Rune 1.1 makes Rune free for personal use and adds a perpetual commercial license, a workspace symbol index, first-class Python support, an Emacs editor, and substantial improvements to SSH workspaces.
Gemma 2B scored ~8.0 on MT-Bench. GPT-3.5 Turbo scored 7.94. An 87-times-smaller model on a laptop CPU, no GPU anywhere in the stack. We published the full tape — every question, every turn, every score — so anyone can verify it. We found seven failure classes. Not hallucinations. Specific patterns: arithmetic where…
Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading fu...
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so, you better catch it!
I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, a ChromeOS 2-in-1 ARM64 tablet. I had been running ChromeOS, then postmarketOS, which suddenly broke. Time for some firmware hacking to try and get Ubuntu to run there!
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Now in early beta for all SuperGrok and X Premium Plus subscribers — Grok Build is a new coding agent that runs right from your terminal.
AI automation and the Four Horsemen of the paper jam.
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the...
An illustrated guide that starts from the basics, explains the Jacobian Conjecture, and follows what happened to it in July 2026.
The accepted practice is to not add lazy-loading to images above the fold, especially the LCP image, since doing so can delay their loading until the browser has determined they are definitely in the viewport. One problem though is that "above the fold" depends on screen size: an image can be above the fold on desktop…
Having played both parts in the kabuki play that is employee-employer matchmaking, I feel the way we play it is a zero-sum game. I wish it were not so. When this post started life in 2024, as a wall of text chat message, it was brutal out there, on both sides of the software industry interview table. The ZIRP had…
How I got many of my childhood games running again after fighting with old Copy-Protection mechanisms
INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT Following my recent rants about computer generated effects ( here and here ), I thought it would be fun to look i...
In the previous article we explored how the Go runtime bootstraps itself — how a Go binary goes from the operating system handing it control to your func main() running. During that bootstrap, one of the first things the runtime sets up is the memory allocator. And that’s what we’re going to explore today. Think of…
Create your first shader in Godot. Implement texture sampling, shift shader UV coordinates, mask regions, and use noise to generate random shapes that make up a portal.
In this post I’m going to cover a neat technique for rendering regions of fog with varying density. I’ll start by covering some of the basic principles behind fog rendering and a few co…
We turned zkao (our AI auditor) on OpenVM, a state-of-the-art zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug: the pairing check accepted a prover-supplied witness without proper subfield checking, which lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. It is fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0 and tracked as CVE-2026-46669. This is…
Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?
These are questions about C++ Style and Technique that people ask me often. If you have better questions or comments on the answers, feel free to email me (bs at cs dot tamu dot edu). Please remember that I can't spend all of my time improving my homepages.
The PGP problem
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
We identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark to comply with the EU AI Act. We answer questions about how it works and whether it affects outputs.
The field of generative AI is evolving quickly. It brings compelling opportunities to improve developer productivity, but it also brings risks: to reviewer burden, to safety and security, and to intellectual property.
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.
It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.
