Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay
Home > News > Spotify is often credited as the music service most in tune with the ‘pirate’ mentality, having converted millions of former file-sharers in recent years. Interestingly, according to writer and researcher Rasmus Fleischer, a decade ago the site actually populated its beta with pirate MP3s, including some that were only available on […]
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
A few weeks ago I wrote about Git’s help.autocorrect setting and the strange tale of the origin of it’s deciseconds value. It got me to thinking about other git config settings that most people likely don’t know about and which should probably be defaulted differently. In this post, I’ll go through some of the perhaps […]
Gleam, Coming from Erlang
I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little open-source feed aggregator that’s now live. These are my notes. why I’m interested in Gleam I spent most of my career working with dynamic languages: […]
Simulating Time in Square-Root Space
TR25-017 | 24th February 2025 05:09 Simulating Time in Square-Root Space Abstract: We show that for all functions $t(n) geq n$, every multitape Turing machine running in time $t$ can be simulated in space only $O(sqrt{t log t})$. This is a substantial improvement over Hopcroft, Paul, and Valiant’s simulation of time $t$ in $O(t/log t)$ […]
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty
annas-archive.li/blog, 2024-02-24 A few months ago we announced a $10,000 bounty to make the best possible visualization of our data showing the ISBN space. We emphasized showing which files we have/haven’t archived already, and we later a dataset describing how many libraries hold ISBNs (a measure of rarity). We’ve been overwhelmed by the response. There […]
The Efficiency of Vim
Published 2025 February 24 I learned to touch type in fifth grade. We would shuffle into the computer lab and open up Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. I peaked at about 80 wpm. Today, I type somewhere between 60-70 wpm. If I am writing code then that drops to 40-50 wpm. It bothers me that I […]
There Isn’t Much Point to HTTP/2 Past the Load Balancer
I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few things, in this case, HTTP/2. From time to time, either online […]
History of CAD – David Weisberg
Writing a book about the history of CAD is an almost insurmountable task. If we, the editors, engineers, and CAD experts at Shapr3D were to accomplish this task, we’d most definitely fall short of the mark while spending countless hours with it.With over 80 years (and counting), the storied past of CAD slowly became the […]
Judge: US gov’t violated privacy law by disclosing personal data to DOGE
“The plaintiffs have made a clear showing that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief,” the order said. “DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems of record that contain some of the plaintiffs’ most sensitive data—Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability status—and […]
DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference
DeepEP is a communication library tailored for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and expert parallelism (EP). It provides high-throughput and low-latency all-to-all GPU kernels, which are also as known as MoE dispatch and combine. The library also supports low-precision operations, including FP8. To align with the group-limited gating algorithm proposed in the DeepSeek-V3 paper, DeepEP offers a set […]