The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Rowan Red and Green Trees

The personal blog of Pig Fang.

Spherical Voronoi Diagram

Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

New AI factory to serve as the foundation for LG Group’s robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

a professional record cutter built and designed for producingoriginal playback discs with superior sound quality in real time. 

Dopamine Fracking

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.

Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)

Random thoughts on nerdy topics

Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. This is the condensed story, written for anyone wondering whether they have a future.

Playing with Vision Embeddings

Poking at the geometry of an image model's feature space.

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Anthropic's Project Glasswing Update

A Family Project (2022)

After months of her living in an assisted care facility during the pandemic, a daughter and sons bring their mother home one last time.,After months of her living in an assisted care facility during the pandemic, a daughter and sons bring their mother home one last time.

Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot

Editor and package-manager config files auto-execute commands when a developer opens a folder or installs dependencies. The Miasma worm wired one dropper into seven of them across Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, VS Code, npm, Composer, and Bundler. Opening a cloned repo is no longer safe.

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?

We've documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo's catalog

Richard Scolyer Has Died

The melanoma doctor's brain cancer treatment experiment has sparked hope for a breakthrough.

Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections

Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation

A generative pretrained transformer implementation - markusheimerl/gpt