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Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech
You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.
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50 links from the last 24 hours · 25 October 2026
Bryan Frimin - Mail is not that hard
2026-10-25
Bringing uv and ty together
Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.
Maintenance Futures - Christopher Butler
Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?
Bootstrapping the Verified Software Stack | Theorem
A shared, verified software stack, starting with every project in the nixpkgs ecosystem.
I don't want to be a spectator · Paulo Cuambe
I must participate in building the future.
You Are Losing Weight. Why Are You So Angry?
Dieting can make you snap at the people you love. Hunger is unpleasant, and your mind blames whoever is nearby. A steep deficit makes it worse.
Password manager recommendations — DennySORA
From password reuse to vault encryption, TOTP, FIDO2, passkeys, autofill and backups—with diagrams and expandable technical notes.
My Reolink cameras didn't have SSH, so I fixed that (In one day) · Inventor7777
Why leave a perfectly good Linux shell hidden inside a camera?
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
What is “the true cost of a token”?
Lingering while the agent runs
On agentic development and resisting the pull of multitasking.
You Quit What Drained You. Why Do You Feel Worse?
Quitting the news can leave you flat even when you are better off. The habit was also filling your day, and the problems it covered surface all at once.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
Emacs finally folds to my liking
Emacs finally folds to my liking … and understands what folds are in many languages and modes.. this really feels like absolute power and overview capability.
bbtree: making range reads 2x faster on hot keys | Rahul Yadav
bbtree is the fastest ordered map I know of. Its scans still latch every leaf they read, so I took the latch away. Scans doubled on shared leaves, seeks got 1.5x for free, and the wrong turn on the way is the useful part.
I Couldn't Sleep, So I Built a Factory
One sleepless night, one Mac and Claude: how I built a small software factory that turns tickets into reviewed pull requests.
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 – Bogomil Shopov – Бого
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom, I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore.
philipbohun.com/blog
We've heard the same arguments from lazy unskilled devs for decades:
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
We Are All in the C-Suite Now
A few months ago I wrote about the greenhouse and the lens, the idea that agentic AI work splits into two modes: a greenhouse where you let everything grow and…
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Unlearning Adulthood
What Austin Kleon’s Don’t Call It Art taught me about play, curiosity, and a beginner’s mindset as an adult. Just make stuff.
the slurptop
My x86-64 artisinal, hand-crafted, bespoke cyberdeck laptop.
What's new in ASP.NET Core authentication in .NET 11
What changed in ASP.NET Core authentication, authorization and Data Protection in .NET 11 RC2 and the .NET 10 updates, found by comparing the source code.
How Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Sleeping Giants and CTRL-Z sent evidence to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court today showing Meta AI continues to spontaneously link Lula to negative content
How close can pure FP get to C?
October 22, 2026
“We should be more ambitious with the software we build”
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
Automating a YubiKey for Agentic Logins
Agentic web access is going to need new approaches to authentication. In the meantime, we can do some hacks like automating YubiKey logins.
Efficiency of estimators
Javier Echevarría Cuesta is a quantitative researcher in London.
Don't embarrass me, Claude
So how can we make AI-generated code as pleasant and efficient as possible for humans to review?
Disposable tools for thought | Nicholas Charriere
Today (October 2026, with Opus 5.5), building software is nearly free. This means I can explore ideas by building tools for the exploration itself.
Make yourself replaceable
On job security, institutional knowledge and the unexpected downside of becoming the person everyone depends on.
The Curse of Soldered RAM
The trend for soldered on RAM in modern laptops is truely evil especially in these current trying times of shortage induced high prices. I normally run 2 laptops, one for personal stuff and one for…
Why Your Best Engineers Need Unlimited Tokens
Should companies cap AI token spend? Jensen Huang wants $500,000 engineers using $250,000 in tokens. Why token limits point to bloated teams and low trust, and how to give your best people unlimited tokens.
Giving an agent a tool does not make it use the tool.
I gave Claude Code a tool for asking me questions out loud. It used it in one project and printed the question on screen in the next, same machine, same day, even though it could quote my instruction back word for word.
procrastination is burning my future
personal blog
Local Inference On A Raspberry Pi
TL;DR: not worth it, but fun!
I created this because I wanted to
Looking at the front page of Hacker news nowadays it seems almost anything is possible now with LLM supported development. As development is costing less effort (whether it is better depends on who you talk to), it now seems anything is getting build, often wi…
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The Goose Programming Language · Goose
Thank you, but I prefer it my way
The LLMs have changed how software gets made, and will keep changing it - for code, for design, for any digital product. Buried under all the productivity talk there is one thing they enable which does not get discussed much: never having to collaborate with a…
Personal agents need a new kind of harness — Kira Howe
I’ve been working on building a personal agent that is both useful and secure and have come to the conclusion that it needs a new kind of harness,…
I don't feel Anubis is a good solution
A level 6 Anubis challenge took roughly 22 seconds of work in Chrome on my MacBook Pro. A custom GPU solver on the same machine averaged 5 milliseconds. Is this meant to deter scrapers?
Free Software is an Abject Failure
Free Software is an abject failure. It may sound like a good concept on its face—especially with the kind of language often used to describe the movement and its opponents—but, when put under scrutiny, the institutions and practices that make up the Free Softw…
Developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
New home for developer resources will include open-source software for RSG 2.0 SDK, developer documentation repo, samples, and tools Roku has completed migrating all developer resources from GitHub to GitLab. The move covers the developer documentation, sample…
Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies
Bryan Cantrill has a great line from a talk where he cautions against anthropomorphizing Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. I think it’s also a mistake to treat any tech…
No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.
Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
On 17th October, eight eMudhra intermediate CAs chaining to emSign ECC Root CA - G3 were found to have trivially recoverable private keys. They were revoked the next day, and Mozilla and Chrome are now distrusting the G3 root. Separately, on 19th October eMudh…
Steal My Bitcoin
A PHP security challenge. Find the hidden bitcoin key. First person to get the wallet wins.