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diginova
2 hours ago
Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold
A deep, intuitive dive into why proteins are insanely complex, how folding defines life and disease, and how AI like AlphaFold finally cracked biology’s hardest problem....
8 HOURS AGO
JNORD
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
4 DAYS AGO
RBANFFY
The History of Xerox
11 HOURS AGO
CDRNSF
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
4 DAYS AGO
ALIN23
Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons
5 DAYS AGO
JBROOKSUK
Getting into public speaking
15 HOURS AGO
JOHNJAMES4214
GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
2 HOURS AGO
WALTERBELL
Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers
A DAY AGO
JOSHKA
My Gift to the Rustdoc Team
MilnerRoute
13 hours ago
Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
Arduino has defended the changes, claiming its commitment to open source hardware remains unchanged.
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decimalenough
5 hours ago
John Varley has died
. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.  A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But......
snorbleck
4 hours ago
Read Something Wonderful
A portal to timeless internet writing....
thomascountz
15 hours ago
Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
Announcing my latest open-source project....
the-needful
6 days ago
Running on Empty: Copper
How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed...
valzevul
4 hours ago
The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go....
nreece
7 hours ago
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese suppl...
1659447091
8 days ago
Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time
Rio's talipot palms bloom only once before they die. Learn why this is such a rare phenomenon and what impact it has on the city....
https://en.jardineriaon.com/The-talipot-palm-trees-of-Rio-de-Janeiro-bloom-for-the-first-and-only-time.html
PaulHoule
8 hours ago
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation...
akyuu
7 hours ago
Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot is arguably one of the most controversial add-ons ever implemented in the Windows 11 operating system. However, the controversy doesn't stop at PC operating sy...
teleforce
16 hours ago
Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge....
birdculture
14 hours ago
The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System
A collection of open-source hardware and software for building writerdecks/cyberdecks....
BinaryIgor
18 hours ago
AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work...
pomponchik
6 days ago
Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python
A standard language for machine-readable code comments - pomponchik/metacode...
edent
13 hours ago
Stop crawling my HTML – use the API
One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is pref...
peter_d_sherman
7 hours ago
SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
A startup called SPhotonix says its fused-silica 'memory crystal' has reached a deployment-ready milestone for cold data....