2041
SimpleQA
A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.
2042
Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
FOR more than three hours on a fine, calm August morning in 1955, the eyes of Sydney’s suburbia were fixed skyward, anxiously watching the flight of a pilotless Auster aeroplane
2043
Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5
Jeff came up against a 1V limit in his video " Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.14 GHz on Pi Day " after firmware was released to remove the 3Ghz limit.
2044
Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA
Creating a simple driver for a simple PCI-e device (in QEMU)
2045
Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my public art making, so it’s been interesting to combine it with code. I’ve thought about trying
2046
gRPC: The Bad Parts
gRPC isn't perfect but who is?
2047
Financial systems take a holiday
Ever wondered about what happens when banks are closed or why some apps have operating hours? It's fascinating.
2048
Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Binance Scales its Log Service to 100PB and Saves Millions with Quickwit
2049
New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
2050
Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
the portable Python dataframe library
2051
Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.
2052
The Curse of Monkey Island
Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island . No puzzle spoilers, however…
2053
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
Recently I've discovered a very interesting language / realization of the Lambda Calculus. I was unable to find any other language like it, which I find quite surprising. In hindsight, the language seems obvious and natural. And the language keeps surprising me. I say "discovered" in the same sense that Paul Graham…
2054
On finishing projects
Personal site of Alex Reichert
2055
I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
And how YOU can too!
2056
Making a Postgres query 1k times faster
Learn how we discovered what was slowing down large database queries, and what we did to make Postgres queries 1000x faster.
2057
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
Meta FAIR is releasing several new research artifacts. Our hope is that the research community can use them to innovate, explore, and discover new ways to apply AI at scale.
2058
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
2059
Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably
Fuzz testing decades-old software can turn up some curious behaviors
2060
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. (Okay…
2061
The Bevy Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …
2062
Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…
2063
YouTube addiction, one month sober
Today marks my first month clean from YouTube . It was the right choice, but that's not to say it was easy.
2064
Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point
An overview of all the tools, standards and special languages used in the automotive industry where the official language is actually C.
2065
How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
2066
How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
Learn how to use Makefiles to streamline your Terraform and Hugo projects, making environment management and static site generation more efficient.
2067
Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR
A comparison of low-cost CO2 sensor technologies, explaining photo-acoustic versus NDIR designs and the tradeoffs behind each approach.
2068
Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
Or, how to break all the tools that parse the "Fixes:" tag Kees Cook There was a recent discussion about how Linux's "Fixes" tag, which ...
2069
Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.
2070
Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
I think I should blog more about random troubleshooting sessions, if nothing else it will remind me what steps I took when it inevitably happens again!