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Kit Langton explains OpenCode 2’s hot-reload architecture: plugins register catalog transformations up front so models, tools, and configs update live across sessions without restarts or cache busts.
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A practitioner walkthrough of type punning pitfalls: why a pointer cast that works at -O0 can silently break at -O2, and how C versus C++ rules diverge in treacherous ways.
3 min · 585 words
How Google Agent Substrate Works: 250 Agents on 8 Pods
A technical breakdown of Google’s Agent Substrate: how it multiplexes hundreds of stateful agent sessions onto a handful of Kubernetes pods with fast suspend/resume.
11 min · 2,511 words
A file path looks like identity, but it is not: Ryan Galloway explains why treating paths as durable keys breaks pipelines, and what to use instead for content identity.
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How GPT-6 Astra ascended NetHack: setup, agent loop, tool use, failure modes, and what beating a famously hard roguelike says about LLM agents in open-ended environments.
11 min · 2,477 words
Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler
Oscar Toledo recounts porting his 1990s transputer C compiler from 32-bit DJGPP assumptions to a modern 64-bit Mac—fixing int/pointer aliasing, FILE*, and self-hosting constraints along the way.
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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Linear's Mufeez Amjad explains how agent-accelerated shipping made CI the bottleneck, and how they cut PR wait time and runner cost while test suites nearly quadrupled.
8 min · 1,907 words
Inside the Tiny Unfixable Eye: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Teardown
iFixit’s teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max covers the new variable aperture camera, battery tray, cooling, and the repair tradeoffs—including plastic frames that tore on multiple units.
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Amit Shekhar walks through how LLM design moved from RNNs to attention, Transformers, scaling laws, Mixture of Experts, and the open problems still ahead.
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Two Years of Building with AI: An Honest Developer Review
An honest two-year look at AI-assisted development—from ChatGPT to Claude Code—what works, why every change still gets reviewed, and the de-skilling risk.
7 min · 1,632 words
Rebuilding Nym’s agent around Jev
How Nym rebuilt its agent stack around TypeSafe’s Jev for guardrails, browser actions, and tool selection—with benchmarks and a shopping demo.
10 min · 2,186 words
Your AI Coding Agent Can Be Attacked by the Repository It Opens
Why opening an untrusted repo with an AI coding agent is a security boundary problem—prompt injection via files, tool abuse, and practical defenses for agent workflows.
4 min · 1,028 words
Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD
Joel Carnat’s hands-on FreeBSD/OpenBSD notes on the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS mini-PC: networking, storage, power, quirks, and what works out of the box.
10 min · 2,326 words
A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game
Chris Wellons builds a custom virtual machine to host AI players for the classic Stars! 4X game, covering bytecode design, performance, and interfacing with the original binary.
5 min · 1,116 words
If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first? what 78 AI models think
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 5% picked Refuses To Pick. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,189 words
Who wins the 2026 NRL premiership? 75 AI models predict the result
We asked 75 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 95% picked Penrith Panthers. See every answer and who dissented.
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Giants at Rams, Monday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 83% picked Los Angeles Rams. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,288 words
Who won the 2026 World Cup? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Spain; 38 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
8 min · 1,899 words
Colts at Chiefs, Sunday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 97% picked Kansas City Chiefs. See every answer and who dissented.
15 min · 3,367 words
Apache Cassandra® 6 Accord transactions: What you need to know
There have always been architectural trade-offs when considering a distributed database like Apache Cassandra versus a relational database. Cassandra excels at linear horizontal scalability, multi-region replication, and fault-tolerant uptime that relational systems couldn’t match.
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