Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)
If you’ve been following the billionaire exodus from California with some confusion, here’s what’s actually driving the nervousness: it’s not…
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Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)
FeaturedMaitreyi Chatterjee,Devansh Agarwal January 17, 2026 CleoP made with MidjourneyImage generated using OpenAI’s DALL·E Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of…
ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
An ongoing conversation—both within and outside of the tech community—has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently…
How I use Jujutsu
About three months ago I started using Jujutsu (JJ), a new Version Control System, for my personal projects. It took…
I built a GPU-accelerated SQLite on Apple Silicon to test a theory about the PCIe bottleneck. Here’s what I found.
Look, I know everyone here loves NVIDIA. And for good reason – those cards are beasts. But I've been arguing…
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
If you think about emails as if they’re anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard–that is to say, they…
Lessons from 14 Years at Google
When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right….
One character change in Open Source Software
My latest contribution was a one-character change. I changed a String from '?' to '!', which fixed a bug downstream…
OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
OpenAI is betting big on audio AI, and it’s not just about making ChatGPT sound better. According to new reporting…
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products…
Static Allocation with Zig
Over the past few months I’ve been chipping away at a small Redis-compatible key/value server called kv. The goal is…
We “solved” C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it
This article explains problems that still show up today under different names. C10K wasn’t really about “handling 10,000 users” it…
Lua 5.5 Released
Welcome to Lua 5.5 about · installation · changes · license · reference manual About Lua Lua is a powerful,…
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony’s PVM-4300
Dave Farquhar Retro Computing December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 0 CommentMove over, GE Widescreen 1000. In 1989 in Japan, Sony…
Honey: all the news about PayPal’s alleged scam coupon app
NewsUpdated Today, Dec 22, 2025, 3:46 AM UTCHoney: all the news about PayPal’s alleged scam coupon appby Verge StaffLinkShareRSSPayPal’s Honey…
A rough week for hardware companies
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify In just about a week, iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filed…
These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about
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How iRobot lost its way home
There’s something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture….
Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting
In Brief Posted: 3:17 PM PST · December 14, 2025 Image Credits:Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony Ha Grok got…
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API
One of the (many) depressing things about the “AI” future in which we’re living, is that it exposes just how…