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I design with Claude more than Figma now

Key Points

• The author says Claude has become a core tool for building design prototypes directly in Jane Street’s codebase.
• A prototype adding LLM prompting to a JSQL input is presented as an example of rapid iteration on a real feature.
• The article reports a decline in reliance on Figma for larger concepts, while noting possible trade-offs in collaborative review.

My Software North Star

Key Points

• The article defines end-user utility as the top priority in software development.
• Correctness, maintainability, and efficiency are presented as supporting priorities beneath usefulness.
• The author argues that properties like memory safety, abstraction quality, and developer experience matter only when they serve user value.

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

Key Points

• IOCCC published the 2025 winning entries for IOCCC29, along with source access, build information, and a downloadable archive.
• The contest maintained high submission volume and quality for a second consecutive year after the 2020-2024 hiatus.
• Organizers introduced documented workflows, post-win fun challenges, and plans for IOCCC30 in late 2026 to Q1 2027.

Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math

Key Points

• The article investigates whether LLM arithmetic reflects memorization, heuristics, or algorithm-like computation.
• It explains transformer components such as attention, MLPs, logits, probes, and residual streams as the basis for arithmetic behavior.
• It presents number handling in LLMs as a machine-native vector process rather than a human-style symbolic procedure.

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×

Key Points

• Speculative KV coding uses a smaller predictor model and arithmetic coding to losslessly compress LLM KV caches.
• The article reports up to about 4× compression on top of fp8 cache storage, or roughly 8× gross reduction overall.
• It argues that KV caches are deterministic outputs, so compression cost reflects predictor mismatch rather than inherent randomness.

Win16 Memory Management

Key Points

• 16-bit Windows memory management was segment-based and rooted in 8086-era constraints.
• Windows used an overlay-style approach because early target systems lacked paging support.
• The New Executable format enabled per-segment loading, relocation, and exported routines such as window procedures.

Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition

Key Points

• The article models repeated two-agent competition using program-like strategies based on past actions.
• It uses a matching-pennies payoff structure and multiway graphs to compare cumulative outcomes.
• Its main research question is whether competition favors simpler strategies or drives greater complexity.

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Key Points

• Five scientists were removed from the ADA conference for distributing reprints of a journal editorial critical of Trump administration actions on research.
• The ADA said the scientists violated its code of conduct; the scientists were distributing the materials near a scheduled NIH appearance.
• The incident triggered online backlash and renewed attention to the published editorial in *Diabetes Care*.

Enforcing the First as in BGP AS_PATHs

Key Points

• Cloudflare links recent route hijacks to forged BGP AS_PATHs and misuse of unused ASNs.
• The article presents First-AS validation as a simple operational defense against manipulated route announcements.
• A real hijack example involving Orange S.A. is analyzed using BGP update data and the monocle tool.

Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models

Key Points

• The method eliminates per-image neural network training by using a closed-form patch denoiser.
• It models a reference image through multi-scale patch distributions and integrates this into a diffusion process.
• The article reports state-of-the-art quality plus fast generation ranging from megapixel images in one second to gigapixel images in minutes.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

Key Points

• 9 Mothers describes a defense hardware workflow built around AI perception, terminal engagement, and rapid iteration.
• The company emphasizes range-tested development, telemetry-driven fixes, and early operator involvement.
• Affordability, manufacturability, and serviceability are presented as core design constraints for scalable weapons.

The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)

Key Points

• Michał Zalewski discusses his new book *The Secret Life of Circuits* and his current writing on Substack.
• The interview focuses strongly on how electronics can be taught, including the choice of mathematical and conceptual starting points.
• Topics also include security research, calculator history, display technologies, and transistor fundamentals.

