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Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
Craig Gidney's computer science blog
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How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
Discover how custom Noctua mods and 3D-printed parts can make the Framework Desktop PC cooler, quieter, and even more impressive.
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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MCP is eating the world
Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn’t magic or revolutionary. But, it’s simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.
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Youth and what happens when it's gone
And what happens when it's gone.
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Jules, our asynchronous coding agent
Jules is officially out of beta and launching publicly, powered by Gemini 2.5.During the beta, thousands of developers tackled tens of thousands of tasks, resulting in o…
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Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Download responsibly
This month we’ve ramped up the infrastructure behind the download server, and downloads should now be available earlier and faster. There’s also a small technical change in that requests for a “…latest” file will now be answered with a HTTP redirect to the specific latest version (see previous blog post).
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Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a…
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MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
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Our Farewell from Google Play
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
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CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Update: did you enjoy our April Fool’s day story? While sheep do roam the CERN site and exhibit interesting flocking behaviour, no evidence has been found of their quantum entanglement (yet). However, CERN is participating in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology . You can see the list of public…
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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can …
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AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
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FLX1s phone is launched
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What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)
The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...
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Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
PoW is gone 🦀🦀
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Making a font of my handwriting
Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal , not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with…
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Over-regulation is doubling the cost
After building a software company to a multi-billion dollar exit, I made the jump to hardware. Now I’m working on carbon removal + steel at Charm Industrial , and electric long-haul trucking with Revoy . It’s epically fun to be building in the real world, but little did I expect that more than half the cost of…
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Is it a bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
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The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
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Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
A programming blog written by Vaxry.
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Why Bell Labs Worked
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
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I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
The blog post discusses dissatisfaction with GitHub Actions due to its limitations in managing complex workflows, especially in monorepo setups with certain features like pull request checks and workflow reusability. Several issues have been highlighted, along with alternatives for GitHub Actions.