence analysis training programme
Geoconfirmed conflict tracking tool
Google IO conference
The OSINT Handbook: A practical guide to gathering and analyzing online information
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Posts on Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik
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syslog-ng 4.12.0, syslog-ng PE 8.2.0 and SSB 7.8.0 are now available
Discussing RTO in my Genesi t-shirt...
My new toy: April 1 syslog-ng performance tests
My new toy: Back to high-end audio
My new toy: Open WebUI first steps
My new toy: first steps with AI on Linux
My new toy: FreeBSD on the HP Z2 mini revisited
My new toy: AI first steps with the HP Z2 Mini
New toy: Installing FreeBSD on the HP Z2 Mini
New toy: Installing Fedora Linux on the HP Z2 Mini
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics
Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies
Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies)
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together
Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)
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gHacks
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PEGI Rates GTA 6 18 Over Decapitation, Drug Use, and Sexual Content in a Since-Deleted Listing
Anthropic Asks Claude Users to Share Voice Recordings for AI Training With a New Opt-In Setting
Apple Will Require Explicit User Action to Grant Full Disk Access in macOS, Citing AI Agents
Google Raises the Pixel 10a Price by $100, Pushing the 128GB Model to $599 in the US
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Adds Server Culling to Block Wallhacks on Every Launch Map
Nvidia Raises the Shield TV Pro Price by $100 to $299.99, Citing Memory Costs
Apple Replaces Some iPhone 18 Pro Max Units After AT&T Users Lose Cell Service
Microsoft Rolls Out Excel Canvas, a Copilot Report View That Refreshes as Workbook Data Changes
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Wondermark
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#1591; Feed Me, See More
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New ways to get Bolted!
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Bolted! Fulfillment Update
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The Survival Gardener
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Chestnuts and Various Nuts Compared
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Could Catnip Defeat Squash Bugs?
Sugar Beet Sugar Beet Sugar Beet Beet Sugar
The Price of Diesel is Coming for Your Grocery Bill
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More on the Remarkable Spalding Pear
The Spalding Pear is a WINNER!
A German-Made Compost Bin
Jerusalem Artichokes are NOT a Great Survival Crop
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blog.notmyhostna.me
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Using my RSS reader to find travel recommendations
Updating PSP Custom Firmware
Birdfeeder is back
Beets Importer
Building my own Swarm / Foursquare / Gowalla on OSM
Grafana Dashboards in git (Git Sync)
Alfred workflow to access my selfhosted tools
Another rabbit hole: Paperless-ngx
Tailscale Subnet routers
I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
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How game publishers set international prices: A study reveals four pricing approaches on Steam
The 'dream job' myth: Why a fulfilling career does not have to define your life
Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues
Cities keep shelling out taxpayer money for sports stadiums, yet the economics almost never makes se
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New interactive tool tracks private equity investments in health care across U.S.
Why tenants choose to move out in connection with renovation
Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you
Survey finds burnout is top challenge for independent local news publishers
Will AI make corporate communication sound the same?
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Lobsters: Newest Stories
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Unroll a loop, make shader 10x faster
Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of
Golang tool to check SPF, DKIM, TLSA, and TLS settings for mailservers
DOS: Determining system uptime
spoonful: static site generator written in Nix
Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?
You don't need an effect system
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
What are you doing this week?
Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1)
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stat updates on arXiv.org
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Conformal Prediction for Time Series with Deep Sequence Models
Learning Style, Forgetting Semantics: A Case Study of SFT and RFT on Classification Tasks
ENCORE: Exact Non-equilibrium COntrol with Replica Exchange for Diffusion Generation
Randomization inference on cell effects under absorbing treatment onset
Bias-Corrected Estimators for Joint Entropy, Conditional Entropy, and Mutual Information in the Disc
High-Dimensional Asymptotics and Dataset Selection for Private Transfer Learning
High-Dimensional Regularization of the Spatial Sign Covariance Matrix for Robust Shape Estimation
Generalization Properties of Score-matching Diffusion Models for Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data
Characterizing Identifiability in Boolean Factor Models
Efficient conformal prediction intervals for time series: Online PID-Expert aggregation
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Ken Shirriff's blog
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Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
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Glenn Loury
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TGS Live: Warren Smith and Robert Patton-Spruill on Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation +
Robert Woodson Sr., 1937-2026
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September 2026 Q&A
TGS Live: Roland Fryer on Breaking Through Self-Censorship
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Security Now (Audio)
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SN 1098: How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents
SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
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SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
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SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
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SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines
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Krebs on Security
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Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
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Math ∩ Programming
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Featured Posts
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The OEIS meta sequence and subway stations
Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width
The Irrational Decision—A Book Review
Bicyclic Matrix-Matrix Multiplication in Fully Homomorphic Encryption
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The Long Now Blog
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Bayo Akomolafe
Katie Paterson
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Indy Johar
Time, Bits, and Nickel
The Inheritance of Dreams
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
The Codes AI Can't Crack
Christopher Michel Captures The Long Now
Speed is a Choice
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Liza Shulyayeva
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Glastonbury Abbey tour notes
I made an app to see if I could hypnotize myself
I don't know
Giving up on the Altra Vanish Carbon 2 and running updates
Summer has sprung
Testability of the Claim That Cognitive Science Can Be Effectively Applied to Embodied Non-Neural Sy
Midnight Sun Half Marathon in Tromsø, Norway
Exploring color matching in JavaScript [2013 post brought back from the dead]
Climate science: Changes in the cryosphere and climate denialism [UU lecture notes]
Placebo effect [UU lecture notes]
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Space News - Space, Astronomy, Space Exploration
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Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
Space radiation sparks: A biological cascade of cancer
Tiny ancient black holes may live in a five-dimensional world
X-rays and AI reveal how spacecraft heat shields burn in real time
The phoenix planet: Astronomers find a world reborn from its star's ashes
Electrical technique could help identify signs of life in space
Gamma-ray search sets new limits on dark matter annihilation in the inner Milky Way
Hidden X-ray phase revealed in likely neutron star merger
How Enceladus' ocean spray becomes chemically diverse ice grains
Q&A: An Earth-like planet with two suns?
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SALENA ZITO
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The night Linden Avenue stopped feeling safe
Ground broken on a Rust Belt powerhouse: Shippingport’s data hub rises in the Age of AI Anxiety
Steelers and faith: The foundation behind the grit of the gridiron
‘The next chapter’: For Aaron Rodgers, it was never only football
Arthurdale’s New Deal experiment, and the debate over socialism
“God knows this is how you guys have ignited the American dream
JD Vance on faith, fatherhood, and forgiveness our interview
More than a machine: Big Boy No. 4014 sparks a nationwide reunion
From a harrowing friendly fire disaster in the fog of western Pennsylvania to the birthplace of the
The spirit of ’76 lives on as Pennsylvania rallies for America’s birthday
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Emergingedtech.com
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Robohub
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Research could guide the future design of social robots
Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu
Robotics and automation? Informal reflections on familiar terms
Small, medium or large, a robotic fish maintains its swimming ability
Robot Talk Episode 163 – Robots helping people, with Aaron Edsinger
An open source approach to physical AI from Intrinsic
What’s coming up at #IROS2026?
Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: China
Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control r
Reimagining robotics for sustainability
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Archaeology News
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Ancient DNA evidence narrows down when people first reached the Americas
Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history
Modern forensics reveals human sacrifice in ancient Egypt's royal burials
Inka scattered sacred coca leaves over sacrificed llamas, excavation suggests
How the Smithsonian is using AI to connect artifacts from the American Revolution
Iron Age skulls reveal some babies had flat head syndrome—long before the 'Back to Sleep' campaign
Community-led archaeology project uncovers a major monastery of medieval Scotland
Confronting demons: How acoustic and AI technology brought ancient Etruscan tombs back to life
Peruvian mummies raise questions about Wari conquest of Nasca civilization
Clay tablets reveal how Babylonian students learned about their gods
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Off The Grid News
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Plant This $10 Crop Now… And Dig Up $100 Worth Of Food Next Summer
AI Isn’t A Demon… But It Makes A Terrible God
Before We Ask God To Clean House… We’d Better Check Our Own Front Porches
Who Moved The Hebrew Sabbath?
The Four Fields Every Family Is Farming… Whether They Know It Or Not
Wait… What?… One Of Hillsdale College’s Trustees Was An Obama-Biden Elector?
Before You Plant Another Fruit Tree This Fall… Put Down The Shovel And Read This
Homesteaders: The Monster Brewing In The Pacific Isn’t The Thing That Worries Me Most
The Poor Man’s Blackout Plan: 15 Tricks Your Great-Grandparents Would Have Understood
They Found “Pfizer-Associated DNA” Inside A Heart Tumor… Now Come The Harder Questions
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IEEE Spectrum
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6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Garlic Peel Sensor Powers Low-Cost Home Security Sensor
Smart Car Researcher Wants to Eliminate Stoplights
Engineering Multipole Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces for Transmission, Reflection, and Absorp
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix
IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are Not
Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
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FlowingData
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Sound smart about charts
Color gradients that are accessible and perceptually steady
Extract color palettes from images
Bedazzled campus surveillance
✚ Charts we made along the way
Jagged intelligence demonstrated with a puzzle
Ideas and thought in the detours
Dario Amodei on SNL Weekend Update discussing doom
Elevation map of the world
Pie chart of what the Mars rover can see
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Recent Posts on Beng Tan
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Interesting Things #56 — So long
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Interesting Things #52 — Long crisis
Interesting Things #51 — What Artists Do
Interesting Things #50 — BonsaiDb
Interesting Things #49 — Extensible FS
Interesting Things #48 — Tidbyt
Interesting Things #47 — NaN
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Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport
}
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
Are We at War with AI Agent “Civilizations”?
Has AI Gone Rogue?
On AI Coding and Its Discontents
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
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Homesteading.com | Practical Homestead Skills, Grow Food, Raise Animals & Live Self‑Sufficient
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Vegetables to Plant in September: What Still Fits Before Your First Frost
DIY Natural Laundry Bar Recipe Without Lye
Easy DIY Homemade Bug Repellent Spray Recipe
How to Make and Preserve Blueberry Jam
9 Common Vegetable Fermentation Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Canning Essentials for Summer Vegetables
How to Make Goat Milk Soap Recipe︱Homesteading
Solar Panels vs Wind Turbines: Which is Better for Your Homestead?
What Home Canning Equipment Do I Need? (A Beginner’s Guide)
How to Can Summer Berries for Jam and Preserves
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C82 - The works and words of Nicholas Rougeux
}
Making of The Naturalist’s Library
The Naturalist’s Library
MultiSearch
Making of Printing Types
Printing Types
Making of Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe
Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe
Making of the New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram
New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram
Making of The Natural System of Colours
{
EdScoop
}
NYC schools ban student use of generative AI in classrooms through middle school
Florida Atlantic University adds quantum computing certificate
University of Nevada, Reno, journalism students team on surveillance database
Colorado State University advances on ‘IT alignment’ project
Building AI that teaches: What nine years at Coursera taught me about scaling learning systems
University of Colorado Boulder expands AI steering committee
Case Western Reserve University launches new interactive campus map
Indiana University unveils new IT strategic plan, reorganizes technology office
U. Chicago Law School’s new AI strategy concedes students will use AI
University of Connecticut promotes longtime IT staff member to CIO
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Ars Technica - All content
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
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Project Zero
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Windows Exploitation Techniques: Dangling COM Object Registrations
Testing race conditions with memory access tracing and stack-based delay injection
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens
On the Effectiveness of Mutational Grammar Fuzzing
A Deep Dive into the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API
Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access
Breaking the Sound Barrier, Part II: Exploiting CVE-2024-54529
Bypassing Windows Administrator Protection
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 3: Where do we go from here?
