Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
blog.infected.systems
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
github.com
Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry
arxiv.org
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
phys.org
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs
github.com
Cekura (Formerly Vocera) (YC F24) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com
Pydrofoil: Accelerating Sail-based instruction set simulators
arxiv.org
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
herecomesthemoon.net
The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with
medium.com
FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices
ftc.gov
Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study
dolthub.com
Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back
washingtonpost.com
Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?
mathenchant.wordpress.com
Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs
world-playground-deceit.net
Getting forked by Microsoft
philiplaine.com
AI assisted search-based research works now
simonwillison.net
Those 3Com NICs were the absolute bomb (and their PCI updates). Always go 3Com when you're working with PIII or lower class of hardware.
The SX is an ouch, though. That brings a lot of performance pains.
I remember installing period-appropriate Walnut Software-CDs of Red Hat and Slackware on 486/66 DX2 class machines. Linux was the easy part, the hard part was configuring xorg.conf (xfree86.conf? I don't remember) with the appropriate CRT geometry so you didn't kill your monitor.