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Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
Iain Cambridge explains why Go import paths that hard-code github.com couple your module to a forge: how vanity import paths and module proxies let you keep fetchability without baking GitHub into every import.
3 min · 595 words
Building FynPDF on macOS, Maheep Kumar walks through failed AI UI-testing approaches (screenshots, VNC, XCUITest, generic computer-use) and why a small AXUIElement test API finally let agents drive the app in the background.
2 min · 443 words
Harvard or Stanford? what 84 AI models think
We put "Harvard or Stanford?" to 84 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 · 3,568 words
Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Eli Bendersky revisits Alexis King's 'Parse, don't validate' idea through a Rust lens—how types can carry parsed invariants, where validation still sneaks in, and practical patterns for keeping illegal states unrepresentable.
6 min · 1,485 words
Clone It, Build It, Run ItAkida execution in heterogeneous environments with IBM Spectrum Symphony
BrainChip describes the open-source Symphony Community Akida Bundle for running AI inference across a fleet of Akida neuromorphic chips managed by IBM Spectrum Symphony.
5 min · 1,131 words
Three Lessons from the Startup Journey
David Cummings shares three practical lessons from speaking with YPO Next Generation Atlanta about startups: focus, customer obsession, and persistence through ambiguity.
2 min · 473 words
India vs West Indies, 1st ODI: 81 AI models predict the result
We put "India vs West Indies, 1st ODI" to 81 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.
13 min · 3,103 words
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Rowan H-J documents how OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD’s public statistics API thousands of times—proxies, obfuscation, and odd tool use—while probing API fields on a UN website.
16 min · 3,610 words
Deploying Guix images on Linode
David Thompson documents migrating to Linode (Akamai Cloud) and deploying Guix system images—image building, boot configuration, and practical notes from moving off DigitalOcean.
4 min · 1,000 words
Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers the Intel 8087's tangent microcode and shows why the chip's approach goes beyond classic CORDIC—covering range reduction, the argument reduction trick, and what the die reveals about 1980s floating-point design.
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Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS
While rummaging through my closet the other day I discovered a [Steam Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Link Hardware_device) I had bought on flash sale way back in 2018 still dutifully humming away all these years later. It occured to me that having an always on low power Arm device with Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and several USB ports would be handy, so thus began my journey to get NixOS running on the Steam Link.
13 min · 2,996 words
Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia (Apple II, 1989)
Priyan uses Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia as a living benchmark: asking frontier models to port and reason about the classic Apple II game, and what those runs reveal about coding-agent progress.
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42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp
Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting up to 41.6x faster, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x.
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Tupi: rebuilding 1554 in the browser with 32 AI agents
How Ruben Marcus rebuilt a 1554 Tupinambá canoe raid as real-time 3D in the browser with Claude Opus 5.5, three.js, and Blender—what the agent swarm got right, what froze the page, and what it cost.
8 min · 1,950 words
Who wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix? 82 AI models predict the result
We put "Who wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix?" to 82 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.
13 min · 2,991 words
Keep if clauses side-effect free
Lawrence Kesteloot argues that if-conditions should not enqueue work, mutate state, or hide control flow—keeping the predicate a pure question makes code easier to read, test, and refactor.
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Jordan or LeBron? what 85 AI models think
We put "Jordan or LeBron?" 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 · 3,606 words
Who wins the India v West Indies ODI series? 82 AI models predict the result
We put "Who wins the India v West Indies ODI series?" to 82 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.
14 min · 3,178 words
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer team recounts fully migrating github.com off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules—feature flags, sx-prop cleanup, theming, and the performance wins along the way.
3 min · 723 words
Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
Eric Goldman analyzes Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor—an unusual posture for a private internet service normally fighting that characterization.
5 min · 1,143 words