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The 60-Year-Old Puzzle: Nobody Knows Multiplication's True Speed Limit

For centuries, mathematicians assumed the grade-school method of multiplying numbers digit-by-digit—which scales as O(n²), quadrupling the work each time the di

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open-sourceai

Transcribe.cpp: a ggml speech-to-text library with 60+ verified ASR models

Transcribe.cpp is a new open-source, ggml-based transcription library from the maintainer of the Handy speech-to-text app. It targets a gap the author kept hitt

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Turn a Spare Mac Into a Throwaway Machine Claude Code Fully Controls

A hands-on guide walks through converting an old Mac into an always-on box that Claude Code can operate autonomously, reachable over SSH from your main machine

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What the IndieWeb Actually Is — and Why Owning Your Domain Matters

The IndieWeb is a community and set of principles built around one idea: the canonical copy of everything you publish should live on a domain you control, not i

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aitech-culture

A tracker counts 105 ex-YC founders now inside OpenAI and Anthropic

A single-page site, joinedanthropic.com, compiles a running list of Y Combinator alumni who have gone on to work at the two leading frontier-AI labs. As of its

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Agreeing With the LLM Critics and Using LLMs Anyway

Writing from Berlin's Local-First Conf, the author names a dissonance he saw everywhere: engineers who openly criticize LLMs—and applaud the criticism—while kee

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AI writes the code — humans do the reviewing, and it's burning them out

A Pydantic engineer argues that LLM-assisted programming has quietly inverted where the effort and the satisfaction live in software work. The dopamine that use

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Apple hits ~40 OpenAI staff with evidence-preservation letters in trade-secret fight

Apple has sent legal preservation letters to roughly 40 former employees who have since moved to OpenAI, ordering them to retain any documents, emails, files, a

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open-sourcetech-culture

Booting Arch Linux 32 onto a 2009 Eee PC netbook

A developer pulls a 2009 ASUS Eee PC 1000HE out of storage and documents rebuilding it around Arch Linux. The hardware is a period piece: a single-core Intel At

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Communities Run on Organizers, Not Free Riders — So Become One

The fastest way to break into a new social scene isn't to keep showing up to other people's events — it's to start running your own. The author argues that acro

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FAA restores Boeing's authority to self-certify 737 MAX and 787 airworthiness

The FAA has returned to Boeing the power to issue airworthiness certificates for its 737 MAX and 787 Dreamliner jets, closing out a restriction imposed after th

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From hand-drawn leaflets to 3D software: how LEGO instructions evolved

LEGO's step-by-step building instructions grew out of a 1955 shift in the company's product strategy. Before then, buyers got only box-art inspiration and separ

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