NumKong: 2’000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All
These are a few lines of celebratory “proud-dad” rumblings and highlights from my largest open-source release to date. I’m killing my SimSIMD project and re-launching under a new name — NumKong — StringZilla’s big brother. Over 2’000 SIMD kernels for mixed precision numerics, spread across 200’000 lines of code & docstrings, in 7 languages. One […]
BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
BIO is the I/O co-processor in the Baochip-1x, a mostly open source 22nm SoC I helped design. You can read more about the Baochip-1x’s background here, or pick up an evaluation board at Crowd Supply. In this post, I’ll talk about the origins of the BIO, starting by working through a detailed study of the […]
Attention Residuals
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Attention Residuals ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Paper | arXiv | Overview | Results | Citation (a) Standard residuals with uniform additive accumulation. (b) Full AttnRes: each layer attends over all previous outputs. (c) Block AttnRes: layers are grouped into blocks, reducing memory from O(Ld) to O(Nd). This is the official repository for Attention Residuals (AttnRes), a drop-in […]
BYD’s bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices
BYD is already seeing a flood of new EV buyers as gas and oil prices surge amid rising tensions in the Middle East. BYD’s bet on EVs is paying off Since it stopped building vehicles powered solely by internal combustion engines (ICEs) in 2022, BYD has become the world’s largest EV maker. The Chinese automaker […]
General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1
A battered GM EV1 that turned up at a Georgia impound lot and sold at auction for more than $100,000 has sparked a restoration project that brought together a YouTube channel, a private collector, and ultimately General Motors itself. GM announced the news on March 11, 2026. The car was VIN 212, one of the […]
Boomloom: Think with your hands
Our loom is designed for the way people naturally learn to create: by doing. That bar at the top separates the warp threads for you as you turn the knob. So plain weave, such as tapestry, is a breeze. But there’s more — the bars also make patterns like a 4-shaft loom. Without multiple technical […]
Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
Hi HN! We’re Vincent and Jochen from sitefire (https://sitefire.ai). Our platform makes it easy for brands to improve their visibility in AI search. We’ve been working together for years and have backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering. We came to this idea after speaking with marketing teams who were seeing declining traffic due […]
Fermented foods shaped human biology
The human immune system is, in one sense, a detection mechanism. It has evolved, over millions of years, to scan the body for molecular signals that tell it whether to attack or stand down. Most of these signals come from pathogens, damaged cells, or the body’s own hormones. But in 2019, a lab in Germany […]
MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
✅ Can it pick the right tool with correct parameters? ✅ Can it classify ”masked person at night” as Critical? ✅ Can it resist prompt injection in event descriptions? ✅ Can it deduplicate the same person across 3 cameras? ✅ Can it maintain context across multi-turn security conversations?
Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: ’Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers’
There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned two thumbs up, including approval from a “grumpy old teacher.” Jeff Mellema is a language arts teacher at Estacada High School. He has worked in […]