2026-08-26
Logged at IST: 2026-08-26 21:45 IST
What it is: DuckLabs' announcement that it is joining AWS, shared by Frank Denis.
Gist: DuckLabs says the Amsterdam team behind DuckDB will stay together under AWS, continuing work on DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack, and the wider D…
2026-08-26
Logged at IST: 2026-08-26 16:33 IST
What it is: Phuong Le's VictoriaMetrics walkthrough of Go's hash-trie-backed sync.Map implementation.
Gist: The visible API is still the familiar Load, Store, Delete, LoadOrStore, CompareAndSwap, Range, and Clear. Underneath…
2026-08-26
Logged at IST: 2026-08-26 10:14 IST
What it is: Dominik Honnef's explanation of generic methods in Go 1.27.
Gist: Go 1.27 removes a long-standing awkwardness in Go generics: methods on concrete types can now declare their own type parameters. That means an API…
2026-08-25
Logged at IST: 2026-08-25 20:19 IST
What it is: Anton Zhiyanov's interactive guide to Go's new json/v2 package.
Gist: The guide is a migration map from encoding/json v1 to json/v2. The basics still look familiar, but the surrounding API changes a lot: direct M…
2026-08-25
Logged at IST: 2026-08-25 20:15 IST
What it is: goccy/go-llama, a pure-Go llama.cpp-style inference library for running GGUF models from Go applications.
Gist: The interesting bit is the packaging path. go-llama does not bind to llama.cpp through cgo, and it d…
2026-08-25
Logged at IST: 2026-08-25 12:35 IST
What it is: Ryan Dahl describing how celld is developed from a larger private denoland/celld.dev repo, while the public denoland/celld repo stays a lean export.
Gist: The useful part is the shape of the working repo. Dahl sa…
2026-08-24
Logged at IST: 2026-08-24 23:01 IST
What it is: Steve Yegge's essay on what his Wheelhouse agent organization for Wyvern has taught him about governing fleets of AI workers.
Gist: Yegge's claim is that once Fable-class models get cheap enough for every company…
2026-08-23
Logged at IST: 2026-08-23 11:26 IST
What it is: Richard I. Cook's classic short treatise on the nature of failure in complex systems, shared by Jessica Paquette.
Gist: Cook's frame is still the cleanest antidote to simple root-cause stories. Complex systems ar…
2026-08-23
Logged at IST: 2026-08-23 11:13 IST
What it is: Armin Ronacher's short post on how LLMs change language and technology choices when starting new projects.
Gist: Ronacher's point is not that programming is solved. It is that the cost of becoming productive in a…
2026-08-20
Logged at IST: 2026-08-20 18:37 IST
What it is: Microsoft’s typescript-go PR #4712, “Content mappers”, merged by Andrew Branch and called out as likely to land in TypeScript 7.1.
Gist: Content mappers let TypeScript include otherwise unsupported file types in …
2026-08-20
Logged at IST: 2026-08-20 11:17 IST
What it is: Farid Zakaria's write-up on trying to expose SQLite-backed queries to Nix for nixpkgs-multiverse.
Gist: nixpkgs-multiverse currently carries JSON indexes, but builtins.fromJSON is eager: one lookup pays the cost …
2026-08-20
Logged at IST: 2026-08-20 06:31 IST
What it is: The official Go 1.27 release post, shared through mattn's Japanese X thread of highlights.
Gist: Go 1.27 is a practical release across the language, toolchain, runtime, and standard library. The language headline…
2026-08-19
Logged at IST: 2026-08-19 14:28 IST
What it is: Richard Startin points to a Yandex Monium write-up using RangeBitmap, a range-encoded bit-sliced index he designed for Apache Pinot and which is available in RoaringBitmap. His follow-up links SliceZ, his newer J…
2026-08-19
Logged at IST: 2026-08-19 09:51 IST
What it is: Vicent Martí's Cursor post on the storage system behind Origin, Cursor's Git hosting product.
