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I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. This is the condensed story, written for anyone wondering whether they have a future.

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breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.

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Generate hands-on, multi-part technical tutorials on demand, with LLM skills tuned to make content approachable. Then you work through them yourself, by hand ✋ - devenjarvis/lathe

Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...

The science of perfect pancakes: leavening chemistry, acid-base stoichiometry, whey protein structure, and an interactive calculator that computes optimal ratios from your available ingredients.

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For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I...

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A daytime copper theft has knocked 100,000-watt WDGG(FM) in Ashland, Ky., off the air. Kindred Communications' Mike Kirtner details the near-fatal incident.

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This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.

LLM-based Multi-Agent (LLM-MA) systems are increasingly applied to automate complex software engineering tasks such as requirements engineering, code generation, and testing. However, their operational efficiency and resource consumption remain poorly understood, hindering practical adoption due to unpredictable costs and environmental impact. To address this, we conduct an analysis of token consumption patterns in an LLM-MA system within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), aiming to understand where tokens are consumed across distinct software engineering activities. We analyze execution traces from 30 software development tasks performed by the ChatDev framework using a GPT-5 reasoning model, mapping its internal phases to distinct development stages (Design, Coding, Code Completion, Code Review, Testing, and Documentation) to create a standardized evaluation framework. We then quantify and compare token distribution (input, output, reasoning) across these stages.
Our preliminary findings show that the iterative Code Review stage accounts for the majority of token consumption for an average of 59.4% of tokens. Furthermore, we observe that input tokens consistently constitute the largest share of consumption for an average of 53.9%, providing empirical evidence for potentially significant inefficiencies in agentic collaboration. Our results suggest that the primary cost of agentic software engineering lies not in initial code generation but in automated refinement and verification. Our novel methodology can help practitioners predict expenses and optimize workflows, and it directs future research toward developing more token-efficient agent collaboration protocols.

Technical articles and release notes about Symbolica, symbolic computation, numerical methods, and high-performance computer algebra.

Open AI models used for a wide range of scientific applications, including accelerating the design of therapeutic molecules.

Lossless compression of a target model

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Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.

Theory predicts B₈₀ cages can’t be made. Experimentalists just proved otherwise

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