Running local models is good now(vickiboykis.com)
1490 points by jfb | 569 comments
Vicki Boykis blog post arguing that running LLMs locally on a 64GB M2 Mac is now practical, describing models like Mistral 7B, Gemma 3, OpenAI OSS-20B and Qwen 3.
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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B(reuters.com)
1082 points by itsmarcelg | 1581 comments
Reuters article reporting SpaceX's deal to acquire Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor, for $60 billion; the page loaded as a bot-verification captcha.
GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17(discuss.grapheneos.org)
958 points by Cider9986 | 529 comments
GrapheneOS forum announcement that the OS has been ported to Android 17, with tested Pixel devices listed and official releases coming soon.
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)
829 points by apitman | 394 comments
A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness(theverge.com)
744 points by neilfrndes | 232 comments
The Verge review by Thomas Ricker of Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues feature, describing how the on-screen dots eased his car sickness while reading as a passenger.
Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
700 points by razin | 118 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.
Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
569 points by throwarayes | 495 comments
A Pragmatic Engineer newsletter deepdive by Gergely Orosz reporting on how Meta leadership's AI-driven changes are affecting its engineering organization.
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity(therepublicofletters.substack.com)
511 points by pseudolus | 219 comments
A Substack essay by Matthew Morgan for The Republic of Letters on how Bill Watterson refused to compromise Calvin and Hobbes and then withdrew from public life.
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP(mareksuppa.com)
511 points by mrshu | 221 comments
A TIL blog post explaining how to make HTTP requests from a minimal container lacking curl or wget by using Bash's /dev/tcp pseudo-device.
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless(arseniyshestakov.com)
478 points by SXX | 289 comments
Blog post arguing that Apple's new domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email aliases will make the privacy feature ineffective.
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers(theregister.com)
474 points by _tk_ | 286 comments
The Register article reporting a researcher's claim that the US government's block of Anthropic's Fable 5 model followed a simple 'fix this code' prompt, not a jailbreak.
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation(devblogs.microsoft.com)
465 points by paulmooreparks | 149 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.
Stop Using JWTs(gist.github.com)
455 points by dzonga | 265 comments
A GitHub Gist arguing that JWTs should not be used for keeping users logged in and that regular cookie sessions are a better, more secure choice.
DuckDB Internals Part 1(greybeam.ai)
444 points by marklit | 133 comments
A Greybeam blog post, first in a series, explaining DuckDB internals including in-process execution, query planning, and storage.
Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?(tim.blog)
380 points by imakwana | 431 comments
Tim Ferriss blog post examining whether AI has hurt how-to nonfiction book sales, using industry trends and his own sales data.
Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time(mll.sh)
338 points by denysvitali | 82 comments
A blog post on finding and exploiting common misconfigurations in Microsoft IIS web servers, starting from the default IIS splash page.
U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears(timescolonist.com)
326 points by ResearchAtPlay | 189 comments
Times Colonist news article on the U.S. removing ocean sensors, a shock to Canadian researchers as El Niño approaches; page shows a Cloudflare verification screen.
But yak shaving is fun (2019)(parksb.github.io)
284 points by parksb | 87 comments
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2(tck.mn)
282 points by rdmuser | 87 comments
SpaceX Is Buying Cursor(bbc.com)
253 points by jrm-veris | 282 comments
Telescope Ranchers(kottke.org)
133 points by bookofjoe | 51 comments
I Fired Google(theartofdoingstuff.com)
127 points by speckx | 101 comments
SubQ 1.1 Small(subq.ai)
118 points by EDM115 | 49 comments
Making ast.walk 220x Faster(reflex.dev)
102 points by palashawas | 16 comments
After AI Takes Everything(ursb.me)
69 points by speckx | 72 comments
Making espresso with ultrasound(unsw.edu.au)
58 points by darktoto | 60 comments
Never talk to the police(campolalaw.com)
58 points by Cider9986 | 29 comments
Is Fable 5 Back?(isfable5back.com)
53 points by AussieWog93 | 43 comments