AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

The problem

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

How to Write with an LLM

Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Localhost, meet the Internet. Turn the server on your laptop into a public, encrypted URL on Cloudflare's edge with one command.

Science Is Open Software

TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do …,TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can remember. Software is, people say, not science. It’s a time sink, something to rush past in the pursuit of what really matters: results (and papers if you’re in academia).

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

Git packfiles were designed for mmap and local disk, so pulling one object out of a bucket means guessing at a byte range. I wrote a new format instead.

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

Open-source artificial intelligence model combines diverse lunar datasets to support scientific analysis of the MoonThe NASA-IBM model reproduces patterns of lunar ice prospectivity (scaled from blue to yellow), shown at four locations (left) near the Moon’s pole. Top row: reference ice prospectivity map of Mons Mouton near the lunar south pol...

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

"The Secret Life of Circuits" is here

Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

OpenAI's Jalapeño shows how LLMs for chip design slash latency and power, enabling smaller teams to deliver high-performance AI accelerators faster.

Saving another 100TB of RAM

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.