The Tower Keeps Rising

Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.

LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

A from-scratch JEPA world model trained on Super Mario Bros. to study action-conditioned prediction and reward-free planning.

The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]

C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax

The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

Open source software is the foundation of much of our digital infrastructure. However, is AI undermining the incentive structure? What needs to change?,Open source software is the foundation of much of our digital infrastructure. However, is AI undermining the incentive structure? What needs to change?

Unlocking the PSP's Dual Core Setup

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my phone and laptop. Two other USB-C ports for my other gadgets. And a couple of…

How I use HTMX with Go

The kids with phones are alright

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age’s greatest visionaries.

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not replace them. I discuss a package of techniques and proposals to accomplish such ‘guardian angels’; dynamic evaluation of LLMs combined with active learning and elicitation and heavy inner-monologue search/data-augmentation.

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)

I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an ancient astronomer

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.,Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax. Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.