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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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I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
JD Stillwater, Science Ambassador's blog.
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Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
Predictability machines and personality
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Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
tl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It's written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It's “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.
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OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
(“make LLMs play better with one weird trick”)
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They stole my voice with AI
UPDATE 9/23: The CEO of Elecrow responded. I've posted a follow-up blog post with my reaction to the response and some other thoughts on AI voice cloning. Listen to this clip: Your browser does not support the video tag. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar. I mean I would like you to subscribe to…
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired . You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the ShotSpotter name.
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I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
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Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
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Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
While Ladybird does an okay job with well-formed web content, I thought it would be useful to throw some security research tools at it and see what kind of issues it might reveal.
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The Engineering of Landfills
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Puente Hills Landfill outside of Los Angeles, California. The first truckload of trash was dumped here in 1957, and the trucks just kept coming. For more than five decades, if you threw something away in LA County, t
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How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
I use a hardware latency tester to measure how much the VTE-based terminals improved from GNOME 45 to GNOME 46.
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No Salt
This is by my brother, Sam. I arrived to Arizona late Saturday, after learning that my brother has only a few days left before cancer ends him. Jake’s wife, Bess, confessed that she had neither the…
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My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.
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WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Learn the unique benefits and pitfalls of each real-time tech. Make informed decisions on WebSockets, SSE, Polling, WebRTC, and WebTransport.
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We're Leaving Kubernetes
We are moving away from Kubernetes for cloud development environments after 6 years of experience at scale. Learn about Gitpod Flex and our new approach to development infrastructure for developers.
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Accountability sinks
In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...
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The New Internet
Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover the vision for a New Internet.
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I looked through attacks in my access logs
I've been self-hosting for over a decade. It's freeing because I own my data, and do not depend on any platform other than my cloud host, which I can easily switch off. Self-hosting gives much insight into what it takes to run a cloud service. Anyone
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Private company landing on the moon today
Home | Intuitive Machines
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The C23 edition of Modern C
The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from And as before a dedicated page for the book may be found at where you also may find a link to download the code examples that com…
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93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?
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Is the world really running out of sand?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer right away, it’s no; or at least, my goal with this video is to convince you that the world is not running out of sand. But if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be here (right?) and you probably woul
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Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
Earlier today, Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO of Stability AI and from his position on the Board of Directors of the company to pursue decentralized AI. The Board of Directors has appointed Shan Shan Wong, our Chief Operating Officer, and Christian Laforte, our Chief Technology Officer
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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
Indexing the entirety of English Wikipedia on a laptop has become a practical reality thanks to recent advances in the JVector library that will be part of the imminent 3.0 release.
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The best way to have complex discussions?
We love complex, deep discussions. We've seen or been part of many discussions — strategic discussions at work, discussions on AI alignment, on technical design documents, etc. For us, the most frustrating issues with complex discussions are (1) impulsive responses and (2) lack of structure.
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Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
[custom_views_and_hn_comments hn_id=”40015185″] My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the more “surprising” lessons after churning…