Chrome 148+ uses OS-specific math libraries for functions like Math.tanh, creating OS fingerprints. Scrapfly replicates exact OS math behaviors (e.g., libsystem_m on macOS) to spoof browsers indistinguishably, matching host libm, CSS trig, and Web Audio down to bit-level precision.
Claude Code incurs ~33,000-token overhead per request (vs OpenCode’s ~7,000) due to extensive system prompts, tools, and mid-session rewrites, while OpenCode’s stable, cached prefixes minimize costs. Subagent workflows amplify Claude Code’s token usage 54x vs OpenCode’s lean design, with configuration files and MCP servers further inflating baseline costs.
L Jamieson Greer, America’s top trade official, complained that Pix, a Brazilian instant-payments system, unfairly disadvantages American firms such as Visa and Mastercard. America proposed an additional 25% tariff on Brazil in response. Yet Brazilians seem unmoved. “Pix is a Brazilian achievement and we will not give it up,” replied Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president and a ...
A mathematician successfully migrated 1999 Java applets to JavaScript via AI, reviving tools like honeycomb and Besicovitch set visualizers with minimal bugs. They also created new interactive visualizations for special relativity and the Gilbreath conjecture using AI, finding the process efficient and low-risk for supplementary educational tools.
The author is enthusiastic about AI progress, including LLMs and coding agents, but criticizes fear-mongering narratives of AI dominance. They argue that value creation, driven by Moore's law, isn't captured by closed labs, advocating for open-source solutions.
Sam Kahn traces his declining reading habit due to social media, work, and shifting cultural values, battling digital addiction and societal pressures. He revives reading through disciplined strategies, stressing its role in sustaining deep thought and cultural continuity amid modern distractions.
Ploy upgraded to GPT-5.6 Sol, outperforming Claude Opus with 2.2× faster builds, 27% lower costs, and cleaner code, but required fixing tool-call handling, caching, and reasoning replay to address model-specific behaviors and ensure fair evaluation.
Ireland's datacenters consumed 23% of electricity in 2025, up 10% from 2024, despite a Dublin moratorium on new grid connections. New regulations now require backup power systems, as protests grow over energy use and environmental impacts.
Building a software factory requires agents for automation and humans to maintain architectural integrity through active code engagement. Writing code fosters ownership, precision, and system resilience, preventing fragility amplified by over-reliance on AI-generated solutions.
The essay warns that AI's mathematical advancements paired with U.S. declining math education risk strategic failure by eroding critical infrastructure. It proposes treating math capacity as a strategic asset and requiring formal, auditable AI reasoning.
The one-step trap assumes AI can accurately predict long-term outcomes by iterating one-step models, but errors compound and computational complexity grows exponentially, making it unreliable. Temporally abstract models like options and GVFs offer a better solution for long-term predictions.
LARP is a satirical platform mocking legal circular revenue deals where companies mutualize revenue without cash movement, critiquing financial reporting's focus on numbers over real economic value. It highlights how accounting rules allow such practices, blurring lines between legitimate growth and illusion.
The essay explores how foundational, often "useless" research fuels future innovations, exemplified by Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system. It calls for independent thinkers and patrons to support paradigm-shifting work, bridging the gap between institutional legacy and grassroots creativity.
Technological shifts, like CGI in the 90s and AI today, disrupt industries but offer growth through adaptation. Programmers must evolve by mastering tools like LLMs, leveraging resources such as Karpathy's tutorials and Raschka's book, to stay relevant amid automation and code review advancements.
Several frontier models [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] use sparse attention to greatly speedup their inference, though no one has posted code to train it efficiently. Today I introduce the world's first performant open-source training kernels for Minimax Sparse Attention in CuTeDSL for Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. I did all of the dev work on Spheron H100 and B200 rentals and with the help of referencing ...
Replace screen time with reading, use an e-reader, read in daily moments, mix genres, and avoid distractions. Set goals, build a library, track progress, and avoid speed reading/summaries to deepen understanding.
The Deir el-Medina strikes (c. 1158 BC) were Egypt's earliest recorded labor protests, driven by unpaid grain rations under Ramesses III, with artisans demanding supplies from the vizier. The skilled, literate workforce, organized into roles like scribes and deputies, leveraged their royal tomb-building role to negotiate, but ongoing grain shortages linked to Sea Peoples' invasions and ...
A quantized array is sharded along its leading axes only. to cross that boundary, it needs one more piece of code : qrows.partition_map )) and jnp.device_put(('(i, 3))).shape == (2, 3), where x is the number of rows i see in each cell - this is how we quant
Store, recall, and forget with a memory system that learns from every interaction. Retrieval quality improves automatically over time, powered by cognitive science and machine learning. Get Started Free Four search strategies run in parallel: vector similarity, temporal recency, full-text keyword, and knowledge graph traversal. The system learns which strategies to prioritize for each type of ...
Neocities empowers users to build and share websites with an easy HTML editor, drag-and-drop uploads, and community features like tags and social interaction, all without ads or data sales. Funded by supporters, it offers fast, reliable static hosting with open-source tools, prioritizing user control and creativity.
Diophantine equations explore integer solutions, revealing structures like divisibility and prime factorization. The Langlands program studies advanced Diophantine equations to uncover profound connections in number theory.
Alzheimer’s, a feared dementia, erodes identity and self-trust, as described by Terry Pratchett, who likened it to "unwinding" and isolation. The government’s inadequate response fails to address its devastating impact.
A small tool to reclaim my attention - providing a global focus mode across macOS apps. My screen is always full of things asking for it: other windows, notification badges, the Menu Bar clock, the Dock, a scenic wallpaper. Zen Mode is one hotkey that silences all of it. The window I'm working in glides to the center of the screen and stretches to full height, and everything else — Menu ...
Understanding the Odin Programming Language teaches basic to advanced Odin concepts, emphasizing design rationale and practical examples, endorsed by Odin's creator and praised for clarity. Karl Zylinski, an experienced game developer and educator, updates the book with language changes and offers insights into low-level programming.
Google's study shows rerouting 2% of trips via navigation apps in 10 US cities improved traffic speeds by 2% and reduced emissions, demonstrating scalable, low-cost congestion relief. The experiment establishes a framework for network-level traffic optimization using connected systems.
Shirei is a cross-platform Go GUI framework enabling self-contained apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux with a React-like immediate mode API, eliminating widget state management. It supports international text, flexible layouts, and offers a simple API with built-in examples for quick development.
Ghostel is an Emacs terminal emulator using libghostty-vt, offering modern VT features like Kitty protocols, rich underlines, and OSC 8 hyperlinks. It integrates with Emacs via Elisp and a Zig-native module, supporting shell commands, password prompts, and TRAMP remote terminals.
Jimmy Miller wrote a lovely response to Sean Goedecke’s Seeing like a Software Company,” which you know is itself riffing on James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State. I loved Jimmy’s response, and it felt to me like it walked right up to the edge of a different conclusion, but didn’t make it all of the way there. I want to directly point at and name the thing I see in Jimmy’s response: Not the ...