📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-05-01

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🥇 SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they’re fun anyway

SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they’re fun anyway — jeffgeerling.com · 4h ago · 📝 Other

Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C. I was testing th

🥈 NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source — shkspr.mobi · 6h ago · 📝 Other

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze

🥉 Approximating even functions by powers of cosine

Approximating even functions by powers of cosine — johndcook.com · 17h ago · 📝 Other

A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Besse

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1. SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they’re fun anyway

SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they’re fun anyway — jeffgeerling.com · 4h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C. I was testing th

2. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source — shkspr.mobi · 6h ago · ⭐ 15/30

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze

3. Approximating even functions by powers of cosine

Approximating even functions by powers of cosine — johndcook.com · 17h ago · ⭐ 15/30

A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Besse

4. Offline command line translation with TranslateGemma + Ollama

Offline command line translation with TranslateGemma + Ollama — evanhahn.com · 18h ago · ⭐ 15/30

I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer: echo ‘¿Cómo estás?’ | translate

=> How are you?

It combi

5. Patching and forking in package managers

Patching and forking in package managers — nesbitt.io · 8h ago · ⭐ 15/30

What to do when upstream ghosts you

6. Touch Typing Number Keys

Touch Typing Number Keys — susam.net · 18h ago · ⭐ 15/30

I learnt touch typing about two decades ago when I was still at university. Although I took some typewriter lessons as a child, those lessons did not stick with me. It was at university, when I

7. AI will create jobs

AI will create jobs — geohot.github.io · 11h ago · ⭐ 15/30

It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it.

8. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 5: The Man Behind the Curtain

The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 5: The Man Behind the Curtain — filfre.net · 2h ago · ⭐ 15/30

This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. It is possible to trace the Plantard family tree a fair ways ba

9. Ad Lib bankruptcy: May 1, 1992

Ad Lib bankruptcy: May 1, 1992 — dfarq.homeip.net · 7h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Ad Lib, Inc. was a Canadian manufacturer of sound cards founded by Martin Prevel, a former professor of music and vice-dean of the music department at the Université Laval in Quebec City. Ad Lib’s bes

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