I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + llama.cpp (previously Ollama). In this post I will share the steps…

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell is testing a pharmaceutical form of LSD called MM120, which has…

In downtown Providence, Rhode Island there is a large and prominent plot of land that sits on the bank of the Woonasquatucket River. In 1838, it was the home of the the Rhode Island State Prison. Later, the land housed the Continuing Education campus for…

Viral capsid structure is a geometric packing problem under genetic constraints.

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The ultimate over-ear listening experience — in five vibrant colors and with up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation.

Tool to decrypt encrypted LTSpice models. Contribute to jtsylve/spice-crypt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn what it means to conform to the Python typing spec, why it matters, and the conformance status of each type checker including Pyrefly, Ty, Pyright and Mypy.

TL;DR: MCP tool definitions can burn 55,000+ tokens before an agent processes a single user message. We built the Apideck CLI as an AI-agent interface instead:an ~80-token agent prompt replaces tens of thousands of tokens of schema, with progressive disclosure…

The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

There are no secrets” is Palantir’s conference motto. Yet how its software actually works in real-world use remains a secret to outsiders.

I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. The underlying technology is fascinating - thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit delivering broadband almost anywhere. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's an excellent…

Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…

Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank.