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Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence
LFM3 is Liquid AI’s new open-weight model family: 2B-class text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models built to fine-tune and run fast on any device.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
Learn how DNS works: hierarchy, records, TTL caching, and the full resolution process with diagrams.
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Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …
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BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
BIO is the I/O co-processor in the Baochip-1x, a mostly open source 22nm SoC I helped design. You can read more about the Baochip-1x’s background here , or pick up an evaluation board at Crowd Supply .
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I made a terminal pager
A writeup on implementing my own terminal viewport component in Go, which is used in my Terminal pager robinovitch61/lore and in my Kubernetes log viewer terminal application robinovitch61/kl.
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Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox
Today we are incredibly excited to open source [Edge\.js](<https://edgejs.org/>), a JavaScript runtime specifically designed to safely run Node.js workl...
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Snow Simulation Toy
One of the first significant things I ever coded in QBasic was a falling snow simulation- I think they're very soothing to watch, fun to customize, and there's lots of possibilities for extra little delight. Here's one I built on idle afternoons over the holidays this year at my parents. Enjoy!
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Julia
An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
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Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file
Range Requests Are All You Need
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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
[2026-03-16 Mon 03:09] Since this might be prone to misinterpretation as an excuse to treat people rudely, a clarification is warranted. Being direct is not rude, and this style of communication assumes an established …
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Understanding “extend and pretend”
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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour…
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When the cheap one is the cool one
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
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LotusNotes
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the war would not last forever, and…
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Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign
InfoHawk research has uncovered a network of 820 suspicious restaurant domains impersonating major US chains, including Jersey Mike's, Jimmy John's, Firehouse Subs, Chipotle, and Dave's Hot Chicken. Some are running sophisticated payment-skimming attacks that capture credit card information and ask customers for their…
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Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn
A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irreversible on human timescales.
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Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
Tool call accuracy is an important part of serving open-weight AI models. When your tool calls aren’t accurate, the model builds up on nonsensical context. We’ve been carrying our own fork of vLLM to hit 100% in tool call schema accuracy with Kimi and DeepSeek. Fortunately, vLLM 0.31 added support for constrained…
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Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on
As some of those fears, uncertainties, and doubts about Mythos are starting to feel real, what can we do about it? Paradoxically, I believe that little needs to change in what we’ve been doing for years.
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curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd
How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd`
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Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)
Great minds discuss flops per watt.
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ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
The no-bid deal is five times the size of the agency's previous contract with the Massachusetts company and could put devices in agents' hands by late June.
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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
TimescaleDB compression with hypercore - columnar storage with up to 98% ratio in PostgreSQL. segmentby/orderby configuration and a benchmark for IoT and time-series.
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People of ACM – Russ Cox
Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided…
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Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details
Maybe the code shouldn't be the only documentation?
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FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers
Setting up WireGuard VPN on FreeBSD 14.3: PF firewall, routing between networks, and peer-to-peer VPN between FreeBSD and Arch Linux
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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
Most guys my age have "the chat". The one with your college buddies that only exists to share memes, argue, bully, and occasionally announce that you got a promotion or had a kid. I am like most guys.