2026-03-21
Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat
Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments...
The hats
You wear a hat, you’re not a hat. State nouns are verbs that we talk about like they are nouns. Hurry, panic, frenzy, rage, funk, stupor, daze, fog, rut, bind,...
3D Printed Clock Just Taps It In
The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around since at least the 1600s. The most famous of them come from...
10 years ago, Marvel finally found the right actor to bring The Punisher to life
Jon Bernthal's portrayal of The Punisher in Daredevil's second season masterfully introduced the character, blending brutality and emotional depth.
Portable CRT TV Becomes Retro Cyberdeck
These days, it’s pretty easy to slap together a single-board computer and a cheap LCD screen to whip up a cool cyberdeck fast. But what if you wanna go more...
The Hot Mess Paper Conflates Three Distinct Failure Modes
High-level summary:Anthropic's recent "Hot Mess of AI" paper makes an important empirical observation: as models reason longer and take more actions, their errors become more incoherent rather than more systematically...
Slug Algorithm for On-GPU Rendering of Fonts with Bézier Curves now in Public Domain
The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types...
When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive
"Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what's inside us from moment to moment."
Death Stranding 2 devs thought 'Brutal' mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to 'the upper limit' with its new difficulty option on PC
Some players complained that Death Stranding 2 was too easy. The new "To the Wilder" difficulty is Kojima Productions' answer.
This New AI Tool Runs 90% of My One-Person Business — Here Are 7 Ways I Use It (No Code, No Staff)
I replaced five tools and saved 20-plus hours a week.
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed In Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borland's 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable...
X-37B: China and Russia Fear America’s Mysterious ‘Space Plane’ Can Drop a Nuclear Bomb From Orbit
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) represents the ultimate "black box" of 2026 American military strategy. While the U.S. Space Force insists the autonomous craft is a scientific testbed, its...
Quote of the Day By Apple’s Steve Jobs: ‘You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them…’
The creation of the iPhone was more than a product launch; it was a masterclass in anticipatory design. By ignoring what customers said they wanted—usually a better version of a...
The Future of Aligning Deep Learning systems will probably look like "training on interp"
Epistemic Status: I think this is right, but a lot of this is empirical, and it seems the field is moving fastCurrent methods are badI should start by saying that...
Staff Were Told to Hide Bearded Soldiers Before Pete Hegseth Arrived — Now He’s Ordering the Pentagon to Strip Religious Beard Waivers
The pivot toward strict grooming standards reflects a broader 2026 shift in Department of Defense philosophy: the belief that uniformity is a prerequisite for discipline. For leadership, the "beard" has...
An agent autonomously builds a 1.5 GHz Linux-capable RISC-V CPU
A project from Verkor, a chip design startup. "Verkor is working with multiple of the top 10 fabless companies to deploy DC(Design Conductor; their AI agent for chip design) to...
Conway’s Game of Life With Physical Buttons
Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a...
2026-03-20
2,117 Days in the Shipyard: Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS George Washington’s 6-Year U.S. Navy Mess
The struggle to return the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the flight line highlights a systemic issue: the U.S. Navy is currently operating with a maintenance infrastructure that cannot...
Better, Faster, and (Even) More
I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working Something”...
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