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Norway’s hulking striker brought his country back to the World Cup for the first time in almost thirty years. How far can they go?

For a parent, finding a children’s activity that hasn’t been digitized, optimized, or turned into gambling feels like a balm.

Interactive articles about science and engineering.

Illustrating the Engineering Around Us

Over the two days we had Fable 5, it made me a music visualizer. This is the realization of something I have daydreamed about for as long as I can remember. You can see it here: Waveloop The idea is that a music visualizer should viscerally reveal the harmonic and melodic structu

A look at the decline of the labor share of income that occurred post-COVID, comparing its dynamics to declines in earlier periods.

Compare 30 global public DNS resolvers by privacy, filtering, DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, DoQ, IPv6, and jurisdiction, and benchmark DoH speed from your browser.

Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

A few weeks ago, I began working on a branch implementing an improvement to the LLVM backend which had been planned for a long time. This ended up snowballing into a bigger change which implemented a few language proposals you might be interested to hear about. Zig has always low

Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Subscribe to The Economist Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters T en years ago, as the ai revolution was gatherin

Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the team eventually rotated o

"I decided to save it in this cheap, reliable, secret way."

Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.

Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in this movie we’re all watching together on X, where model intelligence has become dangerous. Dario predicted years ago that it would happen this year. With Fable being (briefly) shut off by the USG, it’s the first highly visible sign that we’ve

One way of thinking about what this formula does is that it is a change of units. Similar to writing 2 km=2000 m/ 1 km 1000 m ​ or 5 bytes=40 bits/ 1 byte 8 bits ​ . It says: how many copies of b are in x? It’s the number of copies of a in x, divided by the number of copies of a

<p>I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie...

G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.

Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs.

A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.

Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that compressing an image is the same as compressing other pieces of data. After all, images are just data, right? Well, yes and no. We can borrow some of the same techniques, but the rules of what constitutes valuable information are based on human

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit

Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post i

When you visit a secure website, it offers you a TLS certificate that asserts its identity. Every certificate has an expiration date, and when it’s passed due, it is no longer valid.

Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there i...

Part 1 of Trevor Paglen’s series on the history of psyops.

Why the years between today and post-AGI abundance will be the hardest political and economic problem of our generation, and why we can’t skip past them

A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis.

I’ve done a few different reverse-engineering projects with LLMs, and figured it’s time to push the clankers to their limits. A RAR compressor for every version of RAR ought to have taken about 5 years, which is why nobody has ever bothered. Today, it takes 5 weeks of evenings an

Lead optimisation is the step in drug design where you take a molecule that sort of works and try to make it actually work, and it’s arguably the step where most real-world design campaigns succeed or die. Due to the influence of a couple of my pals, I have recently become intere