Jane Austen’s Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

“Mansfield Park” is, by far, the strangest of Jane Austen’s novels. In juxtaposition to the merry and major key orchestrations of her four better-known novels, “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Persuasion” and “Emma,” Austen’s third published book sings in a decidedly minor key. The other novels are not the romances that film studios so […]
Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables
Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables This is an interactive demonstration of the ICFP 2025 paper Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables by Tsung-Ju Chiang and Ningning Xie. What is multi-stage programming? It’s a technique where programs generate other programs. Instead of writing generic code that handles all cases at runtime, you generate specialized, optimized code tailored […]
Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team)

About Us ⚡️ Join us to accelerate the energy transition with technology. At Spark, we’re building the AI engine behind the next generation of renewable energy infrastructure. Our mission is simple yet ambitious: To help renewable energy developers build solar farms, battery storage plants, and related projects more efficiently. If you’re excited to see your products […]
Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are likelihood-based models for continuous inputs. They have demonstrated promising results on both density estimation and generative modeling tasks, but have received relatively little attention in recent years. In this work, we demonstrate that NFs are more powerful than previously believed. We present TarFlow: a simple and scalable architecture that enables highly […]
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SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs

What is SymbolicAI? SymbolicAI is a neuro-symbolic framework, combining classical Python programming with the differentiable, programmable nature of LLMs in a way that actually feels natural in Python. It’s built to not stand in the way of your ambitions. It’s easily extensible and customizable to your needs by virtue of its modular design. It’s quite […]
nimbme – Nim bare-metal environment

Nim bare-metal environment for embedded targets. headless mode Actual implemented target: raspberry pi1 / pi zero (bcm2835) General target requirements: at least 4KiB ram at least 20KiB flash 1 UART for terminal 1 hardware timer [cycle counter] software interrupt mechanism cooperative scheduler (actual simple round-robin scheme / deadline-scheduler planned) code runs under system-mode (armv6) async […]
Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20

SpaceStationTracker is an application that displays the current position of the International Space Station on a 2D world map. It runs on a ESP32-2432S028R ILI9341 device with a 2.8″ screen, commonly known as the CYD “Cheap Yellow Display”, which costs $20 or less. The code was written using Arduino IDE / ESP32 development environment in […]
The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

Posted June 23, 2025. tl;dr: I finished writing a text adventure game I started when I was a teenager, and you can play it in a browser right now. If you knew me in 1984, you would also know that you could find me glued to a chair in front of our family’s Atari 800 […]
Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard […]