Crowdsourced map of meals under $10 across the US. Real people, real prices, no sponsored placements. Vote, comment, share finds.

Circular AI deals aren't just bubble behavior: they mirror how commodity industries finance capital-intensive infrastructure. When circular deals are healthy — and when they hide risk.

One day there will hopefully be a house on this land


Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools.
After years…

I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money.

Jul 29, 2026 An automated discovery system built at FirstPrinciples by Randy Davila has proven a 1989 prediction by Paul Erdős and William Staton linking prime numbers to the Riemann zeta function, and uncovered a second mathematical term that had gone unnoticed…

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

GitHub isn't just falling short on performance and reliability. The whole collaboration paradigm is the wrong shape for how we build software now.

Turn the judgment behind work you repeat into an AI skill people can buy, run, and use inside the job instead of another product to study.

The local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents - funador/claude-code-merge-queue

What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong

The Flume Water Meter 915 MHz water usage messages were observed with a Software Defined Radio (SDR), demodulated, and eventually decrypted.

As AI pops up in healthcare systems across the country, several lawyers told VTDigger that the technology is outpacing regulation, leaving consumers vulnerable.

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over five years, along with additional financial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...

Background, motivation, and thoughts around the release of Kuna, a new agent-first decompiler designed for autonomous refinement.

Practical math for the working programmer.

dict.cc requests users to consent to the tracking by 1,741 "partner" companies. This makes it impossible for people to know what happens to their data

Concerns about the elections have been raised in the European Parliament. The Commission has not ruled this out. The United States is now a problem

A simple guide to agent autonomy