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Reverse-Engineering the Wetware: Spiking Networks and the End of Matrix Math

https://metaduck.com/reverse-engineering-the-wetware-spiking-networks-td-errors-and-the-end-of-matrix-math/
23•pgte•2d ago

Comments

7777777phil•2d ago
Neuromorphic chips have been 5 years away for 15 years now.. Nevertheless the Schultz dopamine-TD error convergence is one of the coolest results in neuroscience
mike_hearn•1d ago
I guess the obvious question is whether something that mimics biology closer is actually useful. Computers are useful exactly because they aren't the same as us. LLMs are useful because they aren't the same as us. The goal is not to be as close to biology as possible, it's to be useful.
9wzYQbTYsAIc•1h ago
Neural networks have turned out to be pretty useful. The goal of distributed parallel processing wasn't to recreate the brain but to recreate it's capabilities.
RaftPeople•1d ago
From article:

> Cause and Effect: If Neuron A fires just a few milliseconds before Neuron B, the brain assumes A caused B. The synapse between them gets stronger.

A recent study from Stanford found that it's more complex than this rule, some synapses followed it, some did the opposite, etc.

kevlened•1h ago
> A recent study from Stanford

Source?

geremiiah•56m ago
Interesting topic, but why am I reading an LLM generated summary?
voidUpdate•7m ago
> "If you’ve been following my recent posts on Metaduck, you know I spend my days building infrastructure for AI agents and wrangling LLMs into production"

Because LLMs users use LLMs for everything

bob1029•38m ago
[delayed]

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567
708•pabs3•9h ago•219 comments

RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9849.html
73•P_qRs•3h ago•20 comments

Agentic Engineering Patterns

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/
155•r4um•5h ago•51 comments

The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws

https://www.eurosky.tech
10•doener•51m ago•3 comments

Better JIT for Postgres

https://github.com/vladich/pg_jitter
56•vladich•4h ago•13 comments

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

https://github.com/robertcprice/nCPU
98•cypres•6h ago•39 comments

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/
786•scrlk•20h ago•827 comments

Graphics Programming Resources

https://develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app/resources/
98•abetusk•8h ago•11 comments

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
254•1659447091•9h ago•191 comments

Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables

https://github.com/mrconter1/rustc-php
36•mrconter11•2d ago•29 comments

Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups

https://github.com/lixiasky-back/coroTracer
6•lixiasky•23h ago•0 comments

On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/teaching/ecs240-w17/readings/PLHistoryGoodDesign.PDF
45•jruohonen•3d ago•6 comments

Claude's Cycles [pdf]

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
639•fs123•23h ago•266 comments

Show HN: Stacked Game of Life

https://stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl/
16•vnglst•3d ago•6 comments

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update
200•spacemarine1•13h ago•56 comments

My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/02/11/my-%f0%9f%8c%b6-take-on-vibe-coding-for-pms/
104•dmckinno•10h ago•102 comments

Textadept

https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
140•giancarlostoro•3d ago•24 comments

Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251
44•E-Reverance•7h ago•7 comments

Reverse-Engineering the Wetware: Spiking Networks and the End of Matrix Math

https://metaduck.com/reverse-engineering-the-wetware-spiking-networks-td-errors-and-the-end-of-ma...
23•pgte•2d ago•8 comments

You can use newline characters in URLs

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/28/you-can-use-newline-characters-in-urls/
79•chmaynard•3d ago•35 comments

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html
238•todsacerdoti•17h ago•234 comments

Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/
29•ulrischa•2d ago•17 comments

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
150•evakhoury•15h ago•23 comments

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

84•atarus•20h ago•20 comments

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/
27•cdrnsf•6h ago•13 comments

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/weave
123•rs545837•8h ago•86 comments

GPT‑5.3 Instant

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/
352•meetpateltech•16h ago•275 comments

The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show

https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/echinus-geyser-back-action-now
50•1659447091•9h ago•1 comments

Number Research Inc

https://numberresearch.xyz/
35•eieio•7h ago•19 comments

Don't become an engineering manager

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager
356•flail•20h ago•255 comments