Accessibility of the Scala Compiler
In 2001, as a university undergraduate, a friend and I were lucky enough to get the opportunity to meet the physicist Stephen Hawking at a small private reception after he gave a public lecture in Cambridge.
Newfound Mathematical 'Einstein' Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern
A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat.
My Sweet, Smart Boyfriend Got Sucked Into The Manosphere
A new documentary, 'Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,' investigates red-pilled creators and their followers. Three women explain what dating them is like.
Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
Can a person’s experiences on earth alter how they perceive the stars? Lauren Collee peers through the telescope of Anton Pannekoek, the Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos.
Radial
Coordinate humans and coding agents on software goals. Every unit of agent work is requested by a human and lands as a signed, reviewable artifact in its author’s own atproto repo — no central server.
Scott Heiferman looks back at Meetup's bet-the-company moment
37signals and Meetup go way back. Meetup was one of our first design clients back in the day. And founder Scott Heiferman was even a guest poster for a month here at SvN back in ‘03. We’ve watched closely as Meetup has grown and evolved since then, especially during the tumultuous perio…
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.
Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Used To Instantly Dox Strangers In Public, Thanks To AI And Facial Recognition
Harvard students hack together a system to gather intel on strangers to build their trust, then share steps for the public to protect themselves from such technology.
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. The variety and impact of his work made Kepler one of the founders and fathers of modern astronomy, the scientific method, natural science, and modern science. He has been described as the "father of science fiction" for his novel Somnium.
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Dugan Nash on Twitter / X
I found old tweets that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon on the internet archive. While his current @hilbertspaess account was created in 2026, there were 2 previous Twitter accounts that used the same username between 2021-2024.Link to the tweets below -— Dugan Nash (@orville_sashhhh) September 16, 2026
How physics at the roots of reality point to a grand unified theory | Aeon Essays
Physics displays an uncanny alignment at its very deepest levels. Is a grand theory of everything finally within reach?
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? — LessWrong
Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the Earth from space. We can see it all with certainty: there's no northwest passage to search f…
"[Man] aspires to make robots as one of the greatest achievements of his technical mind, and some specialists assure us that the robot will hardly be distinguished from living men. This achievement will not seem so astonishing when man himself is hardly distinguishable from a robot." - Erich Fromm
