I am equally unsurprised and upset

A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.

I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!

Fifty famous paintings, read the way art historians read them: one detail at a time, with the camera doing the pointing. Then a wall of 881 more.

A simple Bitcoin payment processor for any business. Accept Bitcoin payments, receive Bitcoin donations and send Bitcoin payouts all on the OpenNode platform.

Most genomic studies begin by asking participants to upload one of the most identifying and irrevocable pieces of data they own, their DNA. I continue to investigate whether multi-party computation…

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump…

A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.

@iamjasonlevin Passkeys were invented by security engineers with zero understanding of the consumer brain.

We had no way to argue its merits since no one understood what they are.

As a result, we are now all asked to produce the magic fairy dust to login…

Reflecting on Wendell Berry's critique of technology and the importance of human effort in the age of AI

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

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Borg Internet Operating System - Resistance is futile... The Internet became crap. Join the Borg and build something better - bitmonky/BorgIOS

141 asteroids tracked this month with real N-body physics. Newton-Raphson Kepler solver, RK4 integrator, JPL Horizons data.

Airbus is launching a new flight-test campaign to evaluate the performance of high-span wings for next-generation single-aisle aircraft.

Unlayer is a developer platform for embedding visual builders, AI workflows, templates, code-first Elements, and export APIs into your product.

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.

To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between…