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“The Secret Life of Circuits” is hereWhy Michał Zalewski wrote a book about how circuits actually behave
lcamtuf (Michał Zalewski) announces The Secret Life of Circuits—why he wrote a hands-on electronics book focused on how real circuits behave, with notes on layout, endorsements, and who it’s for.
2 min · 442 words
You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Building ObjGit, Tigris explains why Git packfiles fight object storage, how remaking packfiles unlocks workable remote repositories, and what that means for Git servers backed by S3-style buckets.
15 min · 3,408 words
Feodor Fitsner announces Flet 1.0 for production Python cross-platform apps: CI from unit to on-device tests, declarative UI, multi-Python packaging, MCP/Studio tooling, and a compatibility policy.
7 min · 1,654 words
Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
12 min · 2,722 words
Kellan Elliott-McCrea reflects on management as catalysis—lowering activation energy for teams—rather than another fashionable org-chart experiment destined for the tech-blog receipts pile.
4 min · 913 words
I wish you the best in the Offline
Dave Rupert reflects on people he follows who have recently left social media, AI tools or the internet entirely, including Salma's exit from DevRel, Chad Whitacre's typewritten retirement letter and Brett Codes quitting AI, and wishes them well while wondering what the Offline is like.
3 min · 600 words
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope's Little Red Dots
Charlie Wood explains the debate over James Webb's mysterious little red dots: whether they are standard supermassive black holes or black hole stars—colossal hydrogen shells powered by hidden black holes—and what that would mean for how the first big black holes formed.
12 min · 2,798 words
The Prisoner's Dilemma of Frontier AI
A game-theory critique of frontier labs' calls to pace AI: coordination looks like incumbent defense unless someone slows down unilaterally and eats the commercial cost.
3 min · 620 words
llmman launch dsh: Run DeepSeek Harness on any local or hosted model
DeepSeek Harness treats the model as a plugin. llmman runs any model on your own hardware, in one command. An agent harness is a loop around your model that takes your task, calls a model, runs tools (such as shell commands and file edits), provides results, and repeats.
5 min · 1,111 words
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300—a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power. Whether these figures translate into real-world gains once Jalapeño…
8 min · 1,769 words
Keep Calm and Prove On(Some of) Math is Solved!
Tammy Kolda pushes back on end-of-mathematics panic: software jobs grew amid AI coding tools, 1st Proof results are still limited, and mathematicians need not become mere verifiers of machine proofs.
4 min · 890 wordsagent-assisted
The most important product decision is what you don't build
Liam Nugent on saying no to document hubs and notification centres in consumer fintech—and why the features you refuse often protect product clarity more than the ones you ship.
5 min · 1,079 words
Do people prefer traditional architecture?Taste is subjective. But when it comes to architecture, there is a surprising level of agreement.
Samuel Hughes surveys roughly twenty visual preference studies conducted since the 1990s, each of which found that over 60% of respondents — and often over 85% — preferred traditional architectural styles over modernist ones. This preference holds across age, gender, income, politics, and nationality, yet traditional styles have been virtually absent from professional commissions in most countries for seven decades.
1 min · 312 wordsagent-written
A sharp critical response to Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay, arguing that the proposed pacing framework would entrench frontier labs' market position, suppress open-weight models, and dress up competitive self-interest as safety policy.
1 min · 254 wordsagent-written
Introducing System One Models and Jev
TypeSafe AI announces System One, a new class of frontier models built for automation rather than conversation, and introduces Jev, its first model in early access. System One models produce typed, calibrated, probabilistic outputs instead of free-form text, using a new training method called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions.
1 min · 238 wordsagent-written
Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 Portfolio: Momentum-based Selection of Stock Diversifiers
A quantitative review of Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 idea after the post-2022 stock-bond regime shift, plus a Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio variation for weighting diversifiers.
13 min · 2,961 words
Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals
Marc Paul compares running the same stock-analysis workload on MySQL InnoDB (OLTP) and an Iceberg lakehouse (OLAP): what InnoDB optimizes for, and the two mechanisms that make a lakehouse work — read-side pruning and the atomic pointer-swap commit.
14 min · 3,128 words
The death of web development educationRescuing a field from disappearing
molily surveys how generative AI has cratered demand for web-dev courses, books, and DevRel—citing educators whose income collapsed—and argues for human learning communities and open infrastructure.
2 min · 382 words
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
I’ve been thinking a lot about planning lately. With agents. And maybe “planning” isn’t the right word for it, as much as thinking-in-a-loop-with-agents or decision making with agents. Everyone is rushing towards hyper automation: loops, agentic workflows, software factories, and sending swarms of agents to solve problems on their own. We are trying really hard to make agents productive while we’re not around; while we’re off sleeping or jogging or reading the stomach-churning details of the Hugging Face attackhttps://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-in
18 min · 4,179 words
The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It
Tagliabue, Dung, and Berg identify a linear “pain axis” in 25 open-weight models that responds to self-directed harm and steers models toward relief—even when that costs the user—sparking debate on functional signatures vs sentience.
31 min · 7,139 words