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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Kokuyo Design Awards, (previously) arguably Japan’s most-prestigious stationery design award, has been held for almost a quarter of a century now. Hosted by 120-year old stationery firm KOKUYO, the award receives close to 1500 entries each year for new products that have yet to be commercialized, with winning concepts given the opportunity to become real-life products. For this year’s theme—hamon: design that resonates—designers were asked to submit concepts based on their own unique, lived experience, which in turn has the potential to resonate with…

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hello, and thanks in advance for reading. This is not a bug report. It is a case study write up of a recovery effort on a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, shared here in case any of the observations are useful to btrfs-progs development. The goal is constructive, not a complaint. One paragraph summary A hard power cycle on a 3 device pool (data single, metadata DUP, DM-SMR disks) left the extent tree and free space tree in a state that no native…

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Table of contents Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to rule it out, only to then spend many hours fumbling in the dark because we lacked visibility into version numbers and rollouts… 😞 This experience made me think about software versioning again, or more specifically about build info (build versioning, version stamping, however you want to call it) and version reporting. I realized that…

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Your personal AI assistant living right inside the browser. Gemma Gem runs Google's Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine. It can read pages, click buttons, fill forms, run JavaScript, and answer questions about any site you visit. Chrome with WebGPU support ~500MB disk for model download (cached after first run) Load the extension in chrome://extensions (developer mode) from .output/chrome-mv3-dev/. Navigate to any page Click the gem icon (bottom-right corner) to open the chat…

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish.         This project exists to show that training your own language model is not magic. No PhD required. No massive GPU cluster. One Colab notebook, 5 minutes, and you have a working LLM that you built from scratch — data generation, tokenizer, model architecture, training loop, and inference. If you can run a notebook, you can train a language model. It won't produce a billion-parameter model that writes essays. But it…