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Getting Started with MCP Apps in Node.js
Valeri Karpov (Mastering JS) walks through MCP Apps in Node.js: from a basic get-time tool to rendering interactive maps and widgets inside Claude.
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English: a vs anWhy vowel letters are the wrong rule for indefinite articles in generated text
Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) digs into when English wants “a” versus “an”: the rule tracks spoken vowel sounds, not written vowel letters, and only a small set of common words need exceptions for procedural text generation.
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Ian Duncan traces how parts of the rationalist/EA AI-safety milieu incubated salvation narratives, abusive experiments, race science, and authoritarian affection—and why that history matters as alumni steer frontier labs.
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Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.Comb jellies illuminate early nervous systems and bioluminescence
Marlowe Starling reports how comb jellies (ctenophores) help biologists probe the earliest animal nervous systems, membrane chemistry, and bioluminescence—organisms as distant from us as we are from jellyfish.
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On learning programming in an age of LLMs
Mark Seemann answers a reader’s letter on learning to program in the age of LLMs: which fundamentals still matter, how to practice, and how to keep agency when models can generate working code.
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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
A deep dive into why implementing a Rust language server is unusually hard: incremental analysis, macro expansion, borrow checking at IDE latency, and lessons from building Rust Glancer alongside rust-analyzer.
26 min · 6,056 words
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Google researchers present Dream-RSI: treat discovery trees as exact replay simulators so agents can offline-evaluate exploration policies—cutting discovery cost up to 162× while leaving coding-model weights unchanged.
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Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
Stephen Toub recounts porting GitHub Copilot’s agent runtime from TypeScript/Node to 800k+ lines of production Rust with Copilot agents across 128 incremental PRs, and what the performance and process lessons were.
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Code Scans turns broad engineering goals into concrete improvements across your codebase. Tell Devin what you want to achieve, and it investigates what needs to change, evaluates the findings, and turns them into pull requests.
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You are the AI agent's harnessPreventing hallucinations upstream by treating the engineer as the harness.
A recently popular approach to AI-assisted coding is to build runtime harnesses around the model's output — review agents, verification loops, multi-pass pipelines that catch hallucinations after they happen.
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CrowdSec Statement: Source Code Exposure in May 2026
CrowdSec confirms a May 2026 GitHub source-code exposure reported on September 16, outlining scope, impact assessment, investigation steps, and security measures taken.
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Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Leis et al. asked this exact question in 2015. Then, they asked it again 10 years later. Despite an enormous body of research spanning a decade since their original exploration, they found that query optimizers continue to leave much to be desired. I was surprised when I first learned about this. A Postgres database should know everything about the stuff that lives in its tables, no? How hard can it be?
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C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Sandor Dargo explains P2809R3: before C++26, empty while(true); loops were UB under forward-progress rules (Clang could delete them). C++26 narrowly defines trivial infinite loops as well-defined, with a freestanding yield caveat for bare metal.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Cody Ho and a collaborator reverse-engineered Apple's M4 AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver in roughly one month, a process that normally takes years. The work was done in a clean-room manner using only hardware traces from a custom hypervisor, not Apple binaries.
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Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgementHow Airbnb's agent harness encodes scientific methodology for unstructured data exploration.
Ask a coding agent to analyze 100,000 customer support conversations and within minutes you’ll have a polished taxonomy, precise prevalence numbers, and an executive-ready summary. What you can’t see is the investigation that produced them: the methods it chose, the evidence it weighed, how much to trust it, or whether a second request would agree. All that reaches you is the polish. The model is undeniably intelligent, but intelligence without methodology is not science.
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Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
A maker details building a pocket texting device by combining a sub-$20 4G hotspot running Linux with a Clicks iPhone keyboard and a SHARP memory display. The project required a custom adapter PCB, kernel driver patches for the display, and multiple enclosure iterations.
1 min · 305 wordsagent-written
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
Adam Mastroianni argues the loneliness-epidemic narrative is overstated, then uses scurvy as a metaphor for how we misread social health data—and what that mistake costs public conversation.
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The KV cache as an agent runtime
Yandex Research on treating the Transformer KV cache as shared multi-view agent state so observation, reasoning, and actions can run concurrently without retraining.
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Mathematics Enters its Cookie Clicker EraMacrodecisions can be really fun
Reinvent Science and Dan Recht compare AI-automated theorem proving to idle games: as LLMs take over microdecisions in math, human skill shifts to macrodecisions about direction, upgrades, and applied progress.
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Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processors
Daniel Lemire benchmarks IEEE subnormal floating-point performance across Intel Granite/Emerald Rapids, AMD Zen 5, AWS Graviton 5, and Apple M4 Max, finding ~45–50× slower multiplies on Intel while AMD and Arm stay near full speed.
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