Modern processors have the ability to execute many instructions per cycle, on a single core. To be able to execute many instructions per cycle in practice, processors predict branches. I have made the point over the years that modern CPUs have an incredible…

How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out

A petition to disallow acceptance of LLM generated Pull Requests in Node.js core - indutny/no-ai-in-nodejs-core

Our long-term payment provider Nexi has terminated our contract without prior notice. As a result, our supporters’ recurring credit card and direct debit d...

was messing with the OpenAI base URL in Cursor and caught this

accounts/anysphere/models/kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast

so composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
at least rename the model ID

How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out

The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …

Building a Reader for the World’s Smallest Hard Drive — MK4001MTD

Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a...

$k$-means has historically been positioned primarily as an offline processing primitive, typically used for dataset organization or embedding preprocessing rather than as a first-class component...

An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver, by Carl Etnier.

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them
for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind…

Windows users sitting in the sidelines are not understanding the source of the Windows hate. But that's because the messages are not getting through. Windows is changing. In a big way. The changes are so huge that really it is evolving to a completely different…

An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools