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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models…
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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
Learn what triggers Germany’s exit tax for business owners, how it’s calculated, and why growing a profitable company can make leaving Germany costly.
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GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video and my disclosures) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s …
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GPT-5 for Developers
Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.
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Introducing GPT-5
We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more.
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Building Bluesky comments for my blog
I hate disqus too much.
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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
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Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study
Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice
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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
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An LLM does not need to understand MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has became the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief your LLM does not need to understand MCP.
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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.
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The Whispering Earring
Cleaner, easier-to-reference repo of Scott Alexander’s The Whispering Earring (that’s the Schelling title, real title below). Original from livejournal is ba...
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How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ
Artificial intelligence is the biggest tech construction project in a century. Here's what that looks like.
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Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for your repository. It acts both as an autonomous agent for critical rou…
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Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault
Check Point's AI Security Solutions deliver AI-driven threat prevention and unified security management for advanced protection across enterprise networks.
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Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
Train, serve, and scale open-source and custom AI models on the fastest, most reliable inference platform.
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Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
Ars Technica mentioned that in macOS Tahoe the venerable old hard disk icons will be replaced with new, more generic, relatively less inte...
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Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Apple announces American Manufacturing Program
Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.
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The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today 1 [ 1 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. ] all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural. 2 [ 2 Though you still see RFCs use "octet", and the C standard has a CHAR_BITS macro, to…
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Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.
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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option
Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities.
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A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C
My last article about generic data structures in C was written to set the stage for today’s topic: A data structure with constant time indexing, stable pointers, and works well with arena allocators. Its been independently discovered by multiple programmers over the years and so goes by different names. A 2001 paper…
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Jules, our asynchronous coding agent
Jules is officially out of beta and launching publicly, powered by Gemini 2.5.During the beta, thousands of developers tackled tens of thousands of tasks, resulting in o…
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Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
See how GPU drivers work thanks to VkCube in this Rust-based series for the development of Tyr.