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Deobfuscating Luraph: Lifting Lua to LLVM, Then Letting AI Try
Naci lifts Luraph-protected Lua to LLVM IR, explains why dynamic table operations survive optimization, and tests how far AI-assisted tooling and partial evaluation get at stripping the VM — and where AI just produces plausible-looking output.
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I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic
Sammy Straus recounts how an HN post for sprinklz.io brought crushing AI-bot and change-monitor traffic, what showed up in NGINX logs, and the robots.txt, blocks, and rate limits that restored the site.
9 min · 2,034 words
Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?
Peter Bryant argues that much of software engineering has always looked more like skilled trades work than the white-collar myth—and that AI is making that continuity clearer, not inventing a new class of work.
2 min · 531 words
Tobias van Schneider argues that AI-era small teams can finally build specialized software for "unsexy" physical industries long ignored by top engineering talent locked into ads and social products—and that switching costs for legacy enterprise software are starting to fall.
2 min · 448 words
Release notes for Model2Vec 0.10.0: major training-side improvements to the fast static embeddings library, with links to the PyPI release and what changed for practitioners.
4 min · 929 words
The 1st Time Machines Mogged Mathematicians
Pessimists Archive's Louis Anslow revisits the 1976 computer-assisted proof of the Four Color Theorem by Appel and Haken, the skepticism and outright rejection it drew from mathematicians, how acceptance slowly came, and the parallels with today's debate over AI-generated mathematics.
4 min · 979 words
Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality & Value?
Gustavo Pezzi of Pikuma reflects on whether AI tools that make software and games trivially easy to produce will flood the market with cheap, generic work, drawing parallels with past shifts in other crafts and asking what will make people care about what you make.
11 min · 2,431 words
Where is all the new, good software?
Nate Meyvis lists candidate answers to the skeptic’s question—if AI coding is so powerful, why isn’t more great new software obvious—covering quieter quality gains, limited adoption, political bottlenecks, ephemeral and private tools, leisure capture, and AI sometimes reducing software use.
2 min · 511 words
Developer Agency in the Age of AI
David Scott Bernstein argues that AI gives developers leverage but not agency: the real work is understanding problems, choosing tradeoffs, testing assumptions and preserving changeability, and teams must keep asking whether they can still understand, verify and change what they build.
5 min · 1,084 words
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
Microsoft details the architecture of Maia 300, the third generation of its Azure Maia AI accelerator, built as a co-designed system of silicon, software, racks, networking and datacenters optimized for cloud-scale agentic LLM inference.
8 min · 1,750 words
Meta AI Research introduces the Muse Wonder series (Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full), frontier models aimed at personal and professional agentic tasks that combine Active Memory and Active Focus, available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code.
4 min · 1,030 words
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Taylor Troesh revisits AI-related excerpts from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable a decade on, noting that Kelly anticipated a few AI heavyweights dominating while also arguing for a future of open, ubiquitous, commodity intelligence.
5 min · 1,089 words
"200 OK" doesn't mean your AI agent did the job
Prathap K argues that a success response from an AI agent's tool call only means a request was accepted, not that the work happened, and describes the read-back check he uses to verify each write against the real system (email, CRM, messages).
2 min · 562 words
A guest post on Terence Tao's blog by Kate Stange and Edmund Harriss reporting on an Institut Henri Poincaré workshop that asked what it would mean for a mathematical illustration to be rigorous, and reflecting on meaning, understanding and human practice in mathematics as AI and formal proof reshape the field.
9 min · 2,184 words
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Security engineer Micah Lee argues against paying OpenAI and Anthropic, citing the frontier labs' AGI ideology, and explains why open-weight models (e.g. GLM) are now good enough for complex work, with private inference options like Tinfoil and cheap ones like OpenCode Go.
7 min · 1,529 words
Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?
Marcello Delcaro pushes back on worries about AI-driven cognitive offloading, arguing that handing convoluted bureaucratic and technical rule systems to AI agents frees mental bandwidth for things that matter, like reading, journalling and time with people.
4 min · 892 words
Will humans land on Mars before 2035? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 86% picked No. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
12 min · 2,813 words
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
Piotr Sarnacki examines DHH's AI-agent rewrites of Campfire Once from Rails into Rust, Elixir and Go, showing how unspecified prompts turn design trade-offs like backwards compatibility, latency versus throughput and crash behaviour into coin flips, and why benchmarks and reliability still require human critical thinking.
8 min · 1,742 words
Two Hills: Weights and Harnesses
Part 1 of an LLM agent evaluation series: when a model system is not good enough, you face two hills—improving model weights versus improving the harness around the model—and how to choose where to invest.
6 min · 1,328 words
Ray Myers argues mathematicians are not Luddites: AI-assisted math, built on tools like the Lean prover and the Lean FRO, had natural synergy that researchers embraced, but in his view OpenAI's hype and conduct broke the community's trust. He walks through a timeline from 2014 to October 2026 and draws parallels to how AI companies treat software engineers.
20 min · 4,573 words