Blasting Yeast with UV Light
Experiments teach you where to be suspicious of papers. Thank you to David Jordan at Living Physics for the support. All mistakes are solely mine. So, I tested 280nm UV light on baker’s yeast. This was a ‘minimal trust’ investigation into wet lab experiments, to learn the subtleties of UV susceptibility data that I wouldn’t […]
Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New
Maestro Technology Sells Used Drives as New (2025-04-30) At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service. However, from time to time, it is expedient to purchase parts from Amazon – something we do with care and suspicion. On, or about, April 22 of […]
Async and Finaliser Deadlocks
Two days ago I was listening to the Oxide podcast on futurelocks, a very complicated bug involving async code in Rust. I must admit that I struggled to understand what was going on, partly because of the subject matter, and partly because podcasts are my backdrop to household chores. At some point towards the end, […]
Control LLM Spend and Access with any-LLM-gateway
Gain visibility and control over your LLM usage. any-llm-gateway adds budgeting, analytics, and access management to any-llm, giving teams reliable oversight for every provider. Track Usage, Set Limits, and Deploy Confidently Across Any LLM Provider Managing LLM costs and access at scale is hard. Give users unrestricted access and you risk runaway costs. Lock it […]
Steam Machine
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Steam Frame
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How to identify a prime number without a computer
Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a computer or even a digital calculator? In the 1800s French mathematician Édouard Lucas spent years proving that this 39-digit number was indeed prime. How did he do it? Lucas, who incidentally also designed […]
Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React
Hi HN, We’re Jamie & Dan, building JSX Tool (https://jsxtool.com) a new inspector/dev panel IDE that allows you to navigate to any line of your React project’s JSX with just a click and a command click to explore your render stack. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIIXvN7vhrs I’ve been writing React code for nearly a decade. Since I […]
The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
The American penny passed away today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old. The last penny was minted Wednesday afternoon at the US Mint in Philadelphia, overseen by US Treasurer Brandon Beach. President Donald Trump announced via social media in February that he instructed the Mint to stop making the once-popular coin, citing […]
Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
We anchored our infrastructure on the public cloud because everyone else seemed to do it. Swipe a credit card, spin up managed everything, ship features. It felt easy—until the bill ballooned, incidents were gated behind opaque support tickets, and our roadmap got blocked by API rate limits we couldn’t change. Public cloud made our product […]