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Shamir's Secret Sharing: The Math Behind 'Any Two, Never One'
Shamir's Secret Sharing, published by RSA co-inventor Adi Shamir in 1979, splits a secret into shares such that a threshold number can reconstruct it while any
Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi, Classifies Prediction Markets as Gambling
Spanish regulators have moved to block access to Polymarket and Kalshi, ruling that the prediction market platforms operate as unlicensed gambling services with
The case for using AI to write better code, slower
Nolan Lawson pushes back on the dominant narrative that AI coding agents exist to churn out low-quality PRs at maximum speed. He argues LLMs are equally suited
Why Coding Agents Feel Infuriating: The Conversational UX Trap
The author argues that coding agents like Claude Code provoke disproportionate frustration because their conversational interface mimics a human collaborator wi
Why Go and other 'boring' languages produce better LLM-generated code
Jacob of Sancho Studio argues that LLM coding agents perform best on languages and ecosystems with low variance in their training corpus. Fragmented stacks like
Why 'Renting Is Throwing Money Away' Misses the Real Math of Homeownership
A homeowner since 2011 lays out the line items most rent-vs-buy comparisons ignore. Closing costs ran about 3% of the purchase price ($12,778). Of the initial $
50 Hours, a T-Square, and a Circle Stencil: Drawing Data by Hand
Artist Doug MacDowell describes the week-plus he spent producing a single statistically accurate line graph using paper, ink, rulers, and a vintage lettering ki
A 1992 Computer Lab, Logo on Paper, and the Magic of Early Computing
A developer reflects on his introduction to computing in 1992, when his new school in a small Indian industrial town happened to have a computer lab stocked wit
Audiomass adds multitrack editing to its browser-based open-source audio suite
Audiomass, a free and open-source audio editor that runs entirely in the browser, has expanded beyond single-track waveform editing to support multitrack sessio
Australian study: 14 of 15 firms kept the four-day week after 100:80:100 trial
A Deakin University study published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications tracked 15 Australian companies running the 100:80:100 model — ful
California to exempt open-source OSes from age-verification law after backlash
California Assembly Bill 1856 would narrow the state's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) by excluding operating systems distributed under licenses that permit
Claude Codes Fine, But Don't Let It Architect Your System
Charlie Holland argues that organisations are quietly handing architectural authority to LLMs, with predictable consequences. The pattern he keeps seeing: someo