Spherical Cow: High volume fraction sphere packing in arbitrary geometries

Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳

I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show!

And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's…

In the RACK profile, SCP sustained 316 Mbps using ~0.044 CPU seconds, compared to 234 Mbps at ~0.056 CPU seconds before RACK. When normalized for CPU usage, this corresponds to a ~71% improvement in throughput per CPU, while max-burst CPU profiles remain…

My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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by meskio and shelikhoo | December 3, 2025 From internet blackouts in Iran to Russia's evolving censorship tactics, 2025 has tested Tor's anti-censorship tools like never before. These are the moments where the work of Tor's anti-censorship team is…

Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat with your vintage compu...

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It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will i...

How I developed Daino Notes block editor from scratch.