Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

A live daily simulation of carbon-aware electricity pricing: how much CO₂ would be saved if power were priced by how clean the grid is, measured across Switzerland and US grid regions using open data.

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How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a…

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

Authorization terminology often conflates ideas and presents complementary technologies as rivals. This post proposes a new taxonomy.

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Babylonian Twins is an Amiga platformer I built in Baghdad in 1993, in 68000 assembly. This summer an LLM ported it to Godot, and this is what I found when I read back through what it did. The original disks are now free on itch.io.

Move in C++ without a std:move

In one of my earlier posts, Why you should use std::move only rarely I said that you should use std::move only rarely. In today's post,...

Welcome to the Porcelain Insulator Collector's World of Mud

Porcelain insulators have not received the same level of interest as glass over the past 20 years of collecting. However they are equally historically significant and available in as many colors and significantly more styles.

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, K

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

Explore K2 Horizon, IFM’s open-source fleet of six frontier AI models for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, edge devices, and enterprise deployment.

The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026

The history of the Raspberry Pi as an interactive timeline: every model, milestone and company event from 2006 to today, each with its original source.

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

Browse all models available on Cerebras public endpoints.

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

In November 2025, Earth was buffeted by several massive eruptions of solar material that slammed into the magnetosphere.

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%.

Xanadu was waiting for agents

From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.

GPT-6 Astra

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.