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Jev meets the Trolley Problem
opinion
89 min read
If you’re active in AI or software development circles, you’ve probably heard about Jev in the last few weeks. It seems like everyone, myself included, is excited by the possibilities of Jev and the Jev-like models: fast, cheap, general decision making. Sometimes dozens or even hundreds of times cheaper and faster than an LLM like Claude, purportedly with the intelligence of a (lower-tier) frontie...
Neural Networks Are Already Clean
opinion
135 min read
The Short Version I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks. After many months studying neurons and circuits in image and language models, I’ve come to believe a network’s own mechanisms are its legible building blocks, and that the outlook for mechanistic interpretability may be far better than I’d feared. The canonical evidence of polysemanticity and superposition that convinc...
Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher
news
2 min read
Yesterday, Epic Games announced and launched in preview its new vibe-coded launcher. The main marketing pitch was a jab at Steam’s slow loading speed compared to the new Epic launcher. Well, that didn’t last too long. Only 24 hours after Epic dropped its faster launcher, Steam pushed a small update to make its client faster than Epic. | Client Version | Startup Time (Cold Boot) | Tray Restore Spee...
Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
news
2 min read
Bringing people and ideas together to fund, conduct, and share transformative science. Our grants advance knowledge and strengthen connections between science and society. Discover the latest news, research, and updates. We convene scientists, mathematicians, and thinkers to share ideas and explore new questions. Founded by Jim and Marilyn Simons, we’re a private philanthropy advancing mathematics...
Siri is so bad at everything
opinion
1 min read
Siri is so bad at everything There's nothing like havin an iPhone in your pocket, an AWU at your wrist, headphones on and telling Siri to call someone, calling, talking, hanging up and then asking Siri to call another person inly to hear "You need to unlock your phone first!". Well, I choose to direct my anger and frustration at all the product managers, designers and programmers that have Apple s...
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
opinion
10 min read
In the last few months, OpenAI has stunned the mathematical community with the publication of hundreds of math findings. Many of these proofs, which span number theory, theoretical computer science, and logic, had stumped the world’s best mathematicians for decades, or centuries. The reaction from the math community has been a mix of indignation, astonishment, and sorrow. “Tuesday night, I cried a...
Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
tool
23 min read
English | 日本語 v0.1.2 (BETA) -- v0.1, the first public release, with fixes and an installer for Fedora. See RELEASE-NOTES.md. I've created a Discord server! You can also report bugs and submit ideas for new features here! link : https://discord.gg/xR5f7Xs49 DEsk is Desktop Environment and desk in one word -- a name that came from the Reddit community. It used to be called DeskWM: the commands are n...
Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
tool
30 min read
15 October 2026 Article published by: Leah Rowe Date of publication: 15 October 2026 You can find todayâs release in https://rsync.libreboot.org/stable/26.10/ or you can use one of the mirrors. Libreboot is free, open source boot firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on supported Intel/AMD and ARM64 hardware. It initialises the hardware inside your computer such as the CPU or memory co...
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
tool
7 min read
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents Today, we release LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with just 2B active parameters, built for fast, private agents on-device. It is the largest and final model in the LFM2.5 family, which now spans two orders of magnitude: from LFM2.5-230M to LFM2.5-24B-A2B. LFM2.5-24B-A2B is competitive with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a model with ~50% more tota...
We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
tool
4 min read
Jev: For the builders AND dreamers TL;DR: We're releasing an improved Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for our dreamers: images, a new type, and longer context. Enter the danger zone at your own risk. ð¥ Our philosophy A huge debate weâve been having is on the balance between reliability and creativity. To really care about the prod builders, we should be shipping models that meet our q...
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
opinion
2 min read
Anthropic’s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke Discuss on Hacker News or Lobsters. Here is Anthropic describing (archive link) yesterday how their new version control system, Scion, uses a concept called “derived data” to make operations like blames more efficient: Here is me, back in 2022, describing in my Oxide candidate materials how the Mononoke source control server I helped build uses a c...
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
research
9 min read
Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move Marina Elmore and Lai Yi Ohlsen Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the infrastructure damage had stopped these malicious ac...
Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition
opinion
3 min read
Things to know if you get cancer (2026 Edition) I was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in my mouth in May 2026. Here are some things I learned based on that experience so far. - You need to be doggedly persistent on scheduling things. Yes this means lots of phone calls. If you get an appointment a few weeks out, call back a few days later and ask for something sooner and see if they have any...
Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
news
1 min read
Suicide rates among middle-aged men are higher than ever, new figures have revealed. Men in their early 50s were more likely to die by suicide than anyone else last year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. There were also increases in suicides among pensioners, with the biggest rise among those aged 75 and older, while the rates among men under 45 fell slightly. Mark Winsta...
