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Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker
A fun side project for a great cause featuring Core Motion, SwiftUI, a little help from AI, and a pair of AirPods to count 100 push-ups a day.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,433 posts.
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou… Wait, no, that's not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There's no way that other thing makes sense.
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Using a LLM to compress text
Introduction Large language models are trained on huge datasets of text to learn the relationships and contexts of words within larger documents. These relationships are what allows the model to generate text. Recently I've read concerns about LLMs being trained on copyrighted text and reproducing it. This got me…
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Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens…
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I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
sqlite-vec is an new vector search SQLite extension, coming soon!
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More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of…
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Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
The origin story of a 3D Modeler made very quickly
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Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter
piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language written in pure, mostly safe Rust with an eye towards safe sandboxing and resiliency. It uses gc-arena for its garbage collection system, and in fact gc-arena was originally created as part of piccolo .
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The business of wallets
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
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Rewriting the Technical Interview (2020)
Update, November 2023: here are the full term rewrite and language macros which formed the seed of this story. These files include OO notation as well as the basic Algol syntax shown here. There is also a sketch of an object-oriented language with classes and inheritance, implemented as a Clojure macro. I do not…
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The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Programming blog of Eugene
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Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming
Other languages are inflexible and broken. Let's fix that.
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Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard
Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might poin...
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The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps
How it shall look… Linux & BSDs Windows macOS State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin… Screenshots taken from the GNOME bugtracker, copies to not stall their GitLab instance. I think that is rather unpleasant and for e.g. the left icon-only border just an unusable insult.
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The LaserDisc
The first mass market optical media
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Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting
We introduce a depth completion network that allows generating geometrically coherent 3D scenes, and present a new benchmarking scheme for scene generation methods that is based on ground truth geometry.
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LLMs can't do probability
I've seen a couple of recent posts where the writer mentioned asking LLMs to do something with a certain probability or a certain percentage of the time. There is a particular example that stuck in my mind which I've since lost the link to (If you're the author, please get in touch so I can link through to you): The…
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How to install Linux from a Windows installer
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.
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Printing Music with CSS Grid
Music notation should be as accessible and as fluid as text is on the web. CSS Grid helps us get there.
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The File Filesystem (2021)
mount semi-structured data (like JSON) as a Unix filesystem
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Dear Europe, please wake up
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
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Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland
A free, self-contained introduction to neural networks and differentiable programming, from automatic differentiation to transformers, with additional chapters on advanced topics.
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Not all graphs are trees
It's pretty easy to imagine how to represent relational algebra expressions as a tree—they are already structurally rooted trees where each operator has its...
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A few facts about POSIX
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FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
With FireChat, people were free to communicate and coordinate with each other without the message having to first filter through someone's data center. Why did the app shut down without notice?
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I Built an Ld_preload Worm
Teenagers' hands are the devil's playthings.
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How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?