> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you…

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

The Xbox brand effectively died this year. But can it be resurrected as a PC platform?

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Framing our phones as glossy portraits of the world comes at a cost: we spend more time gazing instead of gaining utility.

Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale - arximboldi/immer

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Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.

Despite how widely used the ESP32 is, its Bluetooth stack remains closed source. Let’s dive into the low-level workings of a proprietary Bluetooth peripheral. Whether you are interested in reverse ...

Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

Rex is a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF. - rex-rs/rex

A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.

Dialtone Console - P3 server for retro AOL 3.0 clients

The destructor serves as the "finally".

This is a follow-up to making the rav1d video decoder 1% faster, where we compared profiler snapshots of rav1d (the Rust implementation) and dav1d (the C …

January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US

Sometimes called a to-done list.

If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…