Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons.
I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used…

Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict

AI adoption is skyrocketing among developers, but productivity improvements remain low. Discover the real impact of AI coding assistants.

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents - manaflow-ai/cmux

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a rule that would limit public housing mostly to citizens, which advocates fear could lead to tens of thousand of people being evicted

Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.

Experimental Excel sidebar agent add-in. Multi-model. Powered by Pi. - tmustier/pi-for-excel

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.

Standard diffusion language models can't use KV caching and need too many refinement steps to be practical. CDLM fixes both with a post-training recipe that enables exact block-wise KV caching and trajectory-consistent step reduction — delivering up to 14.5x…

Osaka's mayor says he is 'lost for words' and that he has 'nothing but appreciation' for the gesture.

Scaling language models to long contexts is often bottlenecked by the size of the key-value (KV) cache. In deployed settings, long contexts are typically managed through compaction in token space...