Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly…

I just noticed that Astro web framework lowers all the competitors by ~40% on their performance graph just so their product looks better. What a cheeky move

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Frontiers in Zoology - Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts. Magnetic alignment...

News is bad for you. It leads to fear and aggression. It hinders your creativity and makes you sick. We should stop consuming it, says Rolf Dobelli, who's abstained for years

Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise

I blog mostly about my own programming projects.

The illustrators have seen their Weibo following far exceed their Twitter following just a few days after joining the Chinese microblogging platform.

Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.

Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews - karanpratapsingh/system-design

French president’s remarks drew comparisons to authoritarian regimes — and the government is already trying to backpedal.

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"Over the last quarter-century Guy Steele has been convinced that trying to design a complete and perfect programming language is the worst thing you can do. A programming language…

Now on tour, the guitarist recalls playing violin for 50 cents a song, his mother’s hardships and his big break.

AI weights inherently differ from source code, and many “free-use” licenses include usage restrictions. We should call open “source” AI weights Open Weights when there are no usage restrictions and Ethical Weights when there are.

Unraveling OpenAI's masterful ploy

Microsoft has denied the claims of the so-called hacktivists "Anonymous Sudan" that they breached the company's servers and stole credentials for 30 million customer accounts.