Few places are as comfortable with architectural variety as New York, a city that has always reinvented itself, but never thrown away its past. As a result, it boasts one of the liveliest mixes of structures in the world, many of which are marquee examples of their eras. Here are 15 of the Big…

“This is such a race for being the science powerhouse that you never fully recover,” says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences. “You might accelerate back up to 60, but you can’t make up for those years when you were at a standstill while the competition was racing ahead.”…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why Warren Buffett Says Jack Bogle Probably Did More for American Investors Than Anyone Else By Daniel Liberto Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors…

Speaking to AI podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Anthropic’s Sholto Douglas said he predicted there would be a “drop in white-collar workers” over the next two to five years, even if current AI progress stalls. “There is this whole spectrum of crazy futures. But the one that I feel we’re almost guaranteed…

Hypercard Hype 30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web From the archives: Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything. Matthew Lasar – May 25, 2019 9:56 am | 230 The Computer Lab's Beyond Cyberpunk Hypercard stack Credit: Beyond Cyberpunk! The Computer Lab's…

Every week a new thread emerges on Reddit asking about the difference between MCP and API. I've tried summarizing everything that's been said about MCP vs API in a single post (and a single table). AspectTraditional APIs (REST/GraphQL)Model Context Protocol (MCP)What it isInterface styles (REST,…

Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. But Matt Darling, formerly of the Niskanen Center, swears it’s not true, and Dylan Matthews of Vox calls it a damned lie. Even Matt Yglesias is apparently on the case, but I’m blocked from seeing his posts. Who’s…

6th June 2025 I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October 2023 and June 2024. My topic this time was “The last six months in LLMs”—originally planned as the last year, but so…

Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, in the 1890s Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. If you want to learn writing, read great writers, etc. But this is not…

I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn. Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements. Something that used to take 4-8 hours…

Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a startup to learn acronyms about equity and stock options. But some of those acronyms might have serious impacts on your life (or, at least,…

written on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 At the moment I'm working on a new project. Even over the last two months, the way I do this has changed profoundly. Where I used to spend most of my time in Cursor, I now mostly use Claude Code, almost entirely hands-off. Do I program any faster? Not really. But…

Parenthood has made me an easy (or at least easier) mark for stories about how social media and other novel attention-farming technologies are frying our childrens’ brains. And so I read James D. Walsh’s recent piece about higher education’s epidemic of AI-powered cheating with a sense of alarm that…

My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst…

LLM agents make bad pairs because they code faster than humans think. I'll admit, I've had a lot of fun using GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code this month. It's invigorating to watch it effortlessly write a working method on the first try. It's a relief when the agent unblocks me by reaching…

Today, the Guardian launches a unique new tool for protecting journalistic sources. Secure Messaging is an important new technological innovation that will make it easier for people to share confidential information with us. Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to…

In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. I’ll first…

intel outside Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2 Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won't stay around indefinitely. Andrew Cunningham – Jun 9, 2025 6:37 pm | 14 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Once upon a time, free access to AI chatbots was the standard. However, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Plus plan, and it was met with high demand; other companies followed suit. Anthropic's counterpart, Claude Pro, just got an upgrade, making it even more robust an offer.…

The Thunderbolt and broader USB-C hub space is crowded with options from budget to premium, offering a dizzying array of ports. ProGrade, makers of excellent high-performance storage, are diving into this space with their first hub: a Thunderbolt 4–based hub designed around their card reader…

the original Mac artist Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74 Creator of MacPaint, HyperCard, and pull-down menus shaped modern computing. Benj Edwards – Jun 9, 2025 8:30 AM | 69 Bill Atkinson in 1987. Credit: Michel BARET via Getty Images Bill Atkinson in 1987. Credit:…

Key takeaways Amazon plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 1,250 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain.Since 2010, Amazon has invested $26 billion in Pennsylvania, contributing more than $26…

By Published May 31, 2025 Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard When shopping for new storage drives, you can choose between a hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD). Both have advantages and drawbacks for storing data inside PCs, servers, network-attached storage (NAS), and other…

Key specs Type: Prime lens Focal length: 35mm Maximum aperture: f/1.4 Lens mount: Canon RF Weight: 19.58 oz / 555 g Dimensions: 3.01x3.90 in / 76.5x99.3 mm Filter thread: 67mm Release date: June 2024 Popular prime lenses for astrophotography often come in at 24mm or wider to allow for capturing a…

Canon’s EOS R5 Mark III is expected between late 2027 to mid-2028, but that’s exactly why now is the time to speak up. Once specs are finalized, it’s too late to shape what the next generation of this popular hybrid camera will become. As a working photographer and videographer, here’s what I think…

Put on your epistemological thinking cap—something foundational is ending. Not with a dramatic fracture, but with a quiet erosion that few noticed and fewer still dared to name. Knowledge is dead. It's not knowledge in the sense of data or facts—those have never been more abundant. But the deeper…

Thibault JAMET 12 min read·4 hours ago In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of automating a complex infrastructure migration from a patchwork of Sceptre and CDK to Terraform, in a few months, following simple principles: Decide the architectural principles, and write them down…

The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway. Most things take forever to bear fruit. Even the most successful creators have spent years (if not decades) putting content out in obscurity. Just a complete total void. Youtube videos with 4 views. Newsletters with 3…

It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong. Stack Overflow once was the internet’s senior…

Hey there, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil (you might remember us from our HN post as Regatta Storage last Fall). Archil is building the next foundational primitive for cloud storage. Archil replaces services like EBS or Hyperdisk with volume storage that’s infinite, shareable between instances,…

Profiles The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. June 2, 2025 Yarvin wants to destroy democracy. Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and J. D. Vance are among his fans.Photograph by Carolyn Drake for The New Yorker…

With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability. By | May 28, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 1997 My well-thumbed copies of three classic web design books:…

Jordan Peterson’s already infamous appearance on Jubilee. Credit: YouTube Last week I published a quickly written “emergency” article responding to Jordan Peterson’s woeful appearance on Jubilee’s debate channel. Within 15 hours it was my most liked, viewed and commented article, knocking from the…

The Canon EOS R6 Mark III has been talked about for quite some time now, we do feel there have been some delays on the project, just from what was recently told to us in-person at a Canon headquarters. Thanks Canon! All New Sensor There are new suggestions that the 24mp resolution image sensor,…

Published 6 days ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Custom image by Diana Acuña Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki are responsible for their fair share of the most popular and successful animated films ever created. For nearly 40 years, fans of all ages have been shaped by the studio's grand…

A philosophy professor writes in sharing some news about the “character” and “well-being” of Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, noting how philosophers have been involved with recent developments. [“Owl no. 1” by Ben Shahn] The following is from an email from Gus Skorburg, associate professor of philosophy at…