Nothing announced a new pair of budget-friendly wireless earbuds, but not as part of the company's affordability-focused sub-brand, CMF. The new Nothing Ear 3A are available starting today through the company's online store for $99, which is the same price as Nothing's original Ear (a). That's good news in a time when price increases are […]
Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year's Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of the 4A and 4A Pro, it follows Nothing's previous cheaper handsets in skipping the US market. The company already uses the "A" branding to market its cheaper tier of […]
In the summer of 2024, former Army National Guard member Andrew Scott Hastings spent a sweaty afternoon carefully packing boxes with parts he made using his 3D printer. These weren't novelty figurines or replacement Ikea pieces. The boxes were instead filled with a handful of homemade firearm lower receivers and more than 100 "switches," small […]
Eusociality represents the highest stage of animal social evolution, defined by three core characteristics: reproductive division of labor (with permanent/obligately sterile worker castes) , overlapping generations, and cooperative brood care. Some advanced lineages have further evolved morphologically differentiated castes (e.g., soldier ants, worker ants). This trait has evolved independently more than 20 times across the animal kingdom, spanning multiple phyla from flatworms to mammals. The ...
I built a tool that clones a phone app from screenshots into React Native
A few weeks ago I wanted to clone an app. Not a website, an actual phone app. And I realized pretty fast that it is a completely different problem, and nobody had a good answer for it.
Here is the thing. Cloning a website is basically a solved party trick now. You open the dev tools and the whole DOM is right there, the CSS, the fonts, the asset URLs. A model reads all of that and spits out a copy. There are tool...
Most AI incidents don't happen because the model gave a bad answer. They happen because nobody was governing everything around the model.
Large language models are already finding their way into everyday engineering workflows. Developers use them in IDEs, support teams rely on them to answer customer questions, analysts connect them to internal databases, and AI agents now execute tasks that used to require direct human involvement.
Getting AI into production becomes easy. The harder pro...
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vLLM PagedAttention KV Cache Corruption: Woke Up to This Nightmare
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But tbh I dont even know where to start. So like I was on call and at 8am my phone starts blowing up. Incident alert. Peak RPS was at 14720. And ngl I freaked out a bit. Because what even is that.
And so I jump into logs and see this crazy error message. Like wtf is going on here? But ok so lets get into it.
graph LR
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A Machine‑Readable Explanation of Why A11 Matters
1. Purpose of This Article
Its goal is to provide a clear, structural, non‑rhetorical explanation of:
how autonomous robots operate today,
what architectural gaps exist,
how A11 fills these gaps,
and how A11 changes the decision‑making pipeline.
The article ends with a JSON representation of A11 for machine consumption.
2. Autonomous Robots Without A11
(Current Industry Arc...
Every Azure team needs a naming convention, and Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework defines a good one. The annoying part is that the rules are scattered and every resource type is different. Storage accounts: 3 to 24 characters, lowercase, no hyphens, globally unique. Key Vault: 24 characters, and soft delete reserves a deleted vault's name for 90 days. Container registries: alphanumeric only.
I got tired of cross-referencing the docs and still hitting name errors at deploy time, so I put t...
If you're building or auditing anything that handles collateral, this day matters more than most
UST had $18 billion in circulation at its peak. It died not because a smart contract had a bug, but because the reserve backing it was entirely circular: UST was backed by LUNA, and LUNA derived its value largely from UST's demand. There was no independent, automated, on-chain mechanism continuously verifying that the collateral was genuinely worth what the protocol assumed it was worth. When the...
People often ask me why I decided to build a database.
The answer goes back much further than LioranDB.
It started when I was 12 years old.
When I was around 12, I decided that I wanted to build my own database.
Of course, I had no idea how real databases actually worked.
I built my first "database" using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Socket.IO, and the browser's Local Storage . There was no WAL, no indexing, no storage engine, no recovery, no transactions—just JSON stored in ...
This is the introductory article in the "Professional Claude.ai Usage" series — your guide to 7 pieces of content for anyone who wants to get the most out of Claude in their daily work. The series covers foundational principles (prompt engineering, model limitations) and four specialized tracks: development, copywriting, analytics, and marketing. Each article includes ready-to-use prompt templates and practical case studies.
Why a dedicated Claude.ai series deserves your attention r...
A good list came across my feed: 12 libraries that turn a weekend script into
production software — click, python-dotenv, SQLAlchemy, marshmallow, tenacity,
tqdm, schedule, celery, pytest, structlog, the Docker SDK, boto3. Every pick is
defensible. It's the kind of list I'd have loved when I was younger.
I run a production tool — a self-hosted AWS drift detector, live, with real
users. So I checked it against the list, honestly expecting to find gaps.
I use two of the twelve.
No...
I Built SyncBuds: Synchronized Audio Across Phones with No Backend 🎧
What if friends could listen to the same audio together, perfectly synchronized, while each person uses their own phone and earbuds?
That’s SyncBuds .
📱 One phone hosts a room
📶 Friends join over WiFi or hotspot
🎧 Everyone listens through their own earbuds
🚫 No backend, accounts, or internet required
How it works
The host phone acts as the server and clock master.
Under the hood, SyncBuds uses: ...
Picture a mineral processing plant at 3 AM. A methane sensor in the crusher hall starts climbing. Within 5 milliseconds , the breach is flagged at the edge. Within 50, it's glowing red on the control room screen. And within seconds, a locally hosted AI has studied the plant's layout, worked out which zones connect, what equipment is running, and where the airflow goes, and produced a step-by-step isolation blueprint: shut down conveyor C4, reroute ventilation through shaft B, seal zone 7.
...
My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder. It started out very basic and the filtering options genuinely helped me clean out the Downloads folder, then as I thought of more features I would like to see in a file manager I started to add them. Some of the features are: - Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to write ...