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  1. $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system github.com

    $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    Mar 26, 2026
  2. $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    Mar 26, 2026
  3. In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back t

    In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magic

    Mar 21, 2026
  4. Indeed, "The Passive Voice Tell." It's in Chapter 9 of "Demonetize Your Mind!" which is called, "He

    Indeed, "The Passive Voice Tell." It's in Chapter 9 of "Demonetize Your Mind!" which is called, "Headline Spins & Story Shell Games." Once you learn it, you'll notice the media uses it all the time. h

    Mar 14, 2026
  5. 🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser. No downloads. No installs.

    🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser. No downloads. No installs. No VMs. Just a Docker command. It's called Neko. It runs a complete desktop environment inside a Dock

    Mar 8, 2026
  6. @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest f...

    @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest for the trees. What we see popping up in states like Cali, Colorado, NY and in fact all over the worl

    Mar 4, 2026
  7. @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest f

    @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest for the trees. What we see popping up in states like Cali, Colorado, NY and in fact all over the worl

    Mar 4, 2026
  8. i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them...

    i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS https://t.co/jU29iLZfbZ

    Feb 24, 2026
  9. i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them

    i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS https://t.co/jU29iLZfbZ

    Feb 24, 2026
  10. Not many seem to know this, but opentui lets you render Threejs scenes fully WebGPU accelerated. To

    Not many seem to know this, but opentui lets you render Threejs scenes fully WebGPU accelerated. To the terminal. No special terminal features needed beyond 24bit color. It's all just partial block ch

    Feb 18, 2026
  11. Today I am here to sing the praises of https://t.co/UTrPYPx8Mm. I only recently found out this webs...

    Today I am here to sing the praises of https://t.co/UTrPYPx8Mm. I only recently found out this website exists. It's a database that indexes open-source software projects and relates them to their pack

    Feb 17, 2026
  12. Announcing cupl release 1.12 A faithful implementation of the ancient CUPL and CORC languages. CUP...

    Announcing cupl release 1.12 A faithful implementation of the ancient CUPL and CORC languages. CUPL was an early (1966) teaching language implemented as a batch compiler on the IBM/360 at Cornell Univ

    Feb 15, 2026
  13. Announcing cupl release 1.12 A faithful implementation of the ancient CUPL and CORC languages. CUP

    Announcing cupl release 1.12 A faithful implementation of the ancient CUPL and CORC languages. CUPL was an early (1966) teaching language implemented as a batch compiler on the IBM/360 at Cornell Univ

    Feb 15, 2026
  14. Left: Normal ASCII shader Right: Shape-aware ASCII shader ASCII characters are chosen based on thei...

    Left: Normal ASCII shader Right: Shape-aware ASCII shader ASCII characters are chosen based on their shape, so you get clearer edges Vectors are calculated and compared with WebGPU compute shaders It'

    Feb 15, 2026
  15. Left: Normal ASCII shader Right: Shape-aware ASCII shader ASCII characters are chosen based on thei

    Left: Normal ASCII shader Right: Shape-aware ASCII shader ASCII characters are chosen based on their shape, so you get clearer edges Vectors are calculated and compared with WebGPU compute shaders It'

    Feb 15, 2026
  16. You have GUEST access to 28 vintage systems in the browser at https://t.co/rAFRGXH0Nv Experience vi

    You have GUEST access to 28 vintage systems in the browser at https://t.co/rAFRGXH0Nv Experience vintage operating systems, architectures, programming languages and GAMES. https://t.co/ihON7y2jBE #ret

    Feb 14, 2026
  17. my gf explained cross stitch to me and all I could think about was how much like an ascii shader wit...

    my gf explained cross stitch to me and all I could think about was how much like an ascii shader with edge detection it is. in threejs / webgpu https://t.co/dSEY62c27U

    Feb 12, 2026
  18. my gf explained cross stitch to me and all I could think about was how much like an ascii shader wit

    my gf explained cross stitch to me and all I could think about was how much like an ascii shader with edge detection it is. in threejs / webgpu https://t.co/dSEY62c27U

    Feb 12, 2026
  19. Seneca has a great quote: “To be happy, You must eliminate two things; The fear of a bad future, ...

    Seneca has a great quote: “To be happy, You must eliminate two things; The fear of a bad future, Or the memory of a bad past.” To accomplish this… You have to surrender to the present moment; Accept t

    Feb 11, 2026
  20. Seneca has a great quote: “To be happy, You must eliminate two things; The fear of a bad future,

    Seneca has a great quote: “To be happy, You must eliminate two things; The fear of a bad future, Or the memory of a bad past.” To accomplish this… You have to surrender to the present moment; Accept t

    Feb 11, 2026
  21. I wrote a list of current Democrat voters stances and beliefs. The kind of things a Tim Walz voter i...

