Early in 1221 the army of the Fifth Crusade was encamped in the city of Damietta in northern Egypt. As it planned its next move, messengers began to arrive bearing wondrous news. An army was approaching the Middle East from Asia. At its head was a Christian…

Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.

The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday,

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

Gemini 3.1 Pro is the next iteration in the Gemini 3 series of models, a suite of highly capable, natively multimodal reasoning models.

An in-depth overview of some of the unusual and very advanced technical tricks used in the Commodore 64 game, Seawolves.

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.

A terminal UI for tracking everything about your home. Single SQLite file. No cloud. No account. No subscriptions.

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…

Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python

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

Meta CEO said some efforts to protect users from content deemed harmful could be seen as ‘overbearing’

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…