High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?

My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021.
Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and…

jank is Clojure. jank is C++. The combination is amazing.

Andrew Ng on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepreneurship.

In this talk, he shares what he’s learning now:…

Phalanx of instruments scrutinize 3I/ATLAS for clues about planet formation elsewhere in the galaxy

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.

Key researchers are joining Google DeepMind, too.

In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he "did the cut-off".

Creating something that seems like a JPEG, very quickly

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States.

we planned to launch our open-weight model next week.

we are delaying it; we need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us.

while we trust the community will build great things with this…

Software is getting worse. We are here to make it better.

Monorail turns any CSS keyframe animation into an interactive graph

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

can we have dict unpacking in python? Contribute to asottile/dict-unpacking-at-home development by creating an account on GitHub.

HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity. It allows the nostalgic harddisk sound, while using modern SSD, CF or SD cards.

How hot code loading solves client-specific engineering problems in my startup Alzo