The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran, who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the courage of this individual and the mill…

Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in <em>Death Note</em> and considering fixes

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Americans are living longer than ever but still well behind the life expectancy of other developed countries

Sold for $2,750,000 | Unique, pre-production Apple-1 pre-NTI board, representing the earliest known fiberglass Apple-1 prototype assembled before the first

My phone slipped out of my hand and executed a textbook, no-hesitation, full-commitment dive from the 6th floor straight to the street.

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WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

A recap of FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, focusing on open source as a foundation for European digital sovereignty, community-driven innovation, BSD and Linux ecosystems, and the future of free software in Europe.

Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve through a surprisingly similar set of stages as they grow.

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