NMH BASIC: tiny 1990s BASIC interpreter, implementations and quirks
TL;DR NMH BASIC is a compact BASIC interpreter written in the early 1990s and distributed with source and binaries for…
A Century of Noether’s Theorem: Symmetry, Conservation and Legacy
TL;DR Chris Quigg’s colloquium-based essay revisits Emmy Noether’s 1918 result that links symmetries to conservation laws and surveys its far-reaching…
Verdichtung: Zurich’s densification approach and what it means for housing
TL;DR Verdichtung, a Swiss strategy favoring inward urban densification over outward sprawl, has driven Zurich to repurpose existing parcels and…
psutil 7.2 adds C-heap introspection; psleak aids native leak tests
TL;DR psutil 7.2 exposes the platform allocator so C-level memory allocations can be measured from Python. A companion PyPI tool,…
How Bookmakers Fight Smart Gamblers: The Battle to Stop Clever People Betting
TL;DR Bookmakers use technical and policy measures to limit how much successful, data-driven bettors can stake. The Economist piece recounts…
China’s Overseas Clean-Energy Buildout Brings Environmental and Human-Rights Costs
TL;DR Since 2022 Chinese firms have pledged roughly $200 billion to build factories, mines and refineries for clean-energy technologies worldwide.…
Carnegie Mellon team builds camera that focuses on multiple depths
TL;DR Researchers at Carnegie Mellon created a hybrid optical–algorithm camera that can focus different parts of a scene at different…
Inside the Proton: How experiments reveal a shape-shifting quantum object
TL;DR Decades of scattering experiments show the proton is a dynamic quantum system whose internal makeup depends on how it…
Cursed Bundler — Using Go’s module tooling to fetch Ruby gems
TL;DR A thought experiment and proof-of-concept shows you can use Go's module fetcher (go get) to download Ruby gems by…
Samsung Secure Folder isn’t for secrets — it’s for enforcing work-life balance
TL;DR A former two‑phone user explains how Samsung's Secure Folder can replace a second device by isolating work apps and…