Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format
MTXT is a human-editable, text-based representation of music information.It aims to simplify the process of writing, reading, and editing musical data without requiring specialized binary tools. Beat-based: Events are placed on fractional beats using simple decimal notation (e.g., in a 4/4 time signature, 1 beat = 1 quarter note, so 3.25 represents 3 quarter notes […]
The space of minds
The space of minds | karpathy Home Blog 29 Nov, 2025 The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we’ve ever known) is only a single point (or a little cloud), arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology. Above: humorous portrayals […]
Self-hosting my photos with Immich
Table of contents For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe […]
Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps
As many of you may know, my career started back in 1985 at a wee company called Etak. This startup, seed funded by Nolan Bushnell, was most famous for pioneering in-vehicle navigation systems. It was about 20 years ahead of its time. But it didn’t stop there. Navigation systems require digital maps. The problem was […]
Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
Summary A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage. The system handles massive data loads, processing two-hour videos or hundreds of document pages within a 256,000-token context window. […]
Aurora: The Linux-based ultimate workstation
We built Aurora on completely different technology and principles compared to a normal Linux Desktop. Updates are built and tested before they ever reach you and are a single image that gets applied in the background. And if a new version of Aurora breaks something, you can rollback to a known-good state. Image based is […]
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Designer
Jiga is looking for a talented Product Designer who is passionate about creating beautiful, modern UI elements and intuitive, carefully crafted user flows. You will collaborate closely with our CTO and product engineering team to deliver designs that are both aesthetically and functional. Our design focus is on user efficiency: helping users quickly understand what […]
I Designed and Printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE
When our pitbull Billie was diagnosed with Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE), we had no idea how much our lives, and hers were about to change. This is the story of how desperation, love, and a 3D printer led to the creation of SnoutCover. The Beginning: When Everything Changed Billie’s nose started changing gradually. At first, […]
Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python
Tail-Call Optimization for Python Tacopy is a Python library that provides a decorator to optimize tail-recursive functions by transforming them into iterative loops. This eliminates the risk of stack overflow errors for deep recursion. Automatic Tail-Call Optimization: Transforms tail-recursive functions into efficient loops Stack Overflow Prevention: Handle arbitrarily deep recursion without hitting Python’s recursion limit […]
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
Auguste Rame, Techatrix — 30 November 2025 Introduction For those unfamiliar, Zigtools was founded to support the Zig community, especially newcomers, by creating editor tooling such as ZLS, providing building blocks for language servers written in Zig with lsp-kit, working on tools like the Zigtools Playground, and contributing to Zig editor extensions like vscode-zig. The […]