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When if is just a function
what does this mean and does it matter
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Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)
UPDATE 2024-04-15: Windows Terminal 1.19 contains a fix that reduces latency by half! It’s now competitive with WSLtty on my machine. Details in the GitHub Issue.
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Malleable Software
In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you.
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De-Clouding: Music
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]
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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash price increase offers a warning about the economics of AI inference and the limits of ever-cheaper intelligence.
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Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
Aviation insiders say an airworthiness directive may soon require software updates across the Airbus A320 fleet after investigators linked a JetBlue incident—where the aircraft entered a sudden uncommanded descent—to a faulty ELAC computer. Any grounding is expected to be short and staggered, with airlines updating…
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Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M
Discover why we built Vectroid, a serverless vector database that delivers exceptional accuracy and low latency without compromising on cost. Learn about our approach to solving the traditional tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and cost in vector search.
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Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments
Musings on SBOMs and licensing woes.
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Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery
[POSTECH, KAIST, and Gyeongsang National University achieve a record-breaking energy density of 1,270 Wh/L]
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XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
In this blog, we share a new finding in the XZ Utils saga: several Docker images built around the time of the compromise contain the backdoor. At first…
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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
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How OpenElections uses LLMs
In the 12-plus years that we’ve been turning official precinct election results into data at OpenElections , the single biggest problem has been converting pictures of results into CSV files. Many of the precinct results files we get are image PDFs, and for those there are essentially two options: data entry or…
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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
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Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents
Turn-Taking is a big challenge AI Voice Agents are rapidly evolving, powering critical use-cases such as customer support automation, virtual assistants, gaming, and remote collaboration platforms. For these voice-driven interactions to feel natural and practical, the underlying audio pipeline must be resilient to…
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Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap
Este artículo también está disponible en Español 🇪🇸
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Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word
Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the …
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SQLite's Use of Tcl (2017)
The design of SQLite was inspired by the design of TCL, both in the way it handles datatypes and in the formatting of its source code. The index use case for SQLite was in a Tcl/Tk application for an industrial company. From its inception, SQLite has always depended heavily on TCL. These days, SQLite no longer uses…
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Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
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Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
Common Lisp has good packaging tools, but they're different. Here we explain the what and how.
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Zero knowlege proof of compositeness
Testing whether a number is composite as an example of a zero knowledge proof. How ZKPs are used more generally.
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Privacy Harm Is Harm
Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. We shouldn’t need to prove we’ve suffered...
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Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century
How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century
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The real failure rate of EBS
Our experience running AWS EBS at scale for critical workloads
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GPU-Driven Clustered Forward Renderer
Olle's Web Ventures
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How big are our embeddings now and why?
Embedding sizes and architectures have changed remarkably over the past 5 years
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