Gist: The useful framing is that Git hosting is hard because Git was designed so every repository copy is equivalent. …
2026-08-19
Logged at IST: 2026-08-19 09:33 IST
What it is: PlanetScale's debugging note on poisoned Postgres connection pools, shared by Ben Dicken.
Gist: The failure mode is simple and nasty: PgBouncer transaction pooling reuses underlying database connections across cl…
2026-08-19
Logged at IST: 2026-08-19 09:31 IST
What it is: GitHub's RCA for the August 17, 2026 critical GitHub.com incident, shared by Cassidy Williams.
Gist: GitHub.com saw elevated errors and latency for 7h47m across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot. …
2026-08-18
Logged at IST: 2026-08-18 16:47 IST
What it is: Emergent Garden's video on using modern AI agents to play Age of Empires II, along with the linked AgentsOfEmpires runner repo.
Gist: The video description says the creator used LLM-powered agents, including Clau…
2026-08-18
Logged at IST: 2026-08-18 14:15 IST
What it is: Anton Zhiyanov's walkthrough of goroutine leak detection in modern Go, comparing goleak, synctest, and the experimental goroutineleak pprof profile.
Gist: The article starts with the practical shape of a goroutin…
2026-08-18
Logged at IST: 2026-08-18 14:11 IST
What it is: Ben Nassi, Etay Iluz, Ofek Vayner, Or Cohen, Dudi Nassi, Boris Zadov, and Yuval Elovici's 2023 work on recovering cryptographic keys from video footage of a device's power LED.
Gist: The paper's useful idea is th…
2026-08-17
Logged at IST: 2026-08-17 11:37 IST
What it is: Adam Craven's 2023 essay arguing for "software cartographers": people and processes that keep maps of working software in sync with the code.
Gist: The essay uses the village, town, and city analogy to explain wh…
2026-08-14
Logged at IST: 2026-08-14 10:05 IST
What it is: Miren engineering post by Evan Phoenix and Paul Hinze on the RPC layer they built for typed two-way calls across CLI, control plane, and runtime components.
Gist: Miren argues that a lot of deployment-platform wo…
2026-08-13
Logged at IST: 2026-08-13 17:56 IST
What it is: func25.dev explaining Go's internal sync.noCopy marker and how go vet detects accidental copies of sync-like structs.
Gist: noCopy is not compiler magic. It is an empty marker with two empty methods on its pointe…
2026-08-13
Logged at IST: 2026-08-13 09:59 IST
What it is: Richard Seroter pointing to Appwrite's rewrite of its CLI from TypeScript/Bun to Go.
Gist: Appwrite says the user-facing contract stays the same: npm package name, appwrite binary, flags, scripts, CI behavior, ex…
2026-08-13
Logged at IST: 2026-08-13 08:09 IST
What it is: Tailscale’s postmortem on months of control-plane instability caused by a rare SQLite WAL checkpoint race, and the follow-on false alarm from stale expression indexes.
Gist: Tailscale runs its control plane as is…
2026-08-12
Logged at IST: 2026-08-12 19:04 IST
What it is: A YAGNI Club response to an “HTML over WebSockets” article, arguing that many HTML-over-the-wire apps should consider SSE plus normal POSTs before reaching for WebSockets.
Gist: The core correction is transport-l…
2026-08-12
Logged at IST: 2026-08-12 19:00 IST
What it is: Armin Ronacher recommending Annie Sexton’s ngrok explainer, “Compression is prediction.”
Gist: The piece explains compression through the same lens as language modeling: a model predicts symbol probabilities, and…
2026-08-12
Logged at IST: 2026-08-12 10:13 IST
What it is: Ajai Chowdhry, HCL cofounder, recounting how the original six founders left their jobs in 1976 to start Microcomp, which became Hindustan Computers Limited through a licence partnership with UP Electronics Corpor…
2026-08-12
Logged at IST: 2026-08-12 00:12 IST
What it is: Mario Zechner recommending Ben Thompson’s Stratechery essay on Nvidia and AI infrastructure financing.
