Transformers Without Normalization

Kerning, the Hard Way

So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams

A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was

Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare. After looking through european-alternatives.eu, and reading some opinions on Bluesky, I figured I’d try out BunnyCDN, which is a CDN service based in Slovenia. The process of completely switching over to BunnyCDN was remarkably easy, and took a little under two hours to set up.

Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?

Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or memory cards, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance.

Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C

“You lose it, and then what do you do? You don’t give up. You go back in.”…

A look at Firefox forks

The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants

Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?

Transit agencies keep choosing hydrogen buses due to cognitive biases like anchoring, operational tunnel vision, and reliance on misleading narratives.

Noloco (YC S21) Is Hiring a Product Designer in Barcelona

From internal tools to company-wide workflows, Noloco turns your data into a custom app your team will love to use. We empower businesses to create custom apps from their data, such as internal tools, client portals, and CRMs changing the way small and medium-sized businesses grow and work together. Backed by Y Combinator and top-class investors, Noloco is a fast-moving, remote-first company with a team spread across Ireland, Spain, and North America. Our Mission Our mission is to empower businesses to build truly custom solutions for their teams. As our Founding Product Designer, you will play a critical role in achieving this mission by making Noloco’s app builder's and resulting app's, UI, and UX intuitive, powerful, and easy to use for

'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture

The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the coming future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications.

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs

I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code. The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce To clarify, multiple ransomware variants have been named Akira over the y

RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI

A delightful Ruby way to work with AI. No configuration madness, no complex callbacks, no handler hell – just beautiful, expressive Ruby code. - crmne/ruby_llm

Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds

Commonly worn fitness trackers are most accurate at measuring heart rate but are less reliable at tracking the count step and energy expenditure.