The prevalence of non-compete clauses is surprisingly high, with adverse consequences for economic dynamism, wages and productivity. This brings into closer focus recent attempts to restrict the us…

This graph shows the market share of desktop browsers in North America based on over 3 billion monthly page views.

Monitors vendor status pages, tracks monthly downtime, and computes when SLA credit thresholds are crossed.

Since the end of 2019, a coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for severe
acute respiratory syndrome, has spread worldwide. This pandemic, due to the spread
of SARS-CoV-2, is similar to two previous human coronavirus (HCoV) outbreaks, acute
and severe…

The Goeteia homepage renders itself: its Scheme source is compiled to WebAssembly in your browser and mounted live. Edit the source, press Run, and the page below re-renders.

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea.

Cells often perform computations in response to environmental cues. A simple example is the classic problem, first considered by Berg and Purcell, of determining the concentration of a chemical...

What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md

Igropyr: crashes heal themselves, code hot-swaps, faults speak a protocol, and dialogues are processes. Erlang-style actors on libuv, written entirely in Chez Scheme.

A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026

There’s a stew of factors at work behind the rise in consumer rage – but there are potential solutions, too

Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

The Seattle Seahawks will be sold to billionaire Vinod Khosla. The Sun Microsystems co-founder will buy the team from Paul Allen's estate.

A visualization tool that replays coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase. - cosmtrek/mindwalk

DS4 Flash looked promising on paper. In practice it was too slow for long contexts and unreliable for agentic coding. Here is why I switched to Qwen 3.5 122B and the three bugs I had to kill to make it usable.

IT admins appear to be increasingly frustrated and overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft's Windows 11 and its "garbage" apps, bundled products, and overall user experience.

The domestic worker, who entered the household at the age of seven and never received wages or vacations, is set to be compensated by her employers