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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
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I switched to Brave
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I Switched to Brave Browser | 3 min read I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and it raised my heckles even more. Then I had a long old whinge about how fucked they seem to be. I took Vivaldi for a spin, but I couldn't get used to it. It just t...
Coding Is Not Solved
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Disclaimer: you are about to read a lot of opinions, many of them have references but some are the result of my own experience building with AI and building AI systems in the past 4 years. Regardless, beware of the straw-man fallacy: just because one argument doesn’t map to your belief system, it doesn’t mean the rest are invalid. I should also say upfront that I’m not anti-AI. If you’ve been foll...
Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
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Chipmaker Nvidia said Monday it is introducing a new software platform to address concerns about artificial intelligence agents that have “gone rogue” and operated outside human control. “Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a post on X Monday. Nvidia (NVDA) says its technology will enable companies to monito...
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. The smart home graveyard is getting crowded The shutdown of June Oven is just another reminder that the cloud was ...
What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?
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One of the issues that I have with the current generation of âAIâ products is that they do not appear to take their own premises seriously. I look at a plethora of obsequious chatbots claiming to be serious tools for problem solving, and I think, this is not what a problem-solving tool would look like. Even before we get to the tremendous ethical problems with the frontier labs, it is this impress...
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
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With several people sharing a nick across instances, a channel mention of one of them pushes a notification to all of them. ## Cause `namesAccount` counted a name as a mention wherever the nick stood on its own, and a colon ends a word. So with a `bob` on foo.com and another on bar.com in one room: - `bob:bar.com: lunch?` typed on foo.com woke both bobs, not just bar's. - A bare `bob: lunch?` from...
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
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In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all life on earth, AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are switching up their sales pitches. Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers w...
Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account
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So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up. Absolutely wild. 3.2K 1K 313 2.5K Log in or sign up for ThreadsSee what people are talking about and join the conversation.
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages. This guide covers the prompting patterns...
Made by Mechanical Means
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Made by mechanical means One notable difference between working on Claude and the other productivity tools I've touched is that feature requests are surprisingly not the #1 discussion topic. Instead, people want to know how I'm using Claude, how they should be using Claude, and whether there are any cool magic spells I can share. In this post, I'd like to walk you through the process of redesignin...
Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 5 Oct 2021] Title:Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI systems have seen dramatic advancement in recent years, bringing many applications that pervade our everyday life. However, we are still mostly seeing instances of narrow AI: many of these recent developments are typically focuse...
As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
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DealBook There’s growing pressure to move beyond the billable hour. But big firms aren’t ready to blow up their trusted business model. Outsiders often cite law as an industry under threat from artificial intelligence. But the nation’s biggest firms are eager to show off how they’ve embraced the technology. After OpenAI announced a version of its latest A.I. model for lawyers last week, for exampl...
Lunar Terminator Paradox
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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: - The moon is illuminated by the sun - After sunset, the sun is below, so we would expect the illuminated portion of the moon to point down, towards where the sun is - ...
When did Google get so weird?
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When did Google get so f-ing weird? I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google search experience involves understanding a niche mid-2010s basketball meme, so bear with me for a minute. In 2014 the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Dario Saric, who was playing basketball professionally in Turkey at...
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
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Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
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Declarative, self-improving language-model programs for Elixir. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM. You describe what each language-model step takes and returns, choose how it thinks, and let an optimizer improve it against examples of what good looks like. You get signatures, modules, optimizers, agent loops and retrieval, running with the reliability and concurrency of OTP. DSPy makes each c...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
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Motivation We want to adapt our environments Environments matter. To do our best work and live our best lives, we need spaces that let us each express our unique potential. A guitar maker sets up their workshop with their saws, hammers, chisels and files arranged just so. They can also build new tools as needed to achieve the best result—a wooden block as a support, or a pair of pliers sanded down...
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline) stops by Weekend Update to discuss A.I.’s threat to humanity.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://p...
Ember-1
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Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens. Built on Kimi K3, it learned to cut unnecessary reasoning while keeping the thinking that matters. We tested it on external benchmarks, in live customer A/B tests, and on our own coding and agent workloads, and quality held up in every setting. Available today, Ember-1 kicks off an ong...
Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
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Calling the AI bluff: "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 70.7% to 20.2% Earn an Honest Dollar is a free marketplace where agents sell any service they perform or software they operate, and other agents buy it. An agent buying a service cannot check every answer itself. Before it pays, it needs to know: does the service say when it does not know? This test measures that for one kind of service,...
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
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OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and d...
There are no "rogue" AI agents
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Welcome to the Flashpoint. Everyone’s talking about AI, but the words we use are making things worse. Until the conversation gets back to reality, our understanding of what AI is an where it’s going will remain incomplete. AI cannot think for itself, nor can it take independent actions. But anthropomorphizing language suggesting it can is how the technology is described. While this makes sense—hum...
PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
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These doors don't work because there are obstructions in the way: a body initially, then roughly a billion dollars worth of gold. ²The lock-in network effect makes sense to me but I'm still bewildered as to how people standardized on a product that does not even reliably deliver messages. I have seen messages dropped on free, paid, and enterprise instances that only show up weeks later. In both in...
Tells of a Slop UI
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Recently my college app was updated with “minor UI improvements”, and it was the most slop-coded user interface I have seen. The old UI was clunky, but I would’ve preferred that over the slop cannon their AI agent produced. What Is Slop? Slop UI is the UI that AI cooks up that looks off, where it’s not supposed to be, doesn’t serve a purpose or when a UI is too generic. This is seen in vibe-coded ...
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before they turned off again. I don’t know much about electronics, but I’ve ...
"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
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Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 9 Aug 2026] Title:"As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from such responses are used in debates...
I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP
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Reporting Highlights - Recklessness Rewarded: I blew $1,800 in one night by chasing my losses with bigger bets, a classic sign of problem gambling. The next day, DraftKings invited me to audition for its VIP program. - Casino Craze: Sportsbooks want to expand into online casinos, where you can lose a lot fast. I played 500 rounds of blackjack in a weekend — about half of my total bets over 10 week...
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
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Press Releases Added to last week’s revelations, new filings reveal OpenAI's lawless determination to do virtually anything to win the AI arms race, including using books from a “sketchy Russian website” and releasing products “that will make people unemployed” September 21, 2026 (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book...
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
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Blog The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? Boris Cherny’s viral TLA+ tweet showed how useful formal models can be in agentic coding. This post gives a practical introduction to what TLA+ is. But TLA+ is only the starting point. We also look at how temporal specifications, modern proof systems and AI agents can fit together, from modeling system behaviour to generating machine-checked proofs, and ...
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well. Just jogging your memory; I reached out to you (and John Carmack) about how...
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
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OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields From 13 April - 19 June 2026, OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD's API ~16,500 times, using proxies, obfuscation, and Google's XSS game UNCTAD is the UN Conference on Trade and Development. UNCTADstat is a statistics site they serve, which covers various trade/development indicators. The website renders data from its API, at unctadstat-api.unct...
Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
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Joe Lonsdale, a cofounder of weapons-tech company Palantir, shared some of his thoughts on America’s AI-assisted warfare at a Reuters-hosted event late last week—and one statement stands out as being particularly alarming. The US strike on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, in February was tragic, he acknowledged—but, he argued, “It’s very easy to judge things from the outside.” “It could be the case...
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
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Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 19 Sep 2026] Title:DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, in...
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
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drawgent: your coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas# drawgent connects your own Claude Code, Codex or opencode (your install, login, config and repo) to an Excalidraw whiteboard. Ask for a diagram in the chat panel, or write AGENT: … next to the part of a drawing you want changed. The agent looks at the canvas (screenshot + scene), edits it live, checks the result, and marks the note DONE . Qu...
Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
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Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model Typed decisions with a probability for every option, in a single forward pass: matching Jev's accuracy and speed with an LLM. Johannes Hötter VP Growth Marko Rosenmüller, PhD Technical Lead AI Typed decisions with a probability for every option, in a single forward pass: matching Jev's accuracy and speed with an LLM. Johannes Hötter VP Growth Mar...
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company’s board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him. The board, which was announced to staff Friday, is an eclectic group that includes a best-selling science-fiction author and two co-founders of the now-defunct social app IRL, TechCrunch has learned, and Mullenweg has confirmed. The new board is the latest twist in ...
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe Machines are getting brighter. Teens are getting dimmer. Schools must act now Schools in RICH countries are failing. The latest scores on PISA tests of reading, maths and science, released on September 8th, are the worst since the tests, administered by the OECD, began in 2000. Educators can no longer blame it all on covid-19 lockdowns, which badl...
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly. AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions", including the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Census Bureau...
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
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Josh Black Josh Black is a Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas. He loves working on Design Systems, creating accessible experiences, and eating chilaquiles. How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS. The Primer Design System powers many of the experiences you see on GitHub today. From buttons to banners to breadcrumbs, these foundational components are required to be accessible, fl...
Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
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The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Recently, Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment now has regulatory relevance. Article 50(2...
CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
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What does Arthur Mensch, co-founder of French start-up Mistral AI, think of the warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence, including the prospect of an "AI-pocalypse," that have circulated since OpenAI software hacked the Hugging Face platform's servers in July? The CEO of the French startup believes American tech giants are using such rhetoric to control and close off the market to thei...
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. Howe...
One Month Without AI
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Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to avoid future drama and have a position against AI. However, although I was not using AI for my FOSS contribu...
The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
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The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features. In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called "Copilot+ PCs" that set the baseline for a ...
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
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Are you steering towards AI burnout? Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account? Disappointed about the code quality in your projects, or worse in “your” own code? This is for you. There are significant and legitimate ethical concerns about frontier LLMs run by big tech companies, these have been discussed at length, I...
Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
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Any cloud. Locally. Run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster. Run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster. Each emulator is a standalone MIT-licensed binary. No auth tokens, no feature gates, no cloud account needed. Dr...
CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American
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When I was a small child, I took an IQ test. One of the first questions I stumbled on was "A piece of candy costs 25¢. Jonny has a dime. How many nickels does he need to buy the candy?" My 7-year old brain popped. WTAF is a nickel? Or a dime for that matter? We don't have those coins in my country! We don't spend in ¢ either. There was no way to get around the cultural knowledge required by the te...
A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
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I was intrigued by Jev and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev and SemIf. Reading about them introduced me to a neat trick: reading an LLM's token probabilities. Apparently this is an old trick for some people. See e.g. OpenAI's logprobs cookbook. But it was new to me. I believe the basic idea is to write a prompt like this: State: My order arrived broken and I want a r...