Ilia's Corner

The 33× AI Efficiency Shock: How Google just slashed AI energy costs in 12 months

Google revealed the energy for an average AI text query dropped 33× in one year—cutting from 0.3 Wh to 0.009 Wh per request. Translation: the same GPU cluster that once handled 10 M queries can now serve 330 M without buying a single new card. If you run SaaS, internal copilots, or any inference-heavy feature, expect your cloud bill to shrink or your margin to spike. The breakthrough came from on-die telemetry, liquid cooling loops tuned per rack, and a new inference stack that fuses model, compiler, and hardware schedules. Expect AWS, Azure, and GCP to race the same playbook into GA tiers soon. Source: https://arstech­nica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-the-energy-cost-of-ai-queries-by-33x-in-one-year/

arstechnica.com · 3 min read

Univer – open-source Office suite that beats Google Docs at your own servers

Need collaborative docs, spreadsheets, and slides behind your firewall? Univer is a TypeScript-based Office clone with real-time multi-user editing and native XLSX/DOCX/PPTX round-trip import-export. Drop it into Docker, keep your data, and stop paying per-seat fees to SaaS giants. Repo: https://github.com/dream-num/univer

reddit · 1 min read

Puck – turn any React component set into a drag-and-drop CMS

Ship a no-code page builder without vendor lock-in. Puck is a MIT-licensed React component that consumes your existing UI kit and gives marketers a Webflow-style editor—while you still own the code and hosting. Repo: https://github.com/puckeditor/puck

reddit · 1 min read

BloodHound CE – hunt identity attack paths for free

Stop paying six figures for attack-surface tools. BloodHound Community Edition maps Active Directory, Azure AD, and Entra ID privilege chains so you can find the shortest path to Domain Admin before the red team does. Self-host in 10 minutes. Repo: https://github.com/SpecterOps/BloodHound

reddit · 2 min read

SQLBot – Slack bot that turns plain English into SQL

Non-technical teammates can now ask “Which customers churned last month?” and get live results from your production warehouse without learning SQL. You review the generated query before it runs, so safety stays in your hands. Repo: https://github.com/dataease/SQLBot

Analytics

Python · 760 stars

Clyp – a clipboard manager that finally feels native on Linux

Clipboard history, fuzzy search, and image/text persistence without the Electron bloat. Clyp is written in Rust, weighs <2 MB, and plugs into Wayland or X11 seamlessly. Repo: https://github.com/murat-cileli/clyp

Productivity

Rust · 36 stars

NASA + IBM’s Surya predicts solar flares 30 min earlier

First CNN to fuse eight solar imaging bands with magnetograms, giving power-grid operators critical lead time to re-route loads before geomagnetic storms fry transformers. Read: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ibm-and-nasa-create-first-of-its-kind-ai-that-can-accurately-predict-violent-solar-flares

AI Research · NASA Frontier Development Lab & IBM Research · 3 min read

UCSF isolates a protein that reverses brain aging in mice

Deleting the FTL1 protein with CRISPR restored youthful synaptic plasticity and memory in aged mice. Early-stage antisense drugs are now in the pipeline for human trials. Read: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250820000808.htm

Biotech · UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences · 2 min read