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OpenAI Brings Its Codex Desktop Coding Agent to Linux
OpenAI has extended Codex Desktop — the ChatGPT desktop application built around its Codex coding agent — to Linux, adding the platform alongside its earlier ma
Principia Mathematica at 115: The 1910 Text That Predicted Lambda Calculus and Type Theory
Whitehead and Russell's 1910 Principia Mathematica is remembered mostly for spending a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2, but a close reading of its first chap
ShadeMap: Browser-Based 3D Shadow Simulation Without Google Earth Pro
ShadeMap is a web application that models how shadows fall across real-world locations, letting users simulate the sunlight and shade cast by buildings, trees,
Social Media Sardine Craze Meets Collapsing Catches, Emptying Store Shelves
A viral wave of interest in tinned fish has stripped canned sardines from supermarket shelves across the country. Once a cheap pantry afterthought, sardines got
Spend Your 'Innovation Tokens' Wisely: The Case for Boring Technology
Dan McKinley argues that engineering teams should treat novelty as a scarce resource. Every company gets roughly three 'innovation tokens' to spend on unproven
The Case for Vibe-Coding in Common Lisp Instead of Python
A longtime Lisp programmer argues that when using LLMs to generate code, the target language still matters—and that Common Lisp beats mainstream options like Py
Tim King, Who Brought Tripos to the Amiga as AmigaDOS, Dies at End of July
Dr. Tim King, a central figure in the Amiga's software history, died in late July, his family confirmed. King built the Tripos operating system — a preemptive m
uBlock Origin Stops Blocking Facebook Ads, Citing an Unwinnable Arms Race
A uBlock Origin maintainer has announced the project will no longer maintain filters that strip ads from Facebook, ending a years-long cat-and-mouse game the vo
When Font Choice Was Culture War: Germany's Century-Long Antiqua–Fraktur Fight
For roughly a century, Germany and Austria fought over which typeface was authentically German. Blackletter styles like Fraktur had been displaced across most o
xAI ships Grok 4.6, targeting long-running coding agents and one-pass app builds
xAI has released Grok 4.6, an incremental update to Grok 4.5 aimed squarely at agentic workloads: multi-step tasks like codebase work, research, and turning a r
1991 Mars Bar surfaces at 62.5g — 56% heavier than today's 40g bar
A house clearance in Scunthorpe turned up an unopened Mars Bar with a 1991 best-before date, and it dwarfs the current product: 62.5g versus the 40g bar sold to
A digital hoarder's archive reconstructs the 2000 classified ad that landed a dream job
Photographer David set out to fact-check a story he'd told for years: that a New York Times classified listing landed him a staff job at Polo Ralph Lauren in 20