Hail Mary - Star Map
See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.
Why Patagonia? — Edward Champion
I feel awkward about my body, I don't feel like the picture of an outdoorsy person, and I work indoors for a living. Why do I buy Patagonia clothes? A mix of quality, warranty, and the company's commitment to its products. I like a little ethics in my clothes.
Does using LLMs make me dumber? - Wilsons Blog
So this is something I’ve heard a lot and have thought about a lot. First I want to re-frame the question from what I usually read to what I think is actually a good question: “How does using LLMs change the way I learn?” I think this is better because 1. the …
Agents Are Not One Thing
Software Engineer writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go
SpaceX's IPO Bagship carries full payload of Elon's mistakes
In which the great American space dream, it turns out, is just another vehicle where the greater fool flies coach.
Understanding KV Cache: The Hidden Memory Cost of Serving LLMs
A deep dive into KV cache — the hidden memory bottleneck of LLM inference. Learn how KV cache grows with context length and concurrency, why it matters for self-hosted models, and how attention innovations like GQA, MQA, MLA, sliding-window attention, hybrid a…
Human Bottlenecks
Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.
Highest Random Weight in Elixir | jola.dev
A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.
Intelligence
Some problems don’t get solved in your head, they get solved in someone else’s while you watch or read their solution. You might feel it before you understand it. A small calibration. A quiet “Oh!”
Matterhorn pandas
Matterhorn summit window from 50 years of historical weather + pandas.
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell
Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
Fixing LLM writing with Distribution Fine Tuning
Technical Report: How Distribution Fine Tuning (DFT) improves LLM writing quality
The Maintainer's Dilemma | spf13
Open source maintenance is breaking at scale. Can AI code review can help maintainers without breaking trust, judgment, or community.
Containers Are a Security Boundary (some assembly required) ┈ Tianon's Ramblings ✿
I've heard "containers are not a security boundary" enough times that it's started to feel like received wisdom, and my honest read (after 13+ years) is that it's technically defensible but practically sloppy – and the sloppiness matters.
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Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why?
Today at the supermarket, I was smiling at a baby. The baby saw my smile and she smiled back. I did a few more times with older kids and they all smiled back...
Lessons I Learned from Creating Searx
Seven years of maintaining a popular open source metasearch engine taught me a great deal about privacy, community, and the fundamental limits of the metasearch approach. Here is what led me to build Hister.
Back up your TOTP codes by just printing them
Scan the Quick Response (QR) code above with your favorite Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) app. You should get a six digit number, rotating every 30 seconds, that looks something like 1 2 237601 # as of Wed May 20 09:44:53 AM EEST 2026 If you then take…
Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open, expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of Antigravity the day before, at I/O 2026, presenting it as a shiny, stand…
no slop grenade
Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.
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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to...
Flipper One — we need your help
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
A new generation of ads for the AI era of Search
Google is introducing new ad formats built with Gemini in Search and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for shoppers.
DOS Zone | DOS games in browser
Ultimate collection of free dos games to play online in browser. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play!
GitHub - kageroumado/phosphene: A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe
A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe. Contribute to kageroumado/phosphene development by creating an account on GitHub.
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work
In April last year, Kelsey Piper discovered that OpenAI’s o3 model was surprisingly good at figuring out where a photo was taken from. Like human “geoguessr” pros, o3 could sometimes take a nondescript photo of a beach and tell you exactly where it is. Here’s …
Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
May 1, 2025
182.8 Meters
Space Exploration Technologies - S-1
As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2026
Tech specs - Flipper One Documentation
Flipper One Documentation
On Google declaring war on the Web
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI …