My manager at that robotics job was an exceptionally gifted C programmer who designed all the hardware and wrote the drivers. He thought Haskell was a nonsensical language until he asked me to reimplement the algorithm turning the start and destination into a sequence of commands

Startup CEO who just closed his first $400K enterprise contract by promising something that doesn’t exist to a Fortune 500, and the founding engineer who has 7 days to build it

When your date sends you the simplest message

Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:

Outgrow bosses, landlords, and roommates.

Oxford University mathematician reveals how to avoid spilling your coffee ☕️ [📹 Oxford Sparks]

5. Spanish Flu, 1918. family portrait

The future is unevenly distributed.

"Cursor, please fix this small bug" Cursor:

How toothpaste is made, according to AI [🎞️ qemmish]

A major mistake I made in my undergrad is that I focused way too much on mathematical lens of computing - computability, decidability, asymptotic complexity etc. And too little on physical lens - energy/heat of state change, data locality, parallelism, computer architecture. The

NTIRE is the coolest conference you’ve never heard of. Deleting motion blur? Sure. Night Vision? No problem. Every year, labs compete on categories like hyperspectral restoration, satellite image enhancement, even raindrop removal (think car sensors)! Some highlights ->

The Visitors, made with Veo 3. Humans react to alien visitors. This mini project was completed in 8 hours, from start to finish, by one single person. [🎞️ hashem.alghaili]

when the junior vibe codes a replacement for the legacy service

AI is the best teacher for the self-taught.

Today, I found myself wrestling with a humbling truth: that innocence of intent does not exempt us from the burden of consequence. In actual fact, it is quite arrogant to believe that if we meant well and our actions were pure in motive, then whatever results must surely follow

I want to build things that inspire me. I want to build things that give me the same feeling that I got as a kid, watching nature documentaries with my father. I want to build systems that are organic, emergent, cooperative, and natural. I want my machines to be part of nature

There is a good programming principle stated here: Don’t write functions for code one can write inline as a simple expression using well-known operations. It’s much easier to read code that uses a small number of common primitives than to remember 1000’s of helper functions.

This software engineer was nearly hacked by a coding interview. I've never seen this attack channel before. Be careful out there, especially vibe coders.

study semiconductor manufacturing not to build a fab. not to get a job at TSMC. but to witness how far the human mind has gone. photolithography is pure magic disguised as engineering. we’re literally etching patterns smaller than viruses; using light, mirrors, gases, plasma,