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After a busy 6 months balancing university and an internship, I’ve been hard at work improving SpaceHey. We hit a massive milestone of 1 million registered users – crazy! Originally created as a fun project during lockdown, SpaceHey has become a big, independently run platform with a strong focus on user experience and safety. I’ve […]
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Scientists are on the brink of reviving the woolly mammoth by genetically modifying elephants. In 2003, they briefly reversed extinction with the Pyrenean ibex, but the clone died shortly after birth. De-extinction science has made significant progress, with companies like Colossal Biosciences planning to bring back the dodo, Tasmanian tiger, and woolly mammoth. The goal […]
In Mexico, Pre-Columbian figurines depicting individuals afflicted by disease have survived. A delicate jade figurine from the Olmec nation, known as “The Olmeca child,” resembles Diego de Velázquez’s painting “The child of Vallecas.” Both pieces masterfully portray young individuals with congenital hypothyroidism and cretinism. The Olmec figurine is believed to be a realistic portrait of […]
Generative AI relies on massive data sets collected from public sources like blogs, videos, and Reddit to train models. However, a recent report reveals a crisis as more websites use robots.txt to restrict data access for fear of AI impinging on their livelihoods. The rise in restricted data poses challenges for AI companies. Exclusive data […]
The author provides an update on porting Godot to the iPad following the WWDC 2024 conference. The surprise revelation was Apple’s release of FinalCut Pro for the iPad, inspiring the author to make significant UI improvements to mimic FinalCut Pro’s design. Striving for a touch-first experience, the author revamped various controls, toolbars, and menus in […]
Summary: The author explores the inner workings of the clipboard, focusing on the web clipboard APIs and their limitations. The async Clipboard API restricts data types to text, HTML, and images, while the older Clipboard Events API allows for more flexibility. Surprisingly, Google Docs uses execCommand(“copy”) to write custom data types to the clipboard, bypassing […]
The {fmt} formatting library is praised for its minuscule binary size compared to other alternatives like IOStreams and printf, achieved through strategic use of type erasure. It offers full runtime type safety, catchment of format errors at compile time, and efficient call handling, especially for positional arguments. Recent optimizations, including the use of the Dragonbox […]
In 1915, at the age of 37, Einstein completed his theory of general relativity, proposing that everything is a deformation of spacetime. Despite his failure to develop a unified field theory combining space, time, energy, and matter, he attempted to interpret elementary particles as solutions to his equations. Einstein even explored the idea of matter […]
In September 2024, at a YC event, Brian Chesky delivered a talk that left a lasting impact on attendees, causing many successful founders to reconsider conventional wisdom about running larger companies. Chesky argued that advice to hire good people and give them autonomy was misguided, citing Steve Jobs as inspiration for a more effective approach. […]
In 1982, engineers came up with the Inogon Leading Mark, a clever solution to guide ships into a harbor without using any electronics. The Inogon light makes use of the moiré effect, creating an optical illusion of arrows that change direction based on the angle they are viewed from. This unique use of distortion in […]