Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering
A Python toolkit for hardware engineering By Jared Callaham • 6 Oct 2025 A great engineer (controls being no exception) has to be part hacker, part master craftsman. You have to be a hacker because things rarely “just work” in the real world without a little… creativity. But you can’t only be a hacker; developing […]
The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee’s early programming career
Writer J. M. Coetzee’s early poetry is almost undecipherable. That’s because it was written in computer code. Coetzee’s global reputation rests on his literary output, for which he received a Nobel Prize in 2003. Before he embarked on a career as a scholar and writer, the South African–born writer was a computer programmer in the […]
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance
The ability to recognize and avoid pathogens is essential for survival. In some cases, animals recognize molecules produced by pathogens, allowing them to mount an immediate response. In other cases, animals learn to avoid the pathogen after they have been exposed to it – a phenomenon that is called “learned avoidance”. The worm Caenorhabditis elegans […]
USA Gives South Korea Green Light to Build Nuclear Submarines
Revealed on October 29th, U.S President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S government has given the go ahead for South Korea to build Nuclear Submarines on U.S soil. Story by Ethan Gossrow, additional reporting by Eunhyuk Cha. The announcement came following a meeting with various Asian heads of state including South Korean President Lee […]
Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies
Trellis builds and deploys computer use agents to get patients access to life-saving medicine. Our computer-use AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, […]
Wealth
In the human world, wealth inequality arguably has more of an impact on lives and relationships than physical differences like distance and energy. We need to have meaningful discussions about structural class differences, and segmenting the population based on wealth is an obvious starting point. Wealth, like most quantities, doesn’t need precision beyond the exponent […]
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
This post describes my experience using Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729. The tl;dr is that it’s a delightful laptop, and Linux runs flawlessly, and all the hardware things I’ve needed run OOTB. The only difficulty I had was in disabling Secure Boot, but I figured out how to do it, which I explain below. […]
How to write type-safe generics in C
C is barebones and “doesn’t support” generics, but it’s actually quite easy to implement with the tools we already have. There’s many ways you might find them being implemented in the wild. Some of the common ones are: Using function-like macros #define vector_push(vector, item) vector.buf[vector.idx++] = item; Con: This will cause everything to be inlined […]
Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong
We’re relentless in our pursuit of delivering the best quality search possible. But we’re only human (well, mostly!) and building a search engine is complex, so sometimes Kagi serves up results that are more hilarious than helpful. This is our blooper reel of these moments. Enjoy and share your own! NZ Dollar to US […]
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
14 Nov 2025 UPD: We have updated the article with more information on the bailiff reports sent to us and the person who ordered them. The FBI has been investigating Archive.is (also known as Archive.today), as was recently revealed. The agency issued a subpoena to the site’s domain registrar, asking for information about the person […]