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 2: Cracking the Sandbox with a Big Wave
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SpaceNews
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Resource competition intensifies with surge in megaconstellations
Agile Space Industries Strengthens Board and Corporate Development to Support Continued Growth
World Space Week 2026 Celebrates the “Rocket Revolution”
Rethinking risk with electronics for space
LMT Group and Novaspace partner to develop strategy for 5G/6G satellite communications hub in Latvia
China launches Guowang, Yaogan-40 satellites, sets up busy Q4 manifest
Galileo Space Is Building Satellites That Turn Signals Into Answers in Orbit
NaviGate successfully demonstrates onboard precise orbit determination aboard D-Orbit’s ION Satellit
Quantum Space Executes Launch Processing Agreement with All Points Logistics for Prime Mission
Commercial Defense Satcom Service Revenues to Surpass $22.6B by 2035
{
TimDbg
}
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 8 - Source and Symbols
Snippy: An AI Assistant With Eyes
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 7 - Disassembly
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 6 - Stacks
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 5 - Breakpoints
Run My Code! (code injection on Windows)
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 4 - Exports and Private Symbols
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 3 - Reading Memory
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 2 - Register State and Stepping
Writing a Debugger From Scratch - DbgRs Part 1 - Attaching to a Process
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Naval
}
Live in the Future
The AI Industrial Revolution
The Regulatory Frontier
Vibe Coding Hardware
Waste Tokens, Save Time
Sell the Truth
‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over
A Return to Code
A Motorcycle for the Mind
Curate People
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Things Of Interest
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Loops in HATETRIS
Some consumer info
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm– Conversation Tree Press
qntm's leap second simulator
How many valid JSON byte sequences are there?
There Is No Antimemetics Division FAQ
How many valid UTF-8 (or UTF-16, or UTF-32) byte sequences are there?
How many valid JSON strings are there?
ChatSCP
HATETRIS world record history
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raganwald.com
}
New Yorker Cartoon, c. 2025
Cryptographic techniques used by nCrypt Light in 1994
Mutual Recursion in Language
The Inner Osborne Effect
Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
Exploring Regular Expressions, Part II: Regular Languages and Finite-State Automata
Exploring Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers, Part I
A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata
Ayoayo and Linear Recursion
Structural Sharing and Copy-on-Write Semantics, Part II: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle
{
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
}
Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026)
Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026)
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)
Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026)
Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026)
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SCOTUSblog
}
Opening the book on the October Term 2026
Court sends mixed signals on whether it will allow state-tort suits seeking to hold energy companies
Court declines to hear cases on “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, felons’ Second Amendment rights, COV
Court to hear argument in dispute over Air Force’s detonation operations in Guam
The first Monday in October
Grand openings: what four introductions in Suncor v. Boulder show about starting a brief
Justice Barrett – the zombie (noun) slayer
Justices to debate investment choices for retirement funds
Court grants three cases as new term is set to begin
Court agrees to hear arguments in important immigration case, religious zoning dispute
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Puget Systems News, Blog and Articles
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Noctua’s Debut 240mm AIO Cooler Impresses
Consultant’s Corner: The DNA of Storage
Best Professional GPUs For Topaz’s Starlight Models
Best Consumer GPUs For Topaz’s Starlight Models
After Effects v26.5 3D Rendering Bug Breaking Puget Bench
How DaVinci Resolve Free v21.1 Scripting Changes Affect Puget Bench
Built Different – Episode 1
Consultant’s Corner: Backseat Driving Computers
Consultant’s Corner: Sourcing Systems in Shortage
Press Release: Puget Systems Expands Partnership with Comino
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Others on Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik
}
Syslog-ng repo for Amazon Linux 2023 updated to syslog-ng version 4.12
The syslog-ng Insider 2026-09: Performance; Openssl; Containers; Learning;
Using syslog-ng with Elasticsearch 9.5
Syslog-ng end of August news, and about scaling back Java support
Syslog-ng hardening using Tor
Syslog-ng journald source: how to avoid log bombs on errors?
Syslog-ng 4.12.0 available for Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute)
Syslog-ng Java destination disabled
The status of OpenSSL 4.0 support in syslog-ng
Nightly syslog-ng containers based on Alma Linux
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Hacker News
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Web Search API
Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
How to save a life without knowing CPR
Incident with Actions
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
The Future of Mathematics
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StateScoop
}
Lawmakers introduce Ban Flock Act to block federal funding for state, local governments that use ALP
How Vermont is leveraging AI across government, one ‘power tool’ at a time
Maine expands digital access to public records
CAL FIRE creates new unit to test emerging wildfire technology
5 agentic AI myths state and local IT leaders should rethink
With NASCIO award win and $9M saved for Pennsylvania, CIO Bry Pardoe reflects on keeping up with qui
New Wyoming helibase brings wildfire aviation, IT modernization under one roof
As federal deadlines shift, officials say digital accessibility still matters for state governments
State CIOs anticipate a more turbulent technology landscape, NASCIO’s annual survey finds
Charlottesville reflects on delayed cloud migration after years of ERP challenges
{
Gavin Menzies
}
Gavin Menzies: August 14th 1937- April 12th, 2020
Chinese mapped America before 1430
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Language Log
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Kasparov-Deep Blue, Navier Stokes-AI: Human versus machine metaphor quickly calcifying
Philidelphia
Will the president nationalize boating?
Unsportsmanlike Conduct?
