This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th…

The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.

Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward

IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips. Contribute to schlae/IBM_MCGA development by creating an account on GitHub.

An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply

A new book spots a real problem and offers terrible solutions

DeepSpec: a full-stack codebase for training and evaluating speculative decoding algorithms - deepseek-ai/DeepSpec

The first CSS framework based on Material Design 3. Latest M3 Expressive already. 10x smaller than others CSS frameworks based on Material Design. Translates Material Design to HTML semantic standard. Ready to use with any JS framework. Highly focused on…

Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

An overview of physical media ownership, streaming shutdowns, content removals, and the limits of digital licenses.

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

As some of those fears, uncertainties, and doubts about Mythos are starting to feel real, what can we do about it? Paradoxically, I believe that little needs to change in what we’ve been doing for years.

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