hi, helicopter expert here! this is not funny, helicopters only do this when they’re in extreme distress

Today we are announcing InstanceGen: Image Generation with Instance Level Instructions, accepted to #SIGGRAPH2025. Very proud to have worked on this project along with Etai Sella and Hadar Averbuch-Elor! Enjoy this excellent summary by Etai and check out the website for more details!

What is the name of this modern webslop design pattern where every UI element loads asynchronously, slowly, and triggers constant page reflows? Ramp is a major offender, every cell of every table view does this with a loading spinner.

Yesterday I wrote a message, then realized it looks like ChatGPT and deleted the em dash just for appearance. I felt dirty removing it but didn't want my message to seem like AI when it isn't...

At first I thought the video was fake because Trump was making a lot more sense than usual. Then he mentioned velociraptors and I wasn't sure any more...

cat Tech prefers Diet Coke.

Took me twelve commits to get the build to pass. I'm starting to really dislike the JS ecosystem.

😏 looks like there’s a huge amount of evidence for my conjecture that all numbers are less than 10^100

New fastest shortest-path algorithm in 41 years! Tsinghua researchers broke Dijkstra’s 1984 “sorting barrier,” achieving O(m log^(2/3) n) time. This means faster route planning, less traffic, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient networks - and a CS curriculum revamp =)

I just realized why I liked GPT-5 so much more than 4

I'd love to buy a team subscription on OpenCode zen. It would also be a great opportunity for SST to either charge a few % extra or monthly subscription - I'd happily pay for both ease of use and statistics about my team. dax take my money already!

I low-key love this

They're never gonna make it

1.21 gigawatts?!?

If you remember this, your back probably hurts.

I initially thought this post was about Israel... Turns out it was about mailboxes.

In Israel, there is one peanut snack with two different wrappers. Same company. Same snack. Same shelf. Just two different wrappers. There are thousands that would sweat that one is better than the other. They'd fight over it. It's the same snack. Bamba.