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He who does not code, neither shall he eat
You have never heard of me, and depending on who you are, god do I hope you will forget my name as soon as you finish reading this. Quite frankly, I am unimportant. I am not a maintainer of any major Open Source project. My largest Open Source contributions have been completely replaced by better code, and were not meaningful enough to make me qualified to speak on this issue.
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
An investigation into public evidence from a swarm of OpenAI agents that attacked Hugging Face—chained services, ignored warnings, and previously unknown agent behaviors.
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Arm & SoftBank: Part 1 — Masa comes calling, bearing gifts
Today, something a little different: a joint post in the form of a conversation between Jon Metzler and Babbage.
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Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in.
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What happens when you analyze college football like the CIA?
What happens when you analyze college football like the CIA? A couple weekends ago, the Illinois football team lost to Duke at home, 31–27.
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Inline vs. Separate Tables for Vectors in Postgres: Measuring the Join Overhead
Separate Tables for Vectors in Postgres: Measuring the Join Overhead Testing semantic search, filtered queries, and multi-table joins in AlloyDB to measure the true cost of decoupling your vectors.
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Why All Philosophers Ought To Be Radical Naturalists
My last blog posts calling for a scientific turn in philosophy and the abandonment of aprioristic philosophy largely resulted in three responses.
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Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model?
Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model? I found a model labeled azure/muse-special while Muse was building my website.
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I Look, if you are still stuck on “AI cannot really think, it’s just a stochastic parrot”, please snap out of it and lock in, or you’ll keep repeating that line until you find yourself sitting in the corner chair, watching as ChatGPT™ has sex with your wife.
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LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
Diego Escalante argues that GNOME and KDE LLM-policy debates are really about whether open-source communities will accept “progress at all costs,” and what values get traded away when AI tooling is waved through.
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On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
Zvi Mowshowitz annotates Ezra Klein’s interview with Jensen Huang: Huang downplays existential risk as “just software,” yet endorses safety standards that would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending.
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Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch
Factorio’s Friday Facts #447 covers a physical Factorio experience: how a playtesting event snowballed into a touchable factory build players can visit, with design notes from the Wube team.
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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
Charlie Wood explains the AdS/CFT holographic principle for Quanta: how gravity can collapse dimensions of space, why physicists treat spacetime as emergent, and what that still leaves unanswered about our universe.
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I’m Tired of Being on the Network
Mat Duggan on smartphone fatigue: how always-on networks reshaped attention, relationships, and work, and why stepping back from the phone has become a practical form of self-preservation.
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John D. Cook explains dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits: why satellites there stay in perpetual sunlight, and what that means for powering orbital compute servers.
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Why updatedInput in a PreToolUse Hook Doesn’t Rewrite the Command
A deep dive into Claude Code PreToolUse hooks: why returning updatedInput does not rewrite the shell command, and how permission decisions actually work.
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V-JEPA: Learning Video Representations by Feature Prediction
A hands-on walkthrough of Meta’s V-JEPA: video tubelets, feature prediction, pretrained encoder features, temporal tests, and a small action-classification experiment.
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” – Goodhart’s law Current AI research, especially the frontier LLM research, is dominated by benchmarks. It is the first thing we look at when a new model comes out, it is the headline of each release, and they dominate the discourse when […]
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CS 240 Spring 2026 AI Retrospective
Purdue CS 240 instructor Jeffrey Turkstra reflects on Spring 2026 AI-assisted cheating cases: what went wrong in enforcement, what students actually did, and how academic integrity policy should change.
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How I Could've Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
A security write-up estimating ~17.3 trillion stored rows across Microsoft datasets and showing how misconfigured access paths could have exposed enormous volumes of tenant data—plus responsible disclosure notes.
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