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Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix
Discover how Nix can revolutionize your software supply chain security, enabling verifiable integrity and offline rebuilds from source.
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Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale
In this post, we’re highlighting 4via6 subnet routing — a powerful way to extend Tailscale’s mesh across entire edge or customer networks. It’s ideal for scenarios where traditional VPNs struggle, like fleets of robots, sensors, or isolated cloud environments.
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Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights
Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.
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University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
AUSTIN, Texas — Abundant, low-cost, clean energy — the envisioned result if scientists and engineers can successfully produce a reliable method of
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A community-led fork of Organic Maps
This is a copy of the update to the Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders from openletter.earth :
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I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC
describing my wsc adventure
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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia
The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projec…
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Continuous Thought Machines
Introducing Continuous Thought Machines: a new kind of neural network model that unfolds and uses neural dynamics as a powerful representation for thought.
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Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL
We're excited to release INTELLECT-2, the first 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional centralized training efforts, INTELLECT-2 trains a reasoning language model using fully asynchronous RL across a dynamic, heterogeneous swarm of compute contributors.
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Air Traffic Control
Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of management incompetence in the FAA, and…
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I hacked my clock to control my focus
I often get distracted. I obviously don’t like it. So I decided to turn my computer’s clock into a constant reminder to help me focus. Implementation This hack requires: Ubuntu with GNOME desktop environment The Panel Date Format extension A simple bash script 1. Install the Panel Date Format extension # If you don't…
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Why Bell Labs Worked
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
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Burrito Now, Pay Later
Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization
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2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities
Featuring four new localities, the updated report cards show past and projected rates of sea level rise and acceleration for 36 U.S. coastal communities in a new, interactive dashboard.
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LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code
I wrote a small LSP client, it was kinda neat so I’m sharing it
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JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling
Improve warmup time by making method-execution profiles from a previous run of an application instantly available, when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. This will enable the JIT compiler to generate native code immediately upon application startup, rather than having to wait for profiles to be collected.
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In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…
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I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth
This page is a mini-site for my Snobol excursion with links to separate pages for my:
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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Part Two of the ASUS series is out, read it here. Introduction This story begins with a conversation about new PC parts. After ignoring the advice from my friend, I bought a new ASUS motherboard for my PC. I was a little concerned about having a BIOS that would by…
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Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff
World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…
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Observations from people-watching
Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.
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Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?
Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...
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Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs. This is worrisome, to say the least.
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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
The table below and notes which follow are a comparison of some of the different standard library implementations available for Linux, with a particular focus on the balance between feature-richness and bloat. I have tried to be fair and objective, but as I am the author of musl , that may have influenced my choice of…
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A critical look at MCP
"MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data…