Intel’s not doing so hot lately. Meanwhile vendors are killing it at the RISC-V Summit in China. One CPU got a specint2006/GHz rating of 10.4/GHz! To put it in perspective, a i7-4790k (Haswell) scores 8.1/GHz. RISC-V is hitting high-end desktop territory FAST:

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Ever wonder who decides what goes into JavaScript? I talked with Daniel Ehrenberg (President of Ecma International & TC39 veteran) about how JS actually evolves. The inside story of syntax debates, consensus building & what's coming next 🔥 Links below 👇

been a while since i wrote something. lately i’ve been lurking in low-level land. built a toy programming language that compiles to a self-contained executable. sharing some of my learnings here in this post ⤵️

I have a theory that sandboxed execution with access to "dev tools" is going to be a critical part of any non trivial app going forward. (honestly considering renaming this to "devbox") as a team (i.e. making it Naresh 🍓's problem) we're working on making it so that every

"this is not a model that continuously learns as it’s deployed from things it finds, which is something that, to me, feels like it should be part of AGI" theguardian.com/technology/202…

Connectomes are limited in the sense that: - Mapping neuron connection doesn't capture the biochemistry happening in those neurons in a live animal/insect. - The connections are like spaghetti code, trying to make sense of all of it is extremely difficult.

What if a DBMS: - not only took backups (in realtime, with zero RPO, and with strict serializability) - but also tested the backups - and healed the backups automatically?

"The “move fast and break things” approach that works for demos becomes catastrophic when applied to systems where failures have real consequences" julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disre…

"Bundler Tree Shaking Principles and Differences · web-infra-dev · Discussion #29" github.com/orgs/web-infra…

Honestly I think I can do a decent postmortem of everything which went wrong with 5: 1. Two and a half years ago, long before they had any idea what it would look like, they were hyping 5. 2. They trained Orion as 5, expecting big benefits from scaling pretraining, but (1/x)

Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry. We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".

Today's GPUs draw significantly more power than CPUs. Why is the highest power draw, highest bandwidth component the “peripheral”? It forces us to route massive power delivery outward, rather than intelligently building from thermal center.

DBMS Interview Challenge Network/storage/memory bandwidths have accelerated—and flipped in relative performance. How do these trends uproot even recent database design? For example, bloom filters have traditionally been assumed—why might this assumption need to be revisited?

having a claude code bot is so useful

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"With Ethernet links outstripping PCIe throughput, we will need new ways of steering and aggregating network traffic to compute resources" blog.enfabrica.net/the-next-step-…