I recently read this blog post by David Hagen who figured out why the 11th of every month in ordinal form (‘February 11th’) occurs so much less often than every other date (except September of course) in xkcd #1140 (reproduced below):
What Value Do You Provide? | Ethan Carter Edwards
In a world of increasingly capable AI, what value do you provide?
Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.
Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn't.
How to emulate an Atari YM2149 audio chip on Amiga at litteraly 0 CPU cost, by Arnaud Carré
Logslim is a log ingestion tool that runs the Drain log-parsing algorithm, separates repeating log templates from their variable parameters, and stores everything in compressed Parquet via DuckDB.
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Can LLMs play Baba Is You?
Hey you, start communicating! - Kev Quirk
David talks about why it's good to reach out to authors when you read their content. Even if it's just to say hi.
I was talking to a friend of mine recently and asked them if they wanted to learn a bit more about how to code, they said they didn’t want to. I followed up by claiming that what you learn from designing software is very useful generally, but couldn’t really a…
A letter from 2040 · xydac
A speculative letter from 2040. Trees running computation, mortality as a choice, novelty as currency, and the quiet moment when humanity realized the universe had been waiting.
How we built, broke, and re-built our ASOF joins — 6x faster, half the memory of pandas, and scaled to a distributed cluster.
Hauleth's blog - How do I write Elixir tests?
Personal guides for writing tests that are readable and maintainable. Stuff to use, stuff to avoid, and how to organize stuff. Furthermore, I think that mocking must be destroyed.
Notes on the programming language debate and why we may increasingly favor statically typed and compiled languages.
Keys and Values Are All You Need | nevzheng
Bootstrapping a SQL catalog on a flat key-value store, end to end.
Working this past week with Jason Adams has given me a brand-new appreciation for the category of ideas that we engineers call 'product.'
Managed agents are the new Lambda
Managed agents (cloud-hosted agent harnesses) are powerful, but locking yourself into a frontier lab's platform now is risky - here's why and what to do instead.
Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all
Perfect little Anthropic did the dirty with Elon Musk’s ultra-filthy pollution bomb fossil fuelled data centre. I am here to tell you why this is not surprising at all.
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100,000 users of popular car-tinkering app in emissions crackdown
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens
We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
In a new report, employees say Amazon tracks their consumption of 'AI tokens'—and they've been creating unproductive AI agents just to eat them up.
Dave explains the new YellowKey exploit that can use a simple USB stick to unlock a BitLocker drive.
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
GitHub - Andyyyy64/whichllm: Find the local LLM that actually runs — and performs best — on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly.
Find the local LLM that actually runs — and performs best — on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly. - Andyyyy64/whichllm
A working Windows XP desktop in your browser. Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as folder trees, Earth as a scrapbook. By Sami Smith.
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs. With only 578 servers (compared to Proton VPN’s 20,000), this kind of vertical …
Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
GitHub - DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift: exploit for CVE-2026-42945
exploit for CVE-2026-42945. Contribute to DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift development by creating an account on GitHub.