Gist: Thompson frames the current AI buildout through the 1870s railroad-financing boom and Jay Cooke’s role …
2026-08-11
Logged at IST: 2026-08-11 20:03 IST
What it is: Hetzner's exploratory Experiments platform with an experimental open-weight LLM inference API.
Gist: Hetzner says the API is free for now, has no SLAs, and is meant for users to test their own workloads and repor…
2026-08-10
Logged at IST: 2026-08-10 16:19 IST
What it is: Loris Cro’s long essay on source-code availability, using Zine, Zig, Radicle, Codeberg, Tangled, community mirrors, and package registries as examples.
Gist: Cro starts from a practical build problem: if a projec…
2026-08-08
Logged at IST: 2026-08-08 19:05 IST
What it is: Incus is the Linux Containers project's system container, application container, and VM manager. Shantanu Goel's linked post applies it to AI agent sandboxes through a small incus-manager setup repo.
Gist: Incus …
2026-08-08
Logged at IST: 2026-08-08 19:00 IST
What it is: Karan Sharma's launch thread for Logchef 2.0, an open-source, self-hosted log analytics workspace for ClickHouse and VictoriaLogs.
Gist: Logchef 2.0 expands the project from a fast ClickHouse log explorer into a …
2026-08-08
Logged at IST: 2026-08-08 00:24 IST
What it is: Metabase’s security update for a critical actively exploited 0-day affecting Metabase versions 1.58 and above.
Gist: Metabase says its Cloud service was attacked through an unknown security vulnerability in versi…
2026-08-07
Logged at IST: 2026-08-07 21:46 IST
What it is: Sam Lambert’s X post recommending Liz van Dijk’s PlanetScale engineering post on concurrency, throughput, Vitess, and MySQL.
Gist: PlanetScale describes a production MySQL database that melted down for sixteen mi…
2026-08-07
Logged at IST: 2026-08-07 16:17 IST
What it is: exe.dev’s X post pointing to Philip Zeyliger’s inventory of the internal agents, bots, and operational tools they use to run exe.
Gist: The post is useful because it lists the actual places where exe.dev has put …
2026-08-07
Logged at IST: 2026-08-07 03:03 IST
What it is: David Crawshaw’s X post saying “the age of no code has passed,” pointing to Philip Zeyliger / exe.dev’s essay “The End of No Code.”
Gist: The essay argues that no-code and low-code platforms solved a real organiz…
2026-08-06
Logged at IST: 2026-08-06 19:45 IST
What it is: HypeApps / HAM, a Flutter-backed approach for rendering HTML-like markup as real native mobile UI, paired with the hypermedia-tv video “Worlds easiest mobile app framework.” It is not open source yet: the FAQ say…
2026-08-06
Logged at IST: 2026-08-06 18:30 IST
What it is: Aliaksandr Valialkin’s X conversation chain about Go, C, Rust, and practical optimization, with context from Go and VictoriaMetrics profiling docs.
Gist: The chain starts with a deliberately provocative claim: “G…
2026-08-06
Logged at IST: 2026-08-06 10:53 IST
What it is: Evan Osnos’s New Yorker feature on China’s contest with the U.S. for technological and industrial supremacy.
Gist: The article argues that China is no longer just borrowing Western visions of the future. It has b…
2026-08-05
Logged at IST: 2026-08-05 20:19 IST
What it is: Ryan Dahl's launch post for celld, a Deno open-source daemon for self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and Workers.
Gist: celld aims to run the Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects programming model on your …
2026-08-05
Logged at IST: 2026-08-05 08:44 IST
What it is: Farid Zakaria's post on how struct size, cache lines, and working-set size affect performance.
Gist: The post starts from a common blind spot: in large Java-style classes, adding another field rarely feels like a…
2026-08-04
Logged at IST: 2026-08-04 11:57 IST
What it is: Can Celik's Herdr engineering post on cutting CPU use in multi-agent terminal sessions by avoiding frames that do not carry new information.
