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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded jointly to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis"
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,787 posts.
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Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.
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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
A flickering fireplace, a softly lit garden, and a smart home the whole family finally enjoys.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
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A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
I wrote a specification for a new terminal escape sequence: OSC 7501, the Program Status Protocol . It lets any program tell the terminal what it's doing: idle, working, waiting on the user, finished, or failed, and why.
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Decisions API is in public beta
Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text, images, and JSON against a rubric.
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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Psiphon, a software company that helps internet users under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the lawful-access bill passes.
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Grieving the loss of details
I’ve been thinking about where I stand in respect to the current state of the industry. This is more of a journal note than a post, apologies for that. I usually leave this stuff private, but I thought I’d post this as a trial in case someone relates to this experience and feels less alone. All opinions are my own.
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How machines learned precision
How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures.
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EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing…
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Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
Sticks tongue out at AI
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Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol
tapo now logs in over the TPAP protocol, so the Third-Party Compatibility switch in the Tapo app can stay off. Also new: H200 and H500 camera hubs with recording downloads, and plug schedules and timers.
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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r…
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A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update…
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Polars 2.0
The release Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine, out-of-core and first class blazingly fast SQL support
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I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin"
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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
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We are going to kill "unalive"
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
Bringing back mid-2000s Video conferencing in Apple iChat
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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
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LLMs may have helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
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Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
just a diary
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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.