DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
In bug 1910322 comment 74 DigiCert wrote, “We have not used a legal team as a shield against accountability.” Contrary to this statement, I received a letter from DigiCert’s lawyers, Wilson Sonsini, regarding posts made by Sectigo’s Chief Compliance Officer in bug 1910322. The upshot of the letter was that DigiCert expected Sectigo to “ensure […]
It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI
Archives Categories Blogroll Posted on 24 February 2025 in Blogkeeping My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you’d found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what’s the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek […]
Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
(This document is the result of a series of discussions, some online and some in person, held between Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin and John Ousterhout between September, 2024 and February, 2025. If you would like to comment on anything in this discussion, we recommend that you do so on the Google group associated with APOSD) […]
“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – A “Study”
2025-02-14 This write-up was originally posted on reddit, though I’ve cleaned things up specifically for this post. Due to reasons discussed towards the end of this post, I’m not entirely happy with the results and intend to take another shot at it in the near future. I came across this post sharing a hypothesis from […]
Closing the “green gap”: energy savings from the math of the landscape function
Closing the “green gap”: from the mathematics of the landscape function to lower electricity costs for households 23 February, 2025 in expository, math.AP, math.MP, The sciences | Tags: green gap, landscape theory, LED lighting, Svitlana Mayboroda | by Terence Tao I recently returned from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the “Localization of Waves” collaboration (supported by […]
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet1, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market. Claude 3.7 Sonnet can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is made visible to the user. API users also have fine-grained control over how long the model can think for. Claude 3.7 […]
The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars
Text embeddings, particularly modern embeddings generated from large language models, are one of the most useful applications coming from the generative AI boom. Embeddings are a list of numbers which represent an object: in the case of text embeddings, they can represent words, sentences, and full paragraphs and documents, and they do so with a […]
Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi’s work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new possibilities in wind turbine design that Hermann Glauert, a British aerodynamicist and the original author, did not consider. Tyagi, […]
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
corporate.watch | we don’t need to work this out for every report Corporate coordinates generated Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:21:47 +0000 ( 2025-02-24T19:21:47.210948929+00:00) Wouldn’t it be better if there was a tool that removed the need for this though? Take a look at objectivetrackr.com!
Right to Repair laws have now been introduced in all 50 us states
With the introduction of a bill in Wisconsin, Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced in every single US state. We’ve been fighting for the simple right to fix everything we own for the last eleven years—and we’ve been joined in that fight by more and more advocates, tinkerers, farmers, students, and lawmakers. Today, […]