Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor In 1988, I sailed away from the West coast of the United States in a 31-foot sailboat. This is my story — my account of a 3 1/2-year around the world solo sail. Read about the pirates, storms, and wars I witnessed firsthand. Read about the relationship between a solo […]
Stop Killing Games: It’s time to sue Sony, join us
”Goede actie. Hopelijk werkt het en word de oneerlijke marktpositie aangepakt.” – Cees ”Ik vind dat Sony een behoorlijke positie in neemt. Je kan namelijk nergens anders PS games kopen dan in hun eigen store, waar de prijzen vaak 20,- tot 25,- hoger liggen dan in fysieke winkels. Belachelijk. Apple moet alles openstellen van de […]
Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification
HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system. Governor JB Pritzker’s press release on HB5511 is thick with quotes from legislators and advocacy groups, and it names Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, Facebook, and Roblox specifically. Device setup gets one mention, framed as something a […]
Rust SIMD 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 portable SIMD (core::simd) 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 familiar […]
Learning more about Claude’s mathematical capabilities
Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge. It was about one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics: Take a real stab at the Riemann hypothesis. Claude did take a real stab, but as you might have expected if you’re familiar with the difficulty of the task (the Riemann […]
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Bringing On-Device AI to :Edge AI has lately meant Macs and PCs, but the edge is mostly cheap hardware: over 21 billion connected IoT devices against roughly 1.5 billion PCs, and in emerging markets most phones ship under $200. Count budget phones, Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, wearables, small robots like Reachy Mini, and connected home devices, […]
Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers
How it works From RFQ to settled trade. One structured path through the market – every step explicit, every step on record. Describe the trade Describe the hardware in plain language or attach a quote PDF. AI drafts the RFQ – you stay in control of every field. Review and send Terms, delivery, and deadlines […]
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very very very very very very very long interrupt. It turns out that you can break SMM — the secure, ultra privileged execution environment running invisibly in the background of every x86 CPU — with nothing more than an obscenely long-running machine instruction. SMM requires that all cores are […]
Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
Alpha preview: expect breaking changes and incomplete functionality. macOS and Linux only; on Windows we suggest WSL. A ghost in your shell. Ante is a self-contained coding agent that lives in your terminal and self-organizes. One ~15MB Rust binary from Antigma Labs, zero runtime dependencies, built to get the most out of any model. It […]
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons
Abstract:Artificial intelligence is reshaping cognitive work, but Human Resource Development scholarship has treated this transformation as an organizational training challenge, leaving the collective regeneration of professional expertise unexamined. This conceptual paper introduces the Cognitive Commons framework, integrating commons theory, HRD scholarship, and distributed cognition to explain how rational AI adoption decisions can deplete the shared […]