Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea
About a week ago, vandals began defacing the map in South Korea. Over the course of that week, I rolled back hundreds of changes, and with the help of the site’s moderators, I banned over 50 malicious accounts. In fact, the problem arose not even a week ago, but about a month ago. Back then, […]
The past was not that cute
I was excited when cottagecore became a thing. Maybe my interest in retro clothes and handicrafts would be less embarrassing now! Cottagecore, Pinterest 2025 I still enjoy it. But in spaces focused on old-fashioned vibes, you encounter a lot of people who believe that the past was actually this charming. 1879s farmers through the eyes […]
Coffee link to slower biological aging in those w mental illness–to point
New research from King’s College London finds that coffee consumption within the NHS recommended limit is linked to longer telomere lengths – a marker of biological ageing – among people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The effect is comparable to roughly five years younger biological age. Telomeres are structures that protect DNA. As people get […]
Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
A simple, fast, local CLI tool for tracking tasks and records from unix terminal. Installation: cargo install tascli # or use brew brew tap Aperocky/tascli brew install tascli Basic Usage Tasks and records are stored in ~/.local/share/tascli/tascli.db (configurable) with rusqlite. Create tasks with deadlines: # Basic tasks tascli task “Create readme” today tascli task “Publish […]
Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models
Abstract:With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific requirements is prohibitively expensive and environmentally unsustainable. In this work, we propose a practical and scalable alternative: composing efficient hybrid language models from existing […]
OMSCS Open Courseware
Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program is proud to make the course content* for many of its courses publicly available through Ed Lessons. Select a course below to view the public content for that course. Note that students enrolled in OMSCS should access their course content through Canvas, as the […]
Perl’s Decline Was Cultural
According to the Discourse, somebody killed perl There’s been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I […]
Show HN: I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy
Transform PDF documents to look like scanned documents. Default Scan scanify input.pdf All Effects scanify –aggressive –bent –dusty input.pdf Installation brew tap Francium-Tech/tap brew install scanify From Source git clone https://github.com/Francium-Tech/scanify.git cd scanify swift build -c release cp .build/release/scanify /usr/local/bin/ # Basic usage – creates input_scanned.pdf scanify document.pdf # Specify output path scanify document.pdf scanned_output.pdf […]
Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack
Infisical is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our teams in building the open source security infrastructure stack for the AI era. We’re building a generational company with a world-class engineering team. This isn’t a place to coast — but if you want to grow fast, take ownership, and solve tough problems, you’ll be […]
HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers
Accessibility barriers in research are not new, but they are urgent. The message we have heard from our community is that arXiv can have the most impact in the shortest time by offering HTML papers alongside the existing PDF. arXiv has successfully launched papers in HTML format. We are gradually backfilling HTML for arXiv’s corpus […]