404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.

Some shortcuts aren't worth taking.

The most popular code review tools (e.g., Gerrit and GitHub) present the files to review sorted in alphabetical order. Could this choice or, more generally, the relative position in which a file...

Casey Muratori's talk at BSC 2025.

Casey's links:
- https://ComputerEnhance.com/
- https://x.com/cmuratori/

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com/
- https://x.com/BetterSoftwareC

Chapters:
0:00:00 Talk
1:50:11 Q&A

One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...

Radiocarbon and perovskite unite in a compact nuclear battery promising safe, almost ever-lasting power for extreme environments and miniature tech applications.

tsx (TypeScript Execute) - The easiest way to run TypeScript in Node.js

A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C - sammycage/plutofilter

A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.

2 million people deleted their DNA from 23andMe after it declared bankruptcy. Now the more than 10 million remaining customers should delete theirs, too.

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

Game theory makes several important distinctions between different types of games, which can greatly affect the nature and complexity of their analysis.

For instance, there are deterministic games (such as chess, Diplomacy, or rock-scissors-paper) in which…

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The ThinkPad 701 was 9.7” wide, yet its keyboard magically expanded to a comfy 11.5”. How could anything so ingenious go away so quickly?