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Karpathy retires the pelican test with a $10, two-hour Lord of the Rings render
Andrej Karpathy argues that quick LLM benchmarks like "draw an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle" are running out of road, and proposes a heavier-weight alternative
Kenji's Pressure-Cooker Pho Ga: A Clear Chicken Broth in Under 30 Minutes
Serious Eats' J. Kenji López-Alt argues that pho ga—Vietnamese chicken noodle soup—is a near-ideal candidate for the pressure cooker, cutting a traditionally ho
Lean's Proof Kernel Fell to an AI-Assisted 'Disproof' of Collatz
A soundness bug in the Lean theorem prover's kernel let a proof of False slip past type checking, and it surfaced in dramatic fashion: on July 25 Ramana Kumar p
MapScaping releases free print-and-fold paper globe templates
MapScaping is offering a set of print-ready paper globe templates that anyone can download, print, and assemble by folding, all at no cost. Beyond the ready-mad
Meshdiff diffs 3D models in the browser, with no file upload
Meshdiff is a web tool for comparing two versions of an STL file — the standard mesh format used for 3D printing and CAD exports — and highlighting the geometri
MIT: LLMs Give Solid Financial Advice — But Bias Creeps In Through Your Prompt
MIT Sloan researchers put AI financial advice to the test and found it better than expected. Feeding prompts from 1,000 adults into GPT-5.2, GPT-5.6, and Gemini
RISC OS Open at 20: How a Proprietary OS Became Apache-Licensed and Community-Run
Founded in June 2006, RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) set out to pry open a proprietary operating system and hand it to anyone willing to contribute. Two decades later
Silicon Valley's Founder Pipeline Chews Up More People Than It Crowns
A first-person essay traces the arc of "Jim," a charismatic bartender-turned-bootcamp-developer whom the author helped land his first startup job. A well-timed
Teen Engineers a 3D-Printed Cycloidal Gearbox with a Custom Python Generator
A self-described 15-year-old aspiring engineer has open-sourced a working cycloidal gearbox alongside the Python script that generates its geometry. Cycloidal d
The Case Against Tailwind CSS: Class Soup, Fake Design Systems, and a Lying Cascade
A developer who has shipped real projects on Tailwind CSS lays out why he stops short of recommending it for medium or large codebases, despite acknowledging it
The Medieval 'AI': A Magical Manuscript That Promised Instant Mastery of All Knowledge
Long before The Matrix imagined uploading skills directly into the brain, medieval scholars circulated the Ars notoria, an anonymous manuscript tradition that a
A $160 Thunderbolt Hack Gets 25GbE on a Mac — But the Payoff Is Underwhelming
Frustrated that Apple's Thunderbolt tax makes 25-gigabit networking cost $1,000-plus (Sonnet, Atto), Jeff Geerling upgraded his Mac Studio using a much cheaper