Public transport will be temporarily free of charge in Geneva, in a first for Switzerland, as part of a series of measures aimed at tackling a spike in pollution in the city.

Think you can type fast? Prove it with Fingerjigger, a fun 2 minute test of your typing abilities!

A common source of confusion that I experience when posting my artwork on social media is: _why?_ Why use a plotter when you could use a printer? It's slower. Less exact. More expensive. It fails, far too often. Inkjet printers became ubiquitous in the 1980s…

I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen

LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment.  In the majority of cases…

Is your LLM agent spying on you? How hard is it to create a secretly malicious LLM agent? It turns out, not that hard (demo included).

Doctors were baffled when a healthy man developed hallucinations and paranoia. The cause? Bromide toxicity—triggered by an AI-guided experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. The case raises new concerns about how people use chatbots like ChatGPT for…

I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this inte…

swyx recognizes $IT as a visionary short in the DX Tips Magic Quadrant of Boomer Relics That No Longer Make Sense

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In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass…

“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

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A detailed explanation of why I chose OCaml as the ‘default’ programming language for every project.

Update: APRIL FOOLS! by Kaue Silveira Here at Google, we invest heavily in development productivity research. In fact, our TDD resea...

A Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.

When The Settlers II came out in 1996, only MS-DOS and Mac OS enjoyed it. Aside from Nintendo Wii in 2007, it didn't land on any other platforms. Until now.

PCIe 8.0 has been announced by the PCI-SIG, and it is set to double bandwidth yet again, with a targeted 2028 specification release