How to Store Data on Paper?
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage. Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found. What to […]
AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS
TL;DR: Senior Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript while using AI daily, seeking a fully remote role within ±3 hours of CET (Berlin). You thrive on solving real problems, are eager to grow, and want to work closely with a small, tight-knit team to transform how companies worldwide manage their SaaS tools. 💶 If this role […]
Gradients Are the New Intervals
Gradients are the new intervals At the New England Symposium on Graphics, James Tompkin compared graphics researchers to magpies: they’re easily distracted by shiny objects and pretty renderings. While this is true, the analogy also holds from a different angle: when I’m reading graphics papers, I’m constantly looking for ideas to steal bring back to […]
Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
In my country, 2 decades ago there are were plenty of people who knew the basics. Today, it feels like a lost art. I would like to approach it as a hobby, not like electronic engineer level, but enough to debug problem and change components to a low level. What is the pragmatic approach in […]
AI Responses May Include Mistakes
The other day I wanted to look up a specific IBM PS/2 model, a circa 1992 PS/2 Server system. So I punched the model into Google, and got this: That did not look quite right, since the machine I was looking for had 486 processors (yes, plural). And it most certainly did use Microchannel (MCA). […]
Simpler Backoff
Exponential backoff with jitter is de rigeur for making service calls. This code, or something like it, probably looks really familiar: func do(ctx context.Context) error { const ( maxAttempts = 10 baseDelay = 1 * time.Second maxDelay = 60 * time.Second ) delay := baseDelay for attempt := range maxAttempts { err := request(ctx) if […]
Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Cerebras Breaks the 2,500 Tokens Per Second Barrier with Llama 4 Maverick 400B SUNNYVALE CA – May 28, 2025 — Last week, Nvidia announced that 8 Blackwell GPUs in a DGX B200 could demonstrate 1,000 tokens per second (TPS) per user on Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick. Today, the same independent benchmark firm Artificial Analysis measured […]
Learn touch typing – it’s worth it
This is a short, personal story about my typing journey I started learning touch typing near the end of my first year of computer science. This was my second degree as I had already done engineering before. I wasn’t able to get a tech internship the first summer after one year of computer science despite […]
Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
Photo: Jacob Bobo After years of waiting, the ribbon has been cut and Micro Center Silicon Valley is officially open. On a sunny Friday morning in Santa Clara, with hundreds of fans queued in a line wrapping down the block and around the corner, we welcomed the Silicon Valley community to our newest store, at […]
StackAI (YC W23) Is Looking for SWR and Tailwind Wizards
About Stack AI Vision: Democratize access to Large Language Models, so that anyone can build AI-powered applications that generate positive impact to the world. Product: A user-friendly and intuitive No-Code platform integrating best AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open source), most common data sources (OneDrive, Google Drive, Airtable, Notion) and SaaS (Zapier, HubSpot, etc.). We […]