9541
Will we ever get fusion power?
“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,206 posts.
9542
gRPC: The Bad Parts
gRPC isn't perfect but who is?
9543
My (Neo)Vim workflow
A guy decides to show off his Neovim setup.
9544
The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015)
One of my favourite Limited Audience Jokes (although technically it's actually a riddle) goes:
9545
FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
9546
The album art of Phil Hartmann (2022)
You might remember him from such roles as Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz, but in the years before legendary comic Phil Hartman shaved the second ‘n’ from his name, he was designing album art for some West Coast rock bands.
9547
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
Why x^2 isn't always x*x.
9548
Fixing QuickLook (2023)
How I Still Use Flash in 2022
9549
How GCC and Clang handle statically known undefined behaviour
Recently, we had a discussion in our team about undefined behaviour (UB) in C. For those unfamiliar: We say that a program has undefined behaviour when we write code where the language specification doesn't define what should happen during execution. That means compilers can do whatever they like if they encounter…
9550
9551
Local First, Forever
We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage
9552
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
An accelerated FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 leveraging 128-bit SIMD instructions, achieving ~2x the performance of the reference implementation.
9553
The First Hedge Fund
How A. W. Jones improvised his way to an investment style and structure that has persisted till today.
9554
Language models on the command line
I gave a talk about accessing Large Language Models from the command-line last week as part of the Mastering LLMs: A Conference For Developers & Data Scientists six week long …
9555
iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple
Earlier quite a few iDOS users and supporters reached out to me to let me know about the recent AppStore policy change (Thanks, EU). In light of this, I decided to resubmit iDOS. However, it looks like Apple has blacklisted iDOS 2, preventing me from even requesting a review under that title, and I had to submit under…
9556
A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann
9557
I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
Stealing another KakaoTalk user’s chat messages with a simple 1-click exploit.
9558
Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
9559
Convert an existing wired doorbell into a smart doorbell using ESPHome
This article is going to show you how to convert your (existing) wired doorbell (also works for battery-powered chimes) into a smart, WiFi-enabled, doorbell. The essential components needed sets you back about $2, yes, that is correct, just two bucks. No soldering is required and you don’t
9560
From RSS to My Kindle
A Kindle integration was a natural extension to my feed reader. I had to learn a couple of things to get it working, so it seemed interesting to document the implementation process.
9561
Resilient Sync for Local First
Resilient sync for local-first apps by using existing technologies such as file systems
9562
A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)
(I've been editing this post on and off for almost a year. I'm not really happy with it, but I suspect I never will be.)
9563
Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet
Update: I have created an awesome-minisforum-v3 GitHub repository to list information for Minisforum V3 users, including some workarounds for the issues mentioned in this review. Quest for the Ideal
9564
The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called ...
9565
Elixir Gotchas
No, I’ve not gone to the click-baiters (“10 tips that will change your life today!!!”), but I chose to limit myself to just 10 so that I don’t pull what is considered a R…
9566
A railroad simulation using discrete event simulation
In our previous post, we introduced how to utilize Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in PicoLisp. Now, let's explore another application: a railroad model…
9567
I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg
Let me set the right expectations first. This bug I found is actually not that complicated, it's very straightforward once you see what's going on. But I still think the process it took me to uncover this bug could be interesting. It's also kind of interesting that a simple bug stayed undiscovered for so long. I will…
9568
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
9569
Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android
9570
Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
Wild ramblings, raport from the field about choosing Vector Database for a particular project and a little bit of a rant about the current state of AI and how it's perceived, why human brains are a wonder of nature, and why it's far from 'thinking' and 'consciousness'.