I recently lost my Facebook account for two months, and was significantly cut off from certain aspects of society during that time. This is the dark side of account bans.

Every soccer match halftime in the UK sees a tea kettle surge, straining the grid. AI training mirrors this with GPU power spikes. Can supercapacitors save the day? Companies like Delta, Eaton, and Siemens offer solutions to smooth energy demands, crucial…

Amazon unveils Vulcan, a groundbreaking robot with a "genuine sense of touch" to revolutionize warehouse operations. Can Vulcan outpace human stowers in efficiency and creativity? With robots stowing 80% of 14 billion items annually, the future of logistics…

Mark functions as async. Call them with await. All of a sudden, your program becomes asynchronous – it can do useful things while it waits for...

Internal emails from 2021 reveal tensions among researchers hunting for elusive Majorana particle

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Recently, I watched Andrew Kelley’s talk on Practical Data Oriented Design. It goes into some of the architectural changes he’s been making to the Zig compiler, with pretty significant performance benefit. Would definitely recommend checking out the talk…

Sep 0.10.0 was released April 22nd,
2025 with optimizations
for AVX-512 capable CPUs like the AMD
9950X (Zen 5) and updated benchmarks
including the 9950X. Sep now achieves a staggering 21 GB/s on the 9950X for
the low-level CSV parsing. 🚀 Before 0.10.0,…

In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Transforming the base metal lead into the precious metal gold was a dream…

The legendary MALAYA stamps, 1936 to 1957: a treatise on their history, design, diversity, production and legacy.

itter.sh: Ironic, text-only, SSH-based social networking for terminal lovers. No browser, no js, just eets.

According to CEO Elon Musk, Tesla’s future rests on the two-seat driverless pod.

The company led by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) completes its cloud repatriation by moving 18 PB of data to its own infrastructure. AWS covers the $250,000