Gist: The headline claim is not that Herdr's renderer became dramatical…
2026-08-03
Logged at IST: 2026-08-03 13:23 IST
What it is: Steve Yegge linking two long essays: Part 1 on agentic engineering harnesses, loops, graphs, Beads, Wheelhouse, CI/CD, code review, and the Wish Factory; Part 2 on his argument for model welfare as an engineering…
2026-08-03
Logged at IST: 2026-08-03 09:51 IST
What it is: Wafer's write-up on serving Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 on 8x AMD MI355X, with a performance-per-dollar comparison against Nvidia B200 and B300 nodes.
Gist: Wafer argues this is one of the first model-servi…
2026-08-03
Logged at IST: 2026-08-03 03:38 IST
What it is: LWN news item on Arch Linux disabling adoption of orphaned AUR packages after another malware campaign.
Gist: Arch's DevOps team disabled orphaned-package adoption in the AUR after an influx of malicious package …
2026-08-01
Logged at IST: 2026-08-01 13:45 IST
What it is: Peter Pistorius arguing that the current wave of new terminal multiplexers is about a real shift in how developers use computers, especially with long-running agents and shared remote compute.
Gist: The core sent…
2026-08-01
Logged at IST: 2026-08-01 11:32 IST
What it is: VictoriaMetrics' interactive tour of Go 1.27, turning the dry release notes into runnable examples across the language, runtime, standard library, and toolchain.
Gist: The headline is generic methods. Methods can…
2026-07-29
Logged at IST: 2026-07-29 18:48 IST
What it is: A cluster of Daniel Franke and Perry Metzger posts around ripgrep issue #3494, grounded in Franke’s follow-up analysis repo rather than the X thread alone.
Gist: The original bug looked like a weird ripgrep crash…
2026-07-28
Logged at IST: 2026-07-28 20:59 IST
What it is: Ben Visness points out that Microsoft’s Go-native TypeScript port can be added to a go.mod file and run with go tool tsgo.
Gist: The screenshot shows this Go tool directive:
tool github.com/microsoft/typescript-g…
2026-07-28
Logged at IST: 2026-07-28 13:27 IST
What it is: Mitchell Hashimoto explains why Ghostty/libghostty's terminal grid is much more memory-efficient than Alacritty's terminal crate in his benchmark.
Gist: The core comparison is simple: Alacritty stores 32 bytes of…
2026-07-28
Logged at IST: 2026-07-28 10:05 IST
What it is: Gary Lam shared Harvey’s article on the infrastructure changes behind its document-processing platform.
Gist: Harvey says the platform went from just under one million documents in a busy week to 24.8 million doc…
2026-07-27
Logged at IST: 2026-07-27 04:31 IST
What it is: TigerBeetle shared notes around its custom object-storage clients, and I compared that design direction with rhnvrm/simples3.
Gist: The shared instinct is anti-SDK: avoid a large vendor dependency tree, understan…
2026-07-24
Logged at IST: 2026-07-24 23:44 IST
What it is: Phil Eaton / The Consensus deep dive on observing Go’s Green Tea garbage collector and Go’s non-moving heap behavior.
Gist: The article starts by making Go’s heap layout visible. Small, medium, and large objects …
2026-07-24
Logged at IST: 2026-07-24 18:10 IST
What it is: Soapbox launch/explainer for Armada, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted Discord-style community chat app built on Nostr and the Concord protocol.
Gist: Armada is pitched as an answer to several Discord pain poi…
2026-07-23
Logged at IST: 2026-07-23 17:46 IST
What it is: Earendil Engineering post explaining why prompt caching is a first-order systems concern for coding agents.
Gist: The post grounds prompt caching in KV-cache reuse: agents mostly append to a stable prompt, so lat…
2026-07-23
Logged at IST: 2026-07-23 08:28 IST
What it is: exe.dev essay arguing that Claude and coding agents are not compilers, but vertically integrated engineering resources.
