Ilia's Corner

Jitsi Meet – the 26 k-star Zoom killer you can run on a $5 VPS

You can now host unlimited 1080 p meetings for your entire company on a spare Raspberry Pi. Jitsi Meet is an open-source stack that replaces Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet with zero licensing fees, end-to-end encryption you control, and drop-in React components that take less than 15 minutes to wire into any web or mobile app. If you’re sick of per-seat SaaS bills or need HIPAA-grade isolation, clone the repo, run docker-compose up, and you’re live on your own domain.

GitHub Trending · 3 min read

China quietly wrote the AI rulebook the U.S. is ignoring

While Washington debates, Beijing already bans thousands of non-compliant models, mandates pre-deployment red-team audits, and requires real-time watermarking for synthetic media. The takeaway for dev teams: export controls are only one risk—expect your models to face the same scrutiny in Chinese markets that TikTok faces in the U.S.

reddit · 5 min read

OCaml: the boring language bankrolling 8-figure trading desks

Jane Street, Meta, and Docker run billions in daily volume on OCaml because its type system finds race conditions at compile time and delivers C-level speed with half the memory footprint. One Cornell course (link below) gives you the battle-tested patterns they use.

hackernews · 7 min read

YAMS – a memory layer for LLMs you can grep

Stop paying per-query for vector databases. YAMS stores LLM context as content-addressed blocks, deduplicates via SHA-256, and exposes a plain REST API. Plug the Go library into your chatbot and watch context costs fall off a cliff.

hackernews · 4 min read

Go 1.25 secretly cut GC pauses by up to 40 %

Flip one env var—GOEXPERIMENT=newgc—and your Kubernetes pods can shed a third of their CPU throttling. The change is opt-in, backward-compatible, and already saving 7-figure infra bills at early adopters.

reddit · 2 min read

Eca – turn any editor into Copilot without the lock-in

This tiny Clojure server speaks a JSON protocol that VS Code, Vim, Emacs, and JetBrains all understand. Point it at any open-source model endpoint and you get inline completions, chat, and multi-file edits without handing your code to Microsoft.

AI dev tools that respect your wallet and your privacy.

Clojure · 36 stars

Golpo – docs-to-video in minutes

Paste a README and Golpo spits out a whiteboard-style video with voice-over, code highlights, and chapter breaks. Perfect for onboarding or investor decks when you’d rather ship features than storyboard.

Explainer videos without After Effects.

Web app · 30 stars

Data-efficient distillation: a 32 B model that aces math with only 1 k examples

Instead of scaling to trillions of tokens, the authors cherry-pick high-impact reasoning traces and use a three-step curriculum. Result: GPT-4-level math scores while training on a single A100 in two days.

AI/ML papers · Anonymous academic consortium · 6 min read

Memory Decoder – plug-and-play retrieval for any transformer

A 0.5 B sidecar network that learns once to act like a heavyweight RAG system, then snaps onto Llama, Gemma, or Qwen with zero extra training. MIT license, 8-bit weights fit on mobile.

AI/ML papers · Tsinghua & HKUST · 5 min read