Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
tl;dr We explore language models that recursively call themselves or other LLMs before providing a final answer. Our goal is to enable the processing of essentially unbounded input context length and output length and to mitigate degradation “context rot”. We propose Recursive Language Models, or RLMs, a general inference strategy where language models can decompose […]
Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
I’m looking for copies of these issues of PC Plus magazine please. 1991-Nov, 1992-Jan, 1992-Mar, 1992-Apr, 1992-Jun, 1992-Jul, 1992-Oct, 1993-Jan. This was a popular PC magazine in the UK, and one of its highlights was Wilf’s Programmer Workshop, a regular column full of programming puzzles, challenges and reader submissions. At one point, he ran a […]
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users. What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model. Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the […]
Zed is now available on Windows
Zed is now available on Windows. You can download the stable release here. Or if you prefer to live on the bleeding edge, you can use the preview release, which receives new features one week earlier. Windows is now a fully supported platform for Zed. We’ll be shipping updates every week, like we do with […]
David Byrne Radio
David Byrne Presents: The Funky Broadway by David Byrne When I moved to New York, I worked for a while as an usher in a movie theater on East 34th Street. Once in a while, I had the job of taking the tickets, receipts, or sometimes the reels of film in big cans to the […]
Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
My work is supported by members. If you find my work valuable and have the means, consider supporting it with a membership or sponsorship! This members-only article has been made publicly available. You can see more of my work at alexanderobenauer.com. The last chapter of Bootstrapping Computing is all about user environments. One of the […]
Exploring PostgreSQL 18’s new UUIDv7 support
Should you use UUIDs as the primary key in your database? You might have heard they are terrible for performance, which is often true for traditional UUIDv4. However, the introduction of UUIDv7 fixes many of the previous issues of UUIDv4. Let’s therefore explore what they are and why it might be a good idea to […]
Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR
My kids have this RC fire engine that works in the 27MHz band. I got curious how the communication is, with objective to control the toy from laptop. I had an RTL SDR in my toolbox. I have used it with gnuradio software for a couple of analog reception tasks. Not for anything serious so […]
You are the scariest monster in the woods
I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence—human-level intelligence) partly because I don’t believe in the possibility of AGI and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to it. But I also think there’s something we should actually be afraid of long before AGI, if […]
A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia’s GPU Linux drivers
This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileged process. Their security implications were confirmed via a proof of concept that achieves kernel read and write primitives. Back in 2022, NVIDIA […]