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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Scrap (2006)
typ.ing
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
Thinking in Python
New MCP Roadmap
RF Cafe
How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
The End of an Athlon
NetBSD and my life (2005)
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey
One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?
The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward
Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content
OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens'
Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days
Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras
Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely
23 Years After SimCity 4's Release, 'Eternal Commuter' Bug Finally Fixed
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation
Supply Chain Issues Delaying US Grid Batteries' Installation
Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial
Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues On RGB Lighting Devices
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
Replicating Reddit's best feature on other forums
Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
My favorite Computer Science books, and why
Everything I own, owned
Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
It's OK. Do Your Thing
Your executable is a SQLite database
offgrid electric car (2025)
My DIY DEF CON Choker Has a Screen On It
eh: a minimalist vi-like editor
tmp.0ut volume 5
How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed
Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming
Adding JIT-compilation to a toy interpreter with libgccjit
Declarative WebGPU with S-expressions
Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
clicky: A clickwheel iPod emulator
You should never be angry at work
Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II
NetBSD and my life (2005)
A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
Apple Retail Stores Preparing for New Home Product Launches
M6 iMac Coming This Year in New Colors
Gurman: iPhone Ultra Wows Early Testers, Except for Its Camera
AirTag 2 4-Pack Hits New Low Price of $85 on Amazon
Apple's Biggest Summer Deals Drop: AirPods Max 2 Plummet to $429, M4 iPad Air $100 Off
Top Stories: Apple Leaks - Camera-Equipped AirPods, Beats 360, and More
Apple Vision Pro Was Almost Called 'Reality Pro'
10 Ways to Improve Your iPhone's Battery Life
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods: All the New Rumors
Apple's New Beats 360 Headphones Spotted in Another Regulatory Filing
Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
The MacRumors Show: Michael Fisher Talks iPhone Ultra
Apple Pay Supporting U.S. National Park Foundation Over the Next Week
MG Could Be Next Automaker to Get Apple Car Key Support
Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
Apple Paid $17 Billion in Taxes to Ireland Last Year
Smartphone Sales Are Falling Worldwide, But Apple Keeps Growing
Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees
Camera AirPods Code Reveals Image Capture Resolution, Status Light, Person Detection, and More
Dark Cherry and More: Every iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra Color Rumor
Introducing AI Futures
Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna
ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe
Strengthening democratic oversight in national security
Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections
How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Quoting Drew Breunig
Quoting Linus Torvalds
llm 0.33
More than just code review
llm 0.32.1
llm-openrouter 0.7
Stop Making TUIs
Quoting Matt Webb
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
Quoting Jeremy Morrell
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Mojo🔥 is now open source
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
The Evolution of the Agent Harness
Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync
From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
Better tools for managing blocked users
The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar is generally available and more
Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available
Code scanning adds a mitigated alert dismissal reason
Separate GitHub Actions path for GitHub Code Quality
Track GitHub Code Quality enablement changes in the audit log
CodeQL 2.26.3 improves GitHub Actions queries and JavaScript modeling
Track organization code quality trends
How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel
Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready
Vercel CLI expands support for DNS, domains, and project commands
GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic
Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI
Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability
How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token
Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels
Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI
Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions
Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace
Introducing Vercel for Slack
Compliance documents are now available in Team settings
Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free
Vercel for Slack now in public beta
Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft
Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter
Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories
$1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox
The Vercel Sandbox CLI is now more agent-friendly
Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway
Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI
20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog
Bun 1.4- This is the genuine logo used by the Amazon location that destructively scans bo…
- Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22719
- Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22722
- You should come to this gig!
- @shaundai.com on collaboration: every cross-team ask is a micro-sale.
- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- The craft "dying" is your opportunity.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- Website I recently visited.
- This is why I was ranting the other day on @shoptalkshow.com about why favicons…
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- I finished one post.
- just got a tentative confirmation from a mathematician that i was able to get a…
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- Meta laid off 10% of devs when the business posted record revenue+profits & real…
- til `set -e` is “exit immediately” and `set -x` is “print commands before execut…
- Happy/nervous to announce argon2-cffi-bindings, the low-level C binding wheels u…