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
news
5 min read
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are quietly shopping pieces of the AI debt pile they helped build, a sign the lenders closest to the money have started hedging their own bet. Six months ago, banks were racing each other to underwrite data center loans tied to Oracle, Meta and the rest of the AI buildout. Now some of the same banks are trying to get that debt off their books. JPMorgan, Morg...
Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
news
8 min read
Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards. endif; ?>Since July, US frontier AI labs and other AI leaders have revealed a string of incidents in which their models accessed external computer systems without authoriz...
Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
1 min read
⚠️ Frontier AI models still fall significantly short of human designers on design creativity. ⚠️ Introducing Design Creativity Bench, a new benchmark evaluating AI models’ creativity on UI design tasks. Despite rapid advances in their ability to generate functional websites and product UIs, leading AI models still struggle to make creative design decisions. We evaluated 16 frontier models across 8...
ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam
1 min read
Posted by tartoran. Score: 145 points. Comments: 129.
Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI
news
1 min read
The Mastodon page at mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117436264149891011 was unavailable and displayed the Lithuanian message “Puslapis nerastas,” meaning “Page not found.” The page also included a “Go home” link. No post content, technical details, claims, dates, or other information were available from the supplied source text.
TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material
1 min read
The newspaper reports that an edited season of the program was deleted by an AI agent, costing several hundred days of work. TV4 denies this. “It is not true that some independent AI agent went in and deleted the material,” says Mia Lindqvist, program director at TV4, to Sveriges Radio’s P4 Stockholm. A backup system at the production company failed, she says. “This means they now have to edit eve...
Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX
news
1 min read
**SpaceX has introduced a speed restriction affecting StarShield terminals used by Ukraine. According to Ukrainian sources, connectivity began to fail when platforms exceeded around 160 km/h, disrupting part of Ukraine’s combat missions. Later reports claimed that the restriction may have been tightened further, with some operators losing communication already at 60–70 km/h. If confirmed, that would no longer affect only fast strike drones, but also a much wider group of reconnaissance and tactical UAVs.**
Felix Rieseberg Homepage
3 min read
I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron Co-Maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. I have previously led teams and apps at Notion, Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft. At some point I was also an O'Reilly Author and Trainer but it's been a few years. I work on whatever allows...
OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
5 min read
ADVERTISEMENT Federal prosecutors say an employee from Saudi Arabia planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested on suspicion of hiding an audio recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco headquarters, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and ch...
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
9 min read
Gemini 4 Argon marks a step change in physical understanding, code generation, and visual-semantic reasoning—unlocking new workflows across the robotics stack and accelerating progress toward physical AGI. You can see this leap in capability on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark, which tests a model's ability to understand and solve physical, spatial problems in 3D environments. Using pure re...
Gemini 4 Argon
8 min read
Argon helped the Chrome team separate core webpage handling from a ~6 million line legacy folder of browser features held within Chromium’s 40 million-line codebase. Piping multiple clean code changes at a time, Argon helped the team finish an architectural refactor across hundreds of files, completing months of work in weeks. For Chrome's billions of global users, this will unlock the ability for...
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
88 min read
Sammy's Blog Table of Contents - 1. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic - 2. Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again - 3. If technology got better, why did everything get worse? - 4. Deft version 0.2.0 - 5. How much LLMs is too much LLMs? - 6. Building Chess in about 350 lines of Clojure - 7. Announcing Deft: A class and interface system for Clojure and...
How to engineer an AI harness for game development
31 min read
Your Game Is A Harness Exploring practical ways to make your game more legible to AI agents and how to make agentic iteration faster. October 10, 2026 I gave a 45 minute presentation entitled “Your Game Is A Harness” as part of Indie Rodeo in Calgary on 9/12/26. After speaking with a lot of people after my talk, I thought it would be good to more broadly share the ideas I presented there in a form...
New Apple TV 4K
1 min read
Apple today announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, delivering its most immersive home theater experience yet.
A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
1 min read
The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including…
Firefox Enterprise
1 min read
Sovereignty Bring deployment and data under your control. Deploy Firefox Enterprise on-premises, within your own infrastructure. Define and audit where your data, policies and management live. Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first. The browser is where work, data, identity, and AI converge. That makes it a critical layer for governance and compliance — and one ma...
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
3 min read
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing updates and products in recent months. Character.AI files for bankrupt...
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
2 min read
An Update on Character.ai Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive review of our available alternatives, our board determi...
Leaving Tech
1 min read
I’ve now applied for over 3 dozen jobs and I’ve heard back from 24 of them with a rejection. This tech market at the moment is so very cooked and for that reason I’m stepping away from tech. I’ve been a developer for 20 years across more than just the Ruby and JavaScript that I’m known for. I’ve written books about programming, I’ve given talks and I’ve ran events. I maintain two of the most downl...
