Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
You replace build-push-pull image pipelines with a declarative Flox environment, the dependencies of which resolve to hash-addressed packages that live in an immutable, node-local store. Organizations can run their own private, signed binary caches, enabling them to build or mirror packages inside their networks, generate SBOMs and attestations (see SBOMs, below), and point security scanners […]
LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
In his 1933 essay “The Triumph of Stupidity,” Bertrand Russell remarked that “the problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.” This is something I often think about when ChatGPT hits me up with another “that’s a fantastic idea” when the idea is clearly anything but […]
Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch
A character-level language diffusion model for text generation. The model is a modified version of the nanochat gpt implementation and is trained on Tiny Shakespeare! It is only 10.7 million parameters, so you can try it out locally! Installation
Time to Start De-Appling
I‘ve done such a thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages. (No, they were not amused.) In my defense, I proceeded to explain to them that having de-Googled, I was also in the process of de-Appling, which is […]
Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs
A few weeks ago I posted about how much fun I was having with the Fomu FPGA development board while travelling. This project from Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell and Sean ‘xobs’ Cross is not new, but remains a favorite of mine because of how portable it is — the entire board can fit in your USB […]
Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting – heres what we learned
← November 7, 2025 Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems. For decades, this team has relied on SQL queries to classify warranty data. But vehicles—and the language used to […]
DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as “Existential Threat”
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > Non-profit DNS resolver Quad9 reports that legal battles over pirate site blocking have become an “existential threat” to its service. In a recent blog post, the Swiss foundation argues that while tech giants like Google and Cloudflare can absorb the legal and engineering costs, smaller organizations cannot. The […]
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) have published open letters addressed to “EU digital ministers,” expressing […]
Installing and using HP-UX 9
JP’s Website Posted on 2025-11-08 Contents Background A few weeks back I got a note on Bluesky, linking me to a website offering a free computer. The owner was in Cambridge, not far from me, and the computer was an HP 9000/300 Series – a Model 340, specifically. The HP 9000 line of workstations and […]
Realtime BART Arrival Display
I have a love-hate relationship with BART. I’m grateful for it, but let’s just say it’s not always the most reliable so it’s nice to see before hand when the train you need is due to arrive. There are plenty of projects out there that show real-time BART arrival information. This one does that too, […]