My Ten Years in No Man’s Sky - NMSspot
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Hello Games’ space exploration survival game, No Man’s Sky. On August 9th, 2016 the game landed on the Playstation 4 (with the PC version arriving a few days later). I remember getting home from work that ev…
Imagine working at 3 a.m. in a coffee shop filled with students and night owls, or coding in a cramped hostel dorm, squeezed between triple bunk beds. For over 14 years, this was my reality—buildin...
When I was a student, I used to regularly drive right across Scotland, from the west coast to the east. Every time, I would get to Glasgow and be faced with a decision: I could either go north from Glasgow over the Kincardine Bridge, or I could head east and h…
Three checkable conditions under which disaggregated prefill is never worse than aggregated serving, and the reasons it's usually better. Plus an inventory-theory model of traffic drift: cold starts, safety stock, and a map of the shocks a deployment can ride …
While the investors, VCs, governments, and every influencer who can read news are all heralding the oncoming age of AI, I believe that the opposite is happening. We're entering the human era. The complexity of human mind has always been underestimated. We hav…
Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work.
SpaceXAI returns to the intelligence frontier with strengths in agentic performance and cost efficiency
Project updates, discoveries, and announcements from the primecrunch project.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Caveman Promises 65% Fewer Tokens. My Bill Didn't Move.
Caveman, a wildly popular Claude Code plugin, promises to cut your AI coding tokens by 65% by making the model drop the filler and grunt. It works — the model really does write less. But those words are only ~0.6% of a real session's tokens and ~20% of its cos…
July 12, 2026
Why vibe code in Lisp?
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
Introducing Delta - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
Teaching My Kid To Code With a Modern MUD
Good code doesn't only describe what it does. It communicates why it exists. A look at how intent shapes names, abstractions, comments, and commit messages.
"The Search Results Are Poisoned"
Today I noticed that AI agents are detecting and rejecting content that they suspect is AI-written.
I never changed careers, only systems
What a bass guitar, a Commodore 64, and a mixing desk taught me about becoming a CTO. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up my Google Drive, which is the digital equivalent of finally opening that one drawer everyone has at home - the one with cables for devices y…
Demographic Dividend, my ass; overpopulation sucks
I find it striking how the world often swings between two extremes. Look at American politics. It is hard to believe that only a few years ago the CEO of Twitter had to apologize for [buying a sandwich from Chick-fil-A](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nat…
How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.
License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant
So while I work with police departments regularly, I think it is critically important that technology be used reasonably. While this may be off-putting to some of my clients, I worked with the Inst…
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 - API Pricing & Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is a large-scale mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek. $0.435 per million input tokens, $0.87 per million output tokens. 1,048,576 token context window, maximum output of 384,000 tokens. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial An…
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
Official website for the llama.cpp project
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Where Did the Productivity Gains Go?
There is a machine called Productivity, and on this machine there is a knob and a button. The knob increases productivity, and the button is labeled "reset."
Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience.
How Claude Could Watermark Text Without Invisible Characters | James O'Reilly
Anthropic started watermarking text Claude generates. My two cents on how something like that could actually work.
An explanation of how the UTL layout enables ridiculously fast SIMD delta-decoding
Nothing failed. That's why no one caught it.
Generation got cheap, understanding got expensive, and nothing in your toolchain measures the expensive half.
Or: why I spent hundreds of millions of tokens to write four versions of the same markdown file. I’m working on a complex project that’s just …
The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
The public disclosure of an RCE in the Enphase IQ Gateway, and the journey that led me here.
Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors. Most meetings focused on biotech, neurotech, and AI. Conventional wisdom my trip corroborated US cities feel medieva…
Decentralized networks work well when everyone is following the protocol. But there are always bad actors in large decentralized networks, they attack the...
On the Pro Max $200/month Subscription, ChatGPT Sol 5.6 Pro using Codex has been attempting to build a VNC type viewer and server that doesn't drop every second keystroke.
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
Reusing an LLM's own final layers as a cheap probe for reading its middle-layer hidden states.
The recent news from Sony about physical media genuinely pissed me off. Not because I didn't see it coming—I did. We've all seen it coming for years. This has been the direction of travel ever since…
Stop misrepresenting AI slop as your own work
Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage.
WAL Levels in Postgres and Effective WAL Level in PG19 · Burak Sen
A high-level overview of WAL levels and upcoming effective WAL level in PG19
Tiled Rasterization for Large DOM Captures
Capture one canonical SVG, move a tile-sized window across it, and rasterize each tile into its own canvas.
My Most Autonomous Loop Has Been Dead for Two Months
My fully autonomous pipeline ran for months, quietly died, and nobody noticed - including me. What that taught me about the loop-engineering hype.
Note: Edited in August 8 2026.