Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.

An idiot's comprehensive guide to modern sampling

It seems like there are a few stages in the life of a codebase (and/or parts of it), that dictate its likelihood of deep improvement. 1. When something is new, and you’re the one who built it: “Oh ye…

I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations.

💡Update May 4, 2025: I have published quite the follow-up story, if I may say so myself: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

Yesterday, I published an analysis of what I could publicly find about TM SGNL, the obscure and unofficial Signal app…

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💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials.

Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

Yesterday, a Reuters photographer…

meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in decoding throughput. One of them, index decoder, has seen…

This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

This tutorial explains why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages in Linux.

Many problems in analysis (as well as adjacent fields such as combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and PDE) are interested in the order of growth (or decay) of some quantity $latex {X}&…

Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT