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Carson Gross argues that Markdown has become a first-class source artifact for LLM-built software systems, and that treating it like code in /src follows the same locality and clarity principles as HTML-in-/src.
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Making the MiniMax H3 Video VAE 2x Faster
The MiniMax H3 video VAE now encodes up to ~2.2x faster and decodes ~1.4 2.7x faster. Together that can roughly halve the time a video workflow spends in the VAE: a 1344x768, 129 frame encode and decode round trip drops from 24.3 to 12.7 seconds. What changed, the technical details A fused encoder kernel, on by default. Between convolutions the encoder normalized each frame, applied an activation and padded the edges, each one a separate pass over hundreds of megabytes.
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The MVUEH Break: GPT-6 Astra and a WWII Enigma message unsolved since 2005
Crypto Cellar Research documents how OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra helped break the long-unsolved MVUEH Kriegsmarine Enigma message—methods, cribs, and what the recovered plaintext reveals.
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Jeff Kaufman explores teleoperated humans: people remotely controlling other people’s bodies as a labor and agency model—what it would mean for work, consent, inequality, and AI-adjacent automation.
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Tackling Robotics with (V)LM Agents
Nishanth J. Kumar surveys recent demos and ideas around GPT-6 and other vision-language models solving robotics tasks—summarizing approaches and offering thoughts on what works and what still breaks.
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Which is bigger: 9.11 or 9.9? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was 9.9; 75 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
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Artificial Intelligence in ResearchThe preface to a PhD thesis on AI, how research is changing, and the kind of researcher to become.
Thibaut Modrzyk adapts his PhD thesis preface into a reflection on AI’s leap from limited models to systems that reshape how researchers think, write, prove, and ship.
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Confused Deputy: The Old Bug That AI Agents Keep Reintroducing
Auth0 revisits Norm Hardy’s 1988 confused-deputy problem and shows how AI agents with ambient credentials recreate it—then argues for short-lived, task-scoped tokens instead of standing access.
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OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Sol, positioning it as near-Astra intelligence at a fraction of the price, with notes on capabilities, availability, and how it fits the GPT-6.1 family.
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Not Enough Usage vs Price: How to Diagnose Subscription Churn
RevenueCat's Daphne Tideman lays out a four-part habit-loop framework to diagnose 'not enough usage' subscription churn before touching pricing—trigger, action, reward, and value.
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Sujith Jay Nair explains how platform staff engineers invent roadmap work by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the industry—when there is no PM or revenue line to follow.
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Tom Batey of WebDepend argues that AI can run checks but cannot judge whether software satisfies expectations—so businesses still need human testers who own responsibility when AI writes and verifies code.
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Effect’s weekly ecosystem update: RcMap as module of the week, runtime performance work across Schema/Queue/Stream/Scope, and community notes including Effect Paris.
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Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law
Thanks! This blog post is about the Rust GCC backend (not to be confused with gccrs which is a Rust front-end for the GCC compiler), how we synchronize its repository with Rust's and how everything went so wrong that it took us 2 months to be able to finally make it.
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How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer's PC
A vulnerable chat overlay, an unsandboxed Chromium renderer, and a V8 bug already exploited in the wild were enough to turn viewer-controlled text into native code execution, with OBS itself left at its default settings. I found a Twitch chat overlay that rendered viewer messages as raw HTML inside an OBS Browser Source. That gives a viewer JavaScript execution inside OBS’s embedded Chromium browser. The latest release of OBS at the time shipped a Chromium build that ran without its normal sandbox, and its V8 version was still vulnerable to `CVE-2024-7971`, a bug already…
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Why didn't anybody tell me about hash slots
A delivery-matching engineer discovers Redis Cluster hash slots the hard way, and walks through how slot-aware keys change caching, sharding, and multi-key operations in production.
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How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
How Zambia’s medicines regulator authorized an HIV drug in 12 days—and what that says about the access gap when medicines sit where the disease is not.
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Understanding NvPCRs in systemd v262
systemd answers TPM PCR scarcity with additional PCR-like registers allocated in the TPM’s NV memory, with an anchoring design that was reworked in v262.
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Jev and System One Models: Calibration Beats Accuracy
A deep dive into TypeSafe’s Jev “System One” decision model: why calibrated probabilities matter more than raw accuracy for agents, games, and UIs that need millisecond choices.
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Linebender ships fearless_simd 1.0: safe Rust SIMD that covers autovectorization, portable abstractions, and intrinsics access—reflecting on design goals after eight years from the original prototype.
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