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- The npm graph over 15 years. It grew to 4.45 million packages and one account still reaches a quarter of them
- Benford's law flags 84% of the 2025 annual reports. A perfectly honest source would get 60%
- The median home page went from 540 KB to 3009 KB. The crawler that weighs it does not scroll
- For every Belarusian page in Common Crawl there are 400 in Russian
- Please costs 24 dollars per million calls, which is nothing. Just the answer cost me 32.5 points of accuracy.
- My README said this benchmark needs a 2× difference to see anything. Given a known delay, it saw 3%
- How much further does a dog walk than the man walking it
- Source maps in production. 55 of the top 1000 sites hand out their own code
- Almost half of npm's top downloads come from packages with one maintainer. I looked at who pays them
- In 2022 the share of new GitHub repositories about AI did not grow. The stars did
- Sandy came on an ordinary high tide
- From space, an oil county in North Dakota gives off 17 times more light than Manhattan
- My satellite GIF of Minsk showed 64 km² of new city and most of it was fields
- Cheap food rose 33% in a year, until I read the same prices backwards
- In one public recording, Wi-Fi signal strength notices a person who walks and mostly misses one who sits
- A hole in the Gaia star map and how far away it is
- From space, July 2012 in Illinois looked better than July 1990
- I tested prompt tips on GPT-2 and the order of the examples beat all of them
- 9 models, accuracy between 92.5 and 93.3, and 1 of them finds nothing
- The same code beat itself by 33 percent
- The fraud screen fires on numbers nobody faked