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

Key Points

• Kyushu is an open-source CLI for running Cloudflare Workers-style handlers.
• It compiles JavaScript or TypeScript handlers into self-contained WebAssembly binaries.
• The tool is self-hostable and does not require Node.js, Bun, or Docker.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

Key Points

• A veteran backend engineer describes how LLM adoption at work changed his view of the value of domain expertise.
• His employer provided ChatGPT and Claude Enterprise and expected AI-assisted research, writing, and coding.
• He says LLMs can now help structure payment systems and design docs in ways that once depended heavily on long-term experience.

We Need VAT and UBI

Key Points

• The article argues automation has weakened labor income as the sole path to economic participation.
• It proposes universal basic income as an unconditional way to distribute purchasing power.
• It proposes value-added tax as the paired consumption tax to fund that UBI system.

Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

Key Points

• Yon uses a content-addressed heap, xleech2, with 196,560 slots and claims identical content always maps to the same slot.
• The language says this design enables O(1) structural equality and interns strings in the same heap.
• Yon models programs with category-theory concepts and omits garbage collection, threads, exceptions, and typeclasses.

How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible?

Key Points

• A QQuickItem subclass can time visibility by combining visibleChanged with QQuickWindow::afterFrameEnd.
• ensurePolished and updatePolish help identify the specific frame that actually renders the target item.
• QScreen::refreshRate lets developers convert elapsed time into an estimated number of delayed frames.

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

Key Points

• The article asks Anthropic for an official Linux build of Claude Desktop or a public statement on its Linux roadmap.
• Claude Desktop is limited to macOS and Windows, while Linux users lack access to desktop-only features and plugin testing workflows.
• The article argues Linux support is already partly present through Claude Code’s Linux distribution and Cowork’s reported Linux-based runtime.

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Key Points

• The article questions Anthropic’s presentation of AI coding progress and the adequacy of its cited benchmarks.
• The author’s Claude Code experiment produced about 40,000 lines of code and a functional but incomplete application.
• A main takeaway is that LLM-based coding may involve substantial overhead and affordability challenges.

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Key Points

• Lathe generates hands-on technical tutorials with LLMs and presents them in a local learning-focused UI.
• The tool integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex through bundled skills and a Golang CLI.
• Tutorials include source, model, and prompt metadata, and the project offers multiple installation methods.

The best relationships are all-encompassing.

Key Points

• The author describes his relationship with Alexandra as combining emotional support with shared creative and work-oriented engagement.
• The couple holds weekly 'Friday demos' modeled on startup demo sessions to present what they made that week.
• The article presents this ritual as a simple way to support accountability, creativity, and shared personal goals.

Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

Key Points

• Dana Lawson says agentic AI is shifting software development from manual coding toward intent-driven building.
• She argues engineers will be defined more by agent experience, production oversight, and business context than by writing code.
• Netlify rebuilt its platform for AI agents and new builders, and those changes also improved the developer experience.

The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

Key Points

• The article critiques contradictions in AI company messaging, especially around Anthropic and Claude.
• Ted Chiang’s essay on AI consciousness and Anthropic’s post on recursive self-improvement are key reference points.
• The author argues that enterprises risk wasting large sums by adopting AI tools before they generate clear value.

Partitions over Permutations

Key Points

• The article links the behavior of a cosine-based Gaussian approximation on the imaginary axis to the double exponential function `exp(exp(y))`.
• It states that coefficients of the double exponential series are `e Bn / n!`, relating Bell numbers to permutations.
• It gives exact computation and asymptotic formulas for `Bn / n!`, including a form using the Lambert W function.

Podman 6: machine usability improvements

Key Points

• Podman 6 lets machine commands operate by name across providers instead of only the default provider.
• Machine listing across all providers becomes the default in Podman 6, replacing `--all-providers`.
• `podman machine init` in Podman 6 adds `--provider` for creating machines with a non-default provider.

Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack

Key Points

• The BA2015 pack is described as two NiMH AA cells plus a temperature-sensing component in a custom enclosure.
• The article argues that most charging and protection logic is handled by the microphone, not by complex electronics inside the pack.
• The author documents a clone workflow using OpenSCAD modeling, teardown of an original pack, and standard replacement cells.

