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Andrés Morales

Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.
Cactus Whistle model running offline on a mobile device
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Whistle: What Is Cactus’s 16.9 MB Voice Model

Cactus introduced the Whistle model, a 16.9 MB speech recognition system that runs on CPU without an internet connection. It transcribes seven languages, marks per-word timestamps, and shares the C++ engine with Cactus’s Needle text model. On an Apple M4 Pro it decodes at 1,319 tokens per second, ahead of Whisper base and Moonshine tiny v2.

By Andrés Morales, 6 days8 October, 2026 ago
URL fragment represented as code on a screen
Tech News

No Backend: How bigwords.page Stores Everything in the URL

bigwords.page builds signs, timers, and wifi passwords without a backend. This guide explains how all the state lives in the URL fragment and how to replicate the technique in your own project.

By Andrés Morales, 7 days8 October, 2026 ago
Apollo Guidance Computer, the computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon
Tech News

Apollo Guidance Computer: How It Prevented the Apollo 11 Abort

The Apollo Guidance Computer used a priority system that prevented the Apollo 11 moon landing from being aborted. Margaret Hamilton, who led its development, died on September 30, 2026, at age 90.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week7 October, 2026 ago
Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic's new budget model
Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5, 75% Cheaper Than Haiku 4.5

Anthropic introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest model to date, with 75% lower average cost than Haiku 4.5. The launch also brings configurable effort tuning and a price cut on Sonnet 5.5’s cache.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week7 October, 2026 ago
JPEG XL image format in Chrome
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Chrome 155 Adds JPEG XL with a Decoder Rewritten in Rust

Chrome 155 natively decodes JPEG XL with jxl-rs, a decoder rewritten in Rust that eliminates memory errors from the previous C++ codec. Google recommends testing it alongside AVIF.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week7 October, 2026 ago
Diagram of an emulation-free port layer porting PS5 executables to PC
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AnyPS5: an emulation-free port layer for PS5 to PC

AnyPS5 converts PS5 executables into native Windows and Linux binaries without going through an emulator. The project relinks the executable format and reimplements the PRX system libraries that each game expects to find. It’s the same logic Proton uses, applied for the first time publicly to a console.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week7 October, 2026 ago
Lab with autonomous scientific AI analyzing biological data
Artificial Intelligence

Robin, from FutureHouse, decides the experiment but doesn’t run it

In September 2026, Phys.org documented progress toward autonomous scientific AI that not only proposes biological hypotheses but validates them in the lab. Robin, FutureHouse’s agent, is the most cited case of the year.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week6 October, 2026 ago
Mistral Large 4, Mistral AI's open MoE model
Tech News

Mistral Large 4: 1.05 Trillion Parameters and 1M Context

Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 in public preview: a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 1.05 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active ones. The technical sheet also reveals per-million-token pricing and a 1-million-token context window.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week6 October, 2026 ago
Cloudflare Web Search API for live search with AI agents
Programming

Web Search API: What Is Cloudflare’s Beta

Cloudflare launched its Web Search API in beta, letting AI agents and applications search the web in real time instead of guessing URLs or relying on training data. The service runs on AI Gateway and already offers three providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week6 October, 2026 ago
Illustration of multi-objective routing on a street map with elevation
Tech News

Flatten SF: Multi-Objective Routing Between Distance and Elevation Gain

Flatten SF solves the trade-off between walking less and climbing less right in the browser, using USGS lidar and the Overture/OpenStreetMap street graph. This article walks through how to build that same multi-objective routing for any city, step by step, with code and the most common pitfalls.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week5 October, 2026 ago

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