1. gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer (github.com)
GPU Trace Visualizer. Contribute to mikesart/gpuvis development by creating an account on GitHub.
2. All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
3. Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) (devforum.play.date)
These are some advanced optimization tricks I've discovered while @stonerl and I have been cooking the full-speed gameboy emulator. These are not the typical tips for optimizing games you can find elsewhere, so if you are not familiar with existing techniques then these may not be as useful for you. These kinds of optimization techniques are most likely to be helpful if you're trying to get very performant code for something like an emulator, a large simulation (such as a factorio-like), a 3D r...
4. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (www.gadgetreview.com)
Hidden fire extinguishers may look sleek, but OSHA and NFPA require clear identification and accessible placement, no matter how polished the design.
5. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (www.youtube.com)
What steps can the math community make to improve its communication?Delivered Thursday, January 5 at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA.Repost...
6. The Heilbronn Problem (math.tejstead.com)
The Heilbronn problem for squares, triangles and convex regions: best known configurations with exact coordinates, proofs, and an interactive viewer.
7. Page Table Memory Consumption (frn.sh)
8. How effective altruism conquered the world (and might yet end it) (www.economist.com)
9. What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Stephen Wolfram chimes in about the future of pure math and AI based on his unique perspective of language creator and scientific researcher.
10. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
Your first Python programs make pictures on a canvas. Learn calls, values, variables, and a loop before adding one click handler.
11. Incentives in Academic Research (www.msoos.org)
12. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
The Home Office tried to keep the paperwork private until an appeal brought it into the light.
13. The Softmax function and its derivative (eli.thegreenplace.net)
14. Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family (www.aboutamazon.com)
The all-new Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are thinner and lighter with a new display stack and seamless edge-to-edge color across the lineup.
15. A parasitic Fibonacci computation inside /usr/bin/top (seriot.ch)
16. "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (www.404media.co)
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
17. Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search (blog.jetbrains.com)
Part 1: Parsing, chunking, and vectorization Some time ago, we set out to build the best semantic code search platform we could: a RAG pipeline that gives LLM agents precise, citable evidence from re
18. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around (island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev)
A physically based, WebGPU-accelerated simulation of an O
19. OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (news.lavx.hu)
A proposed port of the Rust-based uutils coreutils reimplementation sparked heated debate on the OpenBSD mailing list, with project founder Theo de Raadt and senior developers rejecting it as unnecessary duplication that introduces behavioral incompatibilities with the base system.
20. What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit (www.lesswrong.com)
AI safety has gone mainstream. More people than ever want to work on AI safety research, and there are real policy wins in the US, the UK and Europe.…
21. Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting (birdshistory.com)
22. RuneScape's Position on Gen AI (www.reddit.com)
23. Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed (fog-bank.org)
How Fog-Bank catches every frame FogCam publishes: four catchers on three networks, a 30-day off-site buffer, lossless storage, a live status board, and every outage on record with whose fault it was.
24. 'This can't go on': thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain (www.theguardian.com)
Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid and other Spanish cities after new legislation fails to pass
25. Show HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN (awesomedataviz.com)
Find the right data visualization tool: 290 charting libraries, maps, graph and network visualization, dashboards and more for JavaScript, Python, R and beyond, with live GitHub stars and activity.
26. Writing code by hand is over, forever (eliocapella.com)
After 18 years of writing code every day, I stopped. Our team is shipping more, bug reports haven't increased, and I'm wondering what programming could become next.
27. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
28. A man who listens to whales (blue-continuum.com)
David Gruber wants to know what sperm whales are saying. He thinks it might actually be possible.
30. Second Chances (www.nybooks.com)
My friend the bon vivant bookseller Michael Seidenberg of Brazenhead Books, which he ran out of his apartment in New York City, died in 2019. I’d known