Go ahead, self-host Postgres
Self-hosting a database sounds terrifying. That narrative has certainly been pushed over the last 10 years by the big cloud providers: Hosting your own database is dangerous How are you going to get all the 9s of reliability doing it yourself? You’ll have access to dedicated database engineers that you couldn’t (or wouldn’t want to) […]
The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
Press Room The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com. By Nicholas Henriquez December 18, 2025 Animation by Todd St. John Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story In the introduction to […]
The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward
Given a list of elements, such as cards in a deck, what is the right way to shuffle the list? That is, what is the appropriate algorithm to (pseudo)randomly permute the elements in the list, so that each of the possible permutations is equally likely? This is an interesting problem, in part because it is […]
TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL Queries in React Server Components
Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server Components. What is this? TailwindSQL lets you write SQL queries using Tailwind-style class names. Just use className to query your database directly in React Server Components!
Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool
A Web-based 3D Presentation Tool – Create stunning 3D presentations with animated transitions between slides. Watch Immersa in action: Demo Video What is Immersa? Immersa is an innovative presentation tool that brings your presentations into the third dimension. Unlike traditional slide-based tools, Immersa allows you to: Load 3D Models: Import .glb 3D models into your […]
Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory. Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a similar conversation would have consisted of 20 years ago. Of historical and psychological interest, Witten explains that when the anthropic landscape nonsense arrived, […]
Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4
../randomized-maxcut Published on: 2025-12-19 For a given graph G = (V, E), a cut C is a set of edges such that there is a partition V = (A, B) where all edges e ∈ C have one vertex in A and the other in B. MaxCut is a very famous combinatorial optimization problem wherein […]
Raycaster (YC F24) Is Hiring a Research Engineer (NYC, In-Person)
Raycaster (raycaster.ai) (YC F24) builds a document IDE for high-stakes, regulated work in life sciences (CMC / quality / regulatory). The product turns messy, versioned documents (PDFs, Word redlines, tables) into a structured workspace where agents can search, cite, reconcile changes, and help draft. We’re hiring a Research Engineer who can both (1) ship production […]
What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
Maybe not what you think. Over on X, Ben Dicken asked: What does a relational database designed specifically for local SSDs look like? Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and many others were invented in the 90s and 00s, the era of spinning disks. A local NVMe SSD has ~1000x improvement in both throughput and latency. Design decisions […]
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Exclusive Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider. The aerospace manufacturer, which has already consolidated its datacenter estate and uses services like Google Workspace, now wants to move key on-premises applications including […]