A nicer voltmeter clock
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood Back in 2019, I built a simple voltmeter clock: The clock, version 1. As the name implies, these clocks use analog panel voltmeters instead of traditional clock faces to display time. I didn’t come up with the idea, so I never really blogged about the design; I […]
Why is Charlie Stross’s site named Antipope?
Why the Antipope name? Antipope acquired its name due to a drunken mistake in 1991. Back in the mists of pre-history, I wanted an email and usenet feed very badly. However, usenet feeds were kind of hard to come by in the UK in 1991. Indeed, the only way to get one was to cough […]
Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand
A Japanese manufacturer of animatronic wolves designed to scare off wild animals is being swamped with orders as the East Asian country grapples with rising bear attacks. Ohta Seiki, a company based in Hokkaido, has already received about 50 orders for its ”Monster Wolf” device this year, more than the typical volume for an entire […]
Halt and Catch Fire
I have never watched the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire, and for a long time I only knew the title, but nothing about the show. Something about it always reminded me of programmer humor: somewhat dramatic, a little absurd, and weirdly precise. Turns out, the show really is about the computer industry in the […]
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
Dell-Kioxia teaser. Kioxia’s LC9 high-capacity QLC SSD has been used by Dell to populate a 10 TB, all-flash, storage server just 2 RU in height. Dell is already using Kioxia’s LC9 in its PowerEdge servers. It’s now putting 40 LC9 E3.L form factor 245.76 TB NVMe SSDs in its AMD EPYC 9005-powered PowerEdge R7725xd server […]
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
A decentralized music tracking and discovery platform built on AT Protocol 🎵 , see Rocksky. ✨ Features# 🎵 Scrobbling APIs# Last.fm Compatible API – drop-in replacement for Last.fm scrobblers ListenBrainz Compatible API – works with clients that support ListenBrainz 🕒 Playback & History# Recently Played Timeline – browse your listening history Stories View – see […]
You don’t know HTML Lists
Reading Time: 13 minutes This second installment in the “You don’t know HTML” series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together. We’re skipping over the MDN and W3Schools introductory pages and instead we’re going into the kind of stuff you discover after accidentally taking your cousin’s Ritalin […]
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
Ever since Golden Gate Claude I’ve been fascinated with “steering”: the idea that you can guide LLM outputs by directly manipulating the activations of the model mid-flight. DeepSeek V4 Flash I was inspired to write this post by antirez’s recent project DwarfStar 4, which is a version of llama.cpp that’s been stripped down to run […]
Accelerate
Data.Array.Accelerate defines an embedded language of array computations for high-performance computing in Haskell. Computations on multi-dimensional, regular arrays are expressed in the form of parameterised collective operations (such as maps, reductions, and permutations). These computations are online-compiled and executed on a range of architectures. For more details, see our papers: There are also slides from […]
My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
May 14th, 2026 • ~2,000 words • 8 minute read If you’re in the business of building things that run on computers long enough, I think you will eventually acquire a favorite bug story. This is a short story about mine. I’ve also built an interactive tool where you can explore the concepts underpinning the […]