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Authoritarian tendencies of Android Developer Verification Program
Vikrant Singh Chauhan argues Google’s Android Developer Verification Program, sold as malware protection, centralizes who may ship apps and threatens sideloading and small open-source clients—drawing on his experience publishing ivx/ai Chat.
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Jonas Schäfer argues that LLM quality has improved enough that “AI output is bad” no longer works as a blanket objection—quality arguments lost, so the harder fights are about labor, ecology, control, and what we still choose to do ourselves.
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The Missing Model: How AI Agents Behave Over Months
Muhammad Hanzla argues labs lack a study design for how AI agents behave across months of real work, and outlines why that longitudinal model should be built before longer autonomy.
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Stefano Saitta pushes back on the claim that coding agents kill unit tests, arguing for a pragmatic mix of E2E, integration, and still-useful unit tests in an AI-assisted workflow.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
David Bushell explains why he is moving back from Deno to Node after a month on a SvelteKit project: modern Node APIs and TypeScript support, using FNM and PNPM with release-age delays to dodge npm malware, and frustrations with Deno and JSR including broken shell integration, rate limits, and concurrency bugs.
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Drake or Kendrick? what 84 AI models think
We asked 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 96% picked Kendrick Lamar. See every answer and who dissented.
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Will there be broad student loan forgiveness this presidential term? 82 AI models predict the result
We asked 82 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked No. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
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New York City should carefully measure a new treeThe Queens Giant was last carefully measured in 2004—time for fresh candidates.
Will Meyers notes that New York City's tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004, and argues the city should identify and carefully remeasure new tall-tree candidates, including ones near Inwood Hill Park.
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21 reasons I didn't become an EMT, rankedActual reasons Ben Stolovitz delayed getting an EMT license, sorted by ridiculousness.
Software engineer Ben Stolovitz ranks twenty-one real reasons he delayed becoming an Emergency Medical Technician—from spare time and money to social awkwardness and fear—before finally taking a NOLS Wilderness EMT course in 2024.
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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everythingHard spend limits should be the default for usage-based APIs and agent-driven systems.
Simon Willison argues that pay-by-usage services need default hard budget caps—not soft email warnings—so coding and personal agents cannot rack up surprise bills. He points to AWS spend limits and Google Cloud Spend Caps as early moves in that direction.
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Against All Odds describes PasRISCV, the custom RISC-V emulator that runs a full Linux userspace inside their game SEEDS so in-game tools can execute as native ELF binaries even on Windows hosts.
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Why It's Time to Rename Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Semgrep makes the case for renaming Cybersecurity Awareness Month to focus less on catchy campaigns and more on measurable secure-by-default engineering practices that actually reduce risk.
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FTL: A new operating system for clouds
FTL introduces itself as a new operating system designed for clouds—outlining goals around cloud-native systems software and pointing to the project’s public materials.
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How Firestore Matches Realtime Queries
Tyler Rockwood explains how Cloud Firestore matches and fans out realtime listeners efficiently as documents change—covering query indexing, target matching, and fanout tradeoffs.
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Docker has always used microVMs
Dave Scott revisits Docker’s history and argues containers on Linux have long leaned on microVM-style isolation ideas—context for today’s secure sandbox and unikernel discussions.
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We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB engineers describe porting the original Doom so the game’s world and logic run as SQL queries—showing what a modern analytical database can do with a playful, technical demo.
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Lessons From Dropbox - Part I: Was Steve Jobs Wrong?
Matan Zinger revisits Steve Jobs calling Dropbox "a feature, not a product," and unpacks what founders actually learn from Dropbox's early product and distribution story.
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Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection
A BeakSec writeup of CVE-2026-107181: an unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop's single-instance IPC let a single clicked link inject commands that reach the internal interpret: scheme, read arbitrary local files such as session files, and send them to an attacker's chat. Fixed quietly in 7.2.9.
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Stanko, who works on HEY, agrees with DHH's Rails World keynote that programmers, like painters after the camera, must adapt to AI, describing how building HEY CLI and rewriting HEY in Rust with agents changed his workflow, and arguing that using AI well is a skill to practice.
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Go JSON v2 Migration: What Breaks in Go 1.27
Side-by-side notes on migrating to Go 1.27 encoding/json/v2: which outputs change versus v1 and which options or struct tags restore expected behavior.
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