Bell Labs’ Bellmac-32 paved the way for today’s smartphone chips

PDF | What gives rise to sadism? While sadistic behavior (i.e., harming others for pleasure) is well-documented, past empirical research is nearly... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming…

When Campfire - the first Once product - came out, a few of us at Ruby Zagreb pitched in to buy a copy.
Prometheus had brought fire from Mount Olympus, and...

This is the 2nd post in a series of 4 posts I'm doing on CRDTs. Please see the intro post for context. Modern distributed systems often seem to rest on an stack…

Transform your ideas into stunning designs. Creatr empowers everyone including designers, developers, and product managers with AI-driven design tools through simple prompting.

The full video of my Upper Bound 2025 talk about our research directions should be available at some point, but here are my slides:
https://t.co/KPM6NtSaug

And here are the notes I made while preparing, which are more extensive than what I had time to say:

Foundation Models have completely taken over unstructured data domains like natural language and images, delivering significant advances in performance across tasks with little to no task-specific training. Yet structured and semi-structured relational data…

Other countries may benefit. Science will suffer

At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominen

How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take? Shockingly, the answer is about one molecule—we actually share breaths w...

An excerpt from Slime by Susanne Wedlich, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu.

The secret life of wind tunnels

When Large Language Models are used as judges for decision-making across various sensitive domains, they consistently exhibit unpredictable and hidden measurement biases, making their verdicts unreliable despite common prompt engineering practices.

The country is just emerging from a period of political turmoil with a new prime minister in place. But now Alberta, a conservative Western province, is planning a referendum to break away.

We compared popular spreadsheet engines—feature sets, function support, accuracy, and speed—and how GRID compares to Excel, Sheets, and the rest of the field.

How to setup emacs dired-mode in xdg-mime, specifically for file management.