What.CD, a private music tracker with invite-only tiers and strict rules to avoid legal risks, fostered a dedicated community but shut down in 2016 after a Salinger manuscript leak and server seizure, leaving users in mourning.
The company released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, supporting text, images, audio, and video, alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) for efficient customization via Tinker. Trained on 45T tokens, Inkling offers controllable reasoning, safety features, and is available on platforms like Hugging Face and Tinker, with partnerships for deployment and ...
Counting each YC chapter by batch year shows when these founders came through. A founder with two YC startups appears in both years. Startups don't work for a range of reasons, including timing. Explore the database to find already validated ideas that are ready for another shot.Explore Startups.RIP→
The article argues that recreating native HTML elements like buttons from scratch is a Sisyphean task due to their complex accessibility requirements, such as keyboard navigation and ARIA roles, which are inherently handled by native elements. It emphasizes using semantic HTML to avoid maintenance burdens and ensure user expectations are met.
Purchased a low-cost USB 3.0 hub that's mostly USB 2.0 with flimsy build and safety risks, leading to buyer's remorse due to deceptive ads and return complications.
The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.
Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent with a TUI for codebase interaction, file editing, shell commands, and task management, supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Rust, offers CLI installation, and is Apache 2.0 licensed with third-party notices.
The article reflects on the 1980s shift from proprietary to open-source software, crediting Richard Stallman's advocacy for free knowledge-sharing as foundational to tech progress. It warns that AI's increasing closure risks stifling innovation and transparency, urging open access to models and data to preserve scientific and societal advancement.
SQLite is praised for its embedded use and self-contained design but faces challenges with ROWID reuse, flexible typing leading to data validation issues, and concurrency limitations. Solutions like strict tables, WAL mode, and an edition system for updated defaults are proposed to address these issues while maintaining compatibility.
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Reynard is an iOS browser using Gecko (Firefox's engine) to bypass outdated WebKit on older iOS versions, enabling modern website compatibility. It's experimental, requires sideloading via TrollStore/AltStore, and relies on community contributions for development.
The author contrasts small-team full-codebase understanding with large-team partial understanding, defending the latter as necessary for complex systems. They argue Peter Naur's theory-building approach is impractical for large systems, emphasizing partial understanding and iterative improvements over complete rewrites.
Upgraded from an 8-year-old Thinkpad to a MacBook for better battery and screen, but found its sharp edges uncomfortable. Modified the edges with a metal file and sandpaper, avoiding complex tools, to improve usability without noticeable wear.
Bluesky acquired the "ATPROTOCOL" trademark to protect the atproto community from legal threats, ensuring free use while defending against misuse. Licensing is optional for most, mandatory for branding, and future ownership may shift to an independent governance body.
Scaling relational databases beyond a few terabytes requires sharding to distribute data and queries across multiple servers, overcoming bottlenecks in write throughput and backup efficiency. Tools like Neki and Vitess act as intelligent proxies, routing traffic to the correct shards and abstracting complexity for applications.
LLMs drive demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM/DRAM), prompting new fabrication plans. High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), using stacked NAND, aims to offer cost-effective, read-optimized storage for AI inference, with Sandisk and SK Hynix advancing its standardization.
The user's homelab faced hardware failures with a core server (nibbler) and found Kubernetes too complex, leading to a shift back to Docker Compose for stability. They now use Proxmox, TrueNAS, and Docker with IPv6 and Caddy for service management, prioritizing simplicity and control over complex orchestration.
A 13-year-old HP server with Ivy Bridge Xeons runs Google's 26B-parameter Gemma 4 model at ~5 tokens/second via CPU-optimized code, overcoming AVX2 instruction set limitations with custom patches. The project highlights adapting modern AI to legacy hardware through engineering, not just subscriptions, enabling local inference on outdated systems.
My latest paper, A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books, with the excellent Tim Groseclose, has just been published. The Coase Conjecture is another one of Coase’s little ideas — the original paper is six pages — that has spawned hundreds of follow-up papers and thousands of citations. The idea is simple. A monopolist of a durable good has a time-inconsistency ...
G# is a modern .NET language that brings Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics to the CLR.
The author explores job queues' scheduling complexities, comparing wholesale vs. incremental Git repo repacking strategies and concurrency limits. They emphasize system design principles like limits, fault models, and pessimistic assumptions to build resilient, predictable workflows.
Async/await simplifies writing asynchronous code but hides concurrency complexity, causing operational issues like latency spikes and OOM crashes. Project Tina addresses this by enforcing deterministic, bounded thread-per-core concurrency with explicit state management and predictable scheduling.
Gauntlet, an open-source pipeline using five expert-persona reviewers and adversarial synthesis, outperformed human analyses in critical rigor for 15 of 20 computer architecture papers. Its multi-agent structure and synthesis pass drove success, though humans excelled in trust and usefulness.
Coasty automates tasks via managed VMs, workflows, and primitives, with autonomous runs for single goals and workflows for multi-task programs. API keys control access, billing tracks usage, and BYOK allows custom models.
This open-source guide modernizes UNIX principles for CLI design, focusing on human-centric usability, composability, and clear documentation. It provides actionable best practices for intuitive interfaces, error handling, and output formatting to improve accessibility and efficiency.
The author uses LLMs to streamline MikroTik network setups, leveraging their efficiency while cautioning against errors, and shares tips like REST API use, CAPsMAN, and MAC-Telnet for smoother, version-controlled configurations. Networking's complexity is acknowledged, balancing LLMs' chaotic help with meticulous testing and documentation.
Netstrings are self-delimiting strings with length prefixes, enabling efficient parsing and safe network communication. They prevent buffer overflows by declaring size upfront, unlike CRLF-based methods.
Misfits Attic announced *Duskers 2.0*, funded by Max McGuire’s Stray Signal, during PC Gamer’s event, expanding the survival game’s narrative with moral choices and deeper gameplay. EGG’s community-driven funding model, supporting indie developers like Tim through prototypes and partnerships, highlights a new era of collaborative game development.
Compilers spend a massive amount of time looking at names and structures. Every variable, function, and keyword in your source code is a string that needs to be identified, categorized, and resolved across multiple compiler phases. The problem isn’t just matching strings or comparing type signatures—it’s doing it over and over again across the entire pipeline. The same variable name counter ...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), ultra-porous materials with vast surface areas, excel at trapping gases, harvesting water from arid air, and delivering drugs. Pioneered by Omar Yaghi, they offer scalable, solar-powered solutions for water scarcity, carbon capture, and medicine, with over 20,000 variants now enabling diverse environmental and medical applications.