Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck
In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit, and my Dad has […]
GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive
👋 Join our WeChat and Discord community 📍 Use GLM-OCR’s API Model Introduction GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding, built on the GLM-V encoder–decoder architecture. It introduces Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) loss and stable full-task reinforcement learning to improve training efficiency, recognition accuracy, and generalization. The model integrates the CogViT visual encoder […]
Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)
Did you know that Rome is studded with cannon balls? Not many know that the city is full of sites where you can still see cannon balls. Rome has been the center of many battles and there are many sites around the city, that remind us of this. If you want to take a TOUR […]
Switzerland’s Extraordinary Medieval Library
Apart from its vast tomes, what makes the library so compelling is its age. Its origins date to the early 7th Century, when the Irish missionary Saint Gall founded a hermitage on this site, later giving rise to the abbey. Although the original library was replaced in 1767 by the present Baroque hall, the continuity […]
Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices
Signed URLs for small devices. Background signy is a library for generating signed URLs on embedded devices using asymmetric cryptography. Signed URLs are typically utilized to grant time-limited access to private resources, such as those served by a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In the context of embedded devices, signed URLs may be used to enable […]
It’s All a Blur
Designing a slightly sneaky blur filter and then poking holes in it. If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents. This is supposedly because blurring algorithms are reversible. But then, it’s not wrong to scratch your head. […]
Staying ahead of censors in 2025
by meskio and shelikhoo | December 3, 2025 From internet blackouts in Iran to Russia’s evolving censorship tactics, 2025 has tested Tor’s anti-censorship tools like never before. These are the moments where the work of Tor’s anti-censorship team is more important than ever, to fulfill our mission of preserving connectivity between users in affected regions […]
Show HN: Z80-μLM, a ’Conversational AI’ That Fits in 40KB
Z80-μLM is a ’conversational AI’ that generates short character-by-character sequences, with quantization-aware training (QAT) to run on a Z80 processor with 64kb of ram. The root behind this project was the question: how small can we go while still having personality, and can it be trained or fine-tuned easily? With easy self-hosted distribution? The answer […]
Binaries
A problem I experienced when pursuing my PhD and submitting academic articles was that I had built solutions to problems that required dramatic scale to be effective and worthwhile. Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, […]
John Simpson: ’I’ve reported on 40 wars but I’ve never seen a year like 2025’
3 hours ago ShareSave John SimpsonBBC world affairs editor ShareSave BBC Sensitive content: This article contains a graphic description of death that some readers may find upsetting I’ve reported on more than 40 wars around the world during my career, which goes back to the 1960s. I watched the Cold War reach its height, then […]