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121. Quartz Crystals
122. I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
123. Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.01122: Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?
124. How to effectively write quality code with AI
AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.
125. Why We just can't stop eating
Obesity is often characterised as nothing more than greed and lack of willpower. The truth is far more complex.
126. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really
127. Canada, better the 28th EU member than the 51st US state
COLUMN. The Canadian prime minister has called for an alliance of middle powers to stand up to the world's great powers. This is a compelling idea, and one that Europe has been pursuing for 60 years, writes Le Monde columnist Pascal Riché.
128. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
The move is part of the government's new road safety strategy, which plans to reform driving laws in Britain.
129. You Are Here
130. How virtual textures work
Virtual texturing is not about supporting larger textures, but about aligning memory residency with what can actually be visible on screen. This article explains the system end-to-end, from addressing to feedback and residency decisions.
131. Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
In today’s E121 of “5mins of Postgres” we're talking about the upcoming Postgres 19 release, and how better extensibility of the Postgres planner will enable...
132. The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and had zero email or any other contact with him … which is more (less) than some of my…
133. Voxtral Transcribe 2
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
134. macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs
While I was setting up my new mac mini yesterday I noticed something interesting - Apple have stopped shipping the ancient Emacs 22.1 with macOS! As I was mostly using Windows + WSL2 in the past 5 years I had missed the exact moment when this happened, but after some digging I discovered that the change was first made in macOS 10.15 (“Catalina”), which was released in October 2019.
135. Things Unix can do atomically
136. Early Christian Writings
137. NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing
They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.
138. TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
139. Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead
Statement Jeffrey Epstein death day before
140. Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better
100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing library for C, Zig, and Rust that is faster and supports all the modern globbing formats and gitignore - dmtrKovalenko/zlob
141. Immigrants Reduced US Deficits by $14.5T Since 1994
142. Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 - joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
143. Systems Thinking
144. Sargasso Sea
145. Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique
In this article, I present my new technique for solving a CSS problem that was deemed impossible — true shrinkwrapping of an element with auto-wrapped content. By using anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations, we can adjust our element’s outer dimensions by measuring its inner contents, demonstrating that for many cases this can already work and might unlock a future native feature.
146. Wirth's Revenge
Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?
147. Animated Engines
Animated Engines Home Page
148. LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
149. Open-Weight Models Are Getting Serious: GLM 4.7 vs. MiniMax M2.1
Two new open-weight models dropped in December, claiming strong agentic coding capabilities: GLM 4.7 from z.AI and MiniMax M2.1. We ran both through a multi-phase coding test in Kilo Code to see how they handle real implementation work.
150. Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days