“Bad Apple” in Minecraft
(purplesyringa.moe)
Yearly Favorites
1981.
1982.
Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
(jasher.substack.com)
1983.
1984.
1986.
1987.
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
(ghuntley.com)
1988.
What will enter the public domain in 2025?
(publicdomainreview.org)
1989.
1990.
In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
(web.stanford.edu)
1991.
1992.
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
(techcrunch.com)
1993.
1994.
Maggie Smith has died
(variety.com)
1995.
1996.
1997.
How Meta trains large language models at scale
(engineering.fb.com)
1998.
Gosub – An open-source browser engine
(github.com)
1999.
The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray
(anthonydavidadams.substack.com)
2000.
iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]
(youtube.com)
2001.
Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]
(ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov)
2002.
$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
(latent.space)
2003.
2004.
Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
(amasci.com)
2005.
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
(matt.blwt.io)
2006.
Engineering principles for building financial systems
(substack.wasteman.codes)
2007.
A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
(valve.computer)
2008.
Conway's Gradient of Life
(hardmath123.github.io)
2009.
Do AI companies work?
(benn.substack.com)
2010.
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says
(bloomberg.com)