Nanotimetamps: Time-Stamped Data on Nano Block Lattice
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Garry Tan celebrates EquipmentShare's rise from rural Missouri founders to going public, noting their self-reliant roots and focus on solving contractors' problems. They built a marketplace for construction equipment and, with the T3 telematics platform, an operating system for the jobsite. The company evolved into a national, vertically integrated platform that helps manage fleets and track machines. Congratulations to Jabbok Schlacks, Willy, and the EquipmentShare team.
A survey of about 100 mental models across disciplines, designed to improve decisions and spot opportunities. It synthesizes tools from general thinking (map-territory, circle of competence, first principles, thought experiments, second-order and probabilistic thinking, inversion, Occam’s and Hanlon’s razors) with physics, biology, economics, and systems thinking (relativity, thermodynamics, leverage, scaling, feedback loops, bottlenecks, margin of safety, supply and demand, constraint theory). It also covers cooperation, hierarchy, incentives, debt, competition, creative destruction, and art/psychology concepts (framing, audience, genre, contrast). Used together, these models help avoid biases and reason under uncertainty.
Chromium's C++ style guide governs supported features from C++11 to C++26 and Abseil. Features are labeled initially supported after toolchain readiness; status changes are proposed via [email protected] and require a codereview. Current stance: C++11/14/17 default allowed; C++20 initially supported (Nov 2023); C++23 initially supported (Jan 2026); C++26 not yet. Abseil: default allowed with several TBD items; absl::linked_hash_set/map have two-year TBD periods. The guide lists banned language/library features by standard and notes allowed C++20/C++23 features, with TBDs and change processes.
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage startups, offering an intensive program and a demo day to connect founders with investors.
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Neko: History of a Software Pet tracks a cursor-chasing cat across computer history. It started in 1988 with NEKO.COM on NEC PC-9801; 1989: NekoDA for Macintosh (public-domain art by Kenji Gotoh). 1990: xneko (X11) and oneko (Linux/BSD). 1991: Cat and Mouse (OS/2) and WNEKO (Windows 3.x). 1993: Amiga followed. IBM OS/2 bundled NEKO.EXE, with a famed image-rights tale. Neko endured as Neko98 (Windows), webneko (2004, JavaScript), Neko x64 (2010), Neko in Java (2010), and Arduino touch versions. A community project with GitHub archive (eliot-akira/neko) and plans for a web editor.
TrueVault, a YC-backed privacy software company, is hiring a remote US Growth Lead. The role reports to the CEO and focuses on building a first-principles growth function, emphasizing experimentation across channels (paid, outbound, partnerships, SEO, etc.) and end-to-end sales motions. Requirements: 5+ years hands-on B2B SaaS acquisition across multiple channels; strong data-driven, experimental mindset; ownership of growth metrics. Initial goals: run 6–8 acquisition experiments/quarter, establish 2–4 viable channels within 6 months, lift growth-led pipeline by 15–25% QoQ. Compensation: base $165–$185k, 15% target bonus, ~0.5–0.75% equity, OTE ~$190–$213k. Fully remote in US; benefits include health/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, 3% 401(k).
NetBlocks provides an update on Iran, stating the country remains in an ongoing, tense situation.
Overview of fast floating-point printing/parsing via unrounded scaling. The key idea is to multiply a binary float by powers of two and ten and return an unrounded value with two extra bits, enabling exact rounding later. The Go implementation uses fixed-width and shortest-width printing and fast Parse by precomputing a 10^p table and a prescale, then computing d and p with 64-bit/128-bit arithmetic and a sticky bit. The results show printing is faster than Dragon4, Grisu3, Ryū, Schubfach, Dragonbox; parsing faster than Eisel-Lemire; overall simpler and very fast. Includes history references.
Ken Shirriff analyzes the 8086 ALU and its control. The 16-bit ALU supports 28 operations and is driven by microcode: a first micro-instruction configures the ALU, a later one yields the result; the XI field lets the machine opcode substitute the operation. The ALU control signals come from PLAs that decode the five-bit operation and a two-bit temp-register select, feeding a six-LUT ALU. The die shows a BIU/EU split, microcode ROM, and bootstrap drivers to boost control signal voltage. The post highlights the 8086 as a CISC design with many edge cases compared to RISC.
