William
@wsr739
Engineer, designer, academically heretic, and a believer in human-machine intertwined future.
Designing an Open Source Multimeter: the HydraMeter hackaday.com/2025/07/20/des…
True. But the biggest intellectual leap for the future of our civilization will be the renaissance of metaphysics. We need to bring back natural law as our moral compass. The dystopian future we are heading is based on a technocratic paradigm where humans are biological machines
Technology will eventually have to drive human evolution (embryo selection, gene editing). Otherwise, our technology will evolve faster than our biology and lead to Paleolithic humans facing Neolithic stressors.
It is cool to be capable. It is cool to know shit. That's why the HF team is open-sourcing not just the model, but the training code and datasets too. Learn. Build. Make it your own. github.com/huggingface/sm…
Earth may be safe from an impact by the asteroid 2024 YR4, but it still has a chance of striking the moon. This lunar impact could pose a risk to space tech and astronauts. space.com/astronomy/aste…
If you can, support open-source initiatives. The FOSS community is extremely valuable for our modern civilization (and will be even more in the future).
Great research on open-source by @Harvard: - $4.15B invested in open-source generates $8.8T of value for companies (aka $1 invested in open-source = $2,000 of value created) - Companies would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist I…
I get the better UI and low friction of VSCode for new developers or some people in industry. But, always think about the Microsoft telemetry running in the background and the amount of bad things that can happen with insecure plugins Think about (Neo)Vim as a privacy/sec shield
Malicious Pull Request Targets 6,000+ Developers via Vulnerable Ethcode VS Code Extension thehackernews.com/2025/07/malici…
🤖 What if a humanoid robot could make a hamburger from raw ingredients—all the way to your plate? 🔥 Excited to announce ViTacFormer: our new pipeline for next-level dexterous manipulation with active vision + high-resolution touch. 🎯 For the first time ever, we demonstrate…
Sometimes X/Twitter works like an oracle for my inner questions. Thanks, algorithm, to give me the answer.
I struggle to stay up to date on every latest tool, framework, and #programming language (even in the relatively narrow #embedded space). The idea of "just-in-time" learning keeps me sane: focus on what you need to learn for your next project. shawnhymel.com/2823/staying-c… #learning
my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things. bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes. TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z GitHub: github.com/jackjackbits/b…
That's one of the most important posts from the cybersecurity community! No time to waste on bs, focus on knowledge, family, and build things!
I don’t follow politics. I don’t vote, I don’t follow media or news. I only have so much thinking time available per day. If I waste it on that type of bullshit; I lose time to think about what I should be thinking about. Like exploiting things. Bettering myself. Family. There’s…
A team of mathematicians just built the first “monostable” tetrahedron. Someday, it might help inform the design of a self-righting spacecraft. quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-…
AgiBot X2‑N “A New Species of Locomotion Intelligence”
Sharing to listen later.
I had a chat with @asianometry about the role of water in AI data centers, the environmental concerns of PFAS in chip manufacturing, global semiconductor production, and question of attracting new talent to the hardware chip design world. youtu.be/4a3piDLv4A4
Just sharing to make sure people don't do this Zotero <-> Sci-Hub integration, since it's wrong.
Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. Anyway, here's a thread on how to integrate Sci-Hub with Zotero 7 to get free papers. 🚨DO NOT DO IT!
Quantum Computers and Fusion Reactors will be the drivers of the technological and infrastructure future of our civilization. All we need to do is not to blow ourselves in this century.
Scientists found a problem so hard it breaks every computer on Earth - except for quantum computers. The challenge? Simulating optical circuits with beam splitters and phase shifters. ❌Classical computers hit a mathematical wall. ✅Quantum computers breeze through. Thread🧵
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on digital superintelligence, multiplanetary life, and how to be useful this week at AI Startup School.
This is interesting — a compiler/runtime that makes almost all standard C/C++ code completely memory safe. The performance overhead is not negligible, but there are plenty of cases where “rewrite it in rust” still isn’t a practical solution.
Here's an updated list of C/C++ programs that are totally memory safe because I ported then to Fil-C. In many cases they requires zero changes or just small cosmetic changes! - musl libc - libc++ (C++) - libc++abi (C++) - WG14 signals - libuev - icu4c (C++) - zlib - bzip2 -…
This is such a cyberpunk kind of dystopian story haha Yeah, let's strive for a balanced high and low tech life. Not everything must be AI powered.
Woke up because my AI controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust temperature and I can’t because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can’t adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with physical controls. Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.
Exactly! It's just a tool, we must **use** it, not delegate our brains to LLMs.
The more people who outsource their critical thinking to LLMs, the faster we accelerate toward Idiocracy.
Interesting!
Will AI replace network engineers? I went to the largest networking conference in the world to find out ----> youtu.be/4hkJX7LBdXc @LearningatCisco #sponsoredbycisco