A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills

How to “read” nucleic acids, from Sanger to nanopores.

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Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

Human DX optimizes for discoverability. Agent DX optimizes for predictability. What I learned building a CLI for agents first.

Israel has reportedly spent years monitoring the movements of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei through Tehran’s traffic camera network.

Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI

First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.

We tried Event, Condition, and Queue. Each one gets closer but still breaks under real concurrency. Here's the observable pattern that finally works.

What if you could talk to your laptop and it talked back — not through a three-step pipeline of transcribe-think-synthesize, but as a…

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First of...

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As…

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The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.