_for-sale DNS records · Website Spec If a domain is genuinely for sale, say so in DNS. A TXT record at _for-sale.example.com advertises it to brokers and availability services without taking the site down or parking it.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
A story of screwdriver drivers Any relation between this tale and modern software engineering is entirely up to your own interpretation. This is the story of a building company CEO named Matthew. Matthew is a simple person: he likes to build buildings, and he likes it when people appre...
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
How can LLM RL Work Despite Information-Theoretic Inefficiency Epistemic Status: Obviously speculative and maybe obvious. The success of RL in LLMs has been puzzling me for a while. People have developed various information-theoretic style arguments by which they argue that RL is extremely informationally inefficient...
SQRL Wasn't Wrong. It Was Early How Steve Gibson's SQRL anticipated passkeys, and why timing and coordination mattered more than the cryptography.
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A tour inside my software restaurant AI product leader, self-taught programmer, data scientist, and small-check investor.
AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge: Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Genesis Open Models Arcee Al is the first industry partner supporting the new Genesis Mission open-weights program. A DOE-hosted contribution portal opens today, with first-round applications due August 14, 2026.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded - Announcements / Nixpkgs Core Team - NixOS Discourse The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the commit...
(Non-)Functional Ramblings - How to not write parsers Writing parsers is tricky and cumbersome, and that's even with provided grammars. This post is about approaching parsing from a different angle.
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
The Circle That Swallowed Everyone: AI and the End of the Coding Moat Seven flat years, then a vertical line. What a 2026 surge in new Trello Power-Ups says about AI coding tools and the end of the coding moat for bootstrappers.
KV Cache vs. Prompt Cache: What’s the Difference, and How Are They Related? - Jake blog - Articles From JakeBlog These two types of redundant computations correspond to two concepts that are often confused: KV Cache and Prompt Cache. A model's processing of a single
Most explanations fail for the same reason A finance person understood RAG from the casual explanation, not the formal one. Why the reader should choose the depth and the voice, not the writer.
Super Mario Derivations One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes much of Nixpkgs possible, and its complexity.
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html
Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.
Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment There is a post going around called Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible. I first saw it through Matt Birchler’s response, Native App …
