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Anubis Works
Xe Iaso's personal website.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,220 posts.
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ManusAI Joins Meta
Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.
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The beauty of a text only webpage
There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage. They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god...
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AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that disrupts how cells in the brain turn genes on and off.
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Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them. Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/ You can clearly see that the one on the left is a "smaller" QR as it has fewer bits of data in it. Both go to the same URl, the only…
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TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
Have you ever wondered how a compiler works, but you never found courage to find out? Then this series of articles is for you. I have never had the chance to look under the hood either, but one week-end I have decided to to write a translator from the esoteric programming language wend (short for week-end), which I…
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Teaching LLMs how to solid model
It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.
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B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know (2021)
B-Trees are not boring, after all
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Boring is good
The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have yet to see a positive outcome. It’s…
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Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.
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Python developers are embracing type hints
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
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The terminal of the future
To redesign infrastructure, you have to allow incremental adoption, while simultaneously moving the whole design space at once.
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Servo Revival: 2023-2024
Summary of the things that have happened in the Servo project since January 2023 when Igalia started to maintain it.
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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.
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My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
A technique for deterministic labeling from stochastic models, with benchmarked Golang implementation.
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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Hard problems that reduce to document ranking
There are two claims I’d like to make: LLMs can be used effectively1 for listwise document ranking. Some complex problems can (surprisingly) be solved by transforming them into document ranking problems. I’ve primarily explored both of these claims in the context of using patch diffing to locate N-day…
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The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
The rise and fall of yogh
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Go's Sweet 16
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Manufactured consensus on x.com
How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity.
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GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for "open source projects"
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Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
Cloudflare investigated CPU performance benchmark results for Workers, uncovering and fixing issues in infrastructure, V8 garbage collection, and OpenNext optimizations. These improvements have made Cloudflare Workers faster for all customers.
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Use Your Type System
Today I'm discussing a trivially simple technique that I've rarely seen used in production codebases. In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic types built into our programming language or provided by libraries: types like integer, string, or UUID. In any
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NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
Normal practice in deploying post-quantum cryptography is to deploy ECC+PQ. IETF's TLS working group is standardizing ECC+PQ. But IETF management is also non-consensually ramming a particular NSA-driven document through the IETF process, a "non-hybrid" document that adds just PQ as another TLS option.
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Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
Avoid ISP routers
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The Journey Before main()
A while back, I worked on a RISC-V-based userspace simulator for fun. In doing so, taught myself a lot more than I wanted to know about what happens in-between when the Kernel is asked to run a program, and when the first line of our program’s main function is actually executed. Here’s a summary of that rabbit hole.
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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.