Why xor eax, eax?
Why xor eax, eax? Written by me, proof-read by an LLM. Details at end. In one of my talks on assembly, I show a list of the 20 most executed instructions on an average x86 Linux desktop. All the usual culprits are there, mov, add, lea, sub, jmp, call and so on, but the surprise […]
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile apps. I have been hosting a Matrix server for about five years now, mostly for text chats between a few relatives and close friends, and a bridge to WhatsApp for a few more people. These are my experiences. Matrix protocol I don’t have […]
Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?
Claude, Copilot, and making a good desktop app. This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown, ChatGPT’s lead as an end-user product has only solidified. On the Dithering podcast last week (paywalled), Ben Thompson called out an aspect of why this is: I need someone to write the definitive […]
DeepSeek releases open-weights math model with IMO gold medal performance
1. Introduction Large language models have made significant progress in mathematical reasoning, which serves as an important testbed for AI and could impact scientific research if further advanced. By scaling reasoning with reinforcement learning that rewards correct final answers, LLMs have improved from poor performance to saturating quantitative reasoning competitions like AIME and HMMT in […]
Do the thinking models think?
Whether machines can think is a classic debate that dates back to the intellectual titans of the 1950s. Turing opens his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence with: I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” The Hungarian genius, von Neumann, shortly before his death in 1957, prepared a posthumously published monograph The Computer […]
SmartTube Compromised
Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app’s digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released. While everyone is encouraged to switch to the new app, SmartTube’s […]
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT’s public release
A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. Since the public release of ChatGTPT and other large language models, the internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images […]
X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade Thinkpad X201/200, The details as below: 1, CPU: Ultra 7 165H, Ultra 9 185H; 2, Storage support: Two of M.2 SSD PCIE 4.0 (one 2280, one 2242), the original 2.5inch SATA; 3, Memory: DDR5 5600MHz max to 128G (64G +64G); 4, Two type-c: one is support thunderbolt 4.0, […]
In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has authorized this Settlement Website. This is not a lawyer solicitation. A Settlement has been reached with 23andMe, Inc. (now known as “Chrome”) in a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack announced by 23andMe on October 6, 2023, which resulted in the theft of Personal Information in its databases concerning approximately […]
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
Hello, please forgive any grammatical errors on my part for I am not an English native speaker. I found this thread regarding the death of ttn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457796 I am Thien-Thi’s daughter, my dad was a very private person, so I found out about the thread only recently. Since I can’t leave a comment, I’m making […]