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en.wikipedia.org 10d ago

All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)

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en.wikipedia.org 10d ago

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

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serialc.github.io 16d ago

Alternate clock designs and time systems

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github.com 29d ago

Book-to-skill: Turn a technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill

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portal.neuralwatt.com 1mo ago

Neuralwatt: Energy-based pricing for AI inference. Efficient prompts cost less

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words.filippo.io 1mo ago

Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)

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github.com 1mo ago

Surreal.js – 320 line jQuery alternative with inline Locality of Behavior

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twitter.com 1mo ago

Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is *deeply* wrong

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rarehistoricalphotos.com 2mo ago

Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

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www.wsj.com 3mo ago

The $400M Machine That Spawned the Most Coveted Toy

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forums.classicpress.net 3mo ago

ClassicPress 2.7.0 Release Notes

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www.i18nguy.com 4mo ago

Origin of the Abbreviation i18n

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www.thedrive.com 4mo ago

Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)

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danlevy.net 5mo ago

It's Time for LLM Connection Strings

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github.com 6mo ago

NotepadNext – Cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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blog.apnic.net 6mo ago

An Interview with the Creators of Ipv4.games

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www.classicpress.net 7mo ago

ClassicPress Version 2.6.0 is Out

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old.reddit.com 7mo ago

Built a LangChain App for a Startup, Here's What Mattered

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www.identity4.com 10mo ago

Rackintosh Plus

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reverse.put.as 1y ago

Cracking the Crackers

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github.com 1y ago

Microsoft Edit

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github.com 1y ago

HD-64 – An HDMI RF-modulator replacement for the Commodore 64

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hackaday.com 1y ago

Remembering the ISP that David Bowie ran for 8 years

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winsshterm.blogspot.com 1y ago

WinSSHTerm – Tabbed SSH Solution for Windows, Combining PuTTY, WinSCP and VcXsrv

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github.com 1y ago

Intel 8086 CPU Emulator written in pure PHP

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github.com 1y ago

Cake: Distributed LLM and StableDiffusion inference for mobile desktop or server

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github.com 1y ago

Seelen UI – Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11

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twinbasic.com 1y ago

TwinBasic – Modern Implementation of VB6

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www.xyplorer.com 1y ago

Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

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www.linuxinsider.com 1y ago

The Most Popular Operating System in the World (2003)

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Can you elaborate on running them "in conjunction"... are you running the same query on multiple models and then using a third model to judge or make consensus? or am I misunderstanding completely. I'd like to understand how these small models "run together"

I opened the tab in the background and when i got around to it later somehow i lost the game.... i think you need an official "start" button to prevent this.

OS9Map 27 days ago

Wow. As a comparison, I just opened a new Google Maps tab in Chrome. According to the Chrome Task Manager, the tab alone uses 433mb RAM and 34mb GPU memory footprint after first load.

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus 1 month ago

I'd like to study your setup. Would you be willing to share? Perhaps a github repo of your 5 extensions or even a pastebin if you would be so inclined. I would be grateful to learn more about this by studying from your success...

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

Per the "Availability" section of the page, seems like should come back to all plans eventually...

* From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost.

* On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, we’ll extend the included window.

* After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can.

What's Google's business case for releasing open models? Don't get me wrong, I am grateful and appreciative of these releases. I'm trying to understand how it fits into their bigger picture as a for profit company? Are they not helping competitors build on the novel technology they have developed?

Is it simply goodwill and/or marketing? Or am I missing something strategic?

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

The table comparing eval scores shows the following:

Agentic Terminal Coding (Terminal-Bench 2.1) Opus 4.8 74.6% GPT 5.5 78.2%

Then, when you scroll all the way down to the bottom Footnotes section it says

"Terminal-Bench 2.1: We reported scores for all models using the Terminus-2 public harness. GPT-5.5’s reported score with the Codex CLI harness is 83.4%."

Qwen 3.7 Preview 2 months ago

Can you share the GGUF for this specific success story? I'd like to try it for myself.

  >  It took two initial prompts and a few tiny follow-ups. GPT-5.2 running in Codex CLI ran uninterrupted for several hours, burned through 1,464,295 input tokens, 97,122,176 cached input tokens and 625,563 output tokens and ended up producing 9,000 lines of fully tested JavaScript across 43 commits.
Using a random LLM cost calculator, this amounts to $28.31... pretty reasonable for functional output.

I am now confident that within 5-10 years (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions are going to drop out enormously.

Source: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=1464295&cit=97123000&ot=62556...

Low Cost Mini PCs 2 years ago

This is wonderful i'll be using this a lot. Would be great to see a filter for Tiny vs Mini as well as CPU. AMD/Intel and i3 i7 i9, etc, maybe even generation, etc

What would it take to get this on modern (or even last generation) phone hardware?

I bet we could do everything we want with tremendous simplicity and out of this world battery life... Probably would make a PinePhone feel like a Rolls Royce.

I have been curious about using computer vision to bulk scan and identify valuable coins. Have systems like this been put into use already? If not do you think they might dilute the value of "rare" coins by creating many more "finds" then were typically possible without the technology?

DIY Book Scanner 3 years ago

Remember when Google was cool and not evil and released their book scanner project for free? https://code.google.com/archive/p/linear-book-scanner/

  "Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate this design..."