The user is simulating a 286 processor using a Raspberry Pi and MCP23S17 IO expander. They successfully booted the processor and ran simple assembly code.
git-memento records AI coding sessions as Git notes, allowing for auditing and amendment of commits. It supports multiple sessions and can sync notes with a remote repository.
Researchers have made significant progress in decoding brain signals to translate thoughts into text, with a study at Stanford University achieving 74% accuracy in real-time inner speech. This breakthrough could revolutionize communication for people with impaired speech capabilities and eventually transform human interaction with the world around us.
WebMCP provides a standard way for websites to expose structured tools, enabling AI agents to interact with them quickly and precisely. This allows agents to perform tasks like booking flights, filing support tickets, and navigating complex data with increased speed and reliability.
Timber compiles trained models into native C and serves them over a local HTTP API. It supports models like XGBoost and CatBoost, and can auto-detect model types.
VMPrint offers a stable, high-performance alternative to headless browsers and HTML-to-PDF tools for generating PDFs. It composes documents from a versioned JSON instruction stream and guarantees identical layout given identical input.
The author forgot how to watermark a document after two years of not doing it and wasted time relearning the process. They recommend documenting multi-step processes to avoid this issue.
llmfit is a terminal tool that right-sizes LLM models to your system's hardware and recommends suitable models based on quality, speed, fit, and context dimensions. It supports multi-GPU setups, MoE architectures, and dynamic quantization selection.
Suppose two people want to communicate privately over the internet. They could encrypt their messages, scrambling them so that only someone with the right secret key can read them. But that raises an immediate problem: how do they agree on that secret key in the first place? They can't whisper it to each other. Every message between them passes through the open internet, where anyone ...
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
FrankenSQLite is a Rust-based database engine that eliminates the SQLITE_BUSY wall, provides self-healing, and supports concurrent writers with error correction and encryption. It offers a composable engine with 26 crates, including query planning, execution, and storage, with a simple API surface for standard SQL.
Tove Jansson illustrated the Swedish translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1960. Her unique illustrations focused on landscapes and locations, differing from the traditional depiction of Tolkien's characters.
Public RSS feeds are blocked by browsers due to CORS, but feed readers and crawlers are unaffected. Adding CORS headers to server responses fixes the issue, making feeds compatible with all readers.
The author rants about how programming languages neglect file access, requiring manual parsing and serialization. They praise C's memory mapping feature for efficient binary data access.
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The author claims MCP is dying due to its lack of real-world benefits and argues that CLIs are simpler, faster to debug, and more reliable. They believe CLIs are a better abstraction for LLMs to interact with tools.
We've written about individual compression codecs in Vortex before: FastLanes for bit-packing integers, FSST for strings, and ALP for floating point. But we've never explained how Vortex decides which codec to use for a given column, or how it layers multiple codecs on top of each other. On TPC-H at scale factor 10, Vortex files are 38% smaller and decompress 10β25x faster than ...
We're farmers with a new plot of land and we're using a Decision Tree to classify trees as Apple, Cherry, or Oak based on Diameter and Height. We've created a tree with a root node at Diameter β₯ 0.45 and subsequent splits at Height β€ 4.88 and Diameter.
The aerospace industry is facing a data transmission challenge due to rapidly increasing data volumes from modern spacecraft. Traditional communication methods are struggling to keep pace.
The author expresses frustration with the increasing reliance on AI-generated content and the devaluation of human connection and craftsmanship in the digital world. They argue that software engineering is an art and a science that requires care and attention to detail, and that the use of AI tools should not replace human expertise and judgment.
The user built a custom 10S17P e-bike battery pack with 170 Samsung E35 cells, increasing the range of their S-Pedelec from 45 km to 180 km. The pack was designed to be safe and efficient, with a capacity of 2150 Wh, and the user hopes to inspire others to consider e-bikes as a commuter car replacement.
SynapsCAD is a 3D CAD IDE combining OpenSCAD code editor, real-time 3D viewport, and AI assistant for natural language design modification. It's available for Linux, macOS, and Windows with pre-built binaries and supports offline usage with local AI models.
TCP zero-copy is a feature of the Linux kernel that makes it possible to send and receive data without incurring an extra copy between kernel memory and the memory buffer that holds the final data (in userspace, or even in the memory of a different device on the system). Copying data adds overhead, so avoiding it is appealing. The kernel features that enable this are quite new, and figuring ...
Ape coding is a software development practice where humans write source code manually, emphasizing craftsmanship and direct human involvement. It gained popularity as a reaction against AI-written software, but its value now lies in recreation and education, with enthusiasts building large-scale projects like a human-written compiler for the AI-designed programming language π―.
Andrej Karpathy's 200-line Python script trains a GPT model from scratch, learning statistical patterns in human names and generating plausible new ones. The script's core loop involves tokenizing, embedding, attending, computing, and predicting the next token, with the model learning to minimize cross-entropy loss through backpropagation and RMSNorm normalization.
Every few months, someone in the AI or distributed systems space announces a new framework for running concurrent, stateful agents. It has isolated state. Message passing. A supervisor that restarts things when they fail. The BEAM languages communities watch, nod, and go back to work. This keeps happening because process-based concurrency solves a genuinely hard problem, and the BEAM virtual ...
A long document was divided into six volumes for easier reading, with Volume 1 providing a technical foundation for the rest. The volumes cover C64 disk copy protection techniques, industrial machinery, and copying scene tools from 1982 to the early 1990s.
The authors optimized NeuralAmpModelerCore for embedded hardware, reducing processing time from 5 seconds to 1.5 seconds on the Electrosmith Daisy Seed. They achieved this by improving model size, compute efficiency, and model loading, laying the groundwork for their next-generation NAM architecture.
User helped parents set up new Android devices, minimizing data collection and telemetry by disabling tracking, uninstalling bloatware, and replacing default apps. They're seeking advice on phones with fewer privacy-invasive tactics and hardware that doesn't collect data excessively.