[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…

Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

Benchmark results for a Mac18,6 with an Apple M6 Pro processor.

The problem

Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional…

TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres

A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly - mindbox77/zxdesk

Jobs at companies that hire with take-home projects, pairing and real problems instead of leetcode puzzles.

DigitalOcean is giving $3 million to the foundation behind DHH's Omarchy. I'd already moved my sites off it that weekend, so here's how the move went.

Learning another language is not a miracle cure for aging, and it cannot guarantee protection against Alzheimer’s disease. But it does have various other benefits.

AI needs better storytellers. It does not need its researchers trained to sound like politicians.

A plea.

Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. - trycua/cua

Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches.

Tools for generating deep fake photographs are proliferating with greater ease of use and prominence in pop culture. Image authentication tools can defeat these deceitful developments by verifying that a digital image was actually produced by a physical camera.…