The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
Even Pausewang’s admirers concede that the books can be painful. ”It was so overwhelming, this scenario, so huge, that I didn’t know how to cope with it, as a child,” says Rémi, recalling the effect of reading The Last Children of Schewenborn. Then again, she argues, it’s a realistic depiction of how children experience systemic […]
A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses
One of the purported advantages of self-driving car tech is that every car can learn from one vehicle’s mistakes. Here’s how Waymo puts it on its website: “The Waymo Driver learns from the collective experiences gathered across our fleet, including previous hardware generations.” But in Austin, Waymo’s vehicles struggled for months to learn how to […]
The True Shape of Io’s Steeple Mountain
Additionally, the surrounding terrain in the artwork appears unusually flat, which is inconsistent with the curvature dictated by Io’s small radius. The actual surface of Io would show more pronounced curvature. How we created the new look We used a new global map of Io compiled from the Juno mission’s images by Gerald Eichstädt, Jason […]
Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
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Free stuff makes us irrational
If you’ve ever wondered just how passionate people are about free samples at Costco, look no further than these 2 incidents:
Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression
Rust implementation of TurboQuant for vector search, with Python bindings via PyO3. Compresses high-dimensional vectors to 2-4 bits per coordinate with near-optimal distortion. Data-oblivious (no training), zero indexing time. Unofficial implementation of TurboQuant (Google Research, ICLR 2026). from turbovec import TurboQuantIndex index = TurboQuantIndex(dim=1536, bit_width=4) index.add(vectors) index.add(more_vectors) scores, indices = index.search(query, k=10) index.write(”my_index.tq”) loaded = […]
Vector Meson Dominance
I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet’. Each one is made of an up, down or strange quark and an antiup, antidown or antistrange antiquark. That’s 3 × 3 = 9 choices. In this […]
Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
AI companies continually scrape the internet at an enormous scale, swallowing up all of its contents to use as training data for their next models. If you have a public website, they are already stealing your work. Miasma is here to help you fight back! Spin up the server and point any malicious traffic towards […]
ESP32-S31: 320MHz 2C RV32IMAFCP+CLIC, 512KB SRAM, GbE, 802.11ax, 61 GPIO
Espressif Systems (688018.SH) proudly announces the upcoming release of ESP32-S31, a high-performance dual-core Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.4 + IEEE 802.15.4 + Ethernet System-on-Chip (SoC). Building on Espressif’s proven track record, this versatile SoC addresses the growing demand for advanced IoT applications including consumer and industrial appliances, smart speakers, voice-controlled devices, and automation systems requiring comprehensive wireless connectivity, edge AI […]
What fork() Actually Copies
What fork() Actually Copies | Daniel’s Tech Blog ← Home 2026-03-28 Shallow changes can have consequences at the bottom of the ocean. This post is an account of something that happened to me recently, and the story is still open. The services are stable, the revert held, and a pull request is sitting there waiting […]