Writing by hand is good for your brain

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain – Here’s how to do it Neal Stephenson Jul 21, 2026 284 5 47 Share Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research . I won’t rehash what is … Devamını oku

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ In this series of articles, I aim to demonstrate how OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX work by writing a simplified clone from scratch. Surprisingly, many people struggle with the initial hurdle of learning a 3D graphics API. To help with this, I have prepared a short series … Devamını oku

Scanning for Pangram Errors

Scanning for Pangram errors I scanned over 2 million words into Pangram looking for false positives VeryFinePrint Jul 15, 2026 11 1 Share Pangram is a new AI detection tool that has made waves in various reader circles for catching literary prize winners using AI generated prose. Pangram claims it can help its users detect … Devamını oku

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Email address Sign Up Thank you! AI companies are pouring untold billions of dollars into enormous data centers in their efforts to sustain increasingly complex and resource-intensive AI models. It’s an extremely costly undertaking built on seemingly bottomless … Devamını oku

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

22 July 2026 Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, … Devamını oku

Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems

We already tell every agent in the swarm to prefer a script over N tool calls. We’d never actually measured what that’s worth in tokens, seconds, or dollars — until we ran it live. Anthropic published a piece in November on code execution with MCP: give an agent a sandbox and a generated API instead … Devamını oku

Cruller: Bun’s Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

solenopsys July 16, 2026, 8:01am 1 Cruller: a production-focused Bun runtime ported to Zig 0.16 Cruller is a fork of the last Zig-based Bun release, reduced to the parts needed to run already-built production JavaScript servers and ported to vanilla Zig 0.16. Repository: GitHub – solenopsys/cruller: fork of Bun · GitHub The project keeps JavaScriptCore, … Devamını oku

Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot

When Emacs 29 made eglot the built-in, default Language Server Protocol (LSP) client, many of us rejoiced. It is lightweight, fast, adheres strictly to Emacs philosophy, and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. However, being minimal means that when an LSP server steps out of line or acts quirky, eglot doesn’t provide a million customizable … Devamını oku

git’s –end-of-options Flag

I was reading through the fix for a package manager CVE last week and ran into a git flag I’d somehow never noticed: –end-of-options . My first reaction was that some LLM had hallucinated it, but it’s documented in gitcli(7) , it was added in git 2.24.0 in November 2019, and it exists because git … Devamını oku