You can make up HTML tags
You can make up HTML tags: (Maurycy’s blog) Navigation: HomepageYearly archivesAstrophotographyAssorted softwareReal pagesAll tags Aug 2, 2025 (Programming) Instead of writing HTML like this: Hello, World! … you can write HTML like this: Hello, World! … and CSS like this: cool-thing { display: block; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; filter: drop-shadow(0 0 0.5em #ff0); color: #ff0; […]
Rich Hickey: Thanks AI
I got this email: Rich, Your creation of Clojure … sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader’s homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don’t know, using sources you don’t understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever Claude Haiku 4.5 Ah, Christmas time. That time of year when […]
Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award
Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee… Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let’s get into the spirit of giving. This […]
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination
22 Dec 2021 – Tags: sage , featured Anytime I see questions on mse that ask something “simple”, I feel a powerful urge to chime in with “a computer can do this for you!”. Obviously if you’re a researching mathematician you shouldn’t waste your time with something a computer can do for you, but when […]
62 years in the making: NYC’s newest water tunnel nears the finish line
Turn on the tap, and water flows without a second thought. But deep beneath New York City, hundreds of feet below street level, workers are finishing a project that’s been under construction for more than half a century — a massive water tunnel that will help keep that simple act possible for generations to come. […]
As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
Idaho-based Micron Technology is one of the world’s top makers of RAM chips and it’s benefited from increase demand. Charlie Litchfield/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FR164915AP Charlie Litchfield/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FR164915AP The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory […]
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Dec 27, 2025 (Photography) Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it: Sensor data with the 14 bit ADC values mapped to 0-255 RGB. It’s not even black-and-white, it’s gray-and-gray. This is becuase while the ADC’s output can theoretically go from 0 to 16382, the actual data doesn’t cover that […]
Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains
These analyses revealed less brain-wide availability of a specific kind of glutamate receptor, known as metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGlu5) in autistic participants. The findings support the idea that an imbalance of excitatory and inhibitory signals in the brain could be contributing to traits associated with autism, the researchers say. Fifteen of the autistic participants […]
Dolphin Progress Release 2512
With the holiday season reaching its apex, we have a few surprises for those of you that have been patiently waiting. The latest release of Dolphin is stuffed with treats. Our first present is presentation – frame presentation, that is. Two new options have arrived and will help users both reduce latency and smooth out […]
Unity’s Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
Execution of C# code in Unity’s Mono runtime is slow by today’s standards, much slower than you might expect! Our game runs 2-3x faster on modern .NET compared to Unity’s Mono, and in a few small benchmarks I measured speedups of up to 15x. I’ve spent some time investigating what’s going on and in this […]