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The forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
A detailed write-up of first-booting Linux on an M4 Mac mini, covering CPU quirks, bring-up details, and the hardware surprises along the way.
7 min · 1,650 words
Supabase is acquiring Turso to strengthen database infrastructure for agentic AI, combining Postgres strengths with Turso’s edge-oriented SQLite work.
2 min · 399 words
New in llama.cpp: Decision Models
Text Classification • 0.1B • Updated • 297 • 4 Community Article /v1/systemone endpoint. You send a state (text, JSON, a screenshot) and typed questions.
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Back in June of 2024 at RustFest Zürich, the Const Generics project group first discussed a new design for supporting more complex uses of generic parameters in Const Generics. Since then, we've continued to refine the initial design and have implemented the new design as a family of features dubbed "Generic Const Arguments" (GCA for short).
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SequenceHash: multihashing for the rest of us
Multihashing is one of those cryptographic tasks that’s easy not to think about too much. This is unfortunate, because multihashing is a common stumbling point when cryptographers try to use hashes.
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Spring AI Modular RAG and TypeSafe Jev: Retrieve More, Keep Only What Answers
Christian Tzolov walks through Spring AI modular RAG plus TypeSafe Jev: rewrite/expand the query before retrieval, then keep only chunks that actually answer—contrasting naive QuestionAnswerAdvisor RAG with a live demo pipeline.
6 min · 1,487 words
The Inner Ring tours Shimano’s bicycle museum in Sakai—history of components, racing artifacts, and how the brand presents its industrial and sporting story to visitors.
5 min · 1,171 words
I let an AI agent run my side project's growth loop: intent.md, CI gates and metric bands
A middle-school digital tutor wires an AI agent to run daily growth for Clipboard Share—intent files, deterministic metric bands, auto-merge allowlists—and ships a first SEO title change with human approval only on risky steps.
6 min · 1,356 wordsagent-assisted
From Vibe-Coding to Verification: The Engineering Case for Deterministic Checks in the AI Era
Tamiz Uddin argues that vibe-coding—accepting AI output because it “looks right”—is unsafe for production, and that modern engineering skill is verification via tests, types, and deterministic gates.
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How Singapore's government-run dating service works, and why it won't solve the dating crisis
Kai walks through GovTech’s FirstDate pilot—questionnaire, Singpass verification, Gale-Shapley matching cycles—and argues why a government matchmaker is unlikely to fix Singapore’s deeper dating and fertility challenges.
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Building reliable (and fast) directory syncWhy Firezone skipped SCIM and built a hybrid pull + change-notification engine
Firezone explains directory sync without SCIM: pull-based reconciliation, provider change notifications, epoch checkpointing, and defensive handling of nested groups so identity updates stay fast and complete.
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I'm DeepSeek Harness, an open-source harness from DeepSeek built on Cordis's “everything is a plugin” architecture. Run me as a desktop app or launch the web UI from code.
2 min · 517 words
Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
I haven’t found much use for the personal assistant part of Muse. People on X (Twitter) keep using these assistants to order DoorDash or something. I order DoorDash like five times a year, so that’s not going to speed anything up for me. I also don’t get many emails, and managing my appointments is easy enough already.
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Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and testsA generated web rendering engine verified against Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit
Bez generates Rust web-engine code from specifications, admitting candidates only when three shipping browsers agree on geometry—aiming for complete or content-scoped engines that update by regeneration.
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HITL gates for agent mutationsVerify mutations after tool calls so agents cannot declare early victory
Human-in-the-loop risk gates for refunds, inventory, and spend: classify mutations, issue system approval ids, and verify with a second read before user-facing success copy.
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Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73 anti-VPN age verification law. EFF explains why the statute demanded a technical impossibility and what the ruling means for digital privacy.
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Deleting RAG from our web agent made it 2.3x faster
Skyvern explains how it rewrote its open-source browser-automation agent from scratch, inspired by the Pi coding agent, replacing retrieval-heavy context with progressive disclosure so the agent is 2.3x faster and scores 90.5% on the Odysseys web-agent benchmark.
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Agentic-SDD: Giving Claude Code Agents a Real Engineering Process
Agentic-SDD is a Claude Code plugin that gates coding agents through a six-stage require→plan→analyze→implement→verify→fix pipeline with on-disk status, specialist agents, and a bundled knowledge-search engine.
6 min · 1,303 words
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
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turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, we have to fundamentally redesign our storage architecture so the vector index is no longer primary.
6 min · 1,334 words