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BullshitBench

Benchmark measuring how well LLMs detect nonsense and push back on bullshit questions.

Le Voci del Domani 2026

Call for ideas del Festival dell'Economia di Trento 2026 — giovani tra i 18 e i 30 anni possono candidarsi come speaker sul tema "Dai mercati ai nuovi poteri. Le speranze dei giovani". Scadenza 8 aprile 2026.

Feather.js

A blog post covering Feather.js, a lightweight open-source web framework for building real-time applications and REST APIs with a simple, service-oriented architecture.

Color Guesser

A web-based game where players try to guess colors based on their hex codes, RGB values, or other color representations, testing and improving color perception skills.

Understanding JPEG

A detailed walkthrough of how JPEG compression works under the hood, covering discrete cosine transforms, quantization, and Huffman encoding to explain how images get compressed.

OpenBrand

An open-source AI-powered tool for generating and managing brand identities, helping teams create consistent brand guidelines, logos, and visual assets.

Ranger by Parallai

An interactive transit travel-time map. Explore public transit coverage from any point in your city.

OpenBrand

OpenBrand extracts brand assets from a website, including logos, colors, and images, with options for API access, agent integrations, self-hosting, and MCP.

P.U.C.S.

Portale P.U.C.S. (Portale Unico del Cittadino Sardo), piattaforma digitale per servizi e interazioni con la pubblica amministrazione.

MyRetroTVs

MyRetroTVs — a nostalgic hub for classic television: program guides, archived clips, scans and community-curated retrospectives. The site is a modern, JavaScript‑heavy web app (enable JS to view).

17776

Wikipedia article about the science-fiction web series 17776 (also known as “What Football Will Look Like in the Future”), blending speculative fiction, sports, and digital storytelling.

CoLaptop

Satirical colocation service that turns an old laptop into an always-online datacenter server for €7/month.

The Whispering Earring

A short piece of fiction about an earring that always gives better advice than its wearer can come up with, and the unsettling consequences of following it.

Algoritmo Doomsday

Wikipedia article in Italian about John Conway’s Doomsday algorithm for calculating the day of the week for any date, with mnemonic shortcuts and worked examples.

The Paleblood Hunt

A Bloodborne lore analysis by Redgrave about mystery, interpretation, and the limits of singular explanations in the game’s story.

Il ritorno in Terrasanta

Il racconto dell'attentato all'aeroporto di Lod del 1972 e della morte di Aaron Katchalsky-Katzir, biofisico israeliano e pioniere dell'auto-organizzazione dei sistemi chimici.

NetHack 5.0 Release

NetHack 5.0 — the first major version upgrade in decades of the classic roguelike, with improved UI, QoL features, and new content while keeping the beloved permadeath gameplay

Where the Goblins Came From

OpenAI's retrospective on the early days of training GPT — how "goblins" (tiny mischievous models) evolved into powerful AI through iterative experimentation and emergent capabilities

Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL

The classic Ed Post satire from DATAMATION July 1983 — Real Programmers use FORTRAN and OS/370, write self-modifying code, patch object binaries with SUPERZAP, and despise structured programming, PASCAL, and anything with semicolons

The Story of Mel — A Real Programmer

The legendary hacker folklore tale by Ed Nather (1983) about Mel, a programmer who wrote machine code for drum-memory computers — self-modifying code, the 'most pessimum', and a loop with no test

I'm tired of talking to AI

After finding AI-generated answers repeated across GitHub discussions, a forwarded ChatGPT screenshot from a boss, and replying to what turned out to be an AI agent — the author's plea to talk to real people again.

AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture

A blog post arguing that AI didn't create the software quality crisis — it held up a mirror. Trained on 518M GitHub repos (mostly mediocre), AI reproduces the most probable patterns: technical debt, copy-paste, vague specs. AI-generated code entering codebases triggers recursive data collapse.

Magnifica Humanitas

Encyclical letter by Pope Leo XIV (May 15, 2026) on safeguarding human dignity in the age of AI — draws on the Tower of Babel and Nehemiah's walls as two visions of technological civilization, warns against the "Babel syndrome" of profit idolatry and digital uniformity, calls for shared responsibility and the "way of Nehemiah."

You can just say it

A blog post arguing that humans are valuable without qualifying it by their output quality or the narrowing AI capability gap — "creation is the distillation of intent into form," and AI too easily allows substantial form without discernible intent.