BERT is just a single text diffusion step https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
nathan.rs
BERT is just a Single Text Diffusion Step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining random…
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents
blog.abdellatif.io
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
Peanut allergies have plummeted in children https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.html
NY Times
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanuts. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.
A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do
YouTube
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
I've upgraded! It took almost a year, but today I finally get to show off a TWO billion frame per second camera! I really want to record refraction, interference, and other awesome stuff with this camera, but today I'm looking into a really strange quirk…
Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
The Register
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
TechCrunch
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch
Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.
60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peanut-allergies-60000-kids-avoided-2015-advice/
CBS News
Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after 2015 guidance upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months, a new study finds.
Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia https://detective.wiki/
detective.wiki
Detective Wiki
Detective Wiki is a discovery game that challenges your knowledge of the world through endless questions about ideas, people, places, and things.
Language Support for Marginalia Search https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_126_multilingual/
www.marginalia.nu
Language Support for Marginalia Search
One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish.
These changes are now…
These changes are now…
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/bare-metal-the-emacs-essay/
wax banks
bare metal (the emacs essay)
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…
When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compiler-optimizations-hurt
Substack
When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance
Branches can perform better than table lookups
StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-10-21-stargrid-has-arrived,-a-brand-new-palm-os-strategy-game-in-2025.html
Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80
GitHub
GitHub - pleumann/pasta80: Turbo Pascal 3.0-compatible compiler that generates machine code for classic and modern Z80 machines…
Turbo Pascal 3.0-compatible compiler that generates machine code for classic and modern Z80 machines (currently ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/Next and CP/M). - pleumann/pasta80
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
kyutai.org
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
Why modeling audio is harder than text, and how to make it feasible with neural audio codecs.
South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250705-south-africa-s-one-million-invisible-children-without-birth-certificates
France 24
South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates
An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response from…