Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.

...so the malware would finally shut up and run

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world):
After you jump into the barrel…

I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays…

Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. Contribute to stan-smith/OpenFLOW development by creating an account on GitHub.

Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM before serving it as markdown in the terminal.

Trust me, I counted.

So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them.

245 euros…

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.

In this fireside…

A Rust port of tmux

"Unlock the mystery of the 'Peasant Railgun' – a legendary D&D phenomenon explained! Delve into the tale where DMs debated and players plead.

Poor man's Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase - zserge/pennybase

In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.

Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex domains...