Artificial
Teriffic
AI is the new cringe
"Hannibal Holiday"
Icons, symbols, metaphors, analogies, …
Memorial Service for Victor Mair
{
Nanomaterials News - Nanomaterials, Nanoparticles, and Nanotechnology
}
Waste plastic yields carbon quantum dots with emissions tunable from UV to yellow-green
Heat-induced nanoscale structures unlock electromechanical properties in ceramics
Manganese-doped carbon nanodots could rival existing MRI contrast agents
Mirror-image crystals reverse the direction of light-driven currents
Smart silicone coatings can change their friction and stickiness as surroundings reshape nanoscale l
Bending nanoribbons tunes diamond's light emission without doping
Engineered nanostructured surfaces could offer a new way to limit marine biofouling
Wearable nanotech could combat nerve agents
Dopamine-based nanotubes combine heat, electrical stimulation and antioxidant release for first time
Plasma treatment helps reveal how molecular coatings dope silicon
{
Robert Greene
}
Hidden Powers & My Book “Mastery”
Robert Greene’s Speech at Yale
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VIII
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VII
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VI
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt V
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt IV
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt III
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt II
The Descent of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt I
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The Marginalian
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Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person
Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the
The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity in a Rare 1941 Recording
How to Say “YES” to Life
Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
What Happens When We Die
{
CyberScoop
}
The US needs a real plan to defend its water systems
The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks
Authorities seize KillSec extortion group infrastructure, arrest 3 alleged members
National cyber director: Government-industry collaboration vital to managing AI risks, competition w
AI policy circles targeted in China-linked phishing operation
OpenAI reveals ‘novel’ encryption bypass used in distillation attack
WaterISAC reckons with range of threats after summer of cyberattacks
Attackers exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day for at least three weeks undetected
Russian hackers Star Blizzard expand targeting, change up tactics to reach Ukraine and beyond
US is looking to weave AI into critical infrastructure for cybersecurity, national cyber director sa
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I, Cringely
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The Auditor’s Opinion
ARM Never Made a Chip. Dolby Never Built a Speaker.
The Cases That Don’t Exist
Apple Gave Siri Hands
The Market Behind the Wall
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DX Tips: The DevTools Magazine
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Speaking Advice: Matt Pocock
DX @ Anthropic: Sowing & Reaping
DevRel like a High Schooler
Make videos devs love
DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back
Why you can't just hire creators "who can understand and explain technology in a compelling way"
Stop Hosting Boring Tech Events
The Master Builder is the most valuable type of DevRel right now
How Supabase Made PostgreSQL Cool Again
The DevTools Ceiling: great as Open Source, AND a Terrible Business
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Industry Tap
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Australian Team Uses Metal 3D Printing to Produce Custom Titanium Cranial Implants in Days
This Hydrogen Fuel Cell Can Work Without Air—and It Could Power Long Moon Missions
Fish Scales Get a High-Tech Makeover in a Glove That Reads Sign Language
A Critical Ocean Current Is Weakening—and It Could Reshape Global Climate
Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Patient Speak and Gesture at the Same Time
Your Belly Button Smell Could Reveal Clues About Parkinson’s and Cognitive Decline
Rodent-Inspired Whiskers Could Help Tiny Drones Fly Where Cameras Cannot See
Scientists Target Cancer’s Hidden Defense System With a Promising New Drug
DYNA-2 Trains on One Million Hours of Human Video
DEEP’s 465-Ton Underwater Habitat Could Change How Scientists Study Coral Reefs
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Laurence Tratt
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Local Reasoning for Global Properties
Test-case Reducers Are Underappreciated Debugging Tools
pizauth-1.1.0 released
extsmail-2.9 released
hk-0.3.3 released
snare-0.4.13 released
Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
pizauth-1.0.11 released
pizauth-1.0.10 released
PLISS 2026
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Newsdesk Feed
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So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
It was never just going to be about keeping kids off social media
Pepperdine banned a professor who taught about a black Jesus
The Biden-era Title IX rule was already dead. Now it’s off the books.
VICTORY: Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer
FIRE Reacts: Trump's media ban
What can burning a draft card teach us about agentic AI?
Chilled into silence at Whitman College
Robby Soave on Trump's press ban, Macklemore, and free speech culture wars
Netanyahu threatens denaturalization for IDF ‘slander’ while officials target filmmakers
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Full Stack Python
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Application Performance Monitoring AWS Lambda Functions with Sentry
How to Monitor Python Functions on AWS Lambda with Sentry
Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions
Higher Accuracy Twilio Voice Transcriptions with Python and Flask
Using Sentry to Handle Python Exceptions in Django Projects
How to Transcribe Speech Recordings into Text with Python
Tracking Daily User Data in Django with django-user-visit
Quickly Use Bootstrap 4 in a Django Template with a CDN
How to Report Errors in Flask Web Apps with Sentry
Reporting Exceptions in Python Scripts with Sentry
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Raise the Bar
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Dumb Phone
Taking Perspectives
Body Shaming
The Power Trio - 3 Skills that I learned hard way"
What I learnt from Writing Weekly
Best Advices I received in 2022
Are you overthinking it ?
