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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.
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Good type against all odds
A blog about software craft and quality
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Greg Brockman interview [video]
The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation, Greg goes inside the moments that built, and nearly …
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Anthropic's Safety Superpower
Anthropic’s belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.
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It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
NB: The title of this post is an intentional clickbait. Even though I do stand for its statement, a more honest one would be something like: It's NOT OK to compare floating-points using epsilons.
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.
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Take better notes, by hand
Researching a topic is hard, because not only are you trying to puzzle together the causes and effects of a given problem or historical series of events, you're also looking out carefully for leads and new threads to pull. Falling down rabbit holes is common—and encouraged—but eventually you need to pull yourself back…
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My graduation cap runs Rust
Eric Park's website
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The Gentle Seduction (1989)
He worked with computers; she worked with trees, and the flowers that took hold on the sides of the Mountain.
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Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
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Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
In a time before crypto, Twitter, and AI slop, we had communities, real experiences, and beautiful TV…
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An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story
A medical professional built a patient management app using AI, exposed all patient data unprotected to the internet, and sent voice recordings to AI services without consent. Likely violating Swiss nDSG and other laws.
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Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.
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Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph…
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Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
AI agents write code faster than anyone can read it. What engineers still need: fundamentals, breadth, and the willingness to dive in when it breaks.
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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...
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LLMs Are Complicated Now
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendatio…
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Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
Technical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
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FLUX 3 Image Klein
Frontier image quality with the customization and speed of open weights: 5.6B parameters, first in text-to-image, multi-reference generation and editing.
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Switch Lowering in GCC
We have seen in a previous post that switch statements are more complex than they seem. The compiler is able to implement them as a decision tree (even though maybe it shouldn't). Is that everything it can do?
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Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence
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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Unusual Suspects
Sketch the suspect from witness testimony
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Is this the new cyber normal?
A week of cyber incidents one after another – is this what every week is going to look like and what can we do about it?
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Where does next-token prediction leave us?
Your favourite ROP gadget