So You Want to Build a Tunnel
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential example, with his wild tunnel […]
Async/Await on the GPU
At VectorWare, we are building the first GPU-native software company. Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust’s Future trait and async/await on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that leverage the full power of GPU hardware using […]
HackMyClaw
Fiu was the mascot of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games in Chile 🇨🇱 It’s a siete colores, a small colorful bird native to Chile. The name comes from the sound it makes. Fiu became a national phenomenon. ”Being small doesn’t mean you can’t give your best.” Just like our AI here: small, helpful, maybe […]
Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel
⚠ UNAUTHORIZED THOUGHT DETECTED ⚠ 14:00 ”WARNING: MENTAL CONTAMINATION HAZARD. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.” GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE LOCK: FAILING PHASE 1: FARADAY BREACH PHASE 3: PERFECT WORLD LAUNCH
Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Price Per Ball – Find the Cheapest Golf Balls on Amazon Golf balls on Amazon, sorted by price per ball Data sourced from Amazon. Prices update twice daily. As an Amazon Associate, this site earns from qualifying purchases.
America’s Pensions Can’t Beat Vanguard but They Can Close Your Hospital
While Cass is on target in pointing to the waste and abuse in the financial sector, the big question is where is the rest of the economics profession? Supposedly, eliminating waste and corruption was the mantra of “free trade” neo-liberals. But the massive waste and corruption in the financial sector is easy for anyone with […]
The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512
The story of x86 SIMD is simply not about technology. It’s about marketing, corporate politics, engineering compromises, competitive pressure. This is the behind-the-scenes history of how Intel and AMD battled for vector supremacy, the controversial decisions that defined an architecture, and the personalities who made it happen. Part I: The Not-So Humble Beginnings (1993-1999) The […]
FreeCAD
…And for everything else Whether you’re prototyping, 3D printing, designing furniture, or learning CAD, FreeCAD offers the tools to support your creativity. With a strong community, extensive documentation, and a growing ecosystem of add-ons, it’s a great place to start – and to grow. No sign-up, no paywall, no restrictions. Just open-source freedom at your […]
Unreal Numbers
Reals are really weird. A while ago, I posted an article about the 19th and early 20th century quest to derive mathematics from the principles of formal logic. We kicked off with Peano arithmetic, which built natural numbers from two ad-hoc constructs: an element representing zero and an abstract “successor” function S(…). Later, we leaned […]
Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
A bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that potentially can make SQL queries execute orders of magnitudes faster. Today I want to tell you how we use them in Floe, and how we make them produce 2x fewer false results.