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Security through obscurity is not bad
Why security through obscurity still matters: not as your only defence, but as a practical layer that raises attacker cost.
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Flutter 3.47
Modular by design: Standalone UI Packages and Impeller on Desktop
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Precursor
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for…
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If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruitin…
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My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
My personal website and blog
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Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced developers and new developers alike. But there are trade-offs.
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Wirth's Revenge
Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?
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Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay to better distinguish the two products.
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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Hospitals spent $7.8B on consulting over a decade with no meaningful improvements in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes, a new study finds.
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MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
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Full-Text Search with DuckDB
Pete Doherty is a NYC based software developer
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Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
On the Strait of Hormuz, fertility research, and the millions of dollars bet on artificial wombs that missed the point
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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
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Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
In 2025, fewer people worldwide are imagining their futures elsewhere. The U.S., long the world's most desired destination, is attracting less interest than at any point in nearly two decades.
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Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
My AI nuclear simulation is out now, and it's a WOPR.
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Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
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My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
I shared this internally at Meta in response to a deluge of clout-chasing posts celebrating PMs landing prod diffs. The response was positive and the message generalizes, so here we are on the open www. PMs shouldn’t waste time landing … Continue reading →
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Why are we even doing all this?
[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out…
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The IBM-ification of Google?
I used to think Google owning the full vertical stack was a masterstroke. Like TSMC silicon, TPUs, their own data centers, proprietary models, search engine....
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My Favourite Laptop
I’m not a big owner of things, but the best laptop I’ve ever owned is a roughed-up 2015 Thinkpad X250.
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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs 1 . They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked 2 . This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.
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A love letter to flashcards
A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive
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Coursera and Udemy are now one company
Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
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Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
No extra software to install: OpenSSH remote forwarding and nginx's secure_link module give you a shareable HTTPS URL with an expiring token.
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Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration
Notion AI was susceptible to data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection due to a vulnerability in which AI document edits are saved before user approval.
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Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi
Last year my aunt let me add her original Tangerine iBook G3 clamshell to my collection of old Macs1. It came with an AirPort card—a $99 add-on Apple made that ushered in the Wi-Fi era. The iBook G3 was the first consumer laptop with built-in Wi-Fi antennas, and by far the cheapest way to get a computer onto an 802.11…
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Growing Trees
Growing procedural trees through competition for light: buds, resource allocation, shoot direction, and branch shedding.
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TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
Discover TorchTPU, Google’s new engineering stack designed to run PyTorch natively on TPU infrastructure with peak efficiency. Learn how its "Eager First" philosophy and XLA integration simplify model migration while unlocking massive scalability for the next generation of AI.