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Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes

# Building ghostmd *A note-taking app that gets out of the way.* ## Why plain markdown? Every note app eventually dies. When it does, your notesshould survive. Plain .md files will outlive every app,every company, every format war. – No database migrations– No export button needed– grep works. git works. Everything works.– **Your files. Your […]

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally

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copyCopychevron-down Models Run the new Qwen3.5 LLMs including Medium: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B, Small: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B and 397B-A17B on your local device! Qwen3.5 is Alibaba’s new model family, including Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B and 397B-A17B and the new Small series: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B. The multimodal hybrid reasoning LLMs deliver the strongest performances for […]

Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?

Ecuador writes: Tom’s Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper. Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions that Geekbench doesn’t scale well, but doesn’t really make clear just how bad the […]

$3T Blind Spot: US nonprofits

Everyone’s arguing about the federal budget U.S. nonprofits handle more revenue than the GDP of the United Kingdom. They are subject to less disclosure than a single publicly traded company. We processed 4 million IRS 990 filings. The data is public. It’s just that almost nobody looks. $0T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year 0M […]

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

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Everybody can see there’s a crisis in New York publishing. Even the hot new books feel lukewarm. Writers win the Pulitzer Prize and sell just few hundred copies. The big publishers rely on 50 or 100 proven authors—everything else is just window dressing or the back catalog. You can tell how stagnant things have become […]

LLM Writing Tropes.md

A single file containing all cataloged AI writing tropes. Add it to your AI’s system prompt to help it avoid these patterns (let’s play cat and mouse!). Disclaimer: Creation of this file was AI-assisted. If you thought I was going to write out a .md file for AI myself you must be mad. AI for […]

Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets

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Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to prevent government officials at the highest levels from engaging in prediction markets, cracking down on the potential for any […]

CasNum

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CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Arbitrary precision arithmetic, now with 100% more Euclid. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator where every ALU opcode is implemented entirely through geometric constructions. Introduction To Compass And Straightedge Constructions Possible Uses Integration inside a Gameboy […]