31 January 2026

23 links · Saturday

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says https:…

Nef's Professional Showcase

I’m feeling a little down today, so, to cheer myself up, I’ll tell you guys the story of what is possibly the most ridiculous optimization task I ever had to do, I don’t know if someone will learn something from this, but at least maybe someone will get a kick…

GitHub - jonathanyly/freegpt: This Extension injects into the translation page of chatgpt (offical chatgpt page), replacing it with a fully functional (its heavily vibecoded (with chatgpt) im not a frontend dev) chatpgt UI. You can choose the model, system and developer prompt in the settings.

This Extension injects into the translation page of chatgpt (offical chatgpt page), replacing it with a fully functional (its heavily vibecoded (with chatgpt) im not a frontend dev) chatpgt UI. You...

Live Coding with Warp

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PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting

PeerWeb is a revolutionary way to host and share websites using WebTorrent technology. Instead of relying on centralized servers, websites are distributed across a peer-to-peer network, making them censorship-resistant and always available. 🌍✨

Learning How to Stop

The internet gave us unlimited opportunities and unlimited people to compare ourselves to. We can build anything, learn anything, become anyone — and yet we've never felt more behind. What if the answer isn't doing more, but finally deciding what's enough?

Direct Current Data Centers

Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert Originally posted at the Terraform Blog. This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resour…

How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong

How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong In recent years, many predicted that artificial intelligence would replace most software developers by the mid-2020s. However, evidence from 2024 and 2025 shows the opposite trend: companies are rehirin…

Surfel-based global illumination on the web

Can we use WebGPU to compute real-time global illumination with surface patches called surfels? Does it look good enough? Is it fast enough? And can we finally construct viable compute-heavy rendering pipelines right here on the open web? Join me on this journ…

How does AI impact skill formation?

Two days ago, the Anthropic Fellows program released a paper called How AI Impacts Skill Formation. Like other papers on AI before it, this one is being treated as proof that AI makes you slower and dumber. Does it prove that?