    I wrote a list of current Democrat voters stances and beliefs. The kind of things a Tim Walz voter in Minneapolis believes. Did I miss anything? - open borders, no ICE, benefits for migrants - sociali

    Feb 8, 2026
  22. I wrote a list of current Democrat voters stances and beliefs. The kind of things a Tim Walz voter i

    I wrote a list of current Democrat voters stances and beliefs. The kind of things a Tim Walz voter in Minneapolis believes. Did I miss anything? - open borders, no ICE, benefits for migrants - sociali

    Feb 8, 2026
  23. Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler fosdem.org

    Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler Comments

    Feb 3, 2026
  24. Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler Comments

    Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler Comments

    Feb 3, 2026
  25. A millionaire once told me about the “Graveyard theory.” That’s when I stopped procrastinating:

    A millionaire once told me about the “Graveyard theory.” That’s when I stopped procrastinating:

    Feb 1, 2026
  26. CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures

    CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures Comments

    Feb 1, 2026
  27. CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures Comments

    CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures Comments

    Feb 1, 2026
  28. Microsoft killed the GPU mafia 🤯 They finally open-sourced their 1-bit LLM inference framework cal

    Microsoft killed the GPU mafia 🤯 They finally open-sourced their 1-bit LLM inference framework called bitnet.cpp. It lets you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. - 6.17x faster

    Jan 29, 2026
  29. In 1905, Russian Mathematician Andrey Andreyevich Markov asked a heretic question for the time: if r

    In 1905, Russian Mathematician Andrey Andreyevich Markov asked a heretic question for the time: if randomness is allowed to remember something, do averages still behave or does probability theory fall

    Jan 25, 2026
  30. I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed to kill a process running on port 21079. Instead of...

    I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed to kill a process running on port 21079. Instead of struggling to call and running a couple of commands, I built a small utility called `x`. > x kill p

    Jan 20, 2026
  31. I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed to kill a process running on port 21079. Instead of

    I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed to kill a process running on port 21079. Instead of struggling to call and running a couple of commands, I built a small utility called `x`. > x kill p

    Jan 20, 2026
  32. IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator

    IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator Comments

    Jan 18, 2026
  33. IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator Comments

    IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator Comments

    Jan 18, 2026
  34. The Trap in Every Mathematics Lecture If you’ve taken a lot of math courses, you start to recognize

    The Trap in Every Mathematics Lecture If you’ve taken a lot of math courses, you start to recognize a pattern. There’s a moment where the lecturer is warming up with the obvious stuff...add matrices e

    Jan 14, 2026
  35. We’re excited to introduce Pocket TTS: a 100M-parameter text-to-speech model with high-quality voice...

    We’re excited to introduce Pocket TTS: a 100M-parameter text-to-speech model with high-quality voice cloning that runs on your laptop—no GPU required. Open-source, lightweight, and incredibly fast. 🧵

    Jan 13, 2026
  36. We’re excited to introduce Pocket TTS: a 100M-parameter text-to-speech model with high-quality voice

    We’re excited to introduce Pocket TTS: a 100M-parameter text-to-speech model with high-quality voice cloning that runs on your laptop—no GPU required. Open-source, lightweight, and incredibly fast. 🧵

    Jan 13, 2026
  37. you can go all in on open source models they're not a budget option anymore... here's my setup: -

    you can go all in on open source models they're not a budget option anymore... here's my setup: - GLM 4.7 / MiniMax M2.1 for coding - Kimi K2 for long-form writing with massive context - Gwen for imag

    Jan 10, 2026
  38. i have fully dropped Claude Code for OpenCode i donʼt use Opus 4.5, i use GLM-4.7 and MiniMax-M2.1

    i have fully dropped Claude Code for OpenCode i donʼt use Opus 4.5, i use GLM-4.7 and MiniMax-M2.1 theyʼre opensource and can be self-hosted nobody can nerf my models or rug pull me nobody should be a

    Jan 9, 2026
  39. Microsoft just changed the game 🤯 They've open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework

    Microsoft just changed the game 🤯 They've open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. - 6.17x faster inference - 8

    Jan 5, 2026
  40. UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again go.theregister.com

    UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum softwar

    Dec 23, 2025
  41. UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again Cruci

    UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum softwar

    Dec 23, 2025
  42. Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.” What are th...

    Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.” What are they going to try to replace that C & C++ code with? You guessed it. Rust. And they’re going to use AI

    Dec 23, 2025
  43. Signs you're living the good life: No alarm clock Work doesn’t feel like work Self-education is the...

    Signs you're living the good life: No alarm clock Work doesn’t feel like work Self-education is the norm Big blocks of free time Daily writing online Flow states Relentless Obsessed It feels like you

    Dec 19, 2025
  44. Signs you're living the good life: No alarm clock Work doesn’t feel like work Self-education is the

    Signs you're living the good life: No alarm clock Work doesn’t feel like work Self-education is the norm Big blocks of free time Daily writing online Flow states Relentless Obsessed It feels like you

    Dec 19, 2025
  45. On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On git.sr.ht

    On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On Comments

    Dec 4, 2025
  46. On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On Comments

    On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On Comments

    Dec 4, 2025
  47. i reverse engineered 8 apps that hit $50K MRR in under 180 days and explain the pattern behind all o...

    i reverse engineered 8 apps that hit $50K MRR in under 180 days and explain the pattern behind all of them 1/ find a group that spends money 2/ find a problem they repeat weekly 3/ use AI to make it w

    Dec 3, 2025
  48. Visual dissections of binary file formats https://t.co/5hr4LA100k https://t.co/D5Ilmjc326

    Visual dissections of binary file formats https://t.co/5hr4LA100k https://t.co/D5Ilmjc326

    Nov 28, 2025
  49. This free CUDA course is worth more than most CS degrees. 12 hours that separate library users from

    This free CUDA course is worth more than most CS degrees. 12 hours that separate library users from GPU engineers. I watched senior devs struggle with concepts taught in hour 3. What makes it differen

    Nov 27, 2025
  50. My junior year of high school, oh so many years ago, I took Mr. Smith’s AP English class. He had me...

    My junior year of high school, oh so many years ago, I took Mr. Smith’s AP English class. He had me read, and critically analyze, among other books: 1984 Animal Farm Brave New World A Clockwork Orange

    Nov 24, 2025

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