2. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
Local AI models should be the default.
3. I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left (fourlightyears.blogspot.com)
5. Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself' (www.tomshardware.com)
Bambu Labs controversy heats up.
6. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (imtomt.github.io)
a static http server in aarch64 assembly
8. Debian must ship reproducible packages (lists.debian.org)
10. Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter (www.amusingplanet.com)
11. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI (www.tomshardware.com)
Aren
12. Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different (blog.dochia.dev)
Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message handling.
13. Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) (www.casio.com)
15. France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging (reclaimthenet.org)
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.
16. YC's Biggest Scandals (ycombinator.fyi)
What Y Combinator doesn't put on Demo Day slides. Fraud, copycats, grifts, and failures.
17. GitHub Is Sinking (dbushell.com)
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat
19. Think Linear Algebra (allendowney.github.io)
20. We see something that works, and then we understand it (lemire.me)
21. The Locals Don't Know (www.quarter--mile.com)
My best piece of travel advice: don't do what the locals do.
22. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary (til.andrew-quinn.me)
Note for
numberphiles:
all numbers have been rounded to their first significant
digit, because I'm a fan of Rob Eastaway's
"zequals" method
of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It's much
more valuable to walk away with the heuristic "some dude got
a 300x memory reduction by swapping out a database he hacked
together for a tiny, static, specialized data structure that
does exactly what he needs it to and no more."
numberphiles:
all numbers have been rounded to their first significant
digit, because I'm a fan of Rob Eastaway's
"zequals" method
of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It's much
more valuable to walk away with the heuristic "some dude got
a 300x memory reduction by swapping out a database he hacked
together for a tiny, static, specialized data structure that
does exactly what he needs it to and no more."
23. Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska (tracesofhumanity.org)
...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the
24. What's a Mathematician to Do? (mathoverflow.net)
25. Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes (theindex.fyi)
A maintained, canonical meta-index of indie web and small web index sites. 39 entries across 6 categories.
26. First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed (www.arup.com)
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
27. Gemini API File Search is now multimodal (blog.google)
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers.
28. Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how (janrosenow.substack.com)
29. I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put a face on it, and the launch pitch Bill Gates seeded in BYTE Magazine eighteen months before VB shipped. Six articles, focused on the parts of the story that don't get covered.