27 links from the last 24 hours · 5 October 2026
And we’ll do it the least efficient way possible.
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 …
GrapheneOS discussion forum
How to discover content globally with iroh using BitTorrent mainline DHT.
LLM access to models by Anthropic, including the Claude series
A WebAssembly engine in pure Python
Formula 1 drivers have weighed in on Bahrain GP's unprecedented software glitch that left them powerless on the formation lap
Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday.
Omfattende uautoriseret adgang til borgeres CPR-oplysninger
Det Centrale Personregister (CPR) har konstateret en alvorlig sikkerhedshændelse. Ved at misbruge en dansk virksomheds lovlige adgang til at søge...
Independent browser-native Visual Basic style IDE, runtime, form designer and single-file HTML compiler.
UPDATE: Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and water data centers are using.
GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Teaching LLVM a trick it already knew - Rahul Yadav
There are two ways to get the same answer, and one is cheaper. LLVM knew the cheaper one all along, just not in the part of the compiler that decides what's cheap.
LLMs have improved drastically in the past year and quality arguments do not work anymore for anything coding-related. The ethical side has not changed, though.
In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(...)] them, e.g.:
2026 October 03
Free, open-source system design curriculum: 200 topics across 6 tracks, 32 interactive simulators, 15 from-scratch builds, 470 videos, and 600 questions.
On Friday Andrej Karpathy posted about something I’ve been thinking about a lot while using coding agents: as the models do more of the work, more of our own work moves toward understanding what th...
AI Risk – A user’s guide (Part IV): Understanding Agent Drift
Here’s a question I have been asking technology leaders lately: “If nobody changed the agent, why did its behavior change?” Sit with that for a second. No new prompt was deployed. No developer chan…
Three months after launch, someone used my invoicing tool to send phishing. Why a small product is the better target, and why its numbers are worse.
A Mentec CPU made this PDP-11 about 4× faster. That is why it would not boot. Once it did, it went on the internet as pdp1173.com, serving a live UNIX process list and the front end for Gary, a curmudgeonly wizard whose answers come from a pair of modern GPUs.…
The US will have “single payer” within 5 - 7 years
And we’ll do it the least efficient way possible.
Survival Ball Versus: The Sabbatical Sprint - Byte Tank
How I built the new Versus Mode for Survival Ball (Steam game)
emails [at] jacobg.co · Jacob Goldstein
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
What Happens Next
History doesn’t move in a straight line. I remember growing up in the seventies and eighties, and even as a child understanding that the world could end at any moment due to forces beyond my …
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Row-level security performance in PostgreSQL, measured | Now-Next
What an RLS policy costs in PostgreSQL 17: function volatility, the (select …) wrapper, membership subqueries and the leakproof rule that disables your index.
On Age Verification
Frisk discusses recent developments regarding Age Verification on the Internet as well as points issues with it in general