Changing Few things in Life
Little Better
Questions, Curiosity and Learning
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Axios
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Trump: U.S. willing to help Russia with potential pneumonic plague outbreak
Trump says U.S. B-1 bombers evacuated from UK base because of threats from Iran
How states are tackling midterm pump pain
GOP senator warns Anthropic of "alarmist" approach to AI
House GOP whip: Limit spending to districts with "biggest return"
Eurodrama in currency markets raises U.S. dollar's standing
Dennis Hastert, disgraced ex-House speaker, dies at 84
Trump's economic tightrope messaging of strong economy, high prices
The Iran war is hitting America's school buses — and kids are paying the price
Scoop: Trump's top national security aides meet secretly at Camp David on Iran, Yemen
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SiliconANGLE
}
AI infrastructure reliability moves beyond the rack
What to expect at Infor Velocity Week: Join theCUBE Oct. 7
Robotics startup RobCo valued at $1B+ in $40M funding round
Namespace raises $42M to build out developer-focused compute cloud
Nvidia and CoreWeave tackle the CPU bottleneck in agentic AI infrastructure
LeapXpert brings governed WhatsApp client messaging into Cisco’s Webex
Exclusive: Iterate.ai’s Lifeboat runs up to six times more AI agent sessions per GPU
Clockwork.io bags $31M in funding to keep AI inference and training workloads running like … clockwo
Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps
Promevo launches Insights to track Gemini Enterprise adoption and AI agents
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Survival Sullivan
}
Forget Doomsday. 4 Things You Should Be Prepping For Starting Today
Easy-Peasy Bark Flour (And How to Harvest the Bark)
7 Powerful Ways to Stay Motivated as a Prepper
6 Ways to Light Your Way When the World Goes Dark
7 Smart Things a Prepper Can do With His Money
7 Mistakes You’re Bound to Make with Your Survival Knife
5 Everyday Emergencies You Didn’t Know You Have to Prep For
How to Make Pine Pitch Step by Step
Planning Your Urban Bug Out Bag
4 Ways to Lock Your Tent at Your Campsite (Plus 9 Other Ways to Keep It Safe)
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math updates on arXiv.org
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Arbitrary Stage Spectra for Raikov Remainders Along Quotient Towers
Soficity of One-Relator Groups
The additive-square-free spectrum below 139
Exact diameter compression for four-point sumset cardinalities
Fuglede's Conjecture for Cyclic Groups of Square-free Order
The geometry of monarch matrix approximation
On the residual finiteness of the non-abelian exterior square of some Artin groups, constructible so
Homotopy Self-Equivalences of Manifolds
Dagger Categories in Riemannian Geometry
Small Lefschetz fibrations on the BMY line
{
ICIJ
}
New documents show how a retail chain’s sales practices helped put guns on US streets
WATCH: Inside the China Capital investigation — a live panel
Gunvor publicly condemned Russia’s war but continued to do business with Russian energy firms, recor
China Capital stories reveal how ICBC advanced China’s political goals across four continents
ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy freed after 4 days in secretive Djibouti custody
Trump administration gave firm with ties to ballroom donor the green light to do business with a san
Statement on missing ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy
‘Tinder Swindler’s’ plan for a dating app sparks industry backlash
US prosecutors accuse Huawei of ‘far-reaching criminal scheme’ spanning decades
UK Parliament debates infrastructure security after China Capital revelations
{
Chris Williamson
}
3MM: Cynicism, Narcissists & Guilt
3MM: Frustration, Asians & Fear
3MM: Fake Empathy, Surnames & Tolstoy
3MM: Discomfort, Gay Crimes & Smoking
3MM: Girlboss Bigotry, Golf Courses & Passive Aggression
3MM: Emotions, Millionaires & Rebels
3MM: Saviours, Crimes & Discipline
3MM: Borrowed Authority, Britain & Small Muscles
3MM: Struggle, Tax & Dangerous Beards
3MM: Success, Orgasms & Honesty
{
DefenseScoop
}
How embedded agents are accelerating defense AI adoption
7th Air Force seeks new counter-drone capabilities for point defense modernization in South Korea
After developing Pentagon’s counter-drone marketplace, Kaizen nabs $49M IDIQ from Army with first ta
Army Special Forces graduate first batch of Robotics Technician Integrators, a new job the rest of t
Hegseth issues new directive to hasten U.S. military’s counter-drone pursuits
Space Force laying groundwork to connect future satellite ‘enclaves’ as it prepares for additional l
Travis Metz to lead DIU as Owen West takes ‘leave of absence’ to help steer new AutoWarCom push
The Pentagon’s new cyber mastery incentive model promised a ‘new era.’ Troops are bracing for pay cu
How AI agents are informing JIATF-401’s procurement plans after Falcon Peak
DIA makes fast-tracked data center maintenance award to avoid ‘eventual equipment failure’
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Urban Survival Site
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5 Warning Signs Preppers Shouldn’t Ignore
How to Make White Vinegar
How to Avoid Radiation Poisoning
6 Backup Power Sources If You Can’t Afford a Generator
Baking Bread The Way Early Americans Did
{
Blog – Hackaday
}
How to Grow a Giant Crystal from Copper Sulfate
Failing to Make a Fanless PC
How A British Engineer Homebrewed The Quietest Carbine
Building a Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand
The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It
Porting Video Games to VHS
Conveyor Belt GBoard Brings the Keys to You
{
Education Next
}
Blue November Mailbag: The Big Picture
The Education Exchange: “1619 Project” Creator Failed to Use Power and Privilege to Promote Choice
Think Higher Education Has Clear Standards for Academic Freedom? Think Again.
The Solution Nikole Hannah-Jones Didn’t Take
How Viral Education Policies Have Extended the Pandemic’s Impact
How Would a Blue Wave in the Midterms Impact Education?
The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI
In Search of Common Sense
The Education Exchange: California Eyes a Big Change in School Governance
What Massachusetts’s Portrait of a Learner Gets Right (and New York’s Doesn’t)
{
Machine Learning Articles on paulbridger.com
}
PyTorch Memory Tuning
PyTorch Performance Features and How They Interact
Solving Machine Learning Performance Anti-Patterns: a Systematic Approach
A Simple and Flexible Pytorch Video Pipeline
Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS in 6 Steps
Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream
Object Detection at 2530 FPS with TensorRT and 8-Bit Quantization
Mastering TorchScript: Tracing vs Scripting, Device Pinning, Direct Graph Modification
Consulting / Hire Me
About Paul Bridger
{
The Architect Elevator
}
The digital grass isn’t greener. It isn’t grass.
Executive Impact = Logos × Pathos
Invest Your Political Capital
The Mighty Metaphor
The Economics of Technical Speaking
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
We renamed everything thrice. Still, nothing improved.
Transformation Gremlins
(Naive) Reuse Considered Harmful?
