The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump’s presidency
Five of those six users have placed no more bets since, but one of the account’s recent activity shows it has subsequently made $163,000 by correctly betting on a US-Iran ceasefire by 7 April, which was announced by Washington and Tehran on that day.
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
20th April 2026 – Link Blog Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons. I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so […]
The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment
Recent survey data show a wide gap between public and expert views of AI. In Pew’s 2025 survey, 76% of AI experts said AI would benefit them personally, while only 24% of the U.S. public said the same. The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them. Negative public […]
Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed
Run TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D generation natively on Mac. This is a port of Microsoft’s TRELLIS.2 — a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model — from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. No NVIDIA GPU required. Generates 400K+ vertex meshes from single images in ~3.5 minutes on M4 Pro. Output includes vertex-colored OBJ and GLB files ready for use […]
Sudo for Windows
Welcome to the repository for Sudo for Windows 🥪. Sudo for Windows allows users to run elevated commands directly from unelevated terminal windows. The ”Inbox” version of sudo is available for Windows 11 builds 26045 and later. If you’re on an Insiders build with sudo, you can enable it in the Windows Settings app, on […]
Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
The Swiss AI Initiative was started in December 2023 and seeded with an initial investment of over 10m GPU hours on Alps (by CSCS) and a grant of 20m CHF by the ETH Domain. The initiative is the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide, and the first initiative of the Swiss National […]
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
What is this? A map of all ~2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email — grouped by jurisdiction — based on public DNS records and other public network signals. Context Digital sovereignty: US-based providers are subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to request stored data, regardless of where […]
Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
Compatible with digital sovereignty? A Microsoft logo pictured in London. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated […]
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: Probably don’t want this road And if you’re wondering why this happens, it’s normally because: people aren’t talking to people people aren’t listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to turn talking to people into terms […]
A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)
– Great British atheist philosopher A. J. Ayer (1910 – 1989) recounts his extraordinary near death experience in an article for The Sunday Telegraph (28th August 1988), reflecting upon its possible implications. That Undiscovered Country/What I Saw When I Was Dead A. J. Ayer My first attack of pneumonia occurred in the United States. I was in hospital for […]