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151. OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder
Build custom OpenTelemetry Collector Distributions from manifest files with a local build utility, Docker, Google Cloud Build, or a GitHub Action. - observIQ/otel-distro-builder
152. IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
153. AoCO 2025: Division
Division doesn't have to be slow with some clever tricks
154. A Sound of Thunder (1952) [pdf]
155. Traveling Neighborhoods
A different kind of group trip
156. 8086 Microcode Browser
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157. Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi
Wow, half a year has passed since my last blog. I have to admit, during this period I was a bit disconnected from the physical AI world. I transitioned to a different team at work after their two data scientists were reassigned to other teams, and I had to ramp up quickly to take over…
158. Why Speed Matters
159. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
160. Advent of Code 2025
161. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
162. Compassionate Curmudgeon: Why we must root ourselves in the real world
163. Why are your models so big? (2023)
I don’t understand why today’s LLMs are so large. Some of the smallest models getting coverage sit at 2.7B parameters, but even this seems pretty big to me. If you need generalizability, I totally get it. Things like chat applications require a high level of semantic awareness, and the model has to respond in a manner that’s convincing enough to its users. In cases where you want the LLM to produce something human-like, it makes sense that the brains would need to be a little juiced up.
164. At IT School with Apple Lisa
Let’s continue our marvelous trip into GUI Wonderland, where we’ll learn 80s computing alongside our trusty Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI!
165. Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
166. Magnitude-7.0 earthquake hits in remote wilderness along Alaska-Canada border
A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday.
167. Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal
168. Functional Quadtrees
A Quadtree is a tree data structure, which is useful for giving more focus/detail to certain regions of your data, while saving resources elsewhere. I could only find a couple tutorials/guides and both were imperative, so I figured it'd be fun to do a functional version in Clojure which runs in the browser.
169. Autism should not be treated as a single condition
170. Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
171. CSS now has an if() conditional function
"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
172. PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
📄🐍 Google Docs for Python. A fully browser-based collaborative IDE with real-time editing, live drawing, and voice chat. - SJRiz/pytogether
173. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
174. Multivox: Volumetric Display
Contribute to AncientJames/multivox development by creating an account on GitHub.
175. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
176. Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case
A California judge has tentatively sided with SFC in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome is still pending.
177. GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
178. What Are Lie Groups?
By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most powerful tools.
179. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
180. Why WinQuake exists and how it works