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The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
A recipe for reasoning LLMs
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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
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The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...
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You can now disable all AI features in Zed
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
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AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.
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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe-Dropping event.
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Why xor eax, eax?
Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?
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Progressive JSON
Why streaming isn't enough.
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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
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Nice things with SVG
Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Learn why Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't scale for high-throughput use cases and what architectural alternatives Recall.ai uses in production.
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Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
A security researcher at Snyk published 5 malicious software packages to the NPM registry. These packages appear to target Cursor.com
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Bored of It
Please, make it stop.
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Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
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Pi-hole v6
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.
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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting for maximizing I/O performance in Postgres 18 over the…
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
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That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
Warning: Math, Handwaving I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school instead of whatever middle schoolers are supposed to do. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I found a neat way to fill up graph paper by combining and copying squares.
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I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
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Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them. 245 euros later... and they finally arrived!
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Qwen3-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Live Stream from the Namib Desert
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en - check these as well (not so exotic, but still a lot of fun)
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?
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The blissful Zen of a good side project
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
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Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.
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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
This is the story of our three year long journey to turn a fleet of laptops into what can only be described as the world's most unhinged video wall.