Pop quiz: what classic brand of laptop is this? I'll give you another hint. Bright-red TrackPoint and mouse button trim, classic keybo...

SDL based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea - antirez/load81

Thoughts on how compiler and database optimizers should evolve in the future, focusing on predictability and guarantees instead of smarts and heroics

Welcome to the Llama Cookbook! This is your go to guide for Building with Llama: Getting started with Inference, Fine-Tuning, RAG. We also show you how to solve end to end problems using Llama mode...

A look at the last 10 years of implementing HexaPDF and creating a business around it

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Experience the incredible story of FLIP, the legendary research vessel, and its unexpected twist of fate. A maritime thriller worth reading!

A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($5.6 million) by a local heritage trust.

A study of language in <cite>Science</cite> articles from 1997 through 2021 raises concerns about exaggerated claims

I want to find the first American graphic novel—I say American simply because I know very little about comics of other countries; so put down your Tintins and your ACK hardbacks, and let’s see where this leads us.

Using thermal physics, cosmology, and computer science to calculate password vulnerability to the biggest possible brute-force attack.

Amateur players got the best results by placing thumbs about 3 centimeters from the outer edge.

Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...

The ban stems from Apple's failure to fulfill its investment commitments in Indonesia.

The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot status response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.
A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should instead return 503.
This error is a reference to Hyper…