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The lost cause of the Lisp machines
I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will....
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,822 posts.
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Measuring political bias in Claude
We introduce and open-source an automated evaluation for political even-handedness, testing six models across 1,350 prompt pairs.
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AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Best case: we're in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they're doing.
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Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
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Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
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Meta Segment Anything Model 3
We’ve seen incredible adoption of SAM 3 over the last few months, and during that time, we’ve been working behind the scenes on updates to improve video processing efficiency. Today, we’re pleased to introduce SAM 3.1.
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Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
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The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet…
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Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
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What Killed Perl?
Trick question! Perl is not dead. I’ll show you what I mean, and then still answer what I think killed Perl.
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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AA-Omniscience v1.1: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark
Compare AI model performance on AA-Omniscience v1.1: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark. A benchmark measuring factual recall and hallucination across various economically relevant domains.
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record. We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like…
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Monotype font licencing shake-down
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
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Blender 5.0
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …
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OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
OrthoRoute: GPU-Accelerated PCB Autorouter
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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
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The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi
DAVIS, California – November 18, 2025 – The Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance) announced today the release of Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi, the new brand for Zigbee’s Sub-GHz feature…
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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length…
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`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
TIL: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword
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5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI
Unlock state-of-the-art coding and reasoning in your terminal. Gemini 3 Pro is now in Gemini CLI for Google AI Ultra and paid API subscribers.