Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their

I see your point, but have you considered that the computer just told me that I'm absolutely right?

Boosting visibility for my Japanese followers. This is important work!

the Anthropic founding round was basically a handful of angels investing tens of millions of personal capital 20+ of the sand hill VCs we pitched passed the series A and B were even harder it wasn’t until Spark led the series C that the VCs finally started getting it

Actually, Frankenstein was the doctor. The monster was whoever credited Mary Shelley under her husband’s name in the original movie.

Tavis Ormandy Jayson Reis FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers. The most highly paid security engineers in the world creating bug reports with AI. Send patches, it's that simple.

A vicious and accurate takedown.

Hey now, Max Max mode is a beneficial feature. That is how those Tesla owners were going to drive anway. But now you can sue a trillion-dollar company when they kill someone!

Technologists are in the business of making everything free* *for a small fee

"Here be dragons" (warning sign on 1500s era map) ⬇️ "Here be dragons" (informative sign about where their habitat is after a successful breeding and reintegration program in the Welsh countryside in 2045)

In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/…

Space colonization plans will need to be moved forward substantially due to recent capability unlocks. Not just the Moon, or Mars, but general colonization. Habitable volume and mass scale a lot differently than planet side...

Some actually good news on this Election Day!

I love that building a railroad across the one flat part of the American West has proven a completely impossible task for the descendants of those who built a railway across all the wavy bits in the 1860's

Parenting is teaching someone you can't live without how to live without you.

To whatever founder needs to hear this: do not, for any reason, put your company above your family. Don’t let your investor, your team or even your co founders try to pressure you otherwise. You’re running a marathon and that takes balance. When you show up for your family and

Important to remember that generally many in ML endeavor to create agents that can play video games because they believe such environments are useful stepping stones to AIs that can actually do useful things in the real world. Plus I think the idea of driving NPCs with neural

Want the coolest date idea in sf? Go to the sf symphony for a movie Their orchestra plays the soundtrack to the movie while it plays I saw coco last week and was in awe at how beautiful the whole experience was

Main reason I’ve chosen to prioritize deep tech over further crypto & games investments is that the world doesn’t need more casinos Last week backed a company that could soon make deaf people hear again, blind people see again, and humans become super human. Last month a company