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GPT-6.1 Terra
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Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11
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A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting
I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny ...
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Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
Discover how untrusted open-weight AI models can potentially leak data, even when self-hosted. Learn the security risks and how to protect your enterprise.
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Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.
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DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
Plus: Recent deaths intensify need to make private prisons subject to FOIA
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Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet
As it turns out, the Brother NC-8700w Command Console is more interesting than it first appears.
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New iPad mini
Apple unveils the all-new iPad mini, featuring an OLED display in a thinner design, a leap in performance with A20 Pro, and water and dust resistance.
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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.
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Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
Tool call accuracy is an important part of serving open-weight AI models. When your tool calls aren’t accurate, the model builds up on nonsensical context. We’ve been carrying our own fork of vLLM to hit 100% in tool call schema accuracy with Kimi and DeepSeek. Fortunately, vLLM 0.31 added support for constrained…
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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Pharo 14
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Websites Should Be Printable
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…
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How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Growing chocolate at home might sound like a wild idea, right? Chocolate originates from cacao trees, which demand a tropical climate, specific growing conditions, and several years to reach maturity in order to flower and fruit to produce cacao pods. However, our CocoTerra founder, Nate Saal, took on the challenge…
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iPhone Duo Teardown
We took the Duo all the way down to the gears, followed glowing dust into its hinge, and put its crease-hiding nano-texture under the microscope.
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Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
My blog just scored a perfect 100 on every Lighthouse category. I love blogging. I wanted to build a blog that’s light, fast, free of clutter, able to run multiple blogs, and fully accessible on top of that. And finally, at long last, I’ve more or less pulled it off. It was quite a tedious proces...
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SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
An accelerated FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 leveraging 128-bit SIMD instructions, achieving ~2x the performance of the reference implementation.
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
What is “the true cost of a token”?
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The State of Context Engineering
As models improve, they bring surprising challenges for those building apps and harnesses. How context engineering has changed this year, and where it’s headed.
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Why I Am a Programmer
There they sit, the preschooler class encircling their mentor, the substitute teacher.
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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom , I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore.
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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
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OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp
Java classes become CLOS classes, seven JVM languages share one Lisp expression, and a saved Spring Boot application launches in 84 milliseconds.
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MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
By now regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with my affection for the 1996 Apple Network Server , Apple's Unix-through-and-thro...
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Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
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America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
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Small Programs and Languages
My Implementing a Forth article got some great feedback, particularly around the subject of tiny Forth implementations. (And it was an excuse to list some of the tiniest Forths I’ve seen.)
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The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)
The other day, my kids started messing around (at home) with an online document writing platform their school uses. They’d discovered a fun little easter egg. I watched them laugh and play with the feature - pushing its limits and ultimately crashing the browser.
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No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.