Engineered Addictions
How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships
Are we the baddies?
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts.
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
Try Switching to Kagi
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The latest news, updates, and stories from Waymo.
This is not the future
I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".
Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
Our legal battle over Oracle's claim on the word "JavaScript" is entering the discovery phase. Here's how you can help.
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
Making web crawlers eat shit since 2023
Using LLMs at Oxide
Large language models (LLMs) are an indisputable breakthrough of the last five years, potentially profoundly changing the way that we work. As with any extraordinarily powerful tool, LLM use has both promise and peril — and that they are so general-purpose leaves real questions about how and when they should be used…
What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Explore the new Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, featuring enhanced coding performance, video to code capabilities, and improvements for front-end web development.
Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Subscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying.
The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…
How we lost communication to entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Devstral
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
My first contribution to Linux
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
Claude 4 System Card
Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …
A Reddit bot drove me insane
I stumbled across a Reddit bot posting emotional rants about how bots are ruining Reddit; just to sell AI-generated books through affiliate links. A perfectly dystopian grift for the dead internet.
Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Am I now committing civil disobedience... just by keeping my personal literary website up as is?
React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.
Librarians are dangerous
A public service announcement
How I code with AI on a budget/free
A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.
The Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
It's time to make computing personal again
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
I work from home everyday, I am susceptible to eye strain, eye pain, and dizziness. Having a working environment that’s as easy on my eyes as possible is of critical importance. I'd like to share what I've learned over the years in hopes that it can be helpful to you if you work from home, and like many, have…