Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625
arXiv.org
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I,...
Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more. Stripped of anything else, neural networks...
Locality of Behaviour (2020) https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
htmx.org
</> htmx ~ Locality of Behaviour (LoB)
Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and…
Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents
Allen Pike
Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
On making use of large thinking models.
Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking https://www.hackernews.coffee/
www.hackernews.coffee
Homebrew HN
Brew your morning HN
Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase https://github.com/zserge/pennybase
GitHub
GitHub - zserge/pennybase: Poor man's Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase
Poor man's Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase - zserge/pennybase
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/
Google
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
AI for Scientific Search https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903
arXiv.org
AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research
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...
The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning https://sutro.sh/blog/the-end-of-moore-s-law-for-ai-gemini-flash-offers-a-warning
sutro.sh
The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning - Sutro
Run LLM batch jobs in hours, not days, at a fraction of the cost.
Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html
Cleveland OH
Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland
Scientists have dubbed the tar-like substance ShipGoo001.
Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/caching-is-an-abstraction-not-an-optimization/
Buttondown
Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when...
Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
Colossus
Flounder Mode
Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work