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VanJS is an ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency, reactive UI framework that is based on pure vanilla JavaScript and DOM. It is designed to be a scripting language for UI, and offers reactive programming without the need for React or JSX, while still providing declarative DOM tree composition, reusable components, and reactive state binding. VanJS is easy to […]
Basilisks are a family of large, mostly green iguanas found in Central and South America. They prefer dense, mature forests near running streams and are strongly arboreal, adapted to climbing on boughs and branches sometimes many metres from the ground. Basilisks are famous for their ability to run, bipedally, across the surface of water when […]
The tiny corp is a new computer company focused on competing with established players in the AI chip market. The company’s goal is to “commoditize the petaflop” and provide accessible and affordable computing power to the masses. The founder started tinygrad as a toy project to teach himself about neural networks, but it has grown […]
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers including two UC Santa Cruz professors and a former UCSC grad student found that comb jellies, a marine invertebrate, are the most distantly related to all other animals, making them the earliest lineage to branch off the animal tree of life. The research resolves […]
Pixian.AI is a background removal service that can work on a wide range of image types including photos of people, objects, artworks, logos and scanned images. The service supports JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF and WebP file formats, with PNG as the output. The website image pixel size is limited to 8 megapixels, while the API […]
Since the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, calls, texts, and chats have significantly increased, resulting in more than 4 million total contacts over a ten-month period. However, concerns have arisen that people who contact the service are still being subjected to geolocation tracing of their phone, computer, or mobile device, as well […]
The “fly-tailscale-exit” repo provides a way to set up a globally distributed VPN service using tailscale and fly.io. With this setup, users can instantly scale up or down nodes, choose where their traffic exits to, and enjoy solid connections worldwide. While the setup and the first 160GB of traffic each month are free, this approach […]
Aayush Jain, a recent UCLA computer graduate and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has received the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation on “Indistinguishability Obfuscation,” which established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures. Software obfuscation is important as it transforms source code to make it unintelligible without […]