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thebeardisred

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Old school operating systems guy. CoreOS architect emeritus.

https://brianredbeard.com

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simonwillison.net 2mo ago

LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

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adasbooks.com 2mo ago

Ada's is Closing June 6th, 2026

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www.theregister.com 3mo ago

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

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riseproject.dev 3mo ago

The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

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www.politico.com 4mo ago

The little shipping company that's making Europe's sanctions look silly

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stackoverflow.blog 5mo ago

AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt

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www.nature.com 6mo ago

Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment

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investinglive.com 6mo ago

The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

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calmatters.org 7mo ago

Why homeownership in California isn't nearly the financial slam dunk it once was

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www.reuters.com 7mo ago

Intel pursued deals that boosted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's fortune, sources say

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu 9mo ago

It's a Jax, Jax, Jax, Jax World

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www.phoronix.com 10mo ago

A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced the Latest Linux File-System: TernFS

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www.phoronix.com 10mo ago

Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now "Externally Maintained"

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web.git.kernel.org 10mo ago

Maintainers: Mark Bcachefs Externally Maintained

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github.com 11mo ago

Show HN: Rucat – Cat for Prompt Engineers

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www.usatoday.com 11mo ago

TSA's faster PreCheck lane is now available at these 15 airports

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github.blog 11mo ago

We open sourced our MCP server, and what it means for you

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github.com 11mo ago

Mubook – N100 x86 NAS Carrier Board Designed for Hackclub Highway

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agntcy.org 11mo ago

Agntcy: Building Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents

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developers.googleblog.com 11mo ago

LangExtract: A Gemini powered information extraction library

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openchiplets.org 1y ago

Open Chiplet Architecture

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www.theregister.com 1y ago

Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China

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deno.com 1y ago

JavaScript Trademark Update

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

Founder Sahil Lavingia says he was booted from DOGE after just 55 days

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Agent Name Service (ANS):A Directory for AI Agent Discovery and Interoperability

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www.sifive.com 1y ago

Red Hat Brings Their Enterprise Linux on SiFive Hardware

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brianredbeard.com 1y ago

I've been here the whole time

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jericho.blog 1y ago

VulnCon Day 2 Errata and Taking Ben Edwards to Task

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www.tomshardware.com 1y ago

Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal data to build 28nm-capable fabs

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www.vox.com 1y ago

We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky

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Dopamine neurons respond not to rewards received but to the uncertainty of whether a reward will arrive: the more unpredictable the outcome, the stronger the signal.

This leads me to think about the idea of procrastination as a mechanism of gambling by the sub-conscious. A subversive way of "raising the stakes on the game" in an attempt to "make things a little bit more interesting."

Dav2d 3 months ago

I've noticed that a number of comments seem to have missed the recursive naming pattern:

    Dav1d AV1 Decoder
    Dav2d AV2 Decoder
Just like "GNU's Not Unix"

I would frame this completely differently: plants evolved around sensing the low level vibration created by rain as a signaling technique for the timing of sprouting.

:shrug: Makes sense to me and doesn't try to turn this into some baffling mystery.

CasNum 5 months ago

"Think of these as your ISA." Thank you good Sir for truly naming this in the clearest, most precise semiotics.

I recently investigated the feasibility of purchasing a home again, and the data confirmed why I am staying put. My current rent for a 2BR house in Los Angeles is ~$5,500/mo. I analyzed 2+BR/1.5BA properties in my neighborhood on [Site Name] and used Gemini OCR to extract the following statistics for active listings:

   - Range              $8.85 Million ($0.65M to $9.50M)
   - Mean (Average)     $2.425 Million (Sum of $92.16M / 38 properties)
   - Median (Middle)    $2.04 Million
   - Mode (Most Common) $2.50 Million (appears 3 times)
I performed the same analysis for houses sold in the last three months within the same map area, with the following results:
   - Range              $1.155 Million ($0.725M to $1.88M)
   - Mean (Average)     $1.236 Million (Sum of $28.433M / 23 properties)
   - Median (Middle).   $1.25 Million 
   - Mode (Most Common) $1.10 Million (Appears 3 times)
The data confirms the disconnect: the only properties actually moving are those priced near the "least unaffordable" floor. Meanwhile, the bulk of the market is sitting stagnant because sellers are holding out for prices that, at current interest rates, make zero financial sense for a buyer compared to renting.
The Lost Generation 7 months ago

This was an interesting read. Also, Compact frames DEI as elite cultural manipulation that harms workers of all races by substituting identity politics for class solidarity.

No, it's one company == one vote. There's a similar situation with IBM & Red Hat. Since IBM owns Red Hat, Red Hatters (like myself) may participate in meetings but where individuals from both companies are present "there can be only one."