An idiot's comprehensive guide to modern sampling

5/4/25 This was on the Hacker News front page at the time - I've included some of the more interesting comments in a section below. It seems like there are a few stages in the life of a codebase (and…

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

Update May 6, 2025: I've written a new detailed analysis. The findings are based on the TM SGNL source code and are…

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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

Update May 6, 2025: I've…

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

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…