Tesla will require a $99/month FSD subscription to access Autopilot and lane-keeping, ending the $8,000 one-time purchase option on Feb. 14. The move pushes recurring revenue amid falling profits and follows regulatory scrutiny over marketing of self-driving claims and lawsuits. California threatened a sales suspension over deceptive ads. Tesla says driver attention is still required, and Musk has indicated the subscription will rise as FSD improves, eventually enabling unsupervised rides.
Bug report: Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai (web & desktop) though marked fixed Jan 15. In chats, as context nears limits, auto-compact should purge older content to continue, but instead messages bounce to input or show “limit reached.” This occurs well below 200k tokens. Repro: start new chat in Claude.ai project, add substantial context, continue, send; auto-compact does not trigger. Not Claude Code-specific; affects Claude.ai web/desktop. Had been fixed after Jan outage but remains broken as of Jan 17.
Zotero 8 adds a unified citation dialog with List and Library modes, quick citation/search across libraries, and easier locator and note integration; annotations now appear under their parent attachments and are searchable; a new Reader Appearance panel introduces per-document view settings and global themes (Dark, Snow, Sepia); notes can open in tabs; Reading Mode reformats web snapshots; an improved Tabs menu supports keyboard navigation; automatic file-rename syncing with parent metadata, plus new attachment title options including Normalize Attachment Titles; ARM64 Linux support; various UI improvements; Zotero Connector adds tag autocomplete and note-taking on save.
teemux aggregates logs from multiple processes into a single view, accessible via browser, terminal, or AI agents through MCP. It requires zero config—first process starts the server and others connect automatically. Wrap processes with commands like teemux --name api -- node api.js; start supporting services (e.g., redis-server). View logs at http://127.0.0.1:8336/ (curl available). Features: colorized browser view, plain-text curl view, pattern filtering with wildcards, and include/exclude. Leader election provides automatic failover if the leader exits. MCP integration offers get_logs, search_logs, get_process_names, clear_logs; example MCP config included. BSD license.
Waypoint-1 is Overworld’s real-time interactive video diffusion model, controllable by text, mouse, and keyboard, enabling frame-conditioned, zero-latency world traversal on consumer hardware. It’s a latent, frame-causal diffusion model trained on 10k hours of game footage, using diffusion forcing and self-forcing (DMD) to align inference. WorldEngine is its high-performance inference library for interactive streaming; on Waypoint-1-Small (2.3B) with a 5090 GPU it achieves ~30k token-passes/s and ~30–60 FPS, with AdaLN caching, static rolling KV cache, and torch.compile optimizations. A 1/20/2026 hackathon is planned; RSVP details are listed.
Kotlin is moving toward Rich Errors, introducing union types for error handling (for example, Int | ParseError) to make errors part of the type system and reduce reliance on try/catch. While Result and Arrow patterns already exist in Kotlin, Rich Errors aim to make error space native and exhaustively handled, improving safety, predictability, and composability without exception overhead. The feature is experimental and under active design; its final form and API may change. It mirrors Elm/Rust/Swift patterns and could eventually coexist with or replace library-based approaches.
House Republicans failed to defund the federal requirement for impaired-driving technology in new cars, leaving the Section 24220 mandate intact. The amendment to block funding was defeated 268–164, with 160 Republicans and 4 Democrats in support and 57 Republicans and 211 Democrats in opposition. The law directs DOT/NHTSA to craft rules to 'prevent or limit' operation when impairment is detected, but its open wording could permit driver-facing cameras, behavioral monitoring, biometrics, and broad data collection with unclear retention or sharing rules. Final decisions now rest with DOT/NHTSA.
Compyle cut latency by removing the socket-server middleman, moving to direct machine connections and multi-region pools. Initial approach: 10–30s startup and >200ms latency due to extra hops. Fixes: warm pool reduces startup to ~50ms; direct JWT auth; LLM-router handles billing/persistence; fly replay for routing; multi-region sandboxes near users. Result: terminal latency ~13–16ms (avg ~14ms); simpler architecture.
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