Why I Stopped Arguing with People

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the way I collected patches. I believed that if I just laid out the logic clearly enough, the other person would have no choice but to come around. Truth would win.

Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

ArXiv's Next Chapter

Compiler-Assisted Floating-Point Error Analysis and Profiling with FPChecker

The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

Stillness amidst the chaos.

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.,In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.

A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back

tl;dr This blog post describes a recent SmallVector::push_back optimization for approximately trivially copyable element types. SmallVector is LLVM's most-used container, and push_back its hot operati

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and powerful spring-actuated snare to catch a single species of ant—one ant at a time—in what they describe as "the ultimate specialization.",Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.066,Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.066

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF

About us Manufact is Vercel for MCP. We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP. Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month. We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 8M+ downloads across python and typescript. Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies. We raised $6.3M seed in 4 days before YC demo day. Our lead investor is PeakXV (best dev-tools VC out there), and we have the best angels, including the founders of Supabase. Our focus: capture a significant share of global AI tool calls that flow thro

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has stated to shareholders that the Kyoto-based company has now raised its base salary for employees by 10% in a move to…

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

A single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana achieved complete tumor elimination in 100% of treated animals, with no detectable toxicity—outperforming chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028

Sony is ending production of physical media for its PlayStation games at the beginning of 2028.

Claude Sonnet 5

Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

Copybara: A tool for transforming and moving code between repositories. - google/copybara

Claude Science

Claude Science is your AI workbench for scientific research. Works through your research like a skilled scientist, running the analysis and tracing every step. Spend less time stitching pipelines together, and more time on the science.

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)