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121. Suspiciously precise floats, or, how I got Claude's real limits
I reverse-engineered Claude's hidden subscription usage caps from two unrounded utilization floats, recovered exact denominators via Stern-Brocot, and compared what Pro/Max actually buy you versus API pricing (including caching).
122. Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives
This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
123. Internet Archive's Storage
124. High-bandwidth flash progress and future
The high-bandwidth flash market could be bigger than high-bandwidth memory in 12 years time according to the leading HBF evangelist, Professor Kim Jung-ho of the School of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
125. JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool
Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.
126. The Kept and the Killed (2022)
Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.
127. Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands
128. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?
129. The Concatative Language XY
130. Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial
People who have tried medication to lower their dangerously high levels of cholesterol and other blood fats – without success – may benefit from an experimental treatment.
131. The Lost Art of XML
132. Building an eBPF/XDP L2 Direct Server Return Load Balancer from Scratch
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build an Layer 2 DSR load balancer using eBPF/XDP, where backends send responses directly back to clients bypassing the load balancer.
133. White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."
134. JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator
Play VIC 20 games directly in your browser, with JVic the web-based VIC 20 emulator built with libGDX.
135. Wall Street Grapples with New Risk: A European Buyers' Strike
136. Vortex Support in DuckDB
Vortex is a new columnar file format with a very promising design. SpiralDB and DuckDB Labs have partnered to give you a very fast experience while reading and writing Vortex files!
137. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes
How to make low-latency development sandboxes
138. Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
139. European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
140. Everyone is wrong about AI and Software Engineering
Reflecting on the discourse between OpenAI/Anthropic and Hacker News Commenters
141. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
142. CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.
143. Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
144. The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons
9,000 cyber attacks. Kyivstar was destroyed in hours. Viasat bricked 45,000 modems. What Ukraine's cyber war teaches us about infrastructure security.
145. ollama launch
ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.
146. Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record
147. Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
148. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
An open-source, eBPF-accelerated BNG that runs directly on OLT hardware - eliminating expensive centralised appliances
149. December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more
Come along and meet us at FOSDEM 2026 – we’re speaking there too!
150. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
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