Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians
Working from home can positively impact the mental health of Australian men and women in different ways, according to a new study of more than 16,000 people. Researchers at the University of Melbourne analysed 20 years of data compiled in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to understand how working from […]
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
Aug 09, 2025 I realized recently that rather than using “the right tool for the job” I’ve been using the tool at the job and that’s mostly determined the programming languages I know. So over the last couple months I’ve put a lot of time into experimenting with languages I don’t get to use at […]
Django 6
Content Security Policy support¶ Built-in support for the Content Security Policy (CSP) standard is now available, making it easier to protect web applications against content injection attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS). CSP allows declaring trusted sources of content by giving browsers strict rules about which scripts, styles, images, or other resources can be loaded. […]
CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication Through RL
🥳 Introduction CUDA-L2 is a system that combines large language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL) to automatically optimize Half-precision General Matrix Multiply (HGEMM) CUDA kernels. CUDA-L2 systematically outperforms major matmul baselines to date, from the widely-used torch.matmul to state-of-the-art NVIDIA closed-source libraries (cuBLAS, cuBLASLt-heuristic, cuBLASLt-AutoTuning). Paper Speedup of CUDA-L2 over torch.matmul, cuBLAS, cuBLASLt-heuristic, and […]
Plane crashed after 3D-printed part collapsed
A plane crashed after a 3D-printed part softened and collapsed, causing its engine to lose power, a report has found. The Cozy Mk IV light aircraft was destroyed after its plastic air induction elbow, bought at an air show in North America, collapsed. The aircraft crashed into a landing aid system at Gloucestershire Airport in […]
The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All
Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you’re not affected yet, just wait. I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650! Just in the past week, […]
I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary I was 25 years old when I started writing the blog version of Res Obscura, which ran from 2010 to 2023 (and still exists here). This was the early summer of 2010. I was a second-year PhD student in history, living with two roommates […]
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they’re disabled?
The students at America’s elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations designed for students with learning disabilities. In an article published this week in The Atlantic, education reporter Rose Horowitch lays out some shocking numbers. At Brown […]
PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
PyTogetherGoogle docs for Python. A fully browser-based collaborative Python IDE with real-time editing, chat, and visualization. pytogether.org (https://pytogether.org/) Real-time Collaboration – Edit Python code together instantly using Y.js. Secure Authentication – Log in manually or with Google OAuth. Groups & Projects – Organize your work into teams and projects. Live Drawings – Draw directly on […]
Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC
Converge is building the definitive Growth OS: We help DTC Growth teams understand which marketing efforts drive profitable growth. We are the only platform combining best-in-class tracking with blended reporting and multi-touch attribution. Our unique positioning has led to rapid growth in both number and size of customers. One of the secrets of our growth […]