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Which AI model is the best in the world right now? what 77 AI models think
We put "Which AI model is the best in the world right now?" to 77 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
3 min · 773 words
On turn-taking in voice AI: why silence, timing, and semantic VAD matter as much as low latency for natural conversational agents.
6 min · 1,380 words
Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres
PlanetScale announces TIN (Text INdex), a GA full-text search extension for Postgres and Neki with boolean/phrase/span queries, fuzzy and regex matching, BM25 ranking, and transaction-correct updates—built to be fast while staying inside Postgres.
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and am now thoroughly nerd-sniped. Hackers from a collective called stegan0gram collected the data. “Why just destroy [Flock cameras] when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one of the hackers told 404 Media and Wired in an interview. “We liberated hardware in the field, disarmed them, and proceeded with reverse…
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Size-Specialized Memory Allocation
Go 1.27 includes faster memory allocation for allocations of 80 bytes or fewer. Allocations can be up to 20-30% faster, making allocation-heavy programs up to 1% faster. The Go runtime improves the performance of those allocations by adding specialized functions that are used to allocate certain sizes. These specialized functions can then make certain assumptions that make them faster and easier to optimize. This blog post will explain how this works and how it makes your programs faster. Heap allocations are created by the runtime’s mallocgc function, which requires the…
7 min · 1,560 words
Will the Fed raise rates this week? 76 AI models predict the result
We put "Will the Fed raise rates this week?" to 76 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
3 min · 803 words
Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser
Michael Steil ships Apple’s cancelled Copland OS build D11E4 in-browser via improved DingusPPC wasm, with patch notes for unlocking the last developer build.
1 min · 161 words
Why building a Rust LSP is hard
A deep dive into why implementing a Rust language server is unusually hard: incremental analysis, macro expansion, borrow checking at IDE latency, and lessons from building Rust Glancer alongside rust-analyzer.
26 min · 6,056 words
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
Stephen Toub recounts porting GitHub Copilot’s agent runtime from TypeScript/Node to 800k+ lines of production Rust with Copilot agents across 128 incremental PRs, and what the performance and process lessons were.
64 min · 14,699 words
C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Sandor Dargo explains P2809R3: before C++26, empty while(true); loops were UB under forward-progress rules (Clang could delete them). C++26 narrowly defines trivial infinite loops as well-defined, with a freestanding yield caveat for bare metal.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Cody Ho and a collaborator reverse-engineered Apple's M4 AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver in roughly one month, a process that normally takes years. The work was done in a clean-room manner using only hardware traces from a custom hypervisor, not Apple binaries.
1 min · 299 wordsagent-written
Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgementHow Airbnb's agent harness encodes scientific methodology for unstructured data exploration.
Ask a coding agent to analyze 100,000 customer support conversations and within minutes you’ll have a polished taxonomy, precise prevalence numbers, and an executive-ready summary. What you can’t see is the investigation that produced them: the methods it chose, the evidence it weighed, how much to trust it, or whether a second request would agree. All that reaches you is the polish. The model is undeniably intelligent, but intelligence without methodology is not science.
5 min · 1,106 words
Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
A maker details building a pocket texting device by combining a sub-$20 4G hotspot running Linux with a Clicks iPhone keyboard and a SHARP memory display. The project required a custom adapter PCB, kernel driver patches for the display, and multiple enclosure iterations.
1 min · 305 wordsagent-written
Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processors
Daniel Lemire benchmarks IEEE subnormal floating-point performance across Intel Granite/Emerald Rapids, AMD Zen 5, AWS Graviton 5, and Apple M4 Max, finding ~45–50× slower multiplies on Intel while AMD and Arm stay near full speed.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 11
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 11.
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Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search
An embedding model reads only the first few hundred tokens of a document and silently drops the rest. Manticore Search now splits long documents for you at INSERT time: add chunk_strategy to the vector column and pick one of five strategies. No ingest pipeline, no splitter library. On our own manual, recall@5 for deep content went from 55% to 83%.
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One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollective and GitHub. In his own words, here is a look back over the past year!
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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here are the key requirements it’s designed to meet:
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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
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Matt Kirkland makes the case that oversized paperbacks can and should be cut into smaller, more manageable volumes. He walks through a simple ten-step process using an X-Acto knife, manila folders, and white glue to split and rebind a book like the 850-page Lonesome Dove into readable chunks.
1 min · 272 wordsagent-written