Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in an Influential Illustrated Book
No creatures from the microscopic world have managed to captivate the human imagination as authoritatively as radiolarians. Since the late nineteenth century, they’ve made their existence known in art, architecture, design, and even literature. These single-celled marine organisms, which appear to have teleported straight from some rarified Euclidean space into all the world’s oceans, seamlessly […]
Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents
An open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control. Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular framework that applies software development principles to AI agent creation. It is designed to simplify building, deploying, and orchestrating agent workflows, from simple tasks to complex systems. While optimized […]
A modern 35mm film scanner for home
Built for the 21st century, Knokke runs on Korova, a lean C++ application that’s native to Linux, macOS, and Windows—so you can forget vintage PCs and enjoy a plug-and-play workflow that lets you focus on your photos. Each frame can have custom scan settings, repeatable across multiple scans for consistent results and tailored workflows. The […]
A Catalog of Side Effects
Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state). This post can be thought of as a continuation of What I talk about when I talk about IRs, specifically the section […]
Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs – The New Stack Join our community of software engineering leaders and aspirational developers. Always stay in-the-know by getting the most important news and exclusive content delivered fresh to your inbox to learn more about at-scale software development. RESUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED It seems that you’ve previously […]
Gymkhana’s 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero Is One Super Ute
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. The legendary Ken Block was the driving force behind the internet-breaking Gymkhana YouTube videos, but a big chunk of the allure was undoubtedly due to […]
Terminal Latency on Windows
UPDATE 2024-04-15: Windows Terminal 1.19 contains a fix that reduces latency by half! It’s now competitive with WSLtty on my machine. Details in the GitHub Issue. In 2009, I wrote about why MinTTY is the best terminal on Windows. Even today, that post is one of my most popular. MinTTY in 2009 Since then, the […]
Contributing to Open-Source Should Be Required, Like Jury Duty
A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I was summoned to participate in a jury of my peers: I have to go to jury duty as a member of this democracy. what if I had a summons to contribute to open source software because I use FOOS? I […]
We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models
tl:dr; We’ve been making photo apps for iOS for long enough that we have gray hairs now, and using our experience we ran over 600 image generations to compare which AI models work best for which image edits. If you want, you can jump right to the image comparisons, or the conclusion, but promise us […]