Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences
Human-readable ANSI sequences. Sequin is a small utility that can help you debug your CLIs and TUIs. It’s also great for describing escape sequences you might not understand, and exploring what TUIs are doing under the hood. There are lots more use cases too, like inspecting golden files such as the ones used by teatest […]
Why I hate the index finger (1980)
Abstract “Why I Hate the Index Finger” by William L. White, M.D., was originally published in Orthopaedic Review, Volume IX, No. 6 (June 1980) pp. 23–29. “The article is reprinted in HAND courtesy of Quadrant HealthCom, Inc., the publisher of The American Journal of Orthopedics (formerly Orthopaedic Review). A related article can be found at […]
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
Frontier AI now runs at instant speed. Last week we ran a customer workload on Llama 3.1 405B at 969 tokens/s – a new record for Meta’s frontier model. Llama 3.1 405B on Cerebras is by far the fastest frontier model in the world – 12x faster than GPT-4o and 18x faster than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In […]
Don’t sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. CNN — Let’s be honest — people have a habit of bringing their phones to the bathroom. I’ve been guilty of it myself, and chances are that someone […]
Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API
This Python module provides a simple interface to interact with the Venmo API, allowing users to perform various operations such as checking balance, making payments, and requesting money. Send money to other users Request money from other users Get account identity and balance Get personal transaction history Get payment methods Look up users Installation This […]
Traits are a local maximum
Today we’re talking about Rust traits . As you might’ve guessed from the title, we will not be talking about them positively. Woah woah, hang on, put down your pitchfork. A local maxima is still a maxima, I love traits as much as anyone. Traits are one of the few programming language concepts beloved enough […]
Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned
Despite the new weapons and mechanics that were already in the works for Episode 3, many developers quoted in the documentary cite a kind of fatigue that had set in after so much time and effort focused on a single franchise. “A lot of us had been doing Half-Life for eight-plus years” designer and composer […]
Scientific American’s departing editor and the politicization of science
Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. “I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” she wrote on Bluesky. “I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go […]
Here’s why you should only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
I test keyboards for a living, as a staff writer for Reviews at Tom’s Guide. This means I get through a LOT of gaming keyboards, determining which ones I genuinely would recommend. Lately, I’ve noticed the tide shifting — the only truly great gaming keyboards are magnetic. Big name manufacturers are all racing to put […]
Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
中文 A command-line benchmarking tool. Demo: Benchmarking fd and find: Statistical analysis across multiple runs. Support for arbitrary shell commands. Constant feedback about the benchmark progress and current estimates. Warmup runs can be executed before the actual benchmark. Cache-clearing commands can be set up before each timing run. Statistical outlier detection to detect interference from […]