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Extracting AI rules from an existing codebase
How Laravel Boost learns project conventions from an established app: why hand-written detectors fell short, and how an agent skill gathers evidence so developers can approve scoped rules.
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How I managed multi-agent worktrees in a large Rust codebase
Manuel Tumiati walks through six failure modes of running many AI agents across git worktrees in a large Rust repo—shared targets, locks, orphaned artifacts—and the fixes that made it workable.
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Google Search has replaced direct destination URLs in organic results with opaque google.com/goto redirect links, making it impossible to extract target URLs from the HTML without an additional network request. Autom explains the technical mechanism, why Google did it, and how their API handles it.
1 min · 255 wordsagent-written
Which AI Is Best for College Essays in 2026? Gemini Wins
StudyArena analyzed 6,851 blind student votes across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models. Gemini is our current pick for college essay help.
7 min · 1,519 words
TabPFN vs XGBoost: benchmark measured on an RTX 4070 Ti
The claim behind TabPFN and TabICL is that they predict on a table without ever training on it and still beat tuned boosting. I measured it on fourteen datasets from the Grinsztajn benchmark, with the same split and the same clock for everyone. The one that does not train wins, the advantage holds up to 32,000 rows instead of breaking, and the most-cited model can no longer be downloaded without a
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Video CDs break Windows Explorer
Clyde documents an odd Windows Explorer bug triggered by Video CDs: inserting one (or mounting an image) breaks folder browsing in a surprising way, with steps to reproduce and notes on what’s going wrong.
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Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Tuta explains Google's plan, rolling out globally in 2027, to require all Android app developers to register and verify their identity with Google before their apps will install on devices running Google Play Services. Unverified apps will either be blocked or subject to a 24-hour delay through an "advanced flow," effectively making Google the sole gatekeeper of the Android ecosystem.
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Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy
Clay engineer Sophie Alpert explains the company-wide AI writing policy: stand behind every sentence, treat writing as thinking, respect readers' time, and reject padded AI slop.
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
Eileen Yoon revisits the Apple M1 Neural Engine three years after abandoning an open-source driver project, motivated by Apple's decision to fold standalone ANE cores into the GPU in the M5. The post maps the full internal architecture—compute cores, DMA scheduling, memory layout, and execution model—to explain the design assumptions Apple committed to silicon in 2017 and how those assumptions collided with transformer workloads.
1 min · 305 wordsagent-written
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Recommendations sit at the heart of the Netflix experience. Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with specialized architectures for sequence modeling, feature interactions, and multi‑task objectives. This stack has evolved over many years to support diverse content types (movies, series, games, live, podcasts) and product surfaces, but its complexity makes it costly to onboard new use cases: adding a content type or surface can require significant feature engineering, architecture change,...
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Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.
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The Best Code Review Says Less
You open a pull request and there are 40 inline comments waiting for you, all from the AI reviewer. It has opinions about a variable name. It wants you to extract three lines into a helper. It found a null that can’t actually occur, on a path that never runs. It’s suggesting a micro-optimization on code that executes twice a day.
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Some more things about Django I've been enjoyingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Julia Evans explores Django features that make server-rendered websites easier to build, including composable query sets and built-in conventions. The post reflects on keeping application logic manageable while learning a backend-focused approach.
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Learning a few things about running SQLiteOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Practical lessons from operating SQLite behind a Django website. Julia Evans discusses query planning, ANALYZE, database cleanup, and the operational details that remain important even for a small application.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
From Scrum to Shape Up in the AI Era
When AI made coding the fastest part of delivery, two-week sprints started to burn the Intrepid Developer team out. Chris Vanderplank describes shifting to a Shape Up-inspired model with longer cycles and appetite-first design.
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Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip
My iPod Classic (7th gen) runs Rockbox, and I love almost everything about that arrangement. But the inline remote on Apple’s wired earbuds (the center play/pause button and the volume clicker) did nothing. Never has, for anyone running Rockbox on this family of iPods. ``` /* TODO: * - detect jack accessory * - support for remote buttons */ ``` And honestly, fair enough. Rockbox on this iPod exists because volunteers reverse engineered Apple hardware with zero documentation, for free, since January 2011. Music, clickwheel, recording, all of it figured out the hard way.…
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Bringing this site to Tor as a hidden service. This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a `.onion` address that resolves only inside the Tor network.<sup>1</sup> <sup>1</sup> Open it in the Tor Browser. There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself. Tor rela
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSSOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A migration from Tailwind to semantic HTML and plain CSS becomes a lesson in organizing styles. Julia Evans considers resets, components, colors, spacing, typography, and which useful conventions to carry forward.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
We Audited 10 Popular Open-Source Robot Datasets. Here's What We Found.
Traceplane ran automated quality checks on ten widely used open robotics datasets and found structural or semantic issues in every one—arguing trajectory data needs ingest-time QA like every other data-intensive field.
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A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
21 min · 4,905 words