ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
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Vx – One Language, Every Chip
The machine is declared, not assumed Most compilers hard-code a cost model. Vx reads one. A machine file describes the memory hierarchy and interconnect of a real part, and the compiler admits or rejects placements against it. Units are exact integer conversions, never floats: SI prefixes are decimal (GB = 109), IEC are binary (GiB […]
Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
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RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring
We are RetailReady (YC W24) – an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine. We’ve raised $6.6M in funding, onboarded over 50 customers, and in the past 12 months we’ve 4x’d our revenue. We are building world-class software that will disrupt an antiquated industry & we want you on board. What we’re doing here matters. We’re tackling […]
City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Despite my disappointment with Cities: Skylines 2, I keep coming back to the game from time to time. I can’t even control it. It’s like a deep inner need. When we were kids we played with toy cars on those felt mats with painted little cities, or when we had more industrial aspirations, we’d go […]
FTL: A new operating system for clouds
How it works Each container runs a userspace OS. It is a shared library which implements most of OS concepts such as Linux process, VFS, and TCP/IP. FTL kernel provides a minimal interface to implement Linux system calls in userspace, just like a hypervisor. FTL combines the best of microkernels (flexible & secure) and monolithic […]
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Canada (Remote)
About Great Question: Great Question is the all-in-one AI customer research platform for understanding your customers. Our platform enables teams to recruit participants, run research, and share insights – all in one place. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by industry-leading teams like Gusto, Experian, Canva, and Brex, we’re building the future of customer research. […]
The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
Thank you for being a regular reader of An Africanist Perspective. If you haven’t done so yet, please hit subscribe to receive timely updates on new posts along with over 36,000 other subscribers. New regular content is free. Book reviews and the archives are gated. This is from the ICG: Northern Ethiopia is slipping into […]
Show HN: Germany’s new sovereign AI model Kolibri
Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came out on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, the weights are on Hugging […]
GitHub’s new dashboard experience now the default
Improvement October 1, 2026 • 1 minute read The new dashboard experience, previously available as a feature preview, is now the default view for everyone. The redesigned dashboard helps you focus on the work that matters most and makes it easier to find and act on what you need next. You can: View your active […]