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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent …
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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, wh…
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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly and analyzing the crash’s core dump was the winning…
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.
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AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
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I Remain a Skeptic
I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional dismantling of labour bargaining power, and more. But before all of…
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Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better by staying hidden like Batman’s identity: protect & fight the bad people, for the sake of the global city of the Gotham… err I mean the in
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Splitting a Git Commit
It will ask you hunk by hunk for the things to include in the first commit, and then bring up the editor for the first and second commit message. It couldn’t be simpler than that.
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
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Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.
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Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
When the address of a nested function is taken, GCC creates at trampoline at run-time. This trampoline is placed on the stack, which means that the stack has to be executable. This is problematic because a non-executable stack is an important security feature. For some time now, GCC has the option to place the…
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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Three years ago, we released the design for the Adept, a unique trackball perfectly suited for the use of QMK, for 3D-printing, and for ambidextrous use across a wide variety of applications.
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Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant
Micropayment-powered stories
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Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
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How Claude's text watermarking works
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark to comply with the EU AI Act. We answer questions about how it works and whether it affects outputs.
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Every fucking website: 2026 edition
Every AI-generated landing page, all at once, labelling itself as it goes.
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Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
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Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
Practical tips for how to run efficient sessions that get the most value from every token.
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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Try the RustDesk Wayland preview for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: unattended access across multiple monitors and at the login screen after reboot.
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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…
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Introducing Toast 1
Meet Toast 1, Mixedbread's search agent for knowledge-intensive tasks, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10×…
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
From Situational Awareness’s Blow-up to Materials Science to the HuggingFace Hack
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
I built a small tool that turns my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper, so I can read my favorite blogs on a pocket e-reader instead of my phone.