Wolfram is offering a total of $20,000 in prize money to determine if the S combinator is universal. Statement of problem to be solved, full guidelines, committee of judges and submission guidelines.
"statistically reasonable maximum" - microcosm
How many entries can a Merkle Search Tree node have? An attempt to answer with half a million atproto repositories & two coin flips.
Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world’s knowledge computable
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Sky Zoo
Assigns you a Bluesky animal based on your recent activity, find out when you joined the platform (in what what position, even if you didn't make the 10 million event), and how many people are on the platform. And many more things!
Can we billionaire-proof inference? - Graze Newsletter
A small, federated compute co-op called co/core — and the wider experiment it's a part of.
NP-overrated
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this:
108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
How I shipped 108 PRs in eight days with an agent working my task board: the loop engineering setup, constraints, and lessons that made it work.
Combinatorial Creativity
Combinatorial creativity recombines existing ideas to spark novel, valuable innovations in cognition, AI, and design.
American Innovation $1 Coin 2026 Rolls and Bags - Wisconsin
American Innovation $1 Coins honoring innovation in Wisconsin Coins minted at the United States Mints in Philadelphia and Denver Available in 25-coin rolls and 100-coin bags The United States Mint American Innovation $1 Coin Program is a multi-year series honoring innovation and innovators with $1 coins from each state, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands. The American Innovation $1 Coins in the rolls and bags were minted at the Philadelphia and Denver Mints. The Wisconsin coin is the second of 2026. The Wisconsin American Innovation $1 Coin reverse (tails) design features the Cray-1, the first commercially successful supercomputer. Built from 1976 – 1982, it was known as the world’s fastest computer. The Cray-1’s unique circular design helped increase the speeds at which signals travel from one part of the computer to the other. This design exhibits a stylized aerial view of the Cray-1 supercomputer. The image emphasizes the Cray-1 not only through its shape, but by also suggesting the shape of a “C” for Cray-1 and “computer.” Inscriptions are “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” and “WISCONSIN.” The additional inscription is “CRAY-1 SUPERCOMPUTER.” The obverse (heads) design features a dramatic representation of the Statue of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.” The design also includes a privy mark of a stylized gear, representing industry and innovation. In 2026, the privy mark will also incorporate a Liberty Bell with the inscription “250” to commemorate the semiquincentennial of our Nation’s founding. The year of minting, mint mark, and “E PLURIBUS UNUM” are incused on the edge of the coins.
Solving Fossil SCM's CAPTCHA in 171 characters | nns.ee
Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog
Menlo Research
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D Lab building Asimov, an open platform to enable the next billion robots.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
O'Shaughnessy Fellowship
The O'Shaughnessy Fellowship supports the builders, researchers, and creatives advancing civilization with up to $100,000 in equity-free funding.
Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study -- conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks lo...
Volkswagen put 100 sheep to work under 31,000 solar panels
A Volkswagen factory in Poland is using 100 sheep to maintain its solar farm, cutting mowing while boosting biodiversity and research.
Private Set Intersection
Private Set Intersection (PSI) is a problem within the broader field of secure computation. The PSI problem There are two friends Alice and Bob such that Alice has a set of items $A=(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ and Bob has the set $B=(b_1,\ldots,b_n)$. The goal is to design a protocol by which Alice and...
