Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers
Fully remote Our global team operates remotely with modern tools, valuing outcomes over hours. Open-source We champion transparency, community and developer friendliness. Developer tool Work for your peers, on pain points you know, with a fast feedback loop. Technical challenges From DevExp to high scale to API fragmentation, we work on hard problems. Expert-led We […]
We spent $50 to measure Pearl’s ”AI mining” – 320K GPUs produce zero AI
Abstract:Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We present the first systematic empirical measurement of a deployed PoUW system, finding that Pearl’s 24 EH/s network — representing approximately 320,000 GPU-equivalents consuming an estimated 112 MW — produces zero useful […]
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now ”Magic” Gives It Gravity
In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler described the relationship between space and matter in two sentences: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space, telling it how to curve.” Wheeler’s words serve as a pithy encapsulation of general relativity, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. Wheeler’s sentences also lay […]
Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
Abstract:This paper analyzes and identifies a space-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference source that has caused scores of powerful transient wide-area interference events over continental Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019. While terrestrial or near-terrestrial sources are primarily responsible for the recent uptick in GNSS interference worldwide, space-based interferers are of special concern given […]
ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol
ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker’s tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate. It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI. It also communicates with radio protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Sub-GHz […]
Changing How We Develop Ladybird
Today we’re changing how code enters the Ladybird project. We will no longer accept public pull requests. From now on, code changes to the Ladybird codebase will only be introduced by project maintainers. Ladybird is moving into a new phase. As we work toward our first alpha release, the project needs a tighter development process, […]
Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it’s 1995
In my predictions for 2030 I wrote that tech writers would be using specialized LLMs, running locally on powerful hardware. I see hints of this move to “local first” among engineering pundits, but we’re not there yet, in part because of how much more powerful connected frontier models are. That doesn’t mean we can’t experiment, […]
The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
isUpMap — Service Status Loading… Up — Degraded — Down — Unknown — Loading… Fetching service status… Live status for 80+ popular internet services isUpMap is a real-time status heatmap that checks whether the services you depend on are up, degraded, or down right now. The live dashboard requires JavaScript, but here’s what we monitor: […]
C++: The Documentary Released Today
C++: The Documentary premiered today on YouTube, and it was great to be on the live chat with Bjarne and many other key folks who participated in C++’s history. I’m honored to have been one of hundreds of people who have played a part in advancing Bjarne’s wonderful project over the years. If you haven’t […]
SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity
What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening bones with the worst pharmaceuticals in existence. On the other hand, Elon. … On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, […]