CommonForms is cool. Guy filtered CommonCrawl down to PDFs and trained a 3-class YOLO model on it. Performs better than Acrobat.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
CommonForms is cool. Guy filtered CommonCrawl down to PDFs and trained a 3-class YOLO model on it. Performs better than Acrobat.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
TIL ClickHouse is able to optimize queries using information from table constraints, pretty cool! clickhouse.com/blog/whats-n...
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
clickhouse.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
TIL ClickHouse is able to optimize queries using information from table constraints, pretty cool! clickhouse.com/blog/whats-n...
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Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Sneakers deserves a mention as well. RIP to a legend.
Lastly, consider watching some of his films this week. My favorites include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, and All Is Lost.
Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.
Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sneakers deserves a mention as well. RIP to a legend.
Crazy shit happening in the footnotes of this ruling
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Crazy shit happening in the footnotes of this ruling
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We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
I feel like I need to level up my agentic coding. 90% of my usage is asking Claude Code to generate a first draft of something. Then I'll follow up and guide it to do some targeted improvements, but eventually I take back manual control. I haven't used context truncation, tool calls, hooks, etc.
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I feel like I need to level up my agentic coding. 90% of my usage is asking Claude Code to generate a first draft of something. Then I'll follow up and guide it to do some targeted improvements, but eventually I take back manual control. I haven't used context truncation, tool calls, hooks, etc.
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@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
July 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
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SUPER EXCITED about this. However, I highly recommend that if you haven't read the book, please go into this movie blind. Or at the least. Turn off the trailer after the 2min mark. Idk why every movie trailer has to spoil the plot nowadays.
Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
SUPER EXCITED about this. However, I highly recommend that if you haven't read the book, please go into this movie blind. Or at the least. Turn off the trailer after the 2min mark. Idk why every movie trailer has to spoil the plot nowadays.
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When anti-AI zealots say untrue things like “ChatGPT can’t search the web,” they’re just hallucinating because their training data ends in 2022. The next generation of anti-AI zealots will be better. Eventually, we will achieve “general anti-AI,” which will only say true things about LLMs.
May 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When anti-AI zealots say untrue things like “ChatGPT can’t search the web,” they’re just hallucinating because their training data ends in 2022. The next generation of anti-AI zealots will be better. Eventually, we will achieve “general anti-AI,” which will only say true things about LLMs.
sites still doing CAPTCHAs: the clock is ticking for you
June 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
sites still doing CAPTCHAs: the clock is ticking for you
I sometimes follow Federal court cases, and it's always funny to see the weird shit that random people enter into the docket
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I sometimes follow Federal court cases, and it's always funny to see the weird shit that random people enter into the docket
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IT’S FINALLY THE YEAR OF THE LIN-
ah, fuck
ah, fuck
May 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
IT’S FINALLY THE YEAR OF THE LIN-
ah, fuck
ah, fuck
I recently fixed some higher-order macro nonsense in Vortex and wrote up a quick post about it, in the hopes that it might be useful to someone else
notes.a10y.dev/Knowledge+Ba...
notes.a10y.dev/Knowledge+Ba...
Writing good higher-order macros in Rust - notes.a10y.dev
#rust #vortex In Vortex, we have a type hierarchy that looks something like this: `DType Struct(Vec<DType>) `Primitive(PType) where PType is broken down into Signed Int I8, I16, I32, I64 Unsigned In…
notes.a10y.dev
May 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I recently fixed some higher-order macro nonsense in Vortex and wrote up a quick post about it, in the hopes that it might be useful to someone else
notes.a10y.dev/Knowledge+Ba...
notes.a10y.dev/Knowledge+Ba...
May 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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In this thread, a bunch of people with nearly zero ability to think missing the point entirely.
This is easily good enough to fool *most* people, we really need to be aware what the capabilities are, or be easily fooled by them
This is easily good enough to fool *most* people, we really need to be aware what the capabilities are, or be easily fooled by them
VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
May 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
In this thread, a bunch of people with nearly zero ability to think missing the point entirely.
This is easily good enough to fool *most* people, we really need to be aware what the capabilities are, or be easily fooled by them
This is easily good enough to fool *most* people, we really need to be aware what the capabilities are, or be easily fooled by them
I said what I said 🤷
lobste.rs/s/jmg6f5/my_...
lobste.rs/s/jmg6f5/my_...
My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
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lobste.rs
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I said what I said 🤷
lobste.rs/s/jmg6f5/my_...
lobste.rs/s/jmg6f5/my_...
What defense contractor was hiring someone formerly incarcerated for hacking?? Absolute OPSEC own, jfc
SCOOP: In Feb, federal agencies "lost" many #FOIA requests but you probably had no idea. It turns out that the FOIAs disappeared due to an "insider threat attack" by 2 employees at a software company who were previously convicted of hacking into the State Dept
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🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Probe Found Security Lapses Led to US Contractor’s Data Breach
Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations and FOIA requests allowed two convicted hackers to delete databases, according to internal d...
www.bloomberg.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What defense contractor was hiring someone formerly incarcerated for hacking?? Absolute OPSEC own, jfc
That feeling when you're browsing some random project and it's using your code 🥹
github.com/asayers/jetr...
github.com/asayers/jetr...
Add jetcompressor · asayers/jetrelay@34d227c
github.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
That feeling when you're browsing some random project and it's using your code 🥹
github.com/asayers/jetr...
github.com/asayers/jetr...
well crap, guess i need to learn shaders
May 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
well crap, guess i need to learn shaders
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Breaking:
A federal judge has ruled Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown researcher held in a Texas immigration detention center since March, must be released from custody and returned to Virginia as he challenges the legal basis for his deportation.
A federal judge has ruled Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown researcher held in a Texas immigration detention center since March, must be released from custody and returned to Virginia as he challenges the legal basis for his deportation.
May 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Breaking:
A federal judge has ruled Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown researcher held in a Texas immigration detention center since March, must be released from custody and returned to Virginia as he challenges the legal basis for his deportation.
A federal judge has ruled Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown researcher held in a Texas immigration detention center since March, must be released from custody and returned to Virginia as he challenges the legal basis for his deportation.