The End of Moore’s Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning
For the past few years, the AI industry has operated under its own version of Moore’s Law: an unwavering belief that the cost of intelligence would perpetually decrease by orders of magnitude each year. Like clockwork, each new model generation promised to be not only more capable but also cheaper to run. Last week, Google […]
Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots
Hi HN, I’m Ben, from K-Scale Labs (https://kscale.dev). We’re building open-source humanoid robots. Hardware video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZi9rtdEKg Software video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXi3b3xXJFw Docs: https://docs.kscale.dev Github: https://github.com/kscalelabs HN thread from back in May: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023680 I started K-Scale because I really wanted a humanoid robot to hack on, so I knew that if I built one, I would have at […]
EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall
“You Wouldn’t Download an Ad”
Poor Man’s Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase
Poor man’s Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase It implements core backend features in less than 1000 lines of Go code, using only standard library and no external dependencies: File-based storage using CSV with versioned records REST API with JSON responses Authentication with session cookies and Basic Auth RBAC & ownership-based permissions Real-time updates via SSE […]
Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article where I developed a hash calculator on an FPGA. Specifically, I implemented an SHA-256 calculator. This module computes the hash of a string (up to 25 bytes) in 68 clock cycles. The design leverages the parallelism of FPGAs to compute the W matrix and the recursive rounds […]
AI for Scientific Search
Abstract:Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex domains such as logical reasoning and experimental coding. Motivated by these advancements, numerous studies have explored the application of AI in the innovation process, particularly in the context of scientific research. These […]
Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
Kevin Kelly isn’t known for one ‘big thing’, and doesn’t aspire to be. He’s as intelligent, hard-working, ambitious, and prescient as history’s most iconic entrepreneurs—only without any interest in building a unicorn himself. Instead, in his words, he works “Hollywood style”—in a series of creative projects. What follows is a sampling of his life’s work. […]
Introducing tmux-rs
3 July 2025 by Collin Richards For the 6 months or so I’ve been quietly porting tmux from C to Rust. I’ve recently reached a big milestone: the code base is now 100% (unsafe) Rust. I’d like to share the process of porting the original codebase from ~67,000 lines of C code to ~81,000 lines […]
Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
Recently I was looking through a database of known stalkerware services and found one I wasn’t familiar with: Catwatchful. It seemed to be a full-featured Android spy app, to actually be its own service as opposed to a millionth FlexiSpy reseller, and to offer a 3-day free trial. Aside from a boilerplate disclaimer to only […]
Locality of Behaviour (2020)
Carson Gross May 29, 2020 “The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” – Richard Gabriel Locality of Behaviour is the principle that: The behaviour of a unit of code should […]