SpaceX priced at $1.77 trillion valuation, with 96% locked with insiders. Its 41.5% growth rate is high but not unprecedented, especially considering its massive starting size.
The Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars for 13 years, achieving incredible longevity due to continuous maintenance and software updates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite hardware challenges like wheel wear and power degradation, the rover remains capable of doing science, with a future mission planned through 2035.
Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.
Claude Desktop app launches a 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, consuming 11% of total memory. This occurs even for chat-only use and can be fixed by disabling VirtualMachinePlatform.
PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.
The US health care system's high costs are largely due to providers, not health insurers, who charge excessive prices and have high administrative costs. Focusing on insurers as the main problem distracts from the real issue and can lead to ineffective solutions, such as national health insurance, which may not address the root causes of high costs.
GitHub's Status Page - Authentication issues related to API requests.
A utility company's website had a big problem with a lengthy application process. The solution was to build a new version using Astro, an HTML-first approach, which doubled the company's users overnight.
Mercedes-Benz starts large-scale production of its electric axial flux motor at its Berlin-Marienfelde plant. The motor is used in the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe and marks a technological innovation in electromobility.
Burr is a Python framework for building AI applications with state management and debugging tools. It provides a robust framework for designing complex behaviors and is easier to use than other platforms like LangChain.
Japan's railway network expanded from a single line in 1872 to over 9,000 stations by the 21st century. The map shows stations opening over time, revealing Japan's geography through railway development.
DiffusionGemma is an experimental open model that generates text 4x faster than typical LLMs by processing entire blocks simultaneously. It's designed for researchers and developers exploring speed-critical workflows, but has lower output quality than standard Gemma 4 models.
A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. In the early years of the International Space Station, water needed to keep the crew alive had to be delivered by Space Shuttle at ...
HelixDB is a graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI memory built in Rust, offering a single platform for AI applications. It supports graph, vector, KV, document, and relational data models.
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File viewers for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more.
The Tyee is a successful online news outlet that relies on reader support to fund its journalism, unlike many other publications struggling with AI-driven content scraping. The Tyee is launching a spring member drive to sign up 650 new or upgraded recurring members by June 15.
Blue41 helped Bunq secure its AI assistant against spearphishing risks by identifying an indirect prompt injection vulnerability. The issue is a broader architectural challenge for financial institutions deploying AI assistants that process untrusted inputs.
Ostep is a free online text book on operating systems, written by sanjay gupta. he says the book has had great side effects: people are using it in other classes - sometimes just 'chapters,' sometimes the entire book if you prefer e-book format. there have been 1,658 unique authors who have published at sosp or osdi or both, and many have re-published
This project turns an ESP32-S3 development board into an infinite filesystem inspired by the digital Library of Babel. Buy an ESP32-S3 development board - ideally one shaped as a USB stick for maximum bewilderment. This is the one I got, though you don't necessarily need this exact variant. That said, make sure you're getting an ESP32-S3. That's the only one I've tested. ...
Diego Garate Maidagan, a professor of prehistory and Palaeolithic art, is studying the cave paintings at Altamira in northern Spain, which date back 34,000 years. He believes the paintings were made by early Homo sapiens who used sophisticated techniques to create vivid images.
The user discusses the importance of understanding async programming in Rust, particularly the Future, poll, and Waker concepts, and how they can be used to build a one-shot channel for sending and receiving values between threads. The user provides a step-by-step implementation of a one-shot channel using the standard library and the three pieces of the async puzzle: the Future, its poll, ...
· 19 min read · Cover: "Estación telefónica central en Paris," from El mundo físico (1882), via Wikimedia Commons. Large language models are large. Because they’re large, we need lots of GPUs to run them. It would be nice if LLM inference were ‘embarrassingly parallel’ and we could just always compute independent things on different GPUs. But alas, to use lots of GPUs on LLM ...
Machines defend humans against alien invaders who destroy life with powerful beams. Machines develop a new brain and create a coordinator machine that harnesses the Ultimate Energy to defeat the aliens.
A developer encountered a blank page issue with their p2claw app on an iPad, but not on other devices. The issue was caused by a combination of a hardcoded constant in webrtc-rs and a design decision in Tailscale that dropped IPv6 fragments.
Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on various benchmarks but lack economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains due to evaluation problems. Researchers have proposed several solutions, including Agents' Last Exam (ALE), RLinf-VLA, SkillOpt, Harness-1, SCAIL-2, WhisperKit, Mirage, SearchSwarm-30B-A3B, Docling, Agent Lightning, MinerU2.5, GLM-4.5, and Cosmos 3, ...
Large companies often prioritize performative actions over actual progress, creating a demoralizing work environment. This can be seen in excessive 1:1 meetings and focus on superficial tasks rather than meaningful contributions.
Speedrunner SHiFT shares a dirty tactic to beat SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in record time by smudging the game disc. This method involves strategically placing smudges to cause lag clipping, but risks damaging the game or console.
Container machine provides a seamless Linux environment on Mac, offering fast, lightweight, and persistent integration. It allows users to access their Linux environment from any terminal, edit on Mac, build inside, and test applications across various distributions.