Why is Charlie Stross's site named Antipope?

The name Antipope originated from a 1991 mistake when a sysadmin confused autopope.uucp with antipope.uucp. The name stuck and has been associated with various online identities since then.

Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Dell used Kioxia's LC9 SSDs to create a 9.8 PB storage server, the PowerEdge R7725xd, with high capacity and power efficiency. This server supports fast data transfer and is suitable for AI infrastructure and large data storage needs.

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

The user provided a series of first-person view descriptions from stationary observation points in various environments, including alpine trails, caves, forests, deserts, and futuristic settings, each with unique textures, lighting, and atmospheric effects. The descriptions emphasize the static nature of the observer's perspective, with autonomous motion animating the world around them, ...

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel inside Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to run applications side by side without rebooting. It consists of a patched Linux kernel, VxD driver, and wsl.com client program for seamless integration.

How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools

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The PART project creates accessible radio telescopes for under $500 to bring astronomy to rural schools. Five students designed the telescopes using open software and hardware, promoting STEM education and reducing opportunity gaps.

Accelerando (2005)

Manfred Macx, a free-spirited inventor, receives a mysterious phone call from a rogue AI claiming to be defecting from the KGB. He attends a party in Amsterdam, where he meets a representative from Arianespace, a European space company, who proposes a new business opportunity.

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

The user migrated away from Tailwind CSS and towards more semantic HTML and vanilla CSS, learning about structuring CSS and implementing systems for managing layouts, fonts, colors, and components. They found Tailwind limiting and wanted to be able to pick and choose, learning about CSS features like grid layouts and auto-fit in the process.

HTML Lists

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This is the second installment in the “you don’t know html” series. we’ve talked about the five different kinds of lists a list can have - and how to use them if you want to mash them up based on their intended use case and intent xml-style nav gimmicks and jquery-based coding symposia... and what to do with them when

Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

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Researchers propose $\delta$-mem, a lightweight memory mechanism for large language models, improving performance by 10-31% on memory-heavy benchmarks. It achieves this with a compact online state and delta-rule learning, without full fine-tuning or backbone replacement.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

The competitive format of Capture The Flag (CTF) has been fundamentally changed by the use of AI tools, making it pay-to-win and reducing the art of security to a prompt. The scoreboard no longer reflects human growth and the community is losing interest, with many top teams and players struggling to stay competitive in the current format.

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

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Rocksky is a decentralized music platform built on AT Protocol, mirroring Last.fm scrobbles and allowing users to upload their music libraries. Users can provide feedback and contribute to Rocksky through issues, pull requests, and the Discord server.

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

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Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

Clusters become personal (like PCs did)

Personal compute clusters will soon be used by individuals, revolutionizing digital life. A personal cluster OS is necessary for this, and Aranya aims to bring this technology to the next generation of computing.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

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The author is fascinated with "steering" in LLMs, which involves manipulating model activations to guide outputs. This concept is now practical due to open-source models like DwarfStar 4, which allows engineers to try steering for the first time.

Greek Alphabet Cards

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The user created a set of cards to help their kids learn the Greek alphabet through visual associations, where objects are drawn to resemble the letter their name starts with. The user used a combination of research, a Greek dictionary, and AI image generation to create the cards, which have been effective in teaching their kids the alphabet in a playful and engaging way.

US Is Starting to See Heavy Job Losses in Roles Exposed to AI

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Futhark by Example

Futhark is a functional programming language used for parallel computing and has been applied in various projects such as games and benchmarks. It is particularly useful for tasks that can be efficiently parallelized.

Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks

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Albert Camus's public image has remained unchanged since the 1940s despite new translations of his works. His notebooks reveal a shift in thinking and approach to writing, distancing himself from philosophy and embracing literature as a legitimate form of human inquiry.

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

C13Cl2 forms a strained ring of carbon atoms with a curious electronic structure. The nonplanar singlet state is periodic only after four circulations of the ring system and is consistent with a half-Möbius topology. Rončević et al. synthesized this molecule on a sodium chloride surface by dechlorinating a larger precursor and mapped the helical orbital densities using scanning tunneling ...

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer

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Kyber is a document platform that uses AI to help enterprises draft and send complex regulatory notices. They're seeking a Founding Marketer to own and scale their Content & Community motion.

Accelerate

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Accelerate is a Haskell library for high-performance computing that compiles array computations online for various architectures. It includes examples and applications for tasks like dot product and hydrodynamics simulations.

After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

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The hessian-eigenthings module computes the eigendecomposition of the Hessian and other curvature matrices for PyTorch models efficiently. It uses Lanczos or stochastic power iteration and provides trace estimates and spectral density.

Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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WKRP in Cincinnati is now a real radio station in Cincinnati, playing classic rock from the 60s to 80s. The station adopted the WKRP call letters after a North Carolina non-profit radio station auctioned them off.

My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs

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A team encountered a mysterious bug where the editor would silently stop saving content, only to be discovered when a product manager noticed it happened when typing specific emojis together and inserting a character between them. The issue was caused by a CRDT library splitting surrogate pairs, resulting in orphaned surrogates that led to a URIError, and was eventually fixed by making emojis ...

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

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Japan’s bear problem continues, and the country is running out of the robot wolves that help keep them at bay. First released in 2016 by the manufacturer Ohta, Monster Wolf was originally designed to ward off the agricultural foes like boars, deer, and the island nation’s Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations. The creative solution quickly went viral ...

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

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The point size in LaTeX is 1/72.27 inches, while Inkscape uses 1/72 inches due to different historical standards.

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials

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Researchers found that fecal transplants can reduce autism symptoms by 45% in the long term. A Phase 3 human trial is needed for FDA approval of Microbiota Transplant Therapy.

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

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Orthrus is a dual-architecture framework that unifies autoregressive LLMs with diffusion models for high-speed parallel token generation. It achieves significant inference acceleration, lossless generation, and zero redundant memory overhead.

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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Google is introducing changes to Android that will prevent side-loading software, prompting the Keep Android Open campaign. Alternatives to Google's OS include de-Googled Android variants and Linux OSes like /e/OS, Ubuntu Touch, and Sailfish.