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Packing the infinite truck Imagine that everything needed for a move must travel in one truck. Capacity and correction # It is an ordinary truck, and it can return if something is forgotten. Because the truck can return, packing does not need to be perfect. That is useful. A forgot...
How a Skiing Accident Put Our Development Practices to the test Every development project relies on a few key people, and contributor continuity is never guaranteed. So how can we ensure a project’s survival when main contributors suddenly depart? We shar…
Redistributing Billions in the Neopets Economy · Daniel May A six-month reverse-engineering project on a Neopets shop, the duplication exploit that followed, and what I've come to understand about why I kept going.
Reflections on the Life of a DBA - SQL, Code, Coffee, Etc. The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly invisible to many. Those countless sleepness nights are a testament to our dedication. Whether that is a server that went down because of a bad patch or a server that refused to ge...
How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read the Network Traffic, Not the Outputs) — Suganthan I read 2 days of ChatGPT's raw network traffic to see how it picks sources, which domains get cited, and how to rank in and get cited by ChatGPT.
From Trust to Verification: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics From Trust to Verification: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics on Simons Foundation
[OpenWrt Wiki] OpenWrt One OpenWrt One is based on the MediaTek Filogic 820 SoC and has WiFi 6, dual-band, 3×3/2×2, 1x 2.5Gbit WAN, 1x 1Gbit LAN, 1GB DDR4 RAM, 256 MiB NAND, 16 MiB NOR (for recovery), M.2 SSD, USB-C Serial console and USB 2.0. Power Over Ethernet (POE): an IEEE 802...
AI Dev Kit, Batteries Included - AMD Ryzen AI Halo | LTT Labs Welcome to LTT Labs - your go-to destination for all things tech. Explore comprehensive test results, insightful commentary, and the latest analysis in hardware.
My Last 7 Days with Fable - Gibberish and Stuff I never understood the whole AI boyfriend thing, and not for lack of trying. I tried Claude, and it was polite and nice and everything, but talking to it felt like talking to a Japanese customer...
Building the T.LY Android App Was Harder Than I Expected - Tim Leland I thought Android would be easier than iOS. Getting the T.LY Android app ready for Google Play proved otherwise.
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How to Make an Agent Know It Screwed Up | Rafał Opiłowski DevOps for AI-augmented development: patterns for testability, maintainability, and resilience against AI agent flaws
How to deal with "vibecoding depression" of indie hackers What we shall do with our app ideas when our precious CRUD-making skill got democratized?
cr.yp.to: 2026.07.04: Bugs happen What's better: upgrading an ECC-based protocol to ECC+PQ, or switching it to solo PQ? Here's the simplest way to see that solo PQ will be an inexcusable security disaster:
We Benchmarked It | HTML vs JSON for LLMs We pre-registered a benchmark to test the argument in 'HTML as a Native Data Format for LLMs': 9,600 scored runs across six conditions and four models. Corrected July 2026: a harness defect had hidden the models' own tool calls from multi-turn history, ma...
NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta — Manu Martínez-Almeida A signals-and-noise course left me writing Monte Carlo math on paper and wishing the notation itself would run. Nine years later, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting, NoiseLang became a real Monte Carlo language with a fused multi-core JIT and a WASM...
The Remarkably Human Samsung Unsubscribe Flow Hello fellow haters of marketing emails that you get signed up for on the way to creating accounts, sometimes as an explicit checkbox (this is not about you ...
The Future of Flipper Zero Development We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach to maintaining th...
C2PA only works if everything is signed The European Union AI Act is Europe’s attempt to comprehensively regulate AI usage. A big part of that is the requirement that AI-generated content be identifiable: either tagged with a watermark or with what the Act calls “digitally signed metadata”1. Si...
Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing.
It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership PlayStation announced that they will stop making disks. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
