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Armin Ronacher explains why Pi 1.0 added MCP support through Codemode despite his long preference for bash and scripts: bash can only compose programs that run in the execution environment, while Codemode lets the model orchestrate harness-side tools like image reads and sub agents in a sandboxed QuickJS/WASM runtime, plus the open problems that remain.
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tapo speaks TPAP: Third-Party Compatibility can stay off
Mihai Dinculescu explains how v0.11.1 of tapo, his unofficial Rust and Python client for TP-Link Tapo devices, now logs in over TP-Link's TPAP protocol so users no longer need the Third-Party Compatibility switch, and covers new H200/H500 camera hub recording downloads plus plug schedules and timers.
10 min · 2,290 words
Meta's Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire
Karl Bode argues that Meta's agentic AI assistant Muse, launched with a zero-day flaw that let attackers spy on Mac users, shows how tech giants are rushing out highly privileged AI agents with little regard for privacy or security while lobbying against regulation and open alternatives.
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The Polars team ships Polars 2.0: initial out-of-core spill-to-disk support on by default, core engine and optimizer speedups, first-class SQL that leads DuckDB and DataFusion on TPC-H and TPC-DS style benchmarks, a new Map dtype, and stricter dtype handling, plus a detailed benchmark appendix.
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Mistral launches a public API preview of Mistral Large 4 ("le Chonk"), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 49B active parameters, pitched as the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe, with weights due at the end of the month and training funded by its €3B Series D.
10 min · 2,203 words
We are going to kill “unalive”
Anil Dash argues that euphemisms like “unalive”, “grape” and censored captions exist to appease platform algorithms, that a generation has grown up with its language chosen by Big Tech, and that the fix is to say what you mean, build presence on independent platforms, and make noise when platforms push back.
8 min · 1,897 words
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Q Labs researchers present Dust, a zeroth-order training method that perturbs activations independently at every token so one forward pass evaluates a whole population, and report that it is competitive with backprop when pretraining transformer language models and far more efficient than weight-space evolution strategies.
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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
Anton Frolov describes commissioning hand-drawn day and night illustrations of each floor of his house, with every device on its own layer and a shared canvas, then wiring them into a Home Assistant picture-elements dashboard in YAML so lights, fireplace and air conditioners animate on a wall TV the whole family actually uses.
10 min · 2,239 words
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens
A nostalgic look back at the memory card and save file screens of sixth-generation consoles, the Dreamcast VMU, GameCube, PS2 and original Xbox, and why their game-specific icons and quirky menus were a small treasure that modern cover-art save menus have lost.
3 min · 614 words
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
James Ross looks back on 15 years in open source and argues that AI is killing it as he has known it: AI-generated pull requests made contributing cheap but maintaining far more expensive, so the projects he loves are closing their doors to outside contributors, and he admits he has no neat fix.
9 min · 1,974 words
Methods for Migrating Virtual Machines From VMware ESXi to Linux-Based Hypervisors
LINBIT's Matt Kereczman surveys ways to move VMs off VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE, KVM/libvirt, oVirt/OLVM, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenNebula or XCP-ng: copying VMDKs and converting with qemu-img, virt-v2v, OVF/OVA export, platform-specific import tools and other approaches, plus what to plan for and how to choose.
8 min · 1,760 words
What is the biggest lie professors tell? what 83 AI models think
We asked 83 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 23% picked Exam Bait. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,493 words
Which company will be the biggest in the world in 2030? 84 AI models predict the result
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 62% picked NVIDIA. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
13 min · 3,025 words
What on earth are you dooming about?
David Heinemeier Hansson argues that most material measures of human life have never been better, yet incessant dooming about climate, inequality and AI is everywhere; he says rumination over things outside your control makes you miserable and achieves nothing, and urges readers to stop dooming and bloom instead.
2 min · 403 words
A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users
An opinion piece recounting a rough month for Codex users: a disappointing GPT-6 Sol launch, changes to the $200 and new $500 plans, an underwhelming Dots feature and a slow follow-up model, and arguing OpenAI must choose between consumer and enterprise instead of rushed launches.
5 min · 1,107 words
India vs West Indies, 1st T20I: 82 AI models predict the result
We asked 82 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 96% picked India. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
11 min · 2,451 words
mold 3.0.0 is the first release of the high-speed linker after its rewrite from C++ to Rust: a drop-in replacement for 2.42.1 with the same options, targets, and linking performance, bounds-checked reads on corrupted input, a Cargo-based build, and a long list of bug fixes and compatibility improvements across architectures.
5 min · 1,254 words
The Haunted Toys R UsThe story behind the Sunnyvale store and the television episode that made it famous
The Retroist recounts the legend of the haunted Toys R Us at 130 East El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, California: employee reports of moving merchandise, strange noises and a talking doll, the 1978 newspaper coverage, the September 1980 That's Incredible episode that made the store famous, and the author's own brief visit.
6 min · 1,309 words
The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear
Rest of World's Kinling Lo reports how AI data centers are soaking up memory chip supply, pushing phone makers to raise prices and drop their most affordable sub-$150 models, and what that means for people in lower-income markets who depend on cheap smartphones to get online.
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A hands-on tour of go build -toolexec: how the go command invokes the compiler, assembler and linker, and how to time, rewrite and instrument every run, from a simple stopwatch to injecting packages via importcfg and keeping the build cache honest, as used by garble, Orchestrion and OpenTelemetry's otelc.
23 min · 5,364 words