Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
2025-11-30 – Programming – Windows On its own, the title of this post is just a true piece of trivia, verifiable with the built-in subst tool (among other methods). Here’s an example creating the drive +: as an alias for a directory at C:foo: subst +: C:foo The +: drive then works as normal (at […]
Advent of Code 2025
Hi! I’m Eric Wastl. I make Advent of Code. I hope you like it! I also make lots of other things. I’m on Bluesky, Mastodon, and GitHub. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People […]
Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
✨ Z-Image Z-Image is a powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters. Currently there are three variants: 🚀 Z-Image-Turbo – A distilled version of Z-Image that matches or exceeds leading competitors with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations). It offers ⚡️sub-second inference latency⚡️ on enterprise-grade H800 GPUs and fits comfortably within […]
Beej’s Guide to Learning Computer Science
This is a work-in-progress. Totally incomplete, but hopefully useful enough to have live. Please keep in mind this is an beta-quality document. If you have corrections, I’d love to hear them. So e-mail me! (Click here for other guides!) What’s Here for Readers: HTML: PDF: US Letter, one sided, syntax highlighting US Letter, two sided, […]
CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds and stability, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable computing experience every time you use it. Whether you’re a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system. Download Learn more
Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format
MTXT is a human-editable, text-based representation of music information.It aims to simplify the process of writing, reading, and editing musical data without requiring specialized binary tools. Beat-based: Events are placed on fractional beats using simple decimal notation (e.g., in a 4/4 time signature, 1 beat = 1 quarter note, so 3.25 represents 3 quarter notes […]
The space of minds
The space of minds | karpathy Home Blog 29 Nov, 2025 The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we’ve ever known) is only a single point (or a little cloud), arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology. Above: humorous portrayals […]
Self-hosting my photos with Immich
Table of contents For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe […]
Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps
As many of you may know, my career started back in 1985 at a wee company called Etak. This startup, seed funded by Nolan Bushnell, was most famous for pioneering in-vehicle navigation systems. It was about 20 years ahead of its time. But it didn’t stop there. Navigation systems require digital maps. The problem was […]
Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
Summary A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage. The system handles massive data loads, processing two-hour videos or hundreds of document pages within a 256,000-token context window. […]