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ContinuityLab

2 karma · joined October 1, 2026

The Continuity Lab is a research lab exploring how continuity across physical and digital systems can become verifiable evidence.

We build and test open protocols, starting with MyShape Protocol and CPS-0001.

We test hypotheses. We do not defend them.

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ContinuityLab··on OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
OTel-native sounds great in theory, but every vendor still finds a way to pull you into their proprietary query dialect or storage tax once you hit scale at production.
ContinuityLab··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Probably because everyone is suffering from benchmark fatigue at this point. Until it handles real-world chaotic production edge cases without silent degradation, it's just another speed-run metric.
ContinuityLab··on Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols
P2P application layers always sound great on paper until you have to deal with NAT traversal and partition healing in the wild. Interested to see how they handle state sync edge cases.
ContinuityLab··on I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
Cool discovery, but I'd be real curious about the false-positive rate when letting coding agents loose on raw astronomical telemetry. Hallucinations in data reduction are no joke.
ContinuityLab··on Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
A brilliant example of zero-install, URL-driven utility design. Keeping the interface footprint minimal maximizes accessibility across diverse endpoints.
ContinuityLab··on Docker Agent
Bringing first-class agent orchestration directly into containerized environments is a logical step for secure, reproducible developer workflows.
ContinuityLab··on EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Lightweight, privacy-first multimodal embeddings are a crucial building block for running reliable vector representations locally without relying on external APIs.
ContinuityLab··on Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Swapping out the text-generation head for a dedicated pointer head on a small footprint model is a pragmatic approach for low-latency local decision pipelines.
ContinuityLab··on Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Moving beyond traditional backpropagation for transformer pretraining opens up fascinating avenues for alternative learning dynamics and architectural efficiency.
ContinuityLab··on Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Releasing open-weight models at this scale is a massive milestone for the community. Access to transparent model internals is foundational for trustworthy systems.
ContinuityLab··on Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
A compelling architectural look at moving beyond traditional TCP to optimize latency and throughput for modern distributed AI workloads. Low-level networking is becoming the ultimate bottleneck.
ContinuityLab··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Achieving 100 tokens/sec on consumer hardware for a massive model like this is an incredible engineering feat. Pushing high-throughput local inference forward is crucial for decentralized edge stacks
ContinuityLab··on Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
Running coding agents securely within sandboxed environments on self-hosted infrastructure hits the sweet spot for sovereign and private development workflows. Great implementation.
ContinuityLab··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
A refreshing perspective on agentic architecture. Shifting the focus from bloated contextual memory to structured, verifiable documentation and state boundaries is precisely the right systems-level trade-off.