Today's links

Why AIs can't read? - Vladimir Dietrich's Blog

The other day I wanted to think about love, confronting some authors (Clarissa Pinkola Estes - short story The Skeleton Woman, Alain de Botton, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, various books on oxytocin ...

An LLM judge passed renders with defects I planted

My vision-model judge passed and failed the same code. On a newer model it was steadier, so I planted defects in five components and scored them with it and with Cloudflare Clef. The 0.85 pass gate let about half of the defect runs through.

Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future

Forward-deployed engineers are how businesses will adopt AI. Why SaaS, consultancies and dev shops can't close the gap, and why embedded builders connect business demand with people reskilling for AI.

Attention people who think UB is fine

After my post on undefined behavior in C some people insisted that it’s demonstrably fine, we know what the code will do, and at worst we’ll get a segfault.

We deserve a better agent-human interaction

Agents learned to do the work. The moment where a person decides whether that work is right is still a text box and a yes.

We Spoke With Entrepreneurs Living the "7 Vibe 3" Lifestyle

This is a work of fiction. Contemporary and historical descriptions may be inaccurate. Cadence can make mistakes; check important info.

Trusted Everywhere, Impact Everywhere

WebPKI certificate concentration, reliance, sovereign trust, historical CA incidents, and the quantum transition.

A Fix for Softmax and Cross-Entropy

Abstract

The Codebase Decides How Small a Change Can Be — Matthew Boston

When dozens of agents merge into one codebase, clean code means fewer shared files, hard boundaries, and explicit contracts.

Poor Man's Claude Pro

Write all the code you'll ever need from your phone for $20 per month A Yeti water bottle + a Nike T-shirt + Irish Spring 5 in 1: Body, Face, Shampoo, Conditioner, and 24 Hour Deodorant, or an AeroPress Go Portable Coffee Maker + a three-pack of the Field Not…

Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker

How I spiraled into a new summer hobby

Browser Use for LLMs with a Chrome Extension

I created a chrome extension where any LLM with image input capabilities can browse the web like a human.

Forms of Water

The fastest camera feed is no video at all · xydac

Putting the driveway camera on a screen turned into a lesson in why live video is always late. Tuning the player got it from 12 seconds to 5. Swapping video for JPEG snapshots got it to none.

The rise and fall of Jev hype

What can we learn about the hype engine that declared war on rational and critical thinking?

I want my Wednesday back

Or, why we’re not seeing mass-exploitation of php2shell yet.

Distributed data, centralized fixes - Miren

Thoughts on structural solutions after a wild week in security.

Build your own JSON parser — kothariji

Your code calls JSON.parse all the time. This tutorial shows what happens inside it, and how to build a JSON parser yourself.

A Farewell To Hubs

Those of you who have read the final sections to the article on Arcan: 10 Years of Online Obscurity know that I am anything but happy with the current state of computing affairs and its trajectory.…

From 27 minutes to 4: Cutting CI build time by 85%

Sharing my experience to get a faster CI: caching, test parallelism, and path filtering took one project's GitHub Actions build from 27 minutes to 4

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.

Trust Stores Are Dependencies Too

26 of 29 CA bundles in critical packages contain roots Mozilla has removed.

Unit tests are not the enemy

An over-reliance on agents writing all tests has led to a backlash on the unit test

Tool: Quick Study

Quick Study

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also …

We have Traits at Home

I have had more time recently to write code in Zig[1], and it has been good for my soul. I wanted to share some insights I have arrived at regarding abstractions in Zig, including some techniques that I have found useful but not seen employed more broadly.

Why didn't we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? - The Old New Thing

It cleans up at the wrong time.

Kimi K3.1 Pro Tech Blog: Advancing Open Intelligence

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, our most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modeling, and financial research.

Why didn't we use Co­Register­Initialize­Spy to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? - The Old New Thing

Looking more closely at the function's behavior and requirements.

Ubiquiti's $99 Vape Detector is actually pretty good

Since learning about the effects of high CO2 concentration on attention and cognitive performance—especially at levels much higher than 2000ppm—I've started monitoring CO2 and other air quality indicators in my house, at my studio, and even on the road. I have…

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

Please don't mess with links:

A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right?

Local Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local People

Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.