Boston’s subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system
Service changes are taking place in December to support Orange Line signal modernization and the replacement of overhead wire troughs on the Green Line. The MBTA today announced service changes in December on the Orange and Green lines. Riders can find more information on service changes through in-station signage, in-station public announcements, and at […]
Contextualization Machines
Contextualization Machines ~/ ~/blog ~/projects ~/bookmarks Contextualization Machines March 10, 2025 Introduction This post is meant to be an illustration of my mental model of a transformer, a sort of synthesis of a bunch of thoughts and ideas I’ve had over the past few months. It assumes knowledge on what a transformer architecture is. I […]
ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications
Animation Engine for Dear ImGui ImAnim brings modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications. Write smooth, UI animations with minimal code. // Animate anything in one line float alpha = iam_tween_float(id, channel, hovered ? 1.0f : 0.5f, 0.3f, ease, policy, dt); Why ImAnim? Immediate-mode friendly – Works naturally with ImGui’s paradigm Zero dependencies – Only requires […]
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There’s a site […]
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
The Boeing Company | Berkeley, MO | Digital Transformation Architect | Onsite | Full-time We’re modernizing a major aerospace/defense program and need a senior architect to lead the digital transformation: cloud migration, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, automation, the works. High autonomy, big scope in the Air Dominance division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. You’ll […]
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
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Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
Walrus is a distributed message streaming platform built on a high-performance log storage engine. It provides fault-tolerant streaming with automatic leadership rotation, segment-based partitioning, and Raft consensus for metadata coordination. Key Features: Automatic load balancing via segment-based leadership rotation Fault tolerance through Raft consensus (3+ nodes) Simple client protocol (connect to any node, auto-forwarding) Sealed […]
Google *Unkills* JPEG XL?
I’ve written about JPEG XL in the past. First, I noted Google’s move to kill the format in Chromium in favor of the homegrown and inferior AVIF. Then, I had a deeper look at the format, and visually compared JPEG XL with AVIF on a handful of images. The latter post started with a quick […]
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Listen to this post: A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release, is that it is a nearly perfect representation of the hero’s journey. You have Luke, bored on Tatooine, called to adventure by a mysterious message borne by […]
The Penicillin Myth
“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” —Alexander Fleming Many know the story of Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of penicillin. Fleming, a bit of an absent-minded professor (and a bit of a slob), left culture plates streaked with Staphylococcus on his lab bench while he went away on […]