2071
The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
New : You can now watch a recording of my talk on my YouTube channel ! Or you can just click "play" below, I suppose.
2072
Design Thinking Books (2024)
An updated list of design thinking books and papers to understand the principles underpinning the design thinking process and its practice.
2073
My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
How I added Immich to my already robust photo management system to make it ridiculously robust.
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Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods.
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Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
The original 1881 serial ended in chapter fifteen with the puppet hanging dead from an oak tree. Italian children wrote in begging the author to continue. He resumed reluctantly. What followed — donkey-skin drums, dead-girl fairies, a satire of every other moralising children's book in Italy — became one of the most…
2079
World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
2080
An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so…
2081
Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
2082
Charts built for Chat
We're open sourcing dbt Charts, a declarative language for dashboards, so that even the dashboards you build by chatting with an agent can be governed.
2083
OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
The sad days of DOS. Any program could peek and poke the kernel, hook interrupts, write anywhere on disk. There was no safety.
2084
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
2085
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Se...
2086
Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.
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Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
Erik Gahner Larsen
2089
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
2090
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
2091
But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN | Discussions on HN Alexandr frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in ...
2092
Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
We're building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with multimodal models.
2093
Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
2094
The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
2095
GCC 16 has been released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation .
2096
The user is visibly frustrated
In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
2097
Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r…