Ilia's Corner

Free CS degree in your browser—no tuition, no debt

OSSU is a GitHub repo that stitches Harvard, MIT and Princeton courses into a complete 2-year computer-science curriculum. Clone the repo, open Notion, and you’re following the same lecture playlists that cost $200k on campus. Whether you’re a boot-camp grad filling theory gaps or a self-taught dev eyeing FAANG interviews, the roadmap gives you deadlines, textbook links and project specs—everything except the student-loan bill.

github_trending · 5 min read

One container kills the RAG Franken-stack

Pathway’s llm-app drops a single Docker image that replaces Pinecone + Redis + FastAPI for production search. You get live vector updates, millisecond query latency and GDPR-ready audit logs without wiring up six services. Ship a semantic help-desk for your SaaS this afternoon, not next sprint.

hackernews · 4 min read

Turn a $40 router into a Linux edge server

OpenWrt firmware flashes onto hardware you already own and gives you iptables, WireGuard, Docker, even K3s—no cloud rent, no Meraki license. Perfect for pop-up VPN gateways at client sites or running Prometheus in a restaurant closet.

reddit · 6 min read

Datadog bills getting spicy? Try Beszel

Beszel is a 14k-star Go observability suite that ships server, container and Docker-stats dashboards with zero external deps. Spin up the 30 MB binary, point your nodes at it, and drop $500-a-month APM fees for good.

reddit · 3 min read

VS Code becomes free Cursor clone

Kilo-Code extension bundles 400+ models—Gemini, Claude, GPT, Llama—behind one toggle. No API keys, no per-token accounting, just highlight code and ask. Great for teams that want Copilot-level autocomplete without the enterprise contract.

reddit · 3 min read

Pico CSS

Drop a 10 kB stylesheet on any semantic HTML page and instantly get dark mode, responsive grids and 30 components—no class names required. Ship a polished side-project in an hour.

Frontend

CSS

ck - semantic grep for Rust

ck uses local embeddings to find "the function that spawns goroutines" even if the word "spawn" never appears. Install with cargo, alias it to cgrep, and stop chaining regexes.

Developer Tools

Rust

Speed Brain

Cloudflare toggle that adds Speculation Rules prefetch to any site—cuts LCP 45% with zero code. Flip it before your next product launch and watch Lighthouse scores jump.

Performance

JavaScript

SpikingBrain trains 76B models without NVIDIA

New MoE architecture runs on MetaX GPUs and trains on 2% of the tokens GPT-4 used. If you’re building a sovereign cloud or just tired of Jensen’s price list, this is required reading.

Language Models · arXiv · 12 min read

HoPE fixes long-range attention drift

Paper swaps RoPE’s cosine rotations for hyperbolic ones, guaranteeing distant tokens don’t hijack attention. Expect this to land in the next Llama patch—bookmark now, tune later.

Language Models · arXiv · 8 min read