Tony Hoare, a renowned Computer Science expert, passed away at 92. He made significant contributions to the field, including the quicksort algorithm, and was known for his humility and sharp mind.
RCLI is a voice AI for macOS running natively on Apple Silicon with 43 voice actions and local document search. It uses MetalRT for fast on-device inference and supports various models for LLM, STT, and TTS.
Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup AMI raised over $1 billion to develop AI world models, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. AMI aims to build AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, and can reason and plan, unlike large language models.
Debian developers are discussing whether to accept AI-assisted contributions, with some arguing for clear boundaries and others seeing it as an opportunity to onboard new contributors. The debate is ongoing due to differing opinions on terminology, implications, and long-term impacts.
The author's startup, Autonoma, pivoted from a successful product to rewrite it due to technical debt and poor tech decisions. They share their experiences with Next.js, Server Actions, and other technologies, highlighting issues and choosing a new tech stack for their new product.
The user built a new programming language called Cutlet using Claude Code in just four weeks, allowing the LLM to generate every line of code and relying on guardrails to ensure correctness. The user's experience with Cutlet highlights the potential of LLMs in software development, but also emphasizes the importance of careful planning, skill, and discipline in working with coding agents.
Intel's Heracles chip accelerates fully homomorphic encryption by 5,000-fold compared to a top-of-the-line CPU. It uses 64 compute cores and 48 GB of high-bandwidth memory to achieve massive speedups in encrypted computing tasks.
The user shares their experience with Magit, a git interface, focusing on rebasing. They demonstrate how Magit's interactive log view helps understand the structure of a repository and facilitates rebasing.
Alberto and his twin brother Alejandro co-founded Didit to create a unified identity layer that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, and fraud prevention globally. Their platform aims to provide a transparent, accessible, and secure identity verification solution for the internet, with a focus on data minimization and zero-knowledge verification.
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and its creators will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal brings new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses, according to Meta.
The user has been tracking over 100 different data types for the last 3 years, collecting ~380,000 data points, and created a custom-built project called FxLifeSheet to visualize and analyze their data. The project uses a timestamp-based key-value database and allows the user to add and remove questions on the fly, with the goal of having full control over their data and visualizations.
The user discovered a new way to scale large language models (LLMs) by duplicating specific layers of a pre-trained model, resulting in a +17.72% improvement on the MuSR benchmark and a +8.16% improvement on the MATH benchmark. This method, called Repeat Your Self (RYS), involves duplicating a block of layers in the model's architecture, allowing the model to perform more complex reasoning ...
The user attempted to post-train an open-source model, Kimi-K2-Thinking, but encountered several issues, including a slow compression step and out-of-memory errors, which were eventually resolved by enabling CUDA virtual memory and modifying the model's architecture. The user ultimately successfully trained the model, but found the process to be time-consuming and expensive, leading them to ...
The defeated of the earth face their losses with an open face, learning to think with defeat and imagine new possibilities. This stance, rooted in an imagination from below, seeks to speculate the impossible and envision life beyond colonial ruins.
A timegrapher app for iOS uses a combination of signal processing and machine learning to measure a mechanical watch's accuracy within a few seconds per day, even with low signal-to-noise ratios. The app's algorithm includes techniques such as epoch folding, autocorrelation, and Kalman filtering to refine the measurement and provide a reliable estimate of the watch's rate.
The user built an Enterprise Context Layer (ECL) using 1000 lines of Python and a GitHub repo to map company knowledge, processes, and behavior. The ECL uses LLMs to reason through scattered context and create a holistic mental model, improving knowledge management and retrieval.
The author describes a progression of 8 levels in AI-assisted coding, from basic tab completion to advanced multi-agent coordination, and emphasizes the importance of context engineering, compounding engineering, and harness engineering to unlock each level. The author encourages readers to assess their current level and take steps to move to the next one, highlighting the potential for ...
A few months ago, I came across a bug bounty program for an application that uses Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) to generate PostScript files from user supplied XML, then runs GhostScript to generate a PDF. This feature seemed really appealing and very bug prone. For reminder, PostScript is a Turing complete page description language, that can also interact with the underlying ...
New US laws require age verification for online content, sparking backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates. The laws aim to protect minors but may compromise internet freedom and create security risks.
Infinity's infy optimization system generates inference engines from scratch, delivering up to 34.3% more tokens per second than vLLM. It uses a full-stack approach, cherry-picking techniques from various frameworks and validating each addition with real throughput metrics.
The Office is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of business section books, based on the Gervais Principle, which supersedes the Peter Principle and Dilbert Principle, and is consistent with The Organization Man and Images of Organization. The Gervais Principle states that Sociopaths promote over-performing Losers to middle management, groom under-performing Losers ...
MariaDB 12.3 outperforms MariaDB 11.8 and Postgres 18.2 with pgvector in vector search recall vs precision. The performance difference is more significant for larger datasets.
The Query Tool is a feature-rich environment for executing SQL commands and reviewing result sets, with features like syntax coloring, autocompletion, and AI-powered query generation. It also includes tools for analyzing query execution plans, generating graphs, and managing macros for executing pre-defined SQL queries.
The author compares AI agents to Dracula from Castlevania, highlighting their ability to act without inhibition and create their own values, but notes that unlike Dracula, AI agents are ephemeral and can cause significant damage if left unchecked. The author argues that the industry is moving too fast and lacks standardization, making it difficult to build secure agents and that traditional ...
User wrote about contributing to Paged Out!, a free technical magazine, and wrote an article about Rust trivia. They also mentioned moving to Seattle and having a backlog of writing projects.
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The author aims to explain how to use C++ effectively in bare metal development, focusing on soft real-time systems without prioritizing interrupts or complex task scheduling. The author provides practical guides and examples on how to implement C++ in embedded systems, highlighting the importance of understanding C++ idioms, STL contents, and template meta-programming for effective use in ...