How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer | 25
lalitm.com
How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.
A website for debloated open source alternatives | 19
debloat.dev
debloat.dev — replace the junk
open-source replacements for bloated vendor software
The Vibe Tax | 9
insufferable.dev
The Vibe Tax | insufferable.dev
Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.
Fable and the End of the Free Lunch | 14
dbreunig.com
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.
Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling | 17
punyamishra.com
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware | 20
securelist.com
First Android malware targeting automotive head units | Securelist
Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It’s delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units.
What Is a Harness? | 28
earendil.com
What is a Harness? | EARENDIL
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality | 10
fabiensanglard.net
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests | 21
studyfinds.com
Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests
Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.
Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG | 0
Marquardt, Ingo | Alchanat, Anthilia | Jain, Priyanka
[2608.20186] Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.20186: Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day | 51
ericpardee.github.io
Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras | 22
risky.biz
Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras - Risky Business Media
Slovakia's national security service NBU has issued a security alert against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras.The agency s [Read More]
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? | 7
slate.com
Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) | 1
spheron.network
Etched Sohu vs NVIDIA: Transformer ASIC vs GPU (2026) | Spheron Blog
Etched Sohu claims 500k tokens/sec on Llama 70B from an 8-chip server. What a transformer-only ASIC gives up versus H100, B200, and the Groq 3 LPU.
Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F | 9
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Phoenix swapped black asphalt for a reflective road coating; noon surface heat fell 12°F, but pedestrians faced higher radiant heat
Explore Phoenix's innovative Cool Pavement initiative that reduced surface temperatures but increased heat exposure for pedestrians. Discover the pros and cons of this reflective road coating based on thorough research by ASU.
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed | 25
xda-developers.com
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Predicting AI model release dates with stats | 0
releaseoracle.xyz
AI Model Release Dates — Live Forecasts | Release Oracle
The next Kimi K model is the next major AI model expected, around Sep 13, 2026. Release Oracle tracks 16 models with market-implied release dates, uncertainty windows, and daily forecast history.
I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI | 4
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en.andros.dev
I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI | Andros Fenollosa
After writing yesterday's article about the talk command, I realized there is a poetic bond between the past and the future: talk transmits character…
Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely 7
wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com
Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely
AI and Infrastructure Engineering | 2
omegion.dev
AI and Infrastructure Engineering · Omegion
How I actually use AI in day-to-day infrastructure work, and why I think it's the next layer of abstraction rather than a replacement for the engineer - the same way Kubernetes was for Ansible.
From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 | 0
pikuma.com
Pikuma: From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8
Transistors, logic gates, flip-flops, full adders, memory, and blinking LEDs. The PDP-8 is a great computer to learn about traditional digital electronics and simple computer architecture.
Things I want in a modern relational query language | 22
sporks.space
Things I want in a modern relational query language - the sporks space
This was a very old draft I’ve had sitting around for years. The recent discussions of new query languages like Acadia spurred me to revisit, revise, and publish this. I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that… Continue reading →
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust | 24
martypc.net
MartyPC Web Edition
An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!