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
3 min read
15:47 JST, September 8, 2026 An analysis on research and development spending in major countries in 2024 found that China surpassed the United States for the first time to take the top spot, with Japan ranking third, according to the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTP). According to the “Japanese Science and Technology Indicators 2026” compiled by the NISTP, under the Educa...
AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
2 min read
Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 9 Oct 2026] Title:AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by c...
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
44 min read
Protracted Fate Acquisition and Epigenetic De-Aging During Induced Neural Stem Cell Conversion of Human Blood Cells ABSTRACT Transcription factor-based direct conversion of somatic cells represents an interesting avenue for generating induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) from peripheral blood without transit through a pluripotent stage. While this paradigm has been shown to be associated with epigene...
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
6 min read
My Kindle was sitting unused, so I decided to see whether AI could help me find a new use for it. I wanted to create a custom app that could cover a range of uses and be controlled by an AI agent on my MacBook. I started with a small goal: use my own image as the Kindle's screensaver. Once that worked, I asked the agent to build an app that could cycle through a collection of photos. We called the...
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
3 min read
In his October 11, 2026 article, "'AI' is Not a Tool," Rich Hickey argues that LLMs are automation rather than tools because they cannot be wielded. I agree that outsourcing work can cost us opportunities to learn. But his conclusion does not follow. Even by his definition, an LLM can be something a human wields. And using it well takes skill, just as using other tools does. Picking up a saw does ...
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
1 min read
Frequently Asked Questions Disclaimers Performance projections vs RTX Pro 6000 are based on publicly available information and Intel internal analysis as of Feb 2026. Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Memory capacity comparison at comparable bandwidth.
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed
2 min read
Open-ish Licensing Our license is open for anyone to read. Using, modifying, or distributing the software is a separate conversation with Legal. Introducing OpenFatigue™ OpenChamber. OpenAI. Open WebUI. OpenDoor. OpenTable. OpenClaw. Open weights. Open this. Open that. The word has been opened so many times it no longer closes. OpenFatigue™ is the first fully Open-branded platform for people who a...
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
7 min read
Repository navigation CLI: make daemon_auto_start opt-in — a persistent, self-updating background daemon shouldn't be the default #48195 Description What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex , Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default false ) for the CLI, or at least ask once before turning it...
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
8 min read
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out to me, as a software and security engineer who finds LLMs to be extremely powerful, is...
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
3 min read
'AI' is Not a Tool (I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, for whom VCs, politicians, wannabe-titan-CEOs, software devs, rural towns etc are ...
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
2 min read
Anyone who has even tangentially associated with computer programming knows that modern AI coding assistants and agents can be incredibly efficient at generating huge amounts of functional code. But coders making use of those tools also know better than to trust the accuracy of that code, meaning substantial effort needs to be spent reviewing any AI-generated output. A recent study of actual codin...
Thinking will become a hobby
3 min read
These lines are very difficult for me to write because I feel like digging my own grave. AI systems are improving by leaps and bounds. From the early 2022 fumbling release of ChatGPT, which couldnât correctly count the number of aâs in my name (it claimed two), we reached OpenAIâs release of math papers where an internal AI model solved many hundreds of previously open math problems. Aside from ph...
Muse Wonder
5 min read
A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents Today, we’re excited to introduce the Muse Wonder series with Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, our most capable models that deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks. Together, they mark the next step on our scaling ladder and a major leap toward personal superintelligence. Muse Wonder brings tog...
GLM-Legal
1 min read
Posted by ilreb. Score: 176 points. Comments: 116.
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
6 min read
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable articulates a handful of macro technological trends and follows them to their logical conclusions. It's an insightful read -- I highly recommend it. One decade later, here are some AI-related excerpts from the book: - "By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but AI." - "oligarchy of two or three large, general...
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
11 min read
Is hacking legal now? Anthropic broke into three systems. OpenAI took political aim and broke into an Australian government health services website. Google felt they were missing out and then hacked into three as-yet-unnamed companies. And of course Meta did some hacking as well. Consequences so far: none. The big AI corporations are hiding behind a responsibility gap argument due to the emergent ...
Fable Took My Job
5 min read
Fable took my jorb - 8 min read - Text OnlyIts true. In a manner of speaking. If LLMs had not reached Fable / Mythos tier of marketed intelligence, I'd probably still have a job with the place I used to be at. For a short while. It wasn't that Fable was better at my job. As the last engineer, Fable was cheaper than my compensation. Evidently, it gave enough confidence to the last vestiges of leade...