Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

Software is degrading all around us, for obvious reasons. I've written about this before. All else equal, if you increase your code production by 10x but you don't reduce your error rate by a factor of 10, then your production app is buggier than it used to be. I've seen threads where people also have...

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

I will no longer upload to NEW

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

An update to Brooks's Law in the age of AI.

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.,On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.

Gforth 1.0

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

Growing chocolate at home might sound like a wild idea, right? Chocolate originates from cacao trees, which demand a tropical climate, specific growing conditions, and several years to reach maturity in order to flower and fruit to produce cacao pods. However, our CocoTerra founder, Nate Saal, took on the challenge and grew cacao trees in

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

Type Server Protocol

Documentation and issues for Pylance. Contribute to microsoft/pylance-release development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows - otya128/winevdm

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that.

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

A Printer Printing onto Paper

A printer printing onto paper.

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

A configuration mismatch in GLM 5.3 on Workers AI triggered an SGLang bug that exposed KV cache pages across requests. Here is how we addressed the issue.

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

AI cleanup tools and human editors join forces to protect Wikipedia from subtle machine-written bias and fake citations to keep the site human.