2. Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)
3. Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
4. Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off (www.bbc.com)
But campaigners want the LW masts in Worcestershire to be given listed status.
5. The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
6. The "Bizarre Headgear" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum Is Incredible (svpow.com)
As threatened, I was in Oklahoma at the tail end of last week and over the weekend, mostly to give talks. My Friday evening public lecture was on horned dinosaurs, and it was tied in with the launcβ¦
7. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
A Rust-flavoured systems language with real goroutines and automatic, pause-free memory. Run it like a script, or ship it as a single binary.
8. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
10. A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
A historical journey through a 1996 AOL outage that captured America's full attention. Thirty years later, in a world where slop sells, what can SREs learn from that event?
11. The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths (www.outsideonline.com)
Newly revealed guidance issued by the Department of the Interior reportedly prohibits National Park staff from publicly releasing information about deaths across 435 sites nationwide. Experts say this puts visitors at risk.
12. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
Gentle tour of type inference for records
13. Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)
CAPTCHA proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not. - mondaycom/HATCHA
14. US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)
Posted in r/LocalLLaMA by u/AtlanticHM β’ 729 points and 373 comments
15. The AI backlash is only getting started (www.economist.com)
Here is how to deal with it
16. Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64) (github.com)
Either a Simple lisp compiler, or Steve's lisp compiler - skx/slisp
17. The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool (ohadravid.github.io)
LLMs are exhausting because they require spending precious social energy to operate them. Energy that might be better spent on people.
When you use a good β¦
When you use a good β¦
18. Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (www.theregister.com)
Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits
19. Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
20. What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (www.jtekt.co.jp)
The JTEKT Group is striving to transform into a solution provider that creates the future of mobility society through Monozukuri and Monozukuri equipment, connecting technologies to bring smiles to the planet earth and all working people.
21. Reading the news is the new smoking (www.experimental-history.com)
22. Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (www.youtube.com)
Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by ground news. I am not. I have no sponsorships. what the actual fuck! It's linking to a video sponsored by ground n...
24. Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100 (sedona.apache.org)
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale spatial data across machines.
25. The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games (mas-bandwidth.com)
Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers provide network bandwidth in and out of AWS at no additional charge.
26. Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (www.gardensillustrated.com)
Although the fashion for grass clipped as neatly as Wimbledonβs Centre Court may have dwindled, the British love affair with the lawn continues
27. Show HN: Autofit2 β End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com)
Automated end-to-end data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation pipeline - neospe/autofit2
28. Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)
Itβs incredibly hard to deliver drugs to the right organ, especially to reach the brain. Tiny gas-filled spheres that burst on command could change that.
30. A data race that doesn't compile (in Rust) (corentin-core.github.io)
How I taught Rustβs type system to refuse my own parallel-Redux data races, with one false start and one mind-shift.