Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
Arkadiyt
Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
The sigmoids won't save you https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
Astralcodexten
The Sigmoids Won't Save You
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
X (formerly Twitter)
Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) on X
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about…
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/
Azimuth
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent e…
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
DYNOMIGHT
The main thing about P2P meth is that there’s so much of it
Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
Quanta Magazine
How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme
The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible.
Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution https://github.com/chiennv2000/orthrus
GitHub
GitHub - chiennv2000/orthrus: Fast, lossless LLM inference via dual-view diffusion decoding.
Fast, lossless LLM inference via dual-view diffusion decoding. - chiennv2000/orthrus
England Runestones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_runestones
Wikipedia
England runestones
The England runestones (Swedish: Englandsstenarna) are a group of about 30 runestones in Scandinavia which refer to Viking Age voyages to England.[1] They constitute one of the largest groups of runestones that mention voyages to other countries, and they…
δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
arXiv.org
$δ$-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
Large language models increasingly need to accumulate and reuse historical information in long-term assistants and agent systems. Simply expanding the context window is costly and often fails to...
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681
theregister
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/
Refractor
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
Scientific research continues to uncover interesting connections between the gut microbiome and human health, including everything from depression to PTSD to autoimmune disease. Another example of this are emerging ties between gut health and autism. Exciting…