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121. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction
Simple way of making an interference pattern with fingers The phenomenon of forming an interference pattern by using light that passed through a double slit is a basic item learnt in a high school physics course. It is a good example that light possesses a property of waves. The double slit exp
122. Virtual Width Networks (VWN)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.11238: Virtual Width Networks
123. Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube
124. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.
125. Kimi Claw
Deploy OpenClaw in seconds via Kimi. Build a 24/7 AI assistant with long-term memory and personality that proactively executes scheduled tasks. Experience the power of Kimi Claw now.
126. Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
127. Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)
128. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers and just about anything else you can think of to original PDF (current year PDF adopted some of its innovations, but they're only used to break into your ipotato afaik). PDF is mostly postscript with a bunch of weird metadata and layers. This is…
129. Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations
130. Why I don't think AGI is imminent
131. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
Data analysis provider Palantir wants to obtain a counterstatement in court – and triggers a wave of solidarity for a small Swiss magazine.
132. macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish
Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it is still struggling to resolve an embarrassing interface issue in Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign. If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you prefer to work in Finder's column view, there's a good chance you've been frustrated by the glitch, which developer Jeff Johnson has been admirably tracking over on his blog.
133. Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.
134. AI optimism is a class privilege
I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.
135. WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What?
OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... FOREWARD This post is about the experience of taking a leap of …
136. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
137. One Server. Small Business
More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secure, back up, and monitor it — and why I still prefer owning the stack over using a managed platform.
138. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
This is why we can't have nice things.Referenced in this video: - Ars Technica's redaction: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejectio...
139. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment
A practical guide to night sky observing organized by equipment, conditions, and experience.
140. Descent, Ported to the Web
141. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music
During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an "Orpheus"  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missing and dust was gathering on its sparkly-orange plywood body. I bought it for the equivalent of $20 and carried it around in two pieces…
142. Continuous batching from first principles (2025)
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
143. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019
Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia. Sourced from 2,429 emails across 1,345 threads in the Jmail archive.
144. You Could've Invented OpenClaw
You Could've Invented OpenClaw. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
145. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
146. Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16
147. DHS demands Google, Reddit, Meta, Discord provide data of users criticizing ICE
148. Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone
A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer. The clock is ticking.
149. State Department orders nonprofit libraries stop passport applications
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.
150. Vim 9.2 Released