31 links from the last 24 hours · 25 October 2026
You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.
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?
Agentic web access is going to need new approaches to authentication. In the meantime, we can do some hacks like automating YubiKey logins.
Javier Echevarría Cuesta is a quantitative researcher in London.
So how can we make AI-generated code as pleasant and efficient as possible for humans to review?
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.
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.
personal blog
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 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. 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…
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…
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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…
A PHP security challenge. Find the hidden bitcoin key. First person to get the wallet wins.
Steve Blank Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military v…
In September 2014 I published a short post announcing rqlite. The idea was simple: take SQLite, put a Raft log in front of it, and replicate every write to a cluster so that the loss of a node did not mean the loss of the data. The source went on GitHub that s…
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
@maya@gs.lexinova.eu @OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io @britter@chaos.social Most banking apps work on GrapheneOS but many have memory corruption bugs and incorrect anti-tampering code requiring our per-app exploit protection compatibility mode toggle. Around 10% of …
A mobile web RTS
Release OBS Studio 33.0.0 · obsproject/obs-studio
33.0 New Features Updated CEF from 127/6533 to 150/7871 [WizardCM] (#13900) This is a massive update to the underlying framework used for browser sources and docks from the July 2024 release to S...
The glorious @xkcdRandom Zig builtin
One of my favorite xkcd comics of all time is Random Number. The image depicts a C function that supposedly returns a random integer, but in reality always returns 4. I was reminded of this wonderful comic a few days ago, due to a security incident where peopl…