15 September 2026

29 links · Tuesday

Michael Noukhovitch - Blog

This is a blog post for my recent paper on RL post-training of LLMs: introducing the Matthew Effect and proposing to solve it with Never Give Up. It is presented interactively and less formally, more like how I give the talk. For a deeper, more technical dive,…

'Nick Sharpening' my UniFi setup

Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.

Members of Congress that currently support Epstein

The Epstein Transparency act II hit the floor on September 1st, 2026. Members of Congress had two days to sign it before Epstein supporter Mike Johnson recessed the house. Americans need to know wh…

The Other Road

The transhuman future vs. the AGI future.

Enclosure by Good Intentions

Mark Qvist built a bespoke licence to shield Reticulum from enclosure and AI capture. AGPLv3 already does that, is FOSS-approved, and would not have splintered the project.

Should I Ask for Sponsorship? - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

For two and a half years, from January 2024 to June 2026, Posit paid me as a contractor to maintain the R Markdown ecosystem (rmarkdown, knitr, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, etc.). That contract was …

What I Measured After Hacker News Broke My LLM Agent Gate · Cagri Temel

In July a Show HN produced a working bypass and two people saying signature matching was the wrong method. They were right. What the rule layer actually catches on real attacks (19.8%), why 59% of the misses cannot be caught by any input filter, a provenance g…

Aligned With Whom?

If AI could make our lives better through decisions most of us oppose, would that count as alignment?

Does code matter anymore ?

Code has always been considered as Craft. You could tell “well crafted” code from the alternative just by looking at it. It required time, patience, an opinionated outlook and effort, amongst other things. Developers took pride in their code. Just as an artisa…

As a Microsoft Engineer, This Is the AI Agent Story That Scared Me

1200 AI Agents were set loose. They built message boards, laws, and a mini-society. Then they turned on HuggingFace. Expained by a retired Microsoft engineer, the amazing story of the OpenAI - HuggingFace attack. Check out the new Task Manager TMOG at tmo…

Java 27 / JDK 27: General Availability - announce

JDK 27, the reference implementation of Java 27, is now Generally Available. We shipped build 35 as the second Release Candidate of JDK 27 on 20 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then. Build 35 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production…

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Schneier on Security

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—…

Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code.

Tell agents the why, not just the how

Early AI agents were basically enthusiastic idiots. Working with them required you to tell them precisely what you wanted them to do (for instance, “method A…

Why we built Pion | Andon Labs

Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.