BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.
Starting Hand Frequencies and Pre-Flop Statistics in Texas Hold 'Em
Learn how starting hand frequencies and table position shape every pre-flop decision in Texas Hold 'Em.
JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out!
JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! JupyterLab 4.6 features new interface customization options, improved file browser and debugger, an easy way to jump between recently edited cells, and …
Why AR Glasses Still Don’t Scale
Optical manufacturing bottlenecks, air conditioning as development infrastructure, and the anisotropy lesson every process quietly reteaches
In Praise of Observational Evidence
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right?
It is a rare randomized trial (studying a particular intervention with a sufficiently large and well-distributed sample population) that can detect an 0.3% difference in a binary random variable — but Laplace could, more than 200 years ago.
You can be relatively sure that a p-value in one clinical trial conveys the same information as it does in another clinical trial, at least as far as the mathematical model is concerned.
Polynomial Regression: How to Fit and Interpret Curved Relationships
Learn what polynomial regression is, when to use it, and how to interpret curved model results correctly.
Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, and we visited one to see how mugicha is made
With barley tea going into glasses as the weather heats up, we find out what goes into making barley tea.
Why I Stopped Arguing With People
I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments…
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.
What Is /dev/null in Linux
The Linux /dev/null device discards anything written to it and returns EOF when read. This guide shows how to silence stdout, stderr, cron output, and empty files.
Beyond the solver: How Geometric Deep Learning is reshaping CAE - Simcenter
Discover how Geometric Deep Learning and Graph Neural Networks power Simcenter PhysicsAI to cut CFD & FEA simulation time from days to seconds.
What happens when you run a CUDA kernel
Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.
Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU | The CPU Shack Museum
The Permission Slip | I, Cringely
I have spent forty years watching this industry, and I know a permission slip when I see one.
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
How to spot an AI-generated face, according to science
Training people to pay attention to the right visual cues nearly doubled how accurately they could spot AI-generated faces
On the origin of continents - Works in Progress Magazine
Continental drift is as fundamental to geology as natural selection is to biology. Why did it take us hundreds of years to discover it?
Fix SSH "Host Key Verification Failed" Error
Resolve the SSH Host key verification failed error by removing the stale known_hosts entry with ssh-keygen -R after verifying the server is genuine.
How to lie about radiation -
Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar.
How to Get Your Own Ghanian Movie Poster
We've featured Ghanian movie posters a few times here at Neatorama. They are hand painted, have little to do with the movie, and are often quite lurid. There were born from a homegrown business of showing films in villages that had no electricity and hiring local artists to…
The loyalty metric no one wants to explain
Repeat purchases aren't proof of loyalty. Incrementality is.
Hard Links vs Symbolic Links in Linux
Understand the difference between hard links and symbolic links in Linux: how inodes work, when each type breaks, and which one to use for a given task.
Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
AI Learns the “Dark Art” of RFIC Design
Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster
The Eerie Story of Low Background Steel
Bandits are plundering metal from old shipwrecks, in search, it seems for the world's rarest, and strangest, metal.
Fintech Engineering Handbook
Will humans one day talk to animals? This scientist is bringing us closer
Julie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress toward a world where humans can talk to animals
The Secret AI Arms Race That Should Worry Investors
A University of Chicago study changed how I think about AI and information edges. Then a second paper on AI made it worse.
What If There Is No Moat Yet? | Tomasz Tunguz
At the application layer, moats are lagging, earned through scale & brand. At infrastructure, capital intensity demands a leading moat at founding.
A Deep Dive On China’s “LineShine” All-CPU, Exaflops-Class Supercomputer
It has been nine years since a Chinese HPC supercomputer was at the top of the High Performance Linp ...
How to Check if a Command Exists in Bash
Check whether a command exists in Bash with command -v, capture its path, validate several dependencies, and compare type, hash, and which.
The Garbage Collection Handbook
setuid, setgid, and the Sticky Bit Explained
Understand the setuid, setgid, and sticky bit special permissions in Linux: what each one does on files and directories, how to set them, and the security risks.
YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
America’s Last Bookie Goes Down
Tim Pughsley built a sports-betting website that moved billions, then the I.R.S. got involved. In the age of FanDuel and DraftKings, where is the line between legal and illegal gambling? Keith O’Brien writes.
A Complete Deep Dive of NVIDIA DWDM Co-Packaged Optics for Scaling beyond 200Gbps
Key physics constraints and architecture challenges for scaling data rates in DWDM - ring modulator physics, clocking, CW-DFB Laser, and package integration
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.
GitHub CLI: Manage Repositories, Issues, and Pull Requests
Use GitHub CLI to create and clone repositories, manage pull requests and issues, inspect workflow runs, publish releases, and call the GitHub API.
Using the Gini Coefficient to Plan Edge Capacity | Fastly
Discover how Fastly uses the Gini coefficient, a metric usually reserved for economics, to model edge traffic inequality, improve cache efficiency, and plan capacity.
Major events change the shape of the traffic we serve.
traffic inequality -> cache behavior -> CPU utilization -> headroom
Urban Dictionary: love peace and chicken grease
Love peace and chicken grease: Love peace and chicken grease: A way of saying goodbye with fondness...and the hope that the other person's day goes...
A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding | iximiuz Labs
SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags.
We’re making Bunny DNS free
Your DNS bill shouldn't scale with your traffic. So we removed query fees from Bunny DNS entirely. No per-request billing and no query limits.
RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers | Hacker News
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it - Ars Technica
I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."
Skunk Works and the 14 Rules Behind Fast Engineering — Flow Engineering
NASA invented systems engineering. Skunk Works perfected it.
Surface Truths: A Practitioners Guide to CMF Specification
Surface Truths: A Practitioner’s Guide to CMF Specification Color, Material, and Finish (CMF) is the user’s first physical interaction with any product, yet the specification knowledge required to execute CMF across a global supply chain is rarely documented in one place. This…
I see nothing but hills, ridges and sea: a breathtaking five-day walk around Ireland’s south-westernmost headland
The creators of County Cork’s Sheep’s Head Way had to win over hundreds of landowners to complete the ambitious project, but the result is a gloriously unspoilt trail
1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn...
We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction "B is A". This is the Reversal Curse. For instance, if a…
Why American data centers can't plug in
The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy. But America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it to them.
That process is significantly backlogged. Though the median power plant in 2005 waited less than 20 months for interconnection, this had jumped to 55 months by 2023.
The interconnection process wasn’t created for today’s world. Grids use an inflexible first-come, first-served queue that leaves some of the most valuable projects stuck behind less important ones.