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

Key Points

• Stop Killing Games was launched after Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew left the game unplayable.
• A petition with nearly 1.3 million signatures pushed the issue to the European Commission and European Parliament.
• The dispute centers on whether publishers should provide end-of-life options instead of disabling paid games entirely.

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

Key Points

• A $22 USB DVD drive and free software were enough to rip a CSS-protected DVD in 2026.
• The Vinpower SharkCopier would not duplicate a protected disc directly and required an unprotected master.
• The DVD contained extra software payloads beyond the film itself, including platform-specific runtime files and DRM-related directories.

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

Key Points

• Backrest adds a WebUI and orchestration layer on top of restic for backup management and restore workflows.
• It supports multiple operating systems, Docker deployment, scheduled backup maintenance, notifications, and shell hooks.
• The software is installed as a standalone binary and can automatically download and manage a compatible restic version.

Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex

Key Points

• Proliferate is hiring a founding engineer for an in-person role in San Francisco.
• The founder says he previously worked as engineer #1 at Onyx before starting the company.
• The role spans agent systems, UI, infrastructure, and human-agent collaboration, using a stack that includes TypeScript, Python, AWS, and Rust.

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

Key Points

• The IBM 604 was a 1948 programmable electronic calculator that balanced affordability, compact size, and fast vacuum-tube performance.
• Its pluggable modules packaged tubes and supporting components into replaceable units, improving manufacturing and repair.
• The 604 was commercially successful and helped establish IBM’s foundation for later vacuum-tube computer systems.

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?

Key Points

• `lost+found` stores orphaned files recovered during `fsck` repairs.
• Recovered items may result from crashes, power failures, or filesystem corruption.
• If deleted, `lost+found` should be recreated with `mklost+found` when available.

Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser

Key Points

• The library renders DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files in the browser using Rust-to-WebAssembly parsers and Canvas-based rendering.
• It offers both built-in viewers and headless rendering APIs for custom UI development.
• Equation rendering is optional via a separate MathJax-based package, enabling tree-shaking and smaller bundles when not needed.

My automated doubt development process

Key Points

• The workflow uses specialized subagents to critique specifications before coding begins.
• Review stages are expanded based on project scope, with larger projects receiving broader multi-agent analysis.
• Findings from automated reviews are incorporated into the spec, followed by manual review and checklist creation for implementation.

sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3

Key Points

• The sqlite package is presented as a CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3.
• SQLite is described as an in-process, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration database engine.
• The article identifies SQLite as a transactional SQL database engine.

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

Key Points

• Bell’s 1880 photophone is presented as the first wireless telephone, predating radio communications.
• The device worked by transmitting voice through modulated sunlight and receiving it with selenium-based electronics.
• Its underlying principle later found practical success in fiber-optic communication systems such as TAT-8.

The curious case of low-protein diets

Key Points

• Low-protein diets have extended lifespan and improved metabolic health in multiple lab animal studies.
• Mouse experiments found that both caloric restriction and protein restriction outperformed normal feeding for longevity-related outcomes.
• Researchers say the work may reveal how nutrient sensing affects aging, but human implications remain uncertain.

Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams

Key Points

• The essay uses the author’s inability to pursue snowboarding as an example of an unrealized dream.
• It argues that limited time, alongside physical constraints, prevents people from pursuing every interest.
• The article concludes that peace comes from accepting unrealized ambitions and making deliberate choices.

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

Key Points

• Linear’s UI is described as reading from browser-side data storage rather than waiting on immediate server responses.
• The article says local updates are applied instantly and synchronized asynchronously using a batching sync engine and WebSocket-delivered deltas.
• A quote from co-founder Tuomas Artman is used to show that the sync engine was an early architectural priority.

Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony

Key Points

• The author says addiction and drug dealing began at age 14 and led to two years in juvenile prison.
• After release, he struggled with education, work, relapse, and family conflict tied to continued drug activity.
• He frames the article as encouragement, saying he later rebuilt his life through software, open source, and community support.

A visual introduction to kernel functions

Key Points

• The article explains unknown function learning through a cheese-and-gold analogy.
• Gaussian processes are presented as distributions over functions that provide predictions and uncertainty.
• Kernel functions define similarity and covariance, shaping how Gaussian processes model nonlinear data.

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

Key Points

• Historical host performance is strong, but forecasts still give the U.S. only about a 10 percent semifinal chance.
• Recent matches against Senegal and Germany reflect the U.S. men’s team’s long-standing inconsistency.
• The article traces U.S. soccer from an encouraging early period through decades of decline and unrealized growth.

The complete IPv4 address space, mapped

Key Points

• WorldIP.io offers free IPv4 lookups by IP, CIDR, ASN, organization, and geography.
• The page reports indexed totals for billions of IPv4 addresses, millions of CIDR ranges, and hundreds of millions of DNS records.
• It ranks IPv4 allocations by country, region, city, and organization, with the United States and the U.S. Department of Defense leading their respective lists.

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?

Key Points

• Serializable isolation is described as the standard guarantee that concurrent transactions behave like a serial execution.
• Database vendors use different default isolation levels, with many mainstream systems defaulting to weaker settings than the SQL standard.
• The article argues that weaker isolation can cause subtle bugs and security problems, including costly failures in real applications.

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

Key Points

• The paper argues that anthropomorphic traits attributed to LLMs may not be unique to LLMs.
• A neural network trained on *Age of Empires II* is used to illustrate the substrate-dependence of interpretation.
• The authors propose explicit measurement criteria and a null assumption of LLM non-uniqueness for future experiments.

Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime

Key Points

• A Flock license plate reader hit was used in an investigation that led to Hugo Parra’s arrest, but his attorney says the identified car could not have been the same vehicle.
• Parra spent nearly a month in jail before charges were dropped, and he and Ariel Beltran are preparing to sue San Diego.
• The case is presented alongside San Diego’s broader expansion of surveillance tools through contracts with Flock Systems, Ubicquia, and a pilot of Flock Nova.

Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

Key Points

• The article says link-based ranking has long been vulnerable to manipulation through private blog networks and other SEO tactics.
• It argues that modern hosting tools and AI have made spam site creation and scaling easier than before.
• It presents Google’s AI Overview ratings and Preferred Sources as emerging user feedback signals in a zero-click search environment.

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

Key Points

• The article derives pancake formulation from scientific principles and presents it as a tunable system.
• An interactive stoichiometric calculator generates recipes based on available ingredients for a 125-gram flour batter.
• The article links pancake quality to leavening, hydration, protein structure, and browning-related chemistry.

A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned

Key Points

• DMR surface texturing reduced drag on a streamlined model by up to 43.6% in Tohoku University experiments.
• The measurements were enabled by a 1 m magnetic suspension wind-tunnel system that eliminated support interference.
• The reported drag reduction was attributed primarily to lower wall-friction drag, not to suppression of flow separation.

Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US

Key Points

• The article estimates AI data centers consumed about 264 billion gallons of water in 2025.
• Nearly 63% of the US is experiencing drought, increasing concern about water-intensive AI infrastructure.
• Major tech companies are expanding AI data centers, and the article cites Memphis and xAI as a prominent example of local water demand.

The week I lost the plot at a startup where the tools worked as advertised

Key Points

• Cogentiv.ai is depicted as a Berlin startup where founder identity and AI-centered messaging dominate office culture.
• Employees are measured and compared through AI token usage, with one worker highlighted for intensive Anthropic-driven agent workflows.
• Management reportedly made routine AI use a formal expectation through an adapted internal memo based on a Shopify message from Tobi Lütke.

VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system

Key Points

• vibeOS is described as an AI-native operating system powered by Claude Code.
• The article says users can build apps instantly from prompts without coding.
• A Dockerized version is offered for local or cloud deployment with browser access.

Iran says staff blocked from entering US after players given World Cup visas

Key Points

• Iran said the US denied visas to important non-player members of its World Cup delegation.
• US officials said players and necessary support staff were approved, while emphasizing security restrictions.
• Iran will be based in Mexico and says its squad must enter and leave the US on match days only.

Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE

Key Points

• Nightwatch is an open-source, read-only AI SRE system for correlating alerts, investigating incidents, and proposing fixes.
• The product is designed to avoid production changes by never executing commands or writing back to monitored systems.
• It supports local-first deployment and integrates with common monitoring, infrastructure, cloud, and developer platforms.

Crashing cars and improving hover detection

Key Points

• Hoverable UI elements can be skipped during fast pointer movement because pointer positions are sampled discretely.
• The article connects this behavior to tunnelling, a frame-based collision-detection problem in game engines.
• It recommends checking the pointer's path between samples to detect all crossed elements more reliably.

Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?

Key Points

• The post argues that LLM adoption could concentrate economic value among model owners.
• It claims creators and workers may lose incentives and opportunities as AI reproduces human outputs cheaply.
• The author warns that AI-driven convenience could reduce collaboration, creativity, and long-term progress.

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

Key Points

• Initial Vulkan Video decoding support has been merged into Firefox.
• The change addresses limitations of Firefox's long-standing Linux reliance on VA-API for hardware video acceleration.
• The feature is expected to ship in Firefox 153, planned for release on 21 July.

Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)

Key Points

• The article says PHP’s reputation is rooted in its early shared-hosting era, not its current feature set.
• It presents WordPress’s roughly 43% share of the web as evidence that PHP remains commercially significant.
• It argues that PHP and WordPress can offer a faster route to paid freelance work than some modern frontend paths.

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

Key Points

• The article teaches a perceptron as the simplest binary classifier and a basis for neural networks.
• It explains training through weight and bias updates driven by prediction errors and a learning rate.
• It defines the decision boundary and shows why bias matters when the correct threshold is not at zero.

KNN early termination in Manticore Search

Key Points

• Manticore Search adds early termination to HNSW vector search by stopping when the result set appears to have converged.
• The mechanism uses discovery rate to measure whether new distance computations are still improving the candidate heap.
• Benchmarks in the article show larger savings at higher k values, with reduced computations and a targeted 2-4% precision loss.

Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2

Key Points

• Teenage Engineering introduced APC-2 as a professional record cutter for real-time playback disc production.
• The product is available exclusively through analog media partner SUPERSENSE.
• The announcement highlights specs including direct drive, variable speed control, low wow and flutter, and a highly accurate reference clock.

7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible

Key Points

• A 7.8 magnitude offshore earthquake near Mindanao killed at least 12 people and injured more than 200.
• General Santos was among the hardest hit, with building collapses, structural cracks, missing persons, and airport closures.
• A 1-meter tsunami was recorded along nearby coasts, but officials said no tsunami-related deaths or damage were reported.

Back end is full of hidden workflows

Key Points

• Backend systems often accumulate hidden workflows through incremental additions like retries, queues, jobs, and integrations.
• The article defines workflows as any chain of dependent actions, regardless of whether teams formally label them.
• Making workflows explicit helps teams see and manage complexity that already exists in the system.

DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

Key Points

• DeepSeek V4 Pro reportedly beat GPT-5.5 Pro 38.0 to 33.0 across four freshly generated tasks.
• The article says DeepSeek’s strongest advantages were precision in code generation and stricter adherence to prompt instructions and schemas.
• The evaluation was scored by grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning, with messy-orders-to-json ending in a draw.

Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests

Key Points

• Several large Texas data centers and crypto facilities failed voltage ride-through reliability tests ahead of summer peak demand.
• ERCOT simulations found some groups of large loads could trigger more than 5,000 megawatts of sudden demand loss during grid faults.
• Texas regulators and ERCOT are tightening interconnection rules after repeated disconnection events involving data centers and crypto miners.

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Key Points

• A large U.S. hiring study found racial adverse impact in algorithmic screening across millions of applications.
• The article says position-by-position analysis revealed disparities that aggregate vendor-level analysis missed.
• Researchers found evidence of systemic rejections linked to hiring algorithm monoculture and said data access limits independent accountability.

90210 – running the show without property tax

Key Points

• 90210 converts screenplays into short films with video, audio, dialogue, music, and subtitles.
• It uses automated Quality Oracle and Story Oracle systems to manage output quality and narrative structure.
• The app runs locally with a FastAPI backend, Next.js PWA frontend, and usage-based costs from Gemini API and ElevenLabs.

1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

Key Points

• The One World Flag is presented as a symbol of global unity, featuring a blue sphere on a transparent background.
• The project included a nomad magazine ambassador program that circulated handcrafted flags made in Bavaria among readers.
• The creators also ran "Flag Your ID" workshops in Ukraine with ARTHELPS to explore identity and values through flag design.

Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960)

Key Points

• Licklider defines man-computer symbiosis as a close cooperative partnership between humans and computers.
• The paper assigns humans the strategic and evaluative roles, while computers handle routinizable processing work.
• It identifies time-sharing, memory, programming languages, and input/output advances as prerequisites for achieving this model.

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Key Points

• Have I Been Pwned reached 1,000 indexed breaches, prompting analysis of worsening disclosure delays.
• The Carnival breach data was publicly leaked weeks before the company notified affected people.
• The article argues that early warnings based on exposed email addresses could be sent before full forensic analysis is complete.

Dopamine Fracking

Key Points

• The article introduces “dopamine fracking” as a term for extracting maximum short-term reward through extreme optimization.
• It connects the idea to online culture, media standardization, and the commodification of experiences.
• It uses examples from Metta Beshay’s drug-history videos and a strawberry analogy to illustrate loss of context and complexity.

A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm

Key Points

• The article finds that GCC libstdc++'s random-access iterator rotation algorithm is equivalent to the forward-iterator algorithm.
• A worked example is used to show that both algorithms perform the same element exchanges.
• The main implementation difference is symmetry and possible right-to-left swapping in the newer version.

Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm

Key Points

• NoSuggest offers YouTube viewing without recommendations, autoplay, or notifications.
• Channel lists are stored per device, allowing different setups on different devices.
• The app is free, requires no credit card, and can be added to the home screen without an app-store install.

SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

Key Points

• SDSU installed over 1,300 AI-enabled cameras across campus, including more than 330 in residence halls.
• The camera locations were disclosed after The Daily Aztec obtained records through a public records request.
• University officials said the cameras are used for motion detection, while the hardware supports broader AI surveillance features.

Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation

Key Points

• The implementation is a byte-level GPT-style transformer that predicts the next byte in an autoregressive manner.
• Its architecture combines embeddings, causal self-attention, rotational positional encoding, feed-forward layers, and residual connections.
• The project includes Ubuntu setup instructions and sample inference output from a trained 16-layer model.

Richard Scolyer Has Died

Key Points

• Richard Scolyer died at 59 after a three-year fight with glioblastoma.
• His treatment was a world-first use of pre-surgery combination immunotherapy and a personalised vaccine for brain cancer.
• Findings from his case contributed to an early-stage clinical trial in the United States.

Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026

Key Points

• The article recounts building websites in 1998 with FrontPage Express, Dreamweaver, and limited ISP hosting.
• It describes the transition from tables and frames to CSS and more standards-driven web design.
• It argues that web development became more code-centric and harder before later tools improved the experience.