New windows can insulate better than most walls, and some can even survive being hit with a two-by-four shot from a cannon.

NASA has conspicuously deleted two comics about women astronauts going to the Moon amid the Trump administration's DEI purge.

Alkanes on Mars

How Stanford researchers developed ultrathin niobium phosphide films that become more conductive the thinner they get. #nanotech

I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs.

I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. They continue to fabricate links, references, and quotes…

At some companies, it is expected that certain engineers will serve as part of a formal on-call rotation. On paper, this seems like a reasonable way to ensure the reliability of the product. In practice, it is a miserable burden and you probably won't even…

We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping…

The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a…

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

We're diving into our new project called **clean**, aimed at creating an embedded DSL and formal verification framework for Zero Knowledge (ZK) circuits using Lean4. Imagine being able to not only define ZK circuits but also formally prove their correctness—sounds…

The tests we are using to assess the intelligence of AI are missing an essential aspect of human inquiry — the query itself

If we do this right, America won’t be our neighbour—it’ll be our talent farm.

It's a purely mechanical adapter that relies on smarts in the mouse itself.

Important lessons from trying to build the world's fastest autorouter for about a year

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025.

A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2 - a GameBoy Advance game written in C - SAT-R/sa2