Oxide's guidelines for using large language models (LLMs) emphasize responsibility, rigor, empathy, and teamwork to ensure their use does not undermine trust and authenticity. LLMs can be useful for tasks like reading comprehension, editing, code review, and debugging, but their use should be carefully considered and not relied upon as a substitute for human judgment and effort.
The user made significant improvements to their DIY silicon process, creating a 10µm polysilicon gate process with 100 transistors on a single chip, a huge step closer to more advanced DIY computer chips. They achieved excellent transistor characteristics, including low threshold voltage and leakage current, and plan to automate testing and design more complex circuits.
Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.
Eurydice is a compiler from Rust to C that aims to produce readable C code, allowing for a gradual transition to Rust while maintaining compatibility with legacy systems. The compiler plugs into the MIR level of the Rust compiler and uses Charon to avoid reimplementing the wheel, with ongoing work to integrate it with Microsoft and Google's crypto libraries.
GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.
Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.
The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.
The Dhrystone benchmark is a synthetic program developed in 1984 to measure general processor performance, containing no floating point operations. It remains a simple benchmark, but its value in establishing true performance is questionable due to various issues and compiler optimizations.
The author discusses how social media has become a mental health hazard and proposes alternatives like StreetPass and Blog Quest, which offer a more controlled online experience. These browser extensions help users discover and connect with others on a decentralized, independent internet.
Perl's growth was hindered by its culture, which was rooted in conservative UNIX sysadmin values and a tribal meritocracy, making it difficult for the language to evolve and adapt to changing needs. The language's culture and values, such as its emphasis on flexibility and its reluctance to change, ultimately led to its decline in popularity, but it remains widely used and influential in the ...
The USAP Field Manual provides an overview of USAP field logistics, operations, and safety, intended to enhance success in the field. It emphasizes the importance of risk management, emergency preparedness, and environmental stewardship in Antarctica.
Japan's unique "juhyo" or "snow monsters" are shrinking due to climate change and forest damage. A team is working to revive the fir forests and preserve the natural wonder, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors annually.
Researchers propose Zebra-Llama, a method to create efficient hybrid language models from pre-trained models, achieving Transformer-level accuracy with reduced training tokens and memory. Zebra-Llama outperforms existing models in accuracy and efficiency, using significantly fewer tokens and smaller memory.
Z-Image is a powerful image generation model with 6B parameters, offering sub-second inference latency and photorealistic image generation. It has three variants: Z-Image-Turbo, Z-Image-Base, and Z-Image-Edit, supporting bilingual text rendering and creative image editing.
arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.
The writer is unhappy with Apple's quality and wants a simple, user-aligned laptop with Linux. They dream of a MacBook with Linux, but Asahi Linux faces limitations due to Apple's closed-source hardware.
Georgia Tech's OMSCS program offers public course content through Ed Lessons, excluding graded assignments. Students enrolled in OMSCS should access course content through Canvas for full versions.
The user discusses VisiOn, a graphical multitasking operating system released in 1983 by VisiCorp, which was an open system but had limited third-party development due to its high cost and lack of documentation. The user recreates the SDK for VisiOn and creates a homebrew application called Pyramid, which is the first-ever published third-party application for VisiOn.
Train services were halted after AI-generated image of bridge damage appeared on social media following an earthquake. Network Rail reopened rail line after safety inspections, urging people to think about the impact of hoax images.
The user created a Commodore 64 game called Oblast, a remake of the 1978 arcade game Blasto, with faster action, animation, and procedurally generated screens, and made it free to play. The game features configurable gameplay, customizable settings, and a variety of game modes, including a mode where the player can blow up the entire playfield with impunity.
Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres have seen significant growth and adoption, with the ORM market share increasing and Prisma Postgres experiencing spectacular hobby and commercial adoption. The latest release of Prisma ORM includes improved performance, flexibility, and type-safety, as well as a new Prisma config file and support for dynamic project configuration.
A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.
Catala annotates legislative texts with code translations through programmer-lawyer pair-programming. It defines a Qualified Employee Discount as the lesser of an employee discount or the gross profit percentage of the customer price.
FuseCells is a logic puzzle game blending Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Nonogram styles with handcrafted puzzles and no ads. It offers 2500 puzzles, daily challenges, and a crystal rating system with beautiful cosmic visuals and offline play.
Researchers at King's College London found that moderate coffee consumption is linked to longer telomeres in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, equivalent to a 5-year younger biological age. The study suggests that up to four cups of coffee per day may slow biological ageing in this population.
Generative UI adapts to users' context and needs in real-time, revealing complexity only when necessary. It uses predefined components and AI to build personalized interfaces that are more reliable and flexible than traditional software.
In the Sort the Court game, your reign begins with the simplest of actions: saying "Yes" or "No". Yet, beneath this minimalist interface lies a profoundly complex strategic experience. Every single decision triggers cascading effects across your kingdom's four core attributes: Treasury Health, Citizen Sentiment, Military Readiness, and Magical Influence. Face requests from ...
PatchworkOS is a modular, non-POSIX operating system that rigorously follows the "everything is a file" philosophy, built from scratch in C and assembly for the x86_64 architecture. It aims to be educational and experimental, with a goal of creating a "real" operating system that runs on real hardware and has modern performance.
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