Researchers built a 397 billion parameter AI model in 24 hours using C, Objective-C, and Metal shaders on a MacBook Pro. The model runs at 4.4+ tokens/second with production-quality output, using a custom Metal compute pipeline and 48GB RAM.
The company's customer service was poor, with a long wait and an unhelpful AI assistant. This contrasts with a small start-up that showed empathy and understanding when the author cancelled their service.
Classic Minesweeper laid across the Strait of Hormuz. Clear the water, flag the mines, and survive the shipping lane.
System diagramming mistakes include poorly labeled resources, disconnected resources, and overly complex diagrams. Common errors also include oversimplification, unnecessary animations, and fan traps, which can lead to confusion and misinterpretation.
The user scanned 11,345 receipts since 2001 and used AI agents to extract data, focusing on egg purchases. The project took 14 days with 15 hours of human input.
Node.js has a single-threaded event loop that handles concurrency without locks, but CPU-heavy code can starve the event loop. Worker threads provide isolation, but require a separate file with its own entry point and communication via message passing.
The user encountered a sign-extension bug in their C code while developing a Type-2 hypervisor, which caused the system to crash unpredictably due to a triple fault. The bug was caused by integer promotion and sign extension in the get_desc64_base function, which was fixed by casting values to unsigned types before the bit-shift operation.
Curried functions are probably one of the first new things you come across if you go from an imperative language to a functional language. In purely functional languages, the convention is to define an n-parameter function inductively by staggering the parameters: applying the function to argument #1 returns a function that takes parameters 2..n, which in turn can be applied to argument #2 to ...
Many engineers (me included) I met have a drawer full of proposals that never went anywhere. Technically airtight. Benchmarked. Diagrammed. Presented to a room of intelligent people who nodded politely and went a different direction. You walk away muttering the same thing every technically correct person has muttered since the beginning of organized work: “They just don’t get it”. Perelman ...
Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools running on your own hardware — completely free. No internet required. Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data — a free, open source offline server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever. Similar products cost hundreds of dollars. Project NOMAD is free. When infrastructure fails, NOMAD ...
We are hiring full time software engineers and looking for contributions to tinygrad, a deep learning framework. We also sell a computer called the tinybox, a powerful computer for deep learning with low price and high quality.
About 2 months ago, an email from xwf.google.com dropped into my inbox, referencing an application from a year prior that I even forgot about. My initial classification was that it is not possible and that this is just spam. But after the screening call, the reality hit: I will have two online interviews (one technical, one behavioral) in just a week. And not just a regular interview to ...
The e18e community has seen significant growth and performance-focused contributions, but this has led to "dependency bloat" in npm trees due to redundant, outdated, or unmaintained packages. To address this, maintainers and consumers should work together to identify and remove unnecessary packages, using tools like e18e, npmx, and module-replacements to clean up dependency trees.
The dice included in the game's box have density issues within their plastic which could cause biased results, but they are safe to use for this game due to the limited number of rolls. The user recommends these dice for casual games but not for games that heavily rely on dice rolling.
The author believes that instant gratification is replacing the value of time and effort in software development and business, leading to short-lived projects and relationships. They argue that true quality and community are built over years, not weeks or months.
Everything runs in the browser. Your media stays local with the File System Access API — nothing leaves your machine.
The user's chest fridge consumes 0.1 kWh a day and costs $5 a year to use. They question why mediocre fridges are made and used despite being energy inefficient and wasting at least 1 kWh of energy a day.
The fastest way to put a word on a shirt. Type your text, pick a size, and order.
The user, a Windows developer, attempted to create a simple Windows utility program using the latest Windows App SDK but found the process to be frustrating due to gaps in the framework and outdated interop technology. The user ultimately decided that using web technologies like Electron or Tauri might be a better choice for native Windows app development due to the complexity and limitations ...
Circuits is Rec Room's technology for programming rooms: a multiplayer-synchronized realtime scripting system that lets players build interactive experiences together. Creating Circuits is one of the top honors of my career. I'd like to share how we solved core networking challenges, for anyone working on similar problems. Before the Circuits we know today, we had "Circuits ...
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Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator with no account or feature gates. It can be used with any AWS region and credentials, and is an alternative to LocalStack's community edition.
HopTab is a macOS app that allows users to customize their workflow with keyboard shortcuts, profiles, and layouts. It enables users to pin apps, snap windows, and switch profiles with ease.
1 9 7 7 A C M T u r i n g A w a r d L e c t u r e The 1977 A C M Turing Award was presented to John Backus at the A C M Annual Conference in Seattle, October 17. In intro- ducing the recipient, Jean E. Sammet, Chairman of the Awards Committee, made the following comments and read a portion of the final citation. The full announcement is in the September 1977 issue of Communications, page 681. ...
Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures have been rejected by theologians and mocked by comedians, but he continues to promote his ideas. Thiel's talks aim to justify capitalism and authoritarianism by using Christian scripture and philosophy, but his efforts have been criticized by a Vatican advisor as a prolonged act of heresy.
A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together. Researchers from Mass General Brigham tracked more than 130,000 people for over four decades and found that those who regularly consumed moderate amounts of caffeinated coffee or tea had an 18 percent lower ...
The book "Electronics for Kids" is praised for its engaging and accessible approach to teaching electronics and circuitry. Reviewers commend its hands-on projects and clear explanations that make STEM topics enjoyable for kids.
The Boss is a simple, intuitive weaving tool with 5 bars that create different weave structures and patterns. It's a great option for beginners and those with limited space, offering endless creative possibilities.
The main difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics is how they interpret probability, with Bayesian statistics considering parameters as uncertain and data as fixed, and frequentist statistics considering parameters as fixed and data as random. Bayesian statistics is particularly well-suited for modeling uncertainty in data and can be used to fit complex models with uncertain ...
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