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Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
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Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?
Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
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Rendezvous with Rama
Some musings on the novel "Rendezvous with Rama".
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The Future Belongs to the Weird
the gospel for those out of distribution
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Optimizing a lock-free ring buffer
A single-producer single-consumer (SPSC) queue is a great example of how far constraints can take a design. In this post, you will learn how to implement a ring …
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Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot
On efficient algorithms, the exponential time hypothesis, and losing the plot.
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Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?
Every end-to-end encrypted messenger ships a fingerprint UI. Almost nobody opens it. A note on what's actually missing.
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Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
PRAGUE, 18 February 2026 – A landmark international study across five Central European countries has found hazardous chemicals in every single pair of headphones analysed, from premium models to cheap imports. Authors say the results reveal a systemic failure in consumer safety regulation acros...
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SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others
UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.
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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
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Lunar Terminator Paradox
There's an optical illusion known by names like the "lunar terminator paradox". This has much discussion and descriptions online, but none made sense in my head, so I wrote this program to figure out what was going on. The paradox:
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You need a webring
Yes you! You need a webring
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OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Part 1 of a series that takes an unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices, with a single strategy.
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Yes, Claude can do nine loops
Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills
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I love email (2023)
I constantly hear about how much everybody hates email. Look, I receive just as many spam messages and useless email-based notifications and stuffy vapid “regarding my previous email” work messages as the next gal. I get it. But I’ve found there’s something magical about email as a medium of communication, and as a…
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Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
A new randomized control trial tested personalized vitamin D supplementation based on blood test results.
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TypeScript 6.0 RC
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following
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Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers
Fun things to do with big computers
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Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?
This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival. The theme is “No way!?”, hosted by Alex Hsu. It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood, only have episodic memory at 3-6 years old, and only after those first 5-6 years we start to form autobiographical memories. So…
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Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)
ByteShape's full ShapeLearn release of Qwen 3.8 27B: five GGUF models on the quality-speed frontier across six GPUs. GPU-5 is the default wherever it fits, at 99.63% of BF16. GPU-4 stays very competitive in a much smaller file.
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Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2
The cost of thread context switch, including cache invalidation, can reach up to 3 million CPU cycles RTTI can be quite expensive, with dynamic_cast being up...
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Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented"
Press Release for the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026: "Unraveling The Democratic Era?"
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Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer
Like some of you, we have several kitchen appliances with integrated digital timers.
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Redefining Go Functions
I once wrote a Perl subroutine that would memoize the subroutine that called it. That much was useful, but then it inserted a copy of itself into the caller, so that its callers would be memoized too. A well-placed call to aggressively_memoize could back-propagate to the whole codebase, spreading functional purity…
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Making a vintage LLM from scratch
In this blog post, I will share the adventures I had creating my own LLM, from (almost) scratch, trained only on old texts. I made my own base-training and fine-tuning scripts, data processing pipelines and custom datasets. ("almost from scratch" means I did use existing programming languages and libraries, I didn't…
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Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI
Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology2026104 points28 commentsAI & Machine Learning details
At a time when there's widespread interest in self-improving AI, researchers here have tackled one of the central challenges affecting its development by using an approach adapted from evolutionary biology.
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DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration
A detailed tutorial on DDR4 SDRAM Initialization, Training and Calibration. Exploring topics such as Read/Write Training, ZQ Calibration, Vref Training, Read Centering, Write Centering, Write Leveling and Periodic Calibration.