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English: A vs. An
[Note: the actual project is here ; the current page is only an introduction to it, for my blog readers.]
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private…
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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update: seemingly not Update: Oh yeah!
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Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
By bypassing ChatGPT's sandbox and content security policy, our research team was able to take over anyone's account simply by sending them a link.
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Open source security at Astral
Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.
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Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
cybersecurity, tech, and personal annoyance log
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Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the...
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I’m spending months coding the old way
ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way
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We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Oooooh boy. Let’s get this out of the way first. Email sucks. Now to the how and the why. We’re builders. We love making tools to help designers and developers live a little bit easier. We’re pretty good at it. Marketing, though? We do our best, but the truth is, we don’t like to bother […]
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Digital minimalism
For a long time I have been a fan of minimalism in my physical life: have few physical possessions, and try to do more with less. Four years ago, I wrote this blog post describing what I had in the 40-liter backpack that I travel around with.
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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
We measure the capabilities of LLMs to deanonymize users online.
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Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's random, really.
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We are retiring our bug bounty program
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.
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IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
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Why is Hacker News like that?
Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers” 1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its…
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Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.
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Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.
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A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
ByteShape's device-optimized release showing superior TPS-quality tradeoffs across edge and datacenter hardware.
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Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
Sound economic planning and policymaking requires trustworthy data. Private data can serve as a complement but not fully replace official U.S. statistics.
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Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
Modern applications often spread state across a variety of systems: databases, caches, queues, data warehouses, search indices, and so on. Coordinating these systems is challenging: caches are often stale, the analytics platform might lag days behind the primary database, the search index might lose data, and…
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of…