OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/
George Mandis
OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
What Problems to Solve (1966) http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems
Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts
Anthropic
Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude - No Deployment Needed
Create interactive AI apps directly in Claude. Users pay for their own API usage, you pay nothing. Build games, tools, and assistants with zero deployment complexity.
A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
Quanta Magazine
A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/
crescentro.se
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
-2000 Lines of code (2004) https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/this-self-taught-ethiopian-dev-built-an-authentication-tool-and-got-into-yc/
TechCrunch
Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC | TechCrunch
Better Auth’s open source framework can simplify how developers manage user authentication. It’s caught the attention of some big name investors, recently raising about $5M in seed funding from Peak XV.
Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator https://snowemu.com/
Snow | Classic Macintosh emulator
Classic Macintosh emulator - About
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/
Google DeepMind
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
Why is the Rust compiler so slow? https://sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust-compiler-slow
Alternative Layout System https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/scripts/#same-sizer
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights https://jameshard.ing/pilot
James Harding
Pilot - James Harding
James Harding is a British Airways Airbus A350 pilot. Explore his career, flight statistics, and unique 3D globe visualisations of his flying history.
Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/
Qwen
Qwen VLo: From "Understanding" the World to "Depicting" It
QWEN CHAT DISCORD
Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability…
Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability…
We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020) https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/
Fueled by Coffee
How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6) on our home-built CPU with our home-built C compiler
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It’s been two years since I started working as a software engineer. I sometimes tell my colleagues about a student project I did in my junior year of university, and it’s so well-received that I’m writing…
It’s been two years since I started working as a software engineer. I sometimes tell my colleagues about a student project I did in my junior year of university, and it’s so well-received that I’m writing…
MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
Substack
MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972
Shtetl-Optimized
BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large
For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…