The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s(blog.jgc.org)

106 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 71 comments

XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging(adele.pages.casa)

92 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 66 comments

HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?(shkspr.mobi)

410 points by edent 2 years ago | 111 comments

Terence Eden blog post exploring the obscure dict: URL scheme and DICT dictionary server protocol found in an old codebase regex.

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

eBPF Documentary(brendangregg.com)

180 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 57 comments

Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

323 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 119 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post by Graydon Hoare with notes on Rust, mutable aliasing, and formal verification; the capture shows only a captcha check page.

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes(simonwillison.net)

339 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 264 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines(phys.org)

21 points by pseudolus 29 days ago | 18 comments

Phys.org news article about how references to The Beatles appear in research papers across academic disciplines; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.