Enterprise Architects: From Cartographers to Scouts
{
fLaMEd fury
}
What a time to be alive
London Hardhouse Reunion 2026
Open Tabs August 2026
Beervana 2026
Skiing in Tūroa
HTML Day 2026
My first HWC
Winter is here
Taylor Swift Moshpit
Open Tabs July 2026
{
Ewan Dalton's Tip o' the Week
}
#790: (We don’t need no) More Subscription
#789: Do brands really know who their customers are?
#788: A 1970s crisis that (almost) killed the industry
#787: Is Space Exploration worthwhile?
#786 – F1 and the British Car Industry
#785: Enshittification (Part II) – snapping & mapping fails
#784: Automatic for the People
#783: Is competition innovative or distracting?
#782: What IS the time, Mr Wolf?
#781: The hand of government ne’er runs smooth
{
asemic horizon
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the opposite of an onion
le siècle sera
Flux
La Maza
Changsha
Sallies
Julian
BUCHAREST
Homologia Fantastica
untitled excerpt
{
Small Farmer's Journal
}
Settin’ Hens
Two Log Cart Designs from Canada
The Appleton Husker and Shredder
Insect Images from Brehm’s Animal Life 1860
Monarch Habitat
Growing Strawberries for Home Use
Cultivating Questions: The EasyCut System
Cultivating Questions: Compost
Cultivating Questions: Canada Thistle
Color as an Indication of Picking Maturity
{
Jamie Metzl
}
Smarter machines are going to need wiser humans
When AI Agents Form a Community
American Renewal: Taking Our Country Back from the Extremists
Did You Sleep Through the Burning Bush?
The Screwworm Is Back. We Need to Think Bigger About Our Response.
Governance for the Human Genome Editing Era
Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical
Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI)
Origins of SARS-CoV-2
What Belongs in Every Hotel Room in a Pluralistic World? A Proposal to Marriott
{
Simon Eskildsen
}
Podcast with Geek Narrator on Object Storage Databases
turbopuffer: fast search on object storage
Napkin Problem 21: Index Merges vs Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL
Scaling Causal's Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells: From Maps to Arrays
Metrics For Your Web Application's Dashboards
Napkin Problem 18: Neural Network From Scratch
Careful Trading Complexity for 'Improvements'
Napkin Problem 16: When To Write a Simulator
Napkin Problem 15: Increase HTTP Performance by Fitting In the Initial TCP Slow Start Window
Napkin Problem 14: Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records
{
}
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
How well do agents use test and verification techniques?
Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record
Bug blindness
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The benchmarkpocalypse
How does programming language affect token efficiency and correctness?
Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
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Latest News from Science Magazine
}
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
Method for controlling brain cells with light wins Nobel
Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t
Canada commits $1.2 billion to protect oceans while pushing ahead with pipeline
Exclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why
Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
Africa’s effort to make most of its own vaccines by 2040 faces significant headwinds
Menopause puts the brain at risk. Researchers are starting to learn why
AI helps decipher what elephant herds are ‘saying’
Oil wells could become mines for critical minerals
{
DSLreports - front page
}
New York Starts Enforcing $15 Broadband Law That ISPs Tried To Kill; + more notable news -
Supreme Court Likely To Uphold TikTok Ban, Favoring Security Over Speech; + more notable news -
Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About 'Unlimited Data'; + more notable
Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification; + more nota
Washington State's AG Sues T-Mobile, Claiming The Carrier Failed To Secure Personal Info Of 2M+ Resi
Wireless Is Apparently The New Copper; + more notable news -
Chinese Hackers' Attacks On US Telecoms: Charter, Consolidated Comms, Windstream Networks Also Breac
US Arrests US Army Soldier Who Sold Customer Data From The AT&T and Verizon Snowflake hack; + mo
AT&T And Verizon Say Their Networks Are Now Clear After The Salt Typhoon Intrusion; + more notab
AT&T Can Substitute Wireless Home Phone For Copper, FCC Says; + more notable news -
{
Martin Kleppmann's blog
}
Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream
Pudding: user discovery for anonymity networks
2023 year in review
Verifying distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL
Book Review: The Future of Fusion Energy
Several podcast interviews
It's time to say goodbye to the GPL
Building the future of computing, with your help
Decentralised content moderation
Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
{
Mike Rowe
}
Build Freedom
The Conclusion is the Skills Gap is Real
Broadcast News
What’s In My Chicken Sandwich? Alex Clark Ep. 503
National Tradesman Day
Go for the Gold!
The Very Authentic Bob Mackie
America Is Still the Wild West – Chris Power Ep. 502
I’m Legal!
The Problem With Being Fearless – Andy Stumpf Ep. 501
{
Haiku Project
}
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2026
GSoC 2026 Final Report | Modernizing Haiku's Bluetooth Stack: HID Profile Implementation
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released!
[GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Progress Rep
[GSoC 2026] Expanding the functionality of the Haiku Devices Application - Final Report
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2026
GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap
[GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Mid-Term Pro
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, June 2026
[GSoC 2026] Midterm progress on the Devices application
{
Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy
}
ATTENDING THE RECIPROCAL BECOMING
THORN AS FULCRUM
THE PLACE WHERE I COULD APPEAR
You Kant Get There From Here
"Divinely Inspired" Inversion of Life and the Language of Evil
ENDARKENMENT or BLINDED BY “enLIGHTenment”
"Before" There Was Life and Matter
What's In Your Vault?
Leading with No Followers
Accountability for Men - Me First
{
(☞゚ヮ゚)☞ Splunk>
}
Governing Enterprise AI, Bringing Cisco Telemetry Home, and More from Splunk Lantern
What we found testing the KV Store on Splunk 10.6 (it is PostgreSQL now)
BotsV3 Patch for Splunk 10 (+MCP)
For Splunkers - what has it been like to work for Cisco?
Splunk admin
Welcome to Splunk Enterprise 10.6.0.5
Why is maintaing playbooks so hard?
