I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
Posted on: 2026-02-20T17:39Z Tags: Table of Contents In my post from 2026-02-18, I committed myself towards helping work on coreboot + libreboot with the goal of porting it to the X270. It’s less than a week later and I have done it. My X270 is a 20HM model and this means that it is a […]
AI Added ’Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and other tech companies spent billions last year investing in AI. They’re expected to spend even more, roughly $700 billion, this year on dozens of new data centers to train and run their advanced models. This spending frenzy has kept Wall Street buzzing and fueled a narrative that all this investment […]
Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
LLMs don’t—and can’t—do everything. What they do is very impressive—and useful. It’s broad. And in many ways it’s human-like. But it’s not precise. And in the end it’s not about deep computation. So how can we supplement LLM foundation models? We need a foundation tool: a tool that’s broad and general and does what LLMs […]
The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
You’re on the M1, doing 65, and two trucks pull out alongside each other. For the next several minutes you watch them drift past each other at what appears to be exactly the same speed. Your blood pressure rises. The inside lane backs up. Eventually the overtaking truck completes its pass, pulls in, and the […]
AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 (for Linux VM)
A comprehensive reverse-engineering effort to understand and document Apple’s Rosetta 2 binary translation technology. Table of Contents Background What is Rosetta? What is Rosetta 2? How Apple Delivers Rosetta 2 in macOS Technical Architecture This Project File Structure Usage Progress References Background The Architecture Transition In November 2020, Apple announced their first Apple Silicon Macs, […]
FreeBSD doesn’t have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d […]
Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. But unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro […]
SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
About Sim Sim is the open-source platform to build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Over 70,000 developers — from early-stage startups to the U.S. Department of Defense — use Sim to turn ideas into production-grade agentic workflows on a visual, Figma-like canvas. We connect to 1,000+ apps and LLMs, and our Copilot is the state […]
I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
When Vickie Hardin Woods retired, she knew she needed a plan. “I was worried about losing my carefully crafted identity as a professional. I was looking for something to carry me through that time … What else can I be?” She decided to do – rather than be – something new. Hardin Woods would bake […]
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
This post originally appeared in the June 2025 issue of Juiced.GS, and has been expanded with more details. I am very proud to have succeeded in porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II, bringing a very dynamic 1989 game to an 1979 platform without losing in playability or details. In this article, I […]