Broccoli Man, Remastered
November 16, 2025 / 10 min read Within Google there is a series of videos starring “Broccoli Man” poking fun at the experience of building software as a Googler. One of these, “I just want to serve 5TB”, circulated extremely widely and ended up getting published publicly to YouTube. It’s a Google cultural classic that […]
I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let’s kill it already
I swear to God if I read another sensationalist headline that says “How AI will change software engineering” I will set the us-east-1 and us-west-2 data centers on fire myself. I mean jeez, that has been the only topic of discussion for years in tech circles. How many more of those blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos […]
Show HN: DNS Benchmark Tool – Compare and monitor resolvers
Fast, comprehensive DNS performance testing with DNSSEC validation, DoH/DoT support, and enterprise features pip install dns-benchmark-tool dns-benchmark benchmark –use-defaults 🎉 1,400+ downloads this week! Thank you to our growing community.📢 Want multi-region testing? Join the waitlist → Real Time Tracking Watch DNS queries in motion 🎉 Today’s Release Highlights We’ve added three powerful CLI commands […]
Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose
A Docker-based virtualization of a High Performance Computing (HPC) system running SLURM workload manager with OpenMPI support and optional full job accounting on Rocky Linux 9. This project creates a lean, production-ready multi-container environment. About eXact lab This project is open-sourced by eXact lab S.r.l., a consultancy specializing in scientific and high-performance computing solutions. We […]
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu
I often get very specific infrastructure requests from clients. Most of the time it is some form of hosting. My job is usually to suggest and implement the setup that fits their goals, skills and long term plans. If there are competent technicians on the other side, and they are willing to learn or already […]
Adventures in upgrading Proxmox
Running docker inside LXC is weird. It’s containers on top of other container, and there was a fairly recent issue with AppArmor that prevented some functionality from running inside a docker container with very cryptic error. I was trying to deploy coolify and/or dokploy in my homelab and hitting all sorts of weird issues. Eventually […]
Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots
References [1] Y.-C. Chen and X. Fan, “Biological lasers for biomedical applications,” Adv. Opt. Mater., vol. 7, no. 17, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900377.Search in Google Scholar [2] R. Bernasconi, G. P. Invernizzi, E. Gallo Stampino, R. Gotti, D. Gatti, and L. Magagnin, “Printing MEMS: application of inkjet techniques to the manufacturing of inertial accelerometers,” Micromachines, vol. 14, […]
Meta Segment Anything Model 3
Takeaways: We’re announcing Meta Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3), a unified model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video using text, exemplar, and visual prompts. As part of this release, we’re sharing SAM 3 model checkpoints, evaluation datasets, and fine-tuning code. We’re also introducing Segment Anything Playground, a new platform […]
Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul
Abstract:Many important applications across science, data analytics, and AI workloads depend on distributed matrix multiplication. Prior work has developed a large array of algorithms suitable for different problem sizes and partitionings including 1D, 2D, 1.5D, and 2.5D algorithms. A limitation of current work is that existing algorithms are limited to a subset of partitionings. Multiple […]
Emoji Evidence Errors Don’t Undo a Murder Conviction–People vs. Harmon
Delarosa was convicted of murder. (Some background on the case). On appeal, he argues the court should have excluded a Facebook message that indicated he owned a gun a few weeks before the shooting. The Facebook message included some emojis: The law enforcement investigator who testified described the emojis as “a smiley face emoji and […]