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We benchmarked Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer against Whisper models and found it delivers superior accuracy and speed on Apple hardware. Our tests show SpeechAnalyzer significantly outperforms both the…
After the Trump administration defunded NOAA and took Climate.gov offline, former employees Rebecca Lindsey, Anna Eshelman, and Mary Lindsey rebuilt the vital resource as Climate.us. Thanks to US law…
I invite you to ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo that syncs with Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. While a lofi bed plays, N5 sentences drift by as subtitles, creating an ambient…
I show you how to build and ship Mac and iOS apps entirely from the command line without ever opening Xcode. After a one-time setup involving your Apple Developer account and certificates, you can au…
I am highlighting a controversial new policy where Samsung threatens to erase user health data if individuals do not consent to its use for training artificial intelligence. This move forces consumer…
I noticed that Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended, as confirmed by the latest Whois data showing a serverHold status. The domain, registered through GoDaddy and protected by Domains By Proxy,…
I spent two weeks reverse engineering the FMV format of Silpheed, a masterpiece that defied the Mega-CD's severe hardware limitations. By exploiting the console's tilemap system and ASIC capabilities…
I spent a year testing decommissioned NVIDIA Tesla GPUs like the K80, P100, and V100 to see if they can handle modern AI tasks. Despite being end-of-life and power-hungry, these affordable cards run…
I am porting Linux to the Sega 32X to sharpen my board bringup skills, overcoming severe memory constraints and the lack of hardware synchronization primitives. Building on my previous success with t…
I explore how researchers used AI to revive Ludus Coriovalli, an ancient Roman game lost for over 1,800 years. By analyzing wear patterns on a limestone board found in Heerlen, the team reconstructed…
I created a Claude Code plugin that plays Mr. Meeseeks voice lines from Rick and Morty to signal when the AI is waiting for your input. This tool helps enforce a philosophy of single-purpose sessions…
California Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal revised Assembly Bill 1709 to force platforms like Meta and Reddit to remove addictive features such as infinite scroll and autoplay for users under 16. Inste…
I have rebuilt the 1991 Linux 0.11 kernel from scratch using modern Rust, preserving its original semantics while leveraging stronger types and clearer abstractions. This project boots on i386 in QEM…
Transform any YouTube guitar lesson video into a clean, printable PDF tablature with this powerful CLI tool. By leveraging Claude vision and advanced frame sampling, it automatically detects the tab…
Nobie is a free, local-only spreadsheet application designed for Mac that offers full compatibility with Excel and Google Sheets without requiring an account. It ensures your data never leaves your d…
I visited Mawlynnong, India, where residents recently banned day-trippers on Sundays to reclaim their community life and attend church. While tourism transformed the village from an isolated settleme…
I ran a TFTP honey pot for over a month and was surprised to find that most traffic came from seven infosec companies like Shadow Servers, Censys, and Shodan rather than malicious actors. These organ…
xarray-sql is an innovative library that enables developers to build and train neural networks entirely within SQL. By leveraging the power of xarray for multi-dimensional data handling, this tool tr…
Transform a novelty Big Mouth Billy Bass into a responsive real-time voice assistant using a Raspberry Pi 5. Powered by Strands Agents bidirectional streaming and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic on Amazon Bedroc…
As a British artist accompanying my brother, the Governor-General, I traveled across northern India in the 1830s, sketching princes, servants, and warriors with curious precision. My drawings capture…
Jacquard is a novel programming language designed for a future where AI models write most code and humans focus on review. It uniquely exposes program effects, uncertainty, and canonical identity dir…
Managing parallel changes in Git can be painful, often leading users to try alternatives like Jujutsu. However, the experimental Git history command offers similar benefits without requiring a workfl…
I explore the rise of Forward Deployed Engineers, a hybrid role blending software engineering, sales, and platform work. Originally pioneered by Palantir, this position is now critical for AI startup…
Friends claim the socialist journal N+1 is not what it used to be, yet its legacy of launching stars like Elif Batuman still intimidates. While the physical magazine feels cheaper than its rival The…
We studied tens of thousands of engineers at Microsoft during the early 2026 rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI. Our findings reveal that adoption spreads primarily through social networks…
I built Heikki's Garden of Flowers to archive the rich history of pictorial typography. This project collects thousands of images, organizing them by location, year, person, subject, and style. By ex…
Hackney is the ultimate ride-hailing aggregator that lets you instantly compare prices and wait times across Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi services. By connecting directly to provider servers, it h…
We explore the delicate tradeoff between training speed and stability when using NVFP4 precision for Reinforcement Learning. While low-precision formats like NVFP4 on NVIDIA Rubin GPUs offer massive…
Everyone obsesses over product market fit, but founders often ignore founder market fit. Your personal temperament, cultural niche, and lifestyle determine which customers you can actually reach and…
Sigwire is a live Terminal User Interface that acts as a comprehensive switchboard for every signal on your Linux system. It decodes kernel tracepoints to stream real-time data on signal generation a…
I explore how the SFFA vs. Harvard trial exposed the hidden mechanics of elite college admissions. The data reveals a zero-sum game where legacy status and recruited athletics grant massive advantage…
I break down the key differences between Watercolor, Gouache, and Gansai paints, focusing on how pigment size dictates transparency and opacity. You'll learn why smaller particles create delicate, ha…
I built a browser tool that converts your singing voice into printable musical notation instantly. By adjusting settings like pitch tolerance and re-attack sensitivity, you can capture repeated notes…
I introduce a formal framework for distributed secret storage that balances survivability against network degradation with resistance to adversarial compromise. By deriving an exact representation us…
sx 2.0 is a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that transforms shared cloud folders into AI skill servers. It solves the distribution gap for non-technical teams by allowing users to shar…
I designed MorphoHDL, a minimalistic Hardware Description Language that uses recursive division to grow digital circuits dynamically. Unlike traditional tools requiring manual hierarchy, this approac…
We have developed a revolutionary method to create a super alloy by controlling atomic organization at lower temperatures. This Refractory High-Entropy Alloy is twice as strong as steel and three tim…
Our team at MIT, collaborating with Thorn, developed a breakthrough auditing technique called Gaussian probing. This method identifies if AI models have been fine-tuned to generate child sexual abuse…
At the Manifest conference in Berkeley, I watched men attempt to use reinforcement learning to master seduction, treating human interaction like a coding problem. From imagining light beams to applyi…
I applied Network Science to analyze Brazilian computer science, revealing that international collaborations significantly boost citation rates. While Brazil ranks 12th globally in output, its citati…
ContextVault acts as a centralized shared memory layer for AI systems, ensuring your team never starts from scratch with every new session. It solves the problem of scattered Markdown files and lost…
I developed ESBMC-Arduino to bridge the gap between abstract safety proofs and real-world hardware constraints on devices like Arduino and OpenPLC. Existing verifiers often generate false alarms by i…
We tackled the challenge of standardizing millions of unique food items by building an AI-led metadata platform. Our system uses LLM juries for high-quality evaluation, context-optimization agents to…
We model the feedback loops driving recursive self-improvement in AI to determine if a self-sustaining acceleration is possible. Our analysis distinguishes between narrow benchmark gains and broad ec…
MemStitch is a zero-copy context bridging gateway designed to optimize multi-agent GPU inference workflows. By dynamically stitching KV Caches at the memory level using PagedAttention, it eliminates…