Gist: The post rejects the idea that Claude is merely a natural-language-to-code compiler. A…
2026-07-23
Logged at IST: 2026-07-23 07:25 IST
What it is: Mitchell Hashimoto linking to his practical SIMD introduction, “Everyone Should Know SIMD,” using a Ghostty loop as the worked example.
Gist: Hashimoto argues that everyday SIMD should not feel scary: the common …
2026-07-22
Logged at IST: 2026-07-22 21:35 IST
What it is: antirez linking to his blog post “Not just development, distribution of software may change as well.”
Gist: antirez argues that AI changes not only how software is developed, but how it can be distributed and use…
2026-07-22
Logged at IST: 2026-07-22 16:55 IST
What it is: Star History’s note on GitHub restricting access to the stargazers API.
Gist: GitHub is limiting the endpoint that reveals who starred a repository and when to repository admins and collaborators. Star History de…
2026-07-22
Logged at IST: 2026-07-22 16:15 IST
What it is: NVIDIA Technical Blog deep dive on the Rubin GPU architecture and Vera Rubin NVL72 platform for agentic inference.
Gist: NVIDIA frames Rubin around sustained agentic inference rather than single prompt-response s…
2026-07-22
Logged at IST: 2026-07-22 16:10 IST
What it is: Michael Stapelberg’s NixOS and microvm.nix setup for running coding agents inside ephemeral MicroVMs.
Gist: Stapelberg wants coding agents to run without per-command review while keeping them away from personal f…
2026-07-22
Logged at IST: 2026-07-22 16:07 IST
What it is: Laurent Le Brun’s history of IDEs at Google, focused on google3, Cider, and Cider V.
Gist: Le Brun traces Google’s shift from editor pluralism to a de facto standard internal IDE. The core constraint was scale: l…
2026-07-21
Logged at IST: 2026-07-21 19:31 IST
What it is: Sunil Pai sharing one document, two hands, the written version of his Local-First Conf talk on embedding agent harnesses into ordinary apps.
Gist: Pai argues that coding agents feel powerful because developers ga…
2026-07-19
Logged at IST: 2026-07-19 23:32 IST
What it is: Spiral/Vortex deep dive on evaluating SQL LIKE predicates directly over FSST-compressed strings.
Gist: The post explains how Vortex can match string patterns in compressed code space instead of decompressing valu…
2026-07-19
Logged at IST: 2026-07-19 02:31 IST
What it is: X post pointing to kvcache-ai/ktransformers, a Tsinghua MADSys Lab project for CPU-GPU heterogeneous inference and fine-tuning of large MoE models.
Gist: The viral framing is a little breathless, but the underlyi…
2026-07-18
Logged at IST: 2026-07-18 21:31 IST
What it is: Sakana AI sharing its ALIFE 2026 paper Diffusing Blame, about learning in Dale-constrained dual-stream neural networks without weight transport.
Gist: The paper asks whether networks can learn competitively while…
2026-07-18
Logged at IST: 2026-07-18 21:21 IST
What it is: Skyroot Aerospace announcing that Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 reached orbit, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket to do so.
Gist: Skyroot says Vikram-1 completed its final burn and injected payloads …
2026-07-17
Logged at IST: 2026-07-17 15:43 IST
What it is: Devopsity’s comparison of three AWS inference patterns: Bedrock, SageMaker endpoints, and self-hosted GPU serving on EKS.
Gist: The useful part is not the cloud-brand framing but the workload segmentation. Bedroc…
2026-07-16
Logged at IST: 2026-07-16 23:42 IST
What it is: Misha Strebkov benchmarking six Go in-memory cache designs under different read/write mixes and core counts.
Gist: The sharp result is that the boring “just use RWMutex for read-heavy caches” instinct does not ho…
2026-07-16
Logged at IST: 2026-07-16 23:37 IST
What it is: Linus Torvalds pushing back on anti-AI sentiment in kernel development and saying Linux is not an anti-AI project.
Gist: Linus’s operative distinction is not "everyone must use AI," but that the kernel should eva…
2026-07-16
Logged at IST: 2026-07-16 20:13 IST
What it is: DEV post comparing