Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

Play the original Total Annihilation demo in your browser with Nanolathe, an open-source 2.5D RTS engine. Install the native beta, play online with friends, explore the code and build on it.

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

Cartographers of North Korea

An analysis of the OpenStreetMap data in North Korea: Who are the contributors?

Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger

In chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing, Berger, borrowing from the ideas of Walter Benjamin, argues that our ability to reproduce art on a mass scale has fundamentally altered how we encounter it in the world.

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

I guess I'm using WebP now?

After using the same few image formats for 20+ years, I’m now on the WebP bandwagon. That isn’t something I thought I’d ever say. Now I’m wondering how soon it’ll be before I can use a couple more.

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

Measuring a commercial spatial audio processor, extracting its stereo impulse responses, and rebuilding the effect as a convolution filter on Linux.

IRCv3

Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.

Artificial Insanity

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS

We explore why NixOS is uniquely positioned to implement a scalable process for vulnerability management.

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.

LineageOS 24.0

You know what's funnier than 24?

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues?

Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists

MIT engineers developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists. The sheet could be fashioned into a soft and pliable garment that a user could comfortably wear to physically control a video game character or a tele-operated robot, or to collect data during physical therapy.

How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employment is merely a way to pay bills, while ownership is the only credible path to prosperity. I do not believe that is true. I…

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

Another Python SQLite wrapper. Contribute to rogerbinns/apsw development by creating an account on GitHub.

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs…