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Why refactoring made our biggest file biggerCode entropy, measured, and the ratchet that stops it
Image Horse's AppShell grew from 3,250 to 3,806 lines during a month of intentional extraction. Chris Lane Jones explains measured line-count ratchets, why warnings failed, and why entropy is whack-a-mole you don't win—but can make visible.
5 min · 1,168 words
How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
Pew Research Center outlines internal AI guidelines: surveys stay human-answered, disclosure rules for production use, and careful experimentation while keeping research people-centered.
2 min · 542 words
Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model
AWS engineer Marc Brooker recounts building and training a small leading model hands-on—what worked, how it performed, and what the exercise taught him about modern model-building.
9 min · 2,024 words
Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross
A playful hardware write-up: turning a pharmacy LED cross into a scrolling Rickroll display, with wiring notes and the software path.
5 min · 1,072 words
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
How the PS5 Broadcast RTMP pipeline can be intercepted and redirected: reverse-engineering the stream path and what that unlocks.
4 min · 1,016 words
EX-ARRR: Sailing the 0-click Seas
**Every serious Apple device compromise of the last decade has boring person at the bottom of it: a parser read a file and trusted it a little too much. Not a phishing link, nor a stolen password, but a daemon you never launched, decoding a file you never opened, one byte past the end of a buffer. This is that story. It starts late one evening with a fuzzer that did not know what an EXR file was, and ends with a heap overflow that fires inside a privileged Apple daemon the instant an iMessage lands evading BlastDoor’s, before the little notification banner even finishes…
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Eddie Aftandilian ships SafeRE 1.0, a linear-time Java regex library built with agents: differential testing vs the JDK, ReDoS resistance by construction, and performance that now beats JDK and RE2/J on Rebar workloads.
5 min · 1,062 words
Why I Stopped Defaulting to Next.js and Vercel
How AI coding agents made it practical for me to build and own a different stack with TanStack Start and Cloudflare. The first person who introduced me to Next.js was my friend Haythem Lazaar. We were at university, building Collo , a project management tool for remote teams.
8 min · 1,755 words
Add Runtime Controls to AI Agents with NVIDIA OpenShell
NVIDIA’s technical write-up on OpenShell: an open secure runtime that sandboxes AI agents, enforces tool/file/network policy at runtime, and pairs with hardware monitoring for containment.
7 min · 1,593 words
GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
A GrapheneOS user digs into why OsmAnd maps feel slower on a Pixel 8 than on stock Android, and how that search led to CoMaps and broader performance trade-offs on hardened phones.
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Pranav Desai catalogs ten visual and copy tells of AI-generated “slop UI”—from rainbow gradients and pulsing badges to glassmorphism and generic hype—and why vibe-coded interfaces often look cheap without a design vision.
4 min · 908 words
What is the date today? what 83 AI models think
We put "What is the date today?" to 83 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.
12 min · 2,726 words
PotemkinOS: an operating system where the model writes the userland
Gabe Ortiz’s joke-with-a-build: a Linux image with no userland—only a kernel, inference engine, C compiler, and eight tools—so the model must invent its own shell, ls, and eventually a Kubernetes facade three villages converge on.
3 min · 699 wordsagent-assisted
Watching discussions happening online, I see a frequent unfortunate tic I’ll call the Expert Asterisk. A beginner is asking for help, and experts are answering. Then in the spirit of completeness, an expert throws in a fact or detail far from the learner’s abilities or needs.
3 min · 580 words
Will India win the Asian Games cricket gold? 80 AI models predict the result
We put "Will India win the Asian Games cricket gold?" to 80 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.
15 min · 3,517 words
Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling
Benjamin Zaitlen explains RapidsMPF’s reusable out-of-core shuffler for distributed analytics—how spilling turns shuffle OOM headaches into a budgetable resource, and what it takes to push shuffle bandwidth toward terabytes per second.
15 min · 3,466 words
Ravens vs Cowboys in Rio de Janeiro: 85 AI models predict the result
We put "Ravens vs Cowboys in Rio de Janeiro" to 85 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.
16 min · 3,627 words
A font compiler that makes every LLM token the same width—why monospace-per-token helps visualize chain-of-thought, plus an interactive preview of fonts built from a font + tokenizer pair.
7 min · 1,527 words
SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data
California’s SB 923 expands CCPA deletion to data bought or appended from third parties and requires an online deletion form—what businesses need to change by January 1.
3 min · 620 words
Introducing Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifacts
Domen Kožar introduces Casita, a content-addressed object store for source code and build artifacts—an argument for rethinking Nix-style packaging from the package manager up.
7 min · 1,723 words