What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

Tank Body Problem

1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

The chat rooms of COMETLINK, a 1996 online service with mail, news and a web of its own. Sign on and drop into rooms where the regulars are still talking.

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics

My longtime labmate-turned-student/friend1 Dhruva Karkada recently wrote a sick paper on data statistics which deservedly went viral on Twitter, in part beca...

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

World Labs Is Joining AMD

Accelerating the future of AI research and compute

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

The long way around to screen sharing.

Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years old and spread over 66 subreddits, the same as a comparison group, so the data shows concentration and not who paid for it.

Pirating the Pirates

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to its lowest level since 1982 as emergency oil exchanges and the prolonged Hormuz disruption erode America’s supply buffer.

The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero

How one of the biggest fraudsters of 20th century art made millions, conned a Nazi, and emerged a national hero.

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

Two intact Göbeklitepe burials help explain how human bones became scattered through the site's monumental buildings.

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff

Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.

Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra

Waves, wind, water and tides from NOAA's network of buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuaries, from the Bering Sea to Samoa, charted and analysed.