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Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase https://github.com/zserge/pennybase
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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
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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
Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Copper-Faster-Than-Fiber-Brief.pdf
Importance of context management in AI NPCs https://walterfreedom.com/post.html?id=ai-context-management
Walterfreedom
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Blog post by walterfreedom
An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-algorithm-for-a-better-bookshelf/
Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA https://www.controlpaths.com/2025/06/29/parallelizing_sha256-calculation-fpga/
controlpaths.com
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…
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-riscv-rva23-support
OMG! Ubuntu
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec.
Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/07/03/stalking-the-statistically-improbable-restaurant-with-data/
Ethan Zuckerman
Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant... With Data! - Ethan Zuckerman
The statistically improbable restaurant is the unexpected awesome eatery, revealing something about the local population. Find them with data!
Michael Madsen has died https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/movies/michael-madsen-dead.html
NY Times
Michael Madsen, Actor Known for ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill,’ Dies at 67
He had the air of a timeless movie bad guy in movies like “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill.” “I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black-and-white movies,” he said.
High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03382
arXiv.org
High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
We introduce Hibiki, a decoder-only model for simultaneous speech translation. Hibiki leverages a multistream language model to synchronously process source and target speech, and jointly produces...