Welcome to Austin’s Nerdy Things, where we send punctuation to a frontier AI model 649 times and take notes on what crawls out. The night of July 27th, a weird Claude behavior was making the rounds on X. A thread from @merlindru (187K views) flagged a strange…

Tips and tricks to help keep your Mac OS 9/Early Mac OS computers usable today. Software downloads, guides, hacks and news.

Run Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM, on a single Apple Silicon Mac. Streams MXFP4 experts on demand over HTTP into a local disk cache — fused NEON kernels, Metal/MPS compute, exact...

Contribute to anthropics/cryptography-research-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

A lightweight userscript that adds Hacker News discussions to any article. - twalichiewicz/HNewhere

A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irreversible…

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

Explaining the biggest misconception in HTML and how one small feature can fix it.

reFrame is an experimental camera with a color ePaper display. Designed to capture and display one photo at a time, making every frame memorable.

The plastic, nonlethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers, will be at the ready in a handful of schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses

Monitor Spring Boot applications on a small VPS using Actuator and StatLite, without operating a full Prometheus and Grafana stack.

A new AI company from Andrew Ng, with a $100M investment from Coursera — building one-to-one learning that stays with you until you've mastered new skills.

I've been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment!

An essay that may or may not reach a firm conclusion