In traditional mathematics (or "Math 1.0"), a breakthrough proof of a long-standing open conjecture generates a large amount of subsequent activity and excitement in the field. (1/15)

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

Anchorbase is betting there is real demand for enterprise-style automation built for companies that are too big for SMB tools and too small for traditional enterprise stacks. betakit.com/six-month-old-an…

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/…

Tyler Cowen on how AI will change our lives. Excellent.

Every venture backed application company needs to inherently be a data company and/or a fintech company. Ideally both. If not, find a way to quickly get there.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

“casino culture” sports betting, shitcoins, meme stocks, vibe coding 100m in six hours, etc are all expressions of the same deep cultural rot. if youth don’t believe there’s legitimate ways to get rich through work, all of culture will become a rotten sports book for the soul