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StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 has flagship LLMs spend one hour in their first-party CLI harness writing a StarCraft: Brood War Protoss bot in C++, scored by win rate against human-written bots. GPT-6 Astra leads, GPT-6.1 Sol offers the best value, and the benchmark shows no signs of saturating.
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AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?
Mihai Avram argues that AI coding agents have outpaced human code review, citing Faros data on rising bugs, review time and incidents, and lays out layered automated verification: AI code reviewers (Claude, Codex, Copilot, Bugbot), CI/CD checks from lint, tests and SAST to architecture review, and when to run them from pre-commit to production.
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What changes when your search index lives on S3?
Infino explains how putting a full-text search index on object storage changes the cost and latency model: every random read is a billed GET taking tens of milliseconds, and how superfiles, manifests and careful layout keep agent queries fast without packing the working set on local disks.
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Mac and iOS developer Jeff Johnson explains why he still avoids passkeys and sticks with randomly generated passwords. Even with the new credential exchange protocol, he argues passkeys tied to iCloud Keychain fail his requirements of logging in from an unfamiliar device and keeping independent backups, and that big platform vendors oversimplify security for everyone.
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You could have invented transformers from memory
Alex Wang builds intuition for linear maps, MLPs and self-attention as different kinds of memory stores, using the interference-to-signal ratio to estimate each one's capacity. With 64-dimensional keys, capacity grows from about 64 memories for a linear layer to about 2,700 for an MLP and over a million for self-attention.
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How the Claude Code team does code review
With Claude writing about 90 percent of Claude Code's own code, the team describes a layered review flow: verification before review, AI review on every pull request, blocking security and automated checks, risk-scaled human approval, merge queues, flags, gradual release and fast rollback. Merged PRs more than doubled from June to September while the revert share fell over 40 percent.
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Cory Doctorow explains how Amazon's junk fees and most-favored-nation pricing rules raise prices for shoppers everywhere, not just on Amazon, and argues Expedia has done the same thing to hotel rooms, making travel more expensive for everyone through monopoly intermediaries.
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My old job feels very distant now
A software developer reflects on how ChatGPT and coding models went from a better Google, to generating copy-pasted specs, to the default way of working, what the author misses and does not miss about the old way of programming, and how quickly both the models and developers have adapted.
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David Rosenthal tests the popular analogy between today's AI data-center buildout and the dot-com era's dark fiber. He argues it is flawed: GPUs depreciate exponentially as each generation improves power efficiency, so idle capacity will not become cheap useful infrastructure the way fiber did, and he compares Nvidia's position with Sun Microsystems after the dot-com bust.
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It Ain't AGI Until H100s Go for $30 an Hour
October 15, 2026 Kyle Corbitt with Claude Opus Greg Brockman claimed that GPT-6 Astra marks the start of the “AGI era.” We may be in the AGI era, but if AGI means an agent that can “outperform humans at most economically valuable work” it isn’t here yet. You’ll know it is when the price of AI compute jumps 10x from where it is now.
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October 15, 2026 by Lee Murray VS Code has changed a lot since its first preview in 2015. Tabs, themes, and new ways to organize your work have made it more capable, but over a decade of adding and refining features has also introduced visual complexity and inconsistencies across the workbench.
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Meta's new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Legal experts say Meta's updated commercial terms, effective Oct. 30, let the company scrape websites associated with business accounts—raising alarms for news publishers locked into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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You Won't Believe The Incredible Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses To Bend
Every day, countless people around the world board a bus to travel to a destination. These buses come in all shapes and sizes, from comfortable coaches to towering double-deckers. One of the best ways to increase a coach’s passenger capacity without adding height is to build the bus in at least two sections, adding a pivot point near the middle. The articulated bus is a common sight everywhere, but how they actually work, especially when they have a rear engine, is far more clever and interesting than you might think. A lot of these buses put brilliant engineering in…
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My self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS
My self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS](2026-10-15-selfhosting-infrastructure-incus-os.html) Written by Solène, on 15 October 2026. Tags: selfhosting security linux containers
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Ryan Dahl announced last week that the Deno team is joining Cloudflare. The Deno runtime winds down over the next year, JSR keeps running on Cloudflare's infrastructure, & the team's new job, per Cloudflare's post, is merging Deno's celld into workerd. The announcement came two years to the day after Deno 2 shipped. Bun joined Anthropic ten months ago. The tempting conclusion is that the alternative-runtime experiment is over & Node has won by default. In reality, the ecosystem has gotten the benefits Deno was pushing, just not from Deno itself.
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Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia
Sharon Yang compares building Chromium inside Google versus at Igalia: process differences, review culture, release cadence, and what changes when the browser is your product versus one of many engines.
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Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
Apple Machine Learning Research explains how MLX plus RDMA lets large open-weight models run locally and across networked Mac Studios—covering distributed inference setup aimed at the Muse Spark Open and similar workloads.
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The Rust team released 1.99.1, a point release fixing regressions from 1.99.0. The post lists the notable fixes and points users at rustup update as the upgrade path.
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Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
A Gleam enthusiast walks through how the language's exhaustiveness checking shapes nested decision trees, pattern matching and day-to-day refactoring confidence, celebrating compile-time guarantees that catch incomplete case analysis.
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Forgejo announces version 17.0 of the community-driven Git forge, covering notable changes, upgrade notes and release artifacts for self-hosted teams that want an open alternative to proprietary code hosts.
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