Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Welcome to The Core Project – Tiny Core Linux The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions. It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our root filesystem and start-up scripts packaged with a basic set of kernel modules in core.gz. Core (11MB) is simply the kernel + core.gz […]
Touching the Elephant – TPUs
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit Reed December 1, 2025 Something New There is mythological reverence for Google’s Tensor Processing Unit. While the world presently watches NVIDIA’s gravity drag more companies into its orbit, there sits Google, imperial and singular. Lots of companies participate in the “Cambrian-style explosion of new-interesting accelerators”[14] – Groq, Amazon, and Tenstorrent come […]
‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
3 hours ago ShareSave Catherine Burns,Health correspondent, Vicki Loader,Health producerand Harriet Agerholm ShareSave Getty Images Hundreds of GPs across England have told the BBC they think mental health problems are being over-diagnosed. One commonly-held view by family doctors, our research suggests, is that society tends to over-medicalise normal life stresses. But they’re also concerned about […]
Autism’s Confusing Cousins
“I think that these days what we mean by “autism” is basically “weird person disease.”” Sorbie Richner, Rich Girl Rehab “Accurate diagnosis requires consideration of multiple diagnoses. Sometimes, different diagnoses can overlap with one another and can only be differentiated in subtle and nuanced ways, but particular diagnoses vary considerably in levels of public awareness. […]
Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
Where and when Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025 in the JAG3 classroom of the Faculty of Mathematics, at Jagićeva 5, Belgrade. Entry to the classroom is possible from 6 pm to 9 pm. Jagićeva street is located between the Pijaca Đeram station where trams 5, 6, 7L and 14 stop, […]
Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
I was reading The Free Press (thefp.com) from London and an article was automatically blocked to ensure conformance with the UK Online Safety Act. I thought the site was broken. It took a few minutes to diagnose the problem. 15 minutes later I had Mullvad installed and was back online. Talk about unintended consequences. How […]
Wolfram Compute Services
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems, run RemoteBatchSubmissionEnvironment[“WolframBatch”]. (The functionality is automatically available in the Wolfram Cloud.) Scaling Up Your Computations Let’s say you’ve done a computation in Wolfram Language. And now you want to scale it up. Maybe 1000x or more. Well, today we’ve released an extremely streamlined […]
Infracost (YC W21) is hiring Sr Node Eng to make $600B/yr cloud spend proactive
$600B is spent on cloud each year, but no one knows the cost until it’s too late. We’re changing that. Since launching Infracost in 2021, we’ve been pulled by engineers who all want to Shift FinOps Left. We enable them to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues before they hit production. We plug directly […]
AWS Announces Graviton 5
Calibre is Siemens EDA’s industry-leading physical verification platform and the semiconductor industry’s most trusted signoff solution. Serving as the final quality gatekeeper before manufacturing, Calibre performs critical DRC, LVS, and PERC verification, and advanced 3D IC multiphysics analysis to ensure chip designs meet foundry requirements at nanometer scales. “The future of semiconductor physical verification lies […]
Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]
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