AI Risks ”Hypernormal” Science
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. In On Exactitude in Science, the writer Jorge Luis Borges imagines an empire so devoted to cartography that its mapmakers draw a map as large and detailed as the empire itself. “In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map,” Borges writes, “inhabited by […]
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)
The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Differen formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format. A logged-in user can export up to 15000 items. If you’re not logged in, you can […]
More precise elevation data for GraphHopper routing engine
GraphHopper is used for many use cases and various companies around the globe have integrated it to provide outdoor trip planning for their customers. They all rely on precise elevation data: be it for displaying purposes, statistics regarding the incline, for bike routing to avoid hills or to better estimate energy usage of electric vehicles. […]
Is it a pint?
Years of countless pours led me to the question “Is this really a pint? They say so, but really?” The findings gave rise to the Pint Patrol, a grassroots movement that could change how Americans are served their beer, wine, and cider—toward righteous honesty. This article documents the initial discovery and the inception of the […]
Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents
Side A: Turtles all the way down / Side B: Mo’ tokens mo’ problems If you’ve been around long enough in anything you start to see history repeating, fashion trends come back around, humanity makes the same mistakes. In the field of computer science we see the same patterns: technology X is essentially the same […]
Show HN: Threadprocs – executables sharing one address space (0-copy pointers)
This repository contains experimental code for thread-like processes, or multiple programs running in a shared address space. Each threadproc behaves like a process with its own executable, globals, libc instance, etc, but pointers are valid across threadprocs. This blends the Posix process model with the Posix multi-threading programming model, and enables things like zero-copy access […]
21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV In 2010 the entire domain space of Yugoslavia (.yu) was taken off the internet. After all, the country didn’t exist anymore. I heard about this from an interview with Kaloyan Kolev on Agnes Bytes’ “Archiving the Web”. […]
Doom entirely from DNS records
At some point, a reasonable person asked ”DNS resolves names to IP addresses, what else can it do?” The answer, apparently, is run DOOM. DNS TXT records can hold arbitrary text. Cloudflare will serve them globally, for free, cached at the edge, to anyone who asks. They are not a file storage system. They were […]
This picture broke my brain [3B1B video]
If Dspy is so great, why isn’t anyone using it?
4.7M DSPy monthly downloads 222M LangChain monthly downloads For a framework that promises to solve the biggest challenges in AI engineering, this gap is suspicious. Still, companies using Dspy consistently report the same benefits. They can test a new model quickly, even if their current prompt doesn’t transfer well. Their systems are more maintainable. They […]