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AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
Friendly articles and tutorials for front-end web developers. ❤️
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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
The lead of the ongoing PS5 Linux project has left the homebrew scene following the wave of AI vibe-coders joining open-source spaces.
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Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well.
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Don't trust AI agents
AI agents need a security model that assumes things will go wrong. The right response isn't better permission checks, it's architecture that makes trust unnecessary.
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Anti-patterns in software blogging
Effective writing for software developers
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Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
SpaceXAI returns to the intelligence frontier with strengths in agentic performance and cost efficiency
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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
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.
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SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
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First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.
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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
I am forced to leave Google with 2026-08-31 because of the deal with the US Department of War, which is incompatible with my ethical principles.
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An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD
I wanted to provide an update on the situation with OpenTTD on Steam and GOG, and what the Atari re-release of Transport Tycoon Deluxe means for OpenTTD. There has been a lot of speculation and, in some cases, misinformation spread about what has happened. Our initial announcement perhaps didn’t provide as much detail…
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A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
Why the companies winning in the AI age own their intelligence: a task-trained open source model vs the frontier, with every number published.
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Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
ZCode silently uploads full Git history to the cloud; this post provides a block rule and source review — checkpoint claims fall apart against the code.
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Craig Venter has died
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder,...
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I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
I made a Game Boy Color game that renders images in real time. The player controls an orbiting light and spins an object.
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AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
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Navier-Stokes Announcement
The Millennium Prize Problems were unveiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) at a meeting in Paris in 2000 to celebrate “The Universality of Mathematical Thought”. These problems encapsulate some of the most difficult challenges that mathematicians were grappling with at the turn of the millennium. CMI’s…
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Does creatine make you smarter?
And why does the brain use creatine anyway?
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Bird brains (2023)
A kea parrot in New Zealand learned to drag traffic cones onto a highway so cars would stop and humans would feed it. That sent me down a rabbit hole on how we actually measure bird intelligence.
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GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those taking place in the pharmaceutical industry.
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False claims in a widely-cited paper
A couple months ago we had a post, This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. which was about…
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Using an engineering notebook
One of my core software engineering practices is writing, by hand, in a physical notebook [1] . It's one of the most important things I do to remain productive and effective. Maybe the single most important. And it's a practice that I see very few others using!
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Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.
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Actually Queryable Executables
I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others.
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The last time my family was replaced by technology
My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.
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OpenClaw is changing my life
I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work. Sure…