In 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the New England transcendentalist movement, published an essay about the importance of cultivating self-reliance. Emerson wanted each individual to make their own moral compass of greater importance than the rules imposed by the state and society. It was a…

Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating the lucrative Cloud Computing market. But it struggles to translate this strength into the new GPU/XPU…

When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse—economists warned that the…

"This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the video or just flip through the slides." This post is about how to keep secrets out of logs, and my claim is that (like many things in…

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over…

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in…

The gender gap between men and women has been a durable fact of life in American politics — and nowhere is this gap larger than among the youngest cohort of American adults, Gen Z. But it’s not just politics driving the divide. The latest NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows how…

Politics September 8, 2025 Perceptions of socialism remain steady at 39% positive WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are more positive toward capitalism than socialism, but the 54% viewing capitalism favorably is down from 60% in 2021 and near that level in most prior years. Americans remain more negative…

About a year ago, Maxim Schepelin and I set out to write our first book. A book for aspiring Engineering Managers. We quickly realized that writing was a much larger undertaking than we had anticipated. We also found ourselves overwhelmed by the numerous tools used in the industry. As engineering…

In the very first, pre-credits interview of Colin Hanks’s “John Candy: I Like Me”—a perfectly acceptable bio-documentary filled with entertaining clips and beloved entertainers telling heartwarming stories—his friend and frequent co-star Bill Murray poses the conundrum of telling Candy’s story: “I…

Save $40 WD Black SN7100 | 2 TB: was $159.99 now $119.99 at AmazonBeating even some PCIe 5.0 drives in our random 4K performance benchmark, this M.2 SSD is definitely up to the challenge of braving your Steam backlog. Write speeds are comparatively average, though. Key specs: NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | Up to…

15 Best Coming-Of-Age Movies Ever Made By Published 9 hours ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Christine (Saoirse Ronan) and Julie (Beanie Feldstein) walking in Lady Bird Coming-of-age is a timeless subgenre of cinema that stays ever popular because of the simultaneously comforting and…

(Image credit: Retro Smack / YouTube) 3D Pinball: Space Cadet is one of the classic games found in early copies of Windows, first arriving in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, before being bundled into the operating system until Windows XP. However, Dave Plummer, who ported the game over from 95 to…

AI and machine learning September 8, 2025 Paul Linse/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend…

'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir 8 days ago Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent AFP via Getty Images Roy's debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker and made her a celebrity at 36 "Someone once asked me what my mother's greatest legacy to me was,"…

'We wanted to make it real': How Goodfellas reinvented the gangster film 7 days ago Myles Burke Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Martin Scorsese's crime epic was released 35 years ago. In 1990, the director and his stars, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, revealed its secrets to the BBC. There was…

When Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against Gaza that is still under way nearly two years later, those few who still hoped for peaceful coexistence were among the first to die. The hardest-hit kibbutz, Nir Oz, has nearly 70…

It seems like Steven Soderbergh might have developed a late case of anglophilia, the retirement-teasing director situating himself in London for three films within the last two years. The first was a needless, throwaway Magic Mike sequel, but then this spring he gave us the delicious spy caper Black…

Elevation Pictures One of the reasons I go to film festivals—perhaps at this point the main one—is to see movies the way they’re meant to be seen. I don’t mean dazzling images on a silver screen, although that part is nice, especially compared to the frequently undazzling presentation of my local…

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!). You can download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but…

Rich Already Answered That! A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask…

Back to insights How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years Jeremy Edberg September 3, 2025 DBOS Architecture When I was responsible for the infrastructure at Reddit, the most important thing I maintained was Postgres, but a close second was RabbitMQ, our message broker. It was…

September 8, 2025 Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff…

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly,…

A new study shows people in countries with different obesity rates burn about the same number of calories. PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized…

AI Markets Have Crystalized AI markets have evolved significantly over the last 4 years. When GPT-3 came out and scaling laws were openly discussed in the AI literature, it seemed clear that you could extrapolate the rate of progress from GPT-2 to GPT-3 onwards through GPT-4, 5 etc and realize a…

Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his note that accepting money from Middle East leaders would likely…

6 Shares In today’s competitive hiring environment, the ability for companies to move quickly on talent is more paramount than ever. That includes identifying high-quality candidates and moving them through the pipeline faster than competitors are able to. Enter Ashby. The 7-year-old San…

Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives…

oidc publishing security Introducing 'Trusted Publishers' Starting today, PyPI package maintainers can adopt a new, more secure publishing method that does not require long-lived passwords or API tokens to be shared with external systems. About trusted publishing "Trusted publishing" is our term for…

From Python 3.14, python -m pdb -p pid lets you connect a pdb session to a running Python process. This post goes into a part of what makes this possible. The barrier to entry for writing general debugging tools for Python programs has always been quite low. Unlike many languages, you're rarely…

Reference The package mostly replicates the API of the threading module. and exceptions class multiprocessing.Process(group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}, *, daemon=None) Process objects represent activity that is run in a separate process. The class has equivalents of all the…

20 Jul, 2025 We are under constant cognitive assault. Buying plane tickets is navigating a minefield - one misclick blows a hole in your wallet. Resolving a mistake on your utility bill is a tactical operation: dodge hold music traps, outwit the chatbot, then convince the agent you shouldn’t need to…

For a decade (2014-2024), I was a Ruby-only developer. I worked across the Ruby ecosystem—from Rails development to Ruby’s core tooling like IRB, RDoc, and the debug gem. But while I moved around the stack, I stayed within Ruby’s boundaries. Ruby wasn’t just my primary language; it was essentially…

(On Wednesday July 16, we held a fireside chat with the primary authors of the paper. We had a great turnout & a fun discussion, with lots of terrific questions from the audience. We’ll be posting a recording – look for a link in a forthcoming post.) The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting. To…

5 things I learned from 5 years at Vercel july 2025 – lee robinson After five years at Vercel, I just finished my last week. What a ride! When I joined in 2020, we were 30 people and had crossed $1M ARR. Today, Vercel is 650 people and over $200M ARR. During that time, I went from IC to VP and…

Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C Compiler | No Starch Press I decided to work my way through it. I plan to do blog posts as I progress…