In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.

Today is a big day for us, and for everyone who cares about transparency, privacy, and having full control over their own traffic. We’re finally open-sourcing the protocol that powers AdGuard VPN. And it now has a name: TrustTunnel.

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs - freedomofpress/dangerzone

Terminal user interfaces in Ruby. RatatuiRuby wraps Rust's Ratatui—add spinners and menus to CLI scripts, or build full TUI applications.

I've recently tasted AMD Zen 5 CPUs (AWS' m8a instances) and... Whooaaa. Even before talking about GPUs and NPUs, the next 5 years of CPUs will be very exciting! For

All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.

While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.

Lisp + APL = K

Bloom and cuckoo filters provide fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers use them to avoid expensive disk and network accesses. The recently introduced xor filters can...

The three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets or merge their own PRs. - borenstein/yolo-cage

Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be…

The open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG - clockworklabs/BitCraftPublic

In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?

Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.