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35 links from the last 24 hours · 6 October 2026

Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI

We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made…

A quote from Felix Rieseberg

The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, …

Another step towards Elm 1.0

A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.

Slowing down

The light in my bathroom went out while I was showering today. And my brain immediately went to “Oh wow I’ve been in the shower too long, what a waste of tim...

The Engineering Behind LLM Inference

Last week I spent some time diving more into LLM inference. This is a field I personally find interesting, especially because of the optimizations and engineering behind it. It is a tricky optimization problem where the goal is to make LLM inference possible w…

Abundant software, uncertain economics

Will software remain valuable? Will software development remain a valuable trade? What about software companies? These questions often get muddled up. Here is my attempt at looking at them separately.

Rewind VM: a flaky build you only catch once

If a test fails on CI and nobody can reproduce it, did it really fail? 🧘 Nix gives me a build that is a function of its inputs via the extensional model. The same derivation, produces the same store path, and if I am lucky, the same bytes. What Nix does not g…

We found a Chinese agent fleet

A Tencent-hosted agent fleet used urlquery.net and webhook.site to pull entrance data from Chinese map pages, with no sign of the agents communicating · By the Swarmchasers: Alecto Irene Perez, Ethan Elasky, ConcurrentSquared, Frank, Jonathan Elsworth Eicher, …

The art of not writing all the code — Epiq

Agentic code can be thought of as a fabric. It is easily shaped and can assume any form with little effort, but it is hard to build something rigid out of…

Inference Is the Most Important Market in Software

AI inference will pass the $161b database market on its way to ~$350b in 2027, mutating every application into an inference reseller & upending classic software unit economics.

Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.

SSO For Integrations, For the One who's Building it · Ron Bar-Tor

The mechanics half of a two-part guide to cross-application single sign-on: the callback handler and the four doors it closes, the cross-site POST and SameSite, hardening an unsolicited SAML response, OIDC section 4, the launch token, back-channel logout, home…

The lamps in my house

I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps

notes: sort by rarity

Everyone says they want a pure chronological feed but the dream breaks as soon as one of your feeds posts 20x more often as the rest.

Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

A benchmark tested whether the local `Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf` model could add positive integers and express exact results solely in English words, using 5,070 reasoning-disabled cases and a paired 169-case comparison with …