why compression is (almost) always worthwhile

I recently ported the Hardcaml_step_testbench library, one of the libraries that we use at Jane Street for Hardcaml simulations, from using monads to using a...

A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.

Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS

The techniques used to support trillions of messages

Contribute to mutable-state-inc/lean-collab development by creating an account on GitHub.

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little…

The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Supports text-...

fragments 13 Feb 2026

Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga strip which tells a metaphoric and purposeful story with a definitive beginning and ending.

AI automation and the Four Horsemen of the paper jam.

I'm running a live website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server from my garage. OpenBSD 7.8, httpd, pf firewall, Cloudflare tunnels for safe exposure — no port forwarding needed. Yes, it actually works.

Dignity moves, the mission of survival, and $140 million across the river

A community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors