The Challenge of Maintaining Curl
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We traded blogs for black boxes, now we’re paying for it
09/09/2025 Come listen to the “old man yelling at clouds” in me for a bit. tl;dr: The internet is changing for the worse (or getting ‘enshittified’). In this post, I write about the effects of algorithms on the public discourse to illustrate a greater point on the enshittification of the internet. Then, I offer my […]
Float Exposed
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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot
Acknowledgement The authors would like to express their gratitude to Kaizhe Hu for assembling the second instance of ToddlerBot and assisting with keyframe animation and demo recording. We also extend our thanks to Huy Ha, Yen-Jen Wang, Pei Xu, and Yifan Hou for their insightful discussions on locomotion, and to Sirui Chen, Chen Wang, and […]
Why our website looks like an operating system
I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same […]
Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook
A hilarious macOS app that plays fart sounds as you open and close your MacBook lid – inspired by the classic “fart scroll” browser extension! 🎵 Dynamic Fart Sounds – Pitch changes based on lid angle (deep bass when closed, high squeaks when open) 🎯 Motion-Activated – Only farts when you’re actively moving the lid […]
How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data
When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the past decade because of the size and scope of its contracts with the government. Palantir’s two main platforms are Foundry and Gotham. Each does different things. Foundry […]
Accelerated Game of Life with CUDA / Triton
Let’s look at implementing Conway’s Game of Life using a graphics card. I want to experiment with different libraries and techniques, to see how to get the best performance. I’m going to start simple, and get increasingly complex as we dive in. The Game Of Life is a simple cellular automata, so should be really […]
Unusual Capabilities of Nano Banana (Examples)
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Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app
Hi HN, we’re Jesse and Gautham. We’re building Ghostship (https://tryghostship.dev/). Ghostship lets you find bugs in your web app by entering in your URL and describing a user journey. Here’s a video of Ghostship in action: https://www.loom.com/share/dec264ae32f94d50adb141c9246837c3?…. For over half our lives, we’ve been developers and we’ve done tons of user-facing projects like a coding […]