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Swiss franc is probaby the only currency which can take a 39% tariff and barely bats an eye.

The overnight eruption of the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka, its first in 600 years, may be connected to the huge earthquake that rocked Russia's Far East last week, Russia's RIA state news agency and scientists reported on Sunday.

Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost? The Trump administration will take any help it can get

Could stablecoins—cryptocurrency tokens backed by safe assets such as short-term Treasury bonds—drive up demand for American debt, and pull down borrowing costs? The idea is not as outlandish as it seems

A thumbnail with a blue/green gradient background, the VS Code logo, and reads "The open source AI editor. The GitHub Copilot Chat extension is now open source"

In case you missed it: VS Code has reached the first milestone as the open source AI editor.

Read more about why we decided to open source the AI capabilities, how you can contribute, and what's next: aka.ms/oss-ai-editor

Grok 4 API access working already on launch day is a feat of execution.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

There has been a long time norm amongst democracies that force is always the option of last resort. Countries will have to decide whether to uphold this norm, adding to other questions over the international order. The world is becoming weirder by the day.

A very interesting take on how narratives can shape perceptions

Deepseek doesn't do marketing. But comparing outputs across many top end models, Deepseek is often the best.

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

The Fed's reaction function under stagflationary circumstances will be both interesting and consequential.

When choosing between two alternative software, one written in rust and one written in C, users will likely use the one written in rust first. Rust's marketing advantage is the perception of safety. Developers will have to adapt.

any link? not seeing this on your YT channel

Gemini blocking even US-located VPS from access is just so frustrating. Probably will not build anything on top of Gemini for the foreseeable future.

ordered an rpi5 with an nvme drive, annoyed by people saying "its impossible to run an appview unless you have a billion dollars so just stay on mastodon where we can whine about things together"

A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

Congratulations to Andrew Barto & Richard Sutton, who have won the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual & algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. An #openaccess edition of their notable text, "Reinforcement Learning," may be found here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026203924...

OpenAI => Open competition in AI

Clickbench says Postgres is a great analytics database Postgres is now top 10 in Clickbench with pg_mooncake.

www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbe... My pet theory is that general-purpose open source software will always evolve to supercede any professional specialised software, no matter how large the gap looks to be at first.

Liang Wenfeng must be an alien to bring the cost curve for AI down like this.

Countries' balance between pursuing nationalist economic interest and co-operating on the international commons is never a constant, but this shift is still unexpected.

google search of dbs fx quarterly

Google AI did a pretty amazing job summarizing our latest FX views in our inaugural FX Quarterly. Want to know more? Google "dbs fx quarterly" and find out!

AI is a game changer, and so much energy can be saved when content marketing just works on the open web.

2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for Web 3.0 to flourish with greater US regulatory permissiveness, and a growing desire for democratic governance on web platforms.