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Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
Sarvam open-sources 30B and 105B reasoning models trained in India: MoE LLMs with leading Indian-language benchmarks; weights on AI Kosh and Hugging Face.
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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and ensures consistency across the toolchain, making it easier to manage…
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Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
Political bias in AI measures where every major AI model stands on charged political and ethical questions: run many times, no web search, plotted with error...
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Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
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JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
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GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
Edit: Woah, this took off! If you want more details you can subscribe at the bottom of the post or on YouTube. I’m working on a more detailed highlights/commentary post and video. Previously: We got Claude Code playing Factorio, Towards beating Factorio autonomously, and Faketorio: an agent testbed I got GPT-5.6 Sol…
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Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
The website of Ike Saunders
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Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
White noise machines are widely used for sound masking, increasing privacy in offices and helping people sleep. The classic approach is a fan in a box, though in the past ten years people have mostly switched over to electronic ones. But a fan is really a great approach; you just need to put it to better use: have the…
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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral. Except if we look…
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Overcoming the friendship recession
My thoughts on the friendship recession and what I'm doing to maintain friendships.
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The first early human eggs from stem cells
A look inside the biology, engineering, and validation behind a major scientific milestone.
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Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
A safety-filtered pretrain can duck a charged word without refusing. It puts a fraction of the probability an open-data pretrain puts there. We call that...
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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering.
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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
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Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
Founded by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization. We drive foundational, risk-taking research that addresses society’s most pressing challenges, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and agricultural resilience.
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Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One…
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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
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Building on ATProto
If you prefer to receive all of my writing in your inbox, you can subscribe here. I strive to publish weekly, on Tuesday mornings.
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Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,...
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Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.
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When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NamePrep was...
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1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
A technical teardown of a 1-click RCE against OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot), a viral open-source AI assistant trusted by 100,000+ developers with high-privilege access. See how a settings logic flaw and a WebSocket pivot turn a single webpage visit into token exfiltration, safety-control bypass, and arbitrary…
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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
First foray into the Zig programming language
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Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.
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Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Repository drawgent by yanndegat.tngl.sh on Tangled.
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Memory Safe Inline Assembly
Since Fil-C 0.685, memory-safe inline assembly is supported on both X86_64 and ARM64.
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Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please
Modern programming languages are full of violence, vulgar abbreviations, and naked imperatives. Bespoke is a statically typed alternative in which exceptions are regrettable circumstances, mutexes ...
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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.