Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole Christmas Written by Tom of Moore’s Law Is Dead Special Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugata Introduction — The Day the RAM Market Snapped At the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a Minisforum BD790i X3D motherboard, and three weeks later […]
Frank Gehry has died
REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Sakshi Venkatraman US reporter 5 December 2025, 20:08 GMT Updated 13 minutes ago Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the last century, has died aged 96. Gehry was acclaimed for his avant garde, experimental style of architecture. His titanium-covered design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, catapulted him […]
Leaving Intel
I’ve resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much of this is public: It’s still early days for AI flame graphs. Right now when I browse CPU performance case studies on […]
A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32 including shipping, and […]
Perpetual Futures
Programming note: Bits about Money is supported by our readers. I generally forecast about one issue a month, and haven’t kept that pace that this year. As a result, I’m working on about 3-4 for December. Much financial innovation is in the ultimate service of the real economy. Then, we have our friends in crypto, […]
Fizz Buzz in CSS
Fizz Buzz in CSS – Susam Pal By Susam Pal on 06 Dec 2025 What is the smallest CSS code we can write to print the Fizz Buzz sequence? I think it can be done in four lines of CSS as shown below: li { counter-increment: n } li:not(:nth-child(5n))::before { content: counter(n) } li:nth-child(3n)::before { […]
Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
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Framework Sponsors CachyOS
Hey CachyOS Community, We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS. For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us […]
Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
Because We’re Not Smart Enough for C++ or Rust Francis Bouvier Cofounder & CEO Friday, December 5, 2025 TL;DR To be honest, when I began working on Lightpanda, I chose Zig because I’m not smart enough to build a big project in C++ or Rust. I like simple languages. I like Zig for the same […]
The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out
On OpenAI’s new social app, Sora 2, a popular video shows a disturbingly lifelike Sam Altman sprinting out of a Target store with stolen computer chips, begging police not to take his “precious technology.” The clip is absurdist, a parody of the company’s own CEO, but it also speaks to a larger conversation playing out […]