Splunk 10.4.4
Threat intelligence dashboard doesn't work
Rate my roadmap into security engineering
{
astro-ph updates on arXiv.org
}
A Missing Latent, Not a Missing Simulator: Radius-Augmented Inference for Real JWST Retrieval
Generation of UL-Axions by a Kerr Black Hole. Part III: The fate of its Axion Wind
Comment on: "The Preprint Evolution: The Rise of Unreviewed Drafts on arXiv and its Implications for
Testing internal dynamics in neutron stars with radio pulsar timing
Optimizing spectral-matching component separation for measuring CMB B-mode polarization with a satel
Towards robust simulations of the galactic dynamo: a cross-code comparison between Eulerian and Lagr
Point spread function requirements for dark matter subhalo detection with the Habitable Worlds Obser
Inferring magnetic field strengths in high-redshift lensing galaxies from Faraday rotation measure o
Neutrino flavor instabilities intermediate between slow and fast
Full orbital solution and dynamical masses for a new shell-Be + sdOB binary AN Col
{
Little Green Viper
}
Addendum B: Client Entitlement Setup
Addendum A: Server Setup
Login Passkey Code Walkthrough
The Process of Login
Create Passkey Code Walkthrough
The Process of Creation
A Closer Look At Passkeys
Why Passkeys?
Appendix A: The DataProvider Struct
Adding Pinch-To-Zoom to the Chart
{
The Old New Thing
}
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS?
Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way
Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86
As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended
C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they
Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3
No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2
When working with Win32 FILETIME, don’t forget that you have std::chrono now
A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
What’s the highest legal FILETIME? Is it safe to use?
{
Kali Linux
}
Kali Linux 2026.2 Release (GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, Helper Scripts, APT Formats & VM Boot Tweaking)
Kali Linux 2026.1 Release (2026 Theme & BackTrack Mode)
Kali & LLM: Completely local with Ollama & 5ire
Kali & LLM: macOS with Claude Desktop & Anthropic Sonnet LLM
Kali Linux 2025.4 Release (Desktop Environments, Wayland & Halloween Mode)
Kali Linux 2025.3 Release (Vagrant & Nexmon)
Kali Vagrant Rebuilt: Out With Packer, In With DebOS
Kali Linux & Containerization (Apple's Container)
The Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi Glow-Up
Kali Linux 2025.2 Release (Kali Menu Refresh, BloodHound CE & CARsenal)
{
physics updates on arXiv.org
}
RxnOptBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Reaction-Condition Optimization in Organic Methodology
Developing Multi-Dimensional, Sequential sWeighting Routines for Reaction Selection with Emphasis on
Intrinsic electromagnetic properties
Multi-Modal Surface Wave Inversion using Physics Guided Variational Autoencoders
Leading-edge energy transfer governs flutter onset of a pitching finite wing in low-Reynolds number
Measuring Diversity and Segregation with Convex Functions
Linear stability of electroconvection in a viscoelastic electrolyte: polymeric-work pathways and eig
A Student Sounding Rocket Experiment to Probe Electron Density in the Lower Ionosphere
IGNITE Tokamak World Model Architecture
Digital twin for full field-of-view Fraunhofer holographic patterning
{
antipaucity
}
gus gorman takes on the election
if you do not explain the why, where, and when, the what does not matter
when in doubt … learn regular expressions
bring back boom-and-bust
syslog for fun (and profit?) – olf 2023 talk
more great questions (from morgan housel)
behind this website – a more-detailed checklist
a rich man’s fieldsummary
where should election polls be located (and why?)
on using nmap to help find tlstorm-affected devices
{
Chelsea Troy
}
CS for a Nation: A conversation with Simon Peyton Jones about computer science education
What can we expect of LLMs as Software Engineers?
How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI
The Homework is the Cheat Code: GenAI Policy in my Computer Science Graduate Classroom
What layoffs teach us about technical leadership
How to flub (and not flub) group decision-making on technical teams
Decision-Making Pitfalls for Technical Leaders
Does AI benefit the world?
The Programmers’ Identity Crisis: how do we use our powers for ‘good’?
How do we build the future with AI?
{
Threatpost
}
Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records
Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger
Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms
Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise
Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version
Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA Warning
Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers
iPhone Users Urged to Update to Patch 2 Zero-Days
Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the Year
{
Anton Eprev
}
Continuous deployment to GitHub Pages
A philosophy of Software Design
Cost of a pixel color
Building a foundation for performance
Deliver search-friendly web applications
What’s worth watching
What’s worth watching
What’s worth watching
What’s worth watching
Make as a front-end development build tool
{
Krebs on Security
}
Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
{
Mejuto.co
}
Does my iPad have a calculator?
The iPad did not have a calculator, so I ported the iOS calculator
How I use Todoist
Statistical grammar: guessing a german noun’s gender
22 easy rules for german nouns gender
Productivity tools and services I use
How I use Todoist
Easily creating a backend for static sites with Airtable
Actually no - remove actually from the web
{
Melting Asphalt
}
Outbreak
Going Critical
A Natural History of Beauty
The Elephant in the Brain
Here Be Sermons
Crony Beliefs
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
Minimum Viable Superorganism
2015 Meta
Social Status II: Cults and Loyalty
{
FedScoop
}
CFPB can’t say if it secured IT assets at regional offices it vacated, OIG says
What outer space teaches federal agencies about secure AI infrastructure
New TMF investments: $83M for agentic AI, fast environmental reviews and more
Watchdog: IRS skipped step meant to prevent ‘unnecessary spending’ on procurement hub
TSA’s weak IT access controls increased likelihood of ‘catastrophic damage,’ watchdog finds
Why federal agencies need to rethink trusted access in the age of AI
Bill to scrap education requirements in federal contracting jobs heads to Trump’s desk
GSA issued an AI acquisition policy for new contracts. Here’s what it says.
Fed employee repeatedly removed sensitive files, watchdog finds
ICE IT shop looks to build ‘agentic software factory’
{
Robert Heaton | Blog
}
diceomatic: a DSL for making children's dice games
MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin
It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself
PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data
Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles
PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
I've written a book about being a dad; now I want to get it published
Thousands of elderly twins assure me that my kids will be alright
Hello Deep Learning
How to pass a coding interview with me
{
Troy Hunt's Blog
}
Weekly Update 524: Live From Copenhagen
Weekly Update 523: Live From a Norwegian Fjord
Weekly Update 522: Live From Oslo with Scott Helme
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity
A Cautionary Tale About Data Breach Claims, Verification and Carhartt
Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi
Welcoming the Sri Lankan Government to Have I Been Pwned
Weekly Update 517: Cyber Ransoms
{
Homestead Survival Site
}
Usnea: A Natural Antibiotic That Grows in the Wild
How to Master The Art of Bread Baking
14 Homesteading Ideas You Can Do WITHOUT Land
7 Home Defense Tips for Seniors
9 Homestead Myths Debunked
Don’t Buy Land Without These 5 Tools
{
The Hacker News
}
Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes
⚡ Weekly Recap: NetScaler and FortiMail 0-Days, AI Coding Leaks, Spectre v2 and Ransomware Arrests
The Credential Layer Is Expanding Faster Than Security Teams Can See It
Realtek Jungle SDK Exploit Attempts Deliver Cling Botnet With STUN-Based C2
Apple Plans Tighter macOS Full Disk Access Controls Over AI Agent Data Access
Attackers Target Rejetto HFS Flaw That Enables Admin Session Forgery and RCE
New NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks Can Knock SAML Deployments Offline
ShinyHunters Suspect Rey Reportedly Detained in Jordan, Helping FBI Identify Group Members
China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM Phishing
MI5 Says China’s MSS Funded Research Involving 100+ U.K.-Linked Academics
{
Mathistopheles
}
Global Lab – New Episode – Seeing Cities
A Nice Function Puzzle
Exit Strategy – A puzzle game
How to fill Philbert – MINI-PUZZLE
Christmas Maths Puzzle – Solution
Christmas Maths Puzzle – Additional Clues
Fiendish Christmaths Puzzle
Elizabot the Second
More Christmas Maths!
New Year Puzzle Solutions
{
Gigaom
}
Reclaiming Control: Digital Sovereignty in 2025
SAP Sapphire 2025
When Patching Isn’t Enough
The EU’s AI Act
Demystifying data fabrics – bridging the gap between data sources and workloads
Making Sense of Cybersecurity – Part 2: Delivering a Cost-effective Response
Making Sense of Cybersecurity – Part 1: Seeing Through Complexity
2025 Predictions: Cloud Architectures, Cost Management and Hybrid By Design
The Evolving Revolution: AI in 2025
Bridging Wireless and 5G
{
Jeff Geerling
}
I'm starting HomelabFest (in St. Louis, Sep 2027)
Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware
NTP, an atomic clock, and having a great time at the world's largest VCF
OpenNMC is an open replacement for expensive APC management cards
Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd
Before NTP there were Time and Daytime
Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on
Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T
Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi
Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig
{
Dan Wang
}
2025 letter
Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
2023 letter
China notes, July ’23: on technological momentum
2022 letter
2021 letter
2020 letter
{
Software and Other Shenanigans
}
Building a local deployable environment with K3S
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the (agents)”
I’m pretty sure that last mile is supposed to be walked
Building a local RAG in Go
The curious case of the unrun defer
The “I had to lay everyone off because AI changes things” slop notes
I need to start shipping crap
“(Pain) is a good thing”
Simple and easy HTML validation in Go
Who’s going to end up holding the flashlight?
{
cs updates on arXiv.org
}
datascribe_api: Enabling Data-Driven Materials Discovery with DataScribe
MiDShip: Multimodal Dataset of Ship Cargo Hold Structures for Engineering Design
RINS: Residual-Image Neural Subspace Solvers for Large Sparse Linear Systems
LLM-Based Semantic Modeling and Cooperative Evolutionary Fuzzing for Traffic Violation Scenario Gene
A Generalized Source Integral Equation for Homogeneous Penetrable Scatterers
Hybrid Machine Learning-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy with Generative Feature Augmentation for Pharmac
The Price of Greenwashing: Algorithmic Verification and Market Discipline using Conformal Machine Le
Compressible aerodynamics and rigid-body support motion in post-flutter piezoelectric energy harvest
A Compression Tree Generation Method for High Performance VLSI Datapaths
Efficient FlashAttention on Blackwell via Fixed-Shift Softmax and Persistent Scheduling
{
Insights – Geovation
}
Introducing Cohort 8 | Strides
Small Site Accelerator: Unlocking Development Pipeline at Scale
How ProxyAddress is Turning Address Data into Social Impact
Introducing Cohort 8 | Stitchbloc
Introducing Cohort 8 | ProxiPal
Introducing Cohort 8 | Tethered
Introducing Cohort 8 | Viaforth
NUAR explained: the National Underground Asset Register in plain English
Recognition, Representation, and Resilience in Women-Led Innovation
{
SysFlow
}
uPolicyCraft - synthesizing and monitoring effect graph policies on SysFlow telemetry
SysFlow 0.6.0
Cloud Metadata Support
SysFlow 0.5.0
SysFlow 0.4.0
See the forest for the trees: glimpse the storyline of an attack using MITRE tags
Getting started with the Open Hunting Stack in Hybrid Cloud with Kestrel and SysFlow
SysFlow ELK integration
Welcome!
{
apenwarr
}
thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything
The software industry: annealing, but wrong
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI and the next generation of engineers
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: open source in the agentic era
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI needs an Android-like ecosystem
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: the modern tech stack
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution
Billionaire math
The evasive evitability of enshittification
{
The Digital Antiquarian
}
This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings
Porsche Unleashed
A Need for Speed
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims
Y2K Will Be Quite Okay
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 2: SimWorld
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything
The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy
Planescape: Torment, Part 2: …to the Desktop
{
Schneier on Security
}
Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI
Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing
Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
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