Rootless Pings in Rust
Sending a ping by creating an ICMP socket normally requires root: you can’t create a raw socket to send ICMP packets without it. The ping command line tool works without root however, how is that possible? It turns out you can create a UDP socket with a protocol flag, which allows you to send the […]
Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
We’re happy to announce that as of today Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. When we started Replicate in 2019, OpenAI had just open sourced GPT-2, and few people outside of the machine learning community paid much attention to AI. But for those of us in the field, it felt like something big was about […]
Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions
As a unicyclist, I draw a certain amount of attention, and whether it be a busy sunny Saturday morning or 21:00 on a grim Monday evening, people are inclined to ask me questions. I imagine the spectacle and presumed friendliness of someone riding a unicycle contributes to people’s willingness to enquire, and I’ve had some […]
Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
TL;DR STARFlow-V is the first normalizing flow-based causal video generator demonstrating that normalizing flows can match video diffusion models in visual quality while offering end-to-end training, exact likelihood estimation, and native multi-task support across T2V/I2V/V2V generation. Abstract Normalizing flows (NFs) are end-to-end likelihood-based generative models for continuous data, and have recently regained attention with encouraging […]
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the […]
What will enter the public domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain — and here we focus on three of the most prominent. […]
Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map exactly once. All known methods for solving this “traveling salesperson problem” are painfully slow on maps with many cities, and researchers suspect there’s […]
Notes on Bhutan
Small Himalayan Kingdom, Big Governance Experiments Hiking towards the famous Tiger Nest monastery. I missed my alarm and woke up at 3:05 am. The taxi was already waiting downstairs to leave for my 5 a.m. flight to Paro. I slept the whole way and mercifully missed the landing at one of the world’s most dangerous […]
Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments Game Development, Around the World In the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world. Now it’s time to actually plant those plants! As I mentioned last week, I figured out a list of tree species that belong to […]
Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model
Over the last year, anyone who cares about open weight language models has been watching Chinese labs. Qwen, DeepSeek and others now define a lot of what “state of the art open MoE” looks like. In the United States, most of the action has centered on polishing other people’s checkpoints. At Arcee AI we want […]