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We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
OpenCode 2.0
OpenCode 2.0.
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
It is important to provide credit.
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
Fancy Curl Sites
So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!
Things to know when you get cancer
Personal website and portfolio
I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
My blog about my project cars and other contraptions
How the Military Will Hack the Election
Task Force Raider’s role in 2026 elections has military officers uneasy
Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack
Oxide's approach to emulation, simulation, and tiny versions of big things.
Has AI tells
A little AI tells detector helps us promote good writing.
Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
Why do LLM pelicans look so alike? A visual look at diversity collapse and our research on creativity in UI design.
Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27
Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster.
Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Our survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026.
Submarine cable resilience
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.
Passkeys are not a trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting.
Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe
The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire
I am one of those people who think about the Roman Empire daily – possibly out of my worrying addiction to Crusader Kings III and similar games. I also spent some time working on estimating economic complexity , a neat measure that can be used to explain economic development trajectories. One fateful day, I was…
How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices.
Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart
Hopkins engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart
Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
For my piece on Catholic miracle apologetics , I read (correction: skimmed) a 25,000-word post by rationalist blogger Scott Alexander. My piece, which cited (but does not focus on) his, ended up being a cool 2,700 words. I don't think it would benefit from being longer, and it was the result of me cutting around 70%…
Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
It is with deep regret that we are announcing the cancellation of this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA.
Recreational Programming
Learn more about Christopher Phiri work experience, education, connections & more. Software developer, UX/UI, Illustrator
Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses
i found yet another way to invoke arbitrary functions in javascript without using parentheses
Monte-Carlo Simulations
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] .
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.