Don’t be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm
Hi, it’s Takuya.Last week I had my birthday and turned 41 (November 19th). When I was younger, I could never really picture what life in my 40s would look like. It’s this vague age where you don’t have a clear image of how you’re supposed to live, right? Even if I try to look back at […]
Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line
A single-file Python script for running .prompt files. Quick start | Examples | Configuration | Providers Quick start curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chr15m/runprompt/main/runprompt chmod +x runprompt Create hello.prompt: — model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514 — Say hello to {{name}}! Run it: export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=”your-key” echo ‘{“name”: “World”}’ | ./runprompt hello.prompt In addition to the following, see the tests folder for more […]
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
Hey everyone, As I find the topic of Google TPUs extremely important, I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU. Topics covered: The history of the TPU and why it all even started? The difference between a TPU and a GPU? […]
The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively debates regarding licensing. While there were issues concerning conditions such as attribution required by most licenses, there was a particularly high volume of discourse suggesting […]
How Arthur Conan Doyle Explored Men’s Mental Health Through Sherlock Holmes
Note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It includes links to external sites that may earn a commission for purchases. We did not add these links and have kept the original content intact. Arthur Conan Doyle was not just one of the world’s best crime fiction writers. He was […]
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
Disclaimer: the demos on this page use WebGL features that aren’t available on some mobile devices. A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a video of a toy graphics project (below). It’s not done, but a lot of people liked it which was surprising and fun! A few people asked how it works, so that’s […]
Linux Kernel Explorer
The kernel isn’t a process—it’s the system. It serves user processes, reacts to context, and enforces separation and control. The Kernel Is Not a Process: It’s the always-present authority bridging hardware and software. Serving the Process: Orchestrates syscalls, interrupts, and scheduling to keep user tasks running. System of Layers: Virtual, mapped, isolated, and controlled—structure at […]
Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
2 days ago ShareSave Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent ShareSave BBC Under the harsh lights of an operating theatre in the Indian capital, Delhi, a woman lies motionless as surgeons prepare to remove her gallbladder. She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, […]
Coq: The World’s Best Macro Assembler? [pdf] [2013]
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DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
Fourteen years ago, my storage needs outpaced my capacity and I began to look into building a network attached storage server. I had a few criteria in mind and was curious to see if anyone had _ recently_ shared something similar, but I couldn’t find anything that was relevant. In fact, I found that the […]