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121. Quake Engine Indicators
122. Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
123. Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach
124. Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers
Remember when installing Java meant one download, one version, once choice? Back in the old days, you would head over to java.sun.com or later to Oracle website to download the installer, click through a few prompts, and you were done. Life was simple. Back then, there was typically one widely-adopted version of Java that would remain stable for years. You didn’t need to think much about version management because there wasn’t much to manage. Over the years, a lot has changed.
125. Playtiles: The Pocket-Sized Gaming Platform
Turn your phone into a handheld console with Playtiles—real buttons, no downloads, and weekly indie games. Pre-order for Q4 2025 with free shipping worldwide.
126. How to Never Get Overstimulated Again
The Overstimulation Protocol
127. IT specialist shortage [in Germany] almost gone
Poor economy dampens MINT demand and worker shortage, especially for IT specialists, says MINT Autumn Report.
128. DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
129. The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively debates regarding licensing. While there were issues concerning conditions such as attribution required by most licenses, there was a particularly high volume of discourse suggesting…
130. PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism
131. Giving the Jakks Atari Paddle a Spin
Some things I like to talk about on this blog are “paddle” games that use a potentiometer to control the player position, and plug-and-play consoles. Oh, and...
132. Feedback doesn't scale
Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.
133. DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
134. Migrating the Main Zig Repository from GitHub to Codeberg
135. Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.16652: Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
136. Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
137. Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
According to the Data Protection Conference, federal offices may only use US hyperscalers like AWS, Google, or Microsoft to a limited extent.
138. Technical Deflation
139. C100 Developer Terminal
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
140. Israel has 'de facto state policy' of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
141. Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology
We all have moments as kids watching Spider-Man and imagining what it might feel like to shoot a thread into the air and have it grab something, bringing it
142. The Battle over Africa's Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses
143. Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks. Contribute to addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips development by creating an account on GitHub.
144. How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)
Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until he retired on 14 December 1999. By then, the unassuming cartoonist had built a billion-dollar empire.
145. 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia have partnered for a project using 'Sand Battery' technology for a district heating network in Finland.
146. Memories of .us
147. Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips
While all Macs are now powered by Apple's custom-designed chips, a new rumor claims that Apple may rekindle its partnership with Intel, albeit in a new and limited way. Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said Intel is expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M-series chip as early as mid-2027.
148. Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
This post originally appeared on Mondo 2000.
149. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account
150. Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine
Over at the Erdos problem website, AI assistance is now becoming routine. Here is what happened recently regarding Erdos problem #367 https://www.erdosproblems.com/367 : 1. On Nov 20, Wouter van Doorn produced a (human-generated) disproof of the second part of this problem, contingent on a congruence identity that he thought was true, and was "sure someoneone here is able to verify... does indeed hold". 2. A few hours later, I posed this problem to Gemini Deepthink, which (after about ten minutes) produced a complete proof of the identity (and confirmed the entire argument): https://gemini.google.com/share/81a65aecfd70 . The argument used some p-adic algebraic number theory which was overkill for this problem. I then spent about half an hour converting the proof by hand into a more elementary proof, which I presented on the site. I then remarked that the resulting proof should be within range of "vibe formalizing" in Lean. 3. Two days later, Boris Alexeev used the Aristotle tool from Harmonic to complete the Lean formalization, making sure to formalize the final statement by hand to guard against AI exploits. This process took two to three hours, and the output can be found at https://borisalexeev.com/t/Erdos367.lean EDIT: after making this post, I decided to round things out by making AI literature searches on this problem, which (after about fifteen minutes) turned up some related literature on consecutive powerful numbers, but nothing directly relating to #367. https://chatgpt.com/share/6921427d-9dc0-800e-b798-be8fc94a9240 https://gemini.google.com/share/0d296454bea0