SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

SubQ 1.1 Small

Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.

Running local models is good now

Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months,Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors across many models.

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

As predicted by several people, one of my Marvell-based SFP+ modules had overheating problems. I've switched it over to a Broadcom-based one, and it looks better, though I can't be certain.

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.

But yak shaving is fun

KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in HTML, but that was so inconvenient that I built a s...

Mechanical Watch (2022)

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

With GPT‑NL, TNO - together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is building an independent Dutch language model and ecosystem. This strengthens the digital autonomy of the Netherlands and Europe, and provides a solid foundation for responsible AI applications.

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap event. Your first fight is 76% likely to drop a potion in Underdocks, and 4% likely to drop a potion in Overgrowth.**

Cooling at the Speed of Light

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

Why ast.walk when you can ast.sprint?,Why ast.walk when you can ast.sprint?

Stop Using JWTs

Stop using JWTs. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate motion sickness.

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago.Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly.