A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
On November 7, the Besenval Palace in Solothurn experienced an exceptional moment with the official opening of the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst. The event took place in the presence of Olivier d’Agay, great-nephew of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and President […]
Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs
We thank Alan Auerbach, Frederick Bennhoff, Anmol Bhandari, David Burgherr, Harold Cole, Ashley Craig, Emanuel Hansen, Jonathan Heathcote, Xavier Jaravel, Louis Kaplow, Wojciech Kopczuk, Moritz Kuhn, Ellen McGrattan, Dominik Sachs, Emmanuel Saez, David Seim, Kjetil Storesletten, Harald Uhlig, Nicolas Werquin, Danny Yagan, Eric Zwick, and seminar participants at Australian National University, Barcelona, BU, CESifo, Chicago […]
Scala
Graphical user interface. It incorporates the command line interface of the old console version but also provides dialogs for almost all functions. The remaining functions can be used by typing Scala commands. Plays scale tones via the soundcard. Several screens allow different playing with tones of a scale via the soundcard’s MIDI synthesizer or external […]
Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost […]
Tom Stoppard has died
2 days ago ShareSave Seher Asafand Patrick Jackson ShareSave Matt Humphrey Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the UK’s best-known playwrights, has died aged 88, his agents have announced. Sir Tom, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, “died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family”. […]
Landlock-Ing Linux
Landlock: What Is It? Landlock is a Linux API that lets applications explicitly declare which resources they are allowed to access. Its philosophy is similar to OpenBSD’s unveil() and (less so) pledge(): programs can make a contract with the kernel stating, “I only need these files or resources — deny me everything else if I’m […]
Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini’s Nano Banana
A CLI tool to edit PDF slides using natural language prompts, powered by Google’s Gemini 3 Pro Image (“Nano Banana”) model. Natural Language Editing: “Update the graph to include data from 2025”, “Change the chart to a bar graph”. Add New Slides: Generate entirely new slides that match your deck’s visual style. Non-Destructive: Preserves the […]
All it takes is for one to work out
More than a decade ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I went through a period of deep uncertainty. I had tried the previous year and hadn’t gotten in anywhere. I wanted to try again, but I had a lot going against me. I’d spent most of my undergrad building a student job-portal startup […]
The Origins of Scala (2009)
The Origins of Scala A Conversation with Martin Odersky, Part I by Bill Venners and Frank Sommers May 4, 2009 Summary Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners about the history that led to the creation of the Scala programming language. Scala, a general-purpose, object-oriented, functional language for the JVM, is the brainchild of Martin Odersky, […]
Learning Feynman’s Trick for Integrals
a.k.a. Differentiation under the Integral Sign & Leibniz Integral Rule Among a few other integral tricks and techniques, Feynman’s trick was a strong reason that made me love evaluating integrals, and although the technique itself goes back to Leibniz being commonly known as the Leibniz integral rule, it was Richard Feynman who popularized it, which […]