Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
If Valve’s latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare. Steam on Linux ended 2025 at around a 3.5% marketshare, dipped a bit in January, […]
Artemis II’s toilet is a moon mission milestone
April 1, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm On their voyages to the moon, NASA’s astronauts are finally getting some creature comforts of terrestrial toilets—such as having a door and being able to pee and poop simultaneously By K. R. Callaway edited by Lee Billings The lunar-bound astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II […]
The Claude Code Leak
Apr 1, 2026 | 6 min read Much of the tech world is gushing about the accidental leak of Claude Code’s source code yesterday, but for different reasons than I find it interesting. I began jotting down my thoughts and came up with five distinct observations that had little to do with the leak itself, […]
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by using high-rate codes, which could work for example in neutral-atom architectures (or possibly other architectures that allow nonlocal […]
A new C++ back end for ocamlc
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Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Nasa launched Artemis II on a historic crewed mission to the moon. The 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes the first woman and first person of color to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the moon. Artemis II’s […]
Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away
I’m writing this as a PSA to anyone who is thinking about getting a used phone for GrapheneOS. I tried purchasing three used phones from Swappa.com. The first seller, Buyback Surgeon, listed a Google Pixel 9 Pro XL for $404 titled ”Unlocked”. After receiving the device, OEM unlocking was not possible. I requested a return […]
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a ’right-sized’ 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today’s date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist ’high end SBC’ […]
InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring
InspectMind AI • San Francisco • Full-time$120K – $220K + Equity The Mission Every building is designed using drawings that often contain hundreds of mistakes. These mistakes lead to costly delays, rework, and sometimes unsafe structures. We’re building the AI Plan Checker — a system that reviews full construction plan sets (drawings, specs, calculations) in […]
Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165 33 points by maziyar 3 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments We built an end-to-end protein AI pipeline covering structure prediction, sequence design, and codon optimization. After comparing multiple transformer architectures for codon-level language modeling, CodonRoBERTa-large-v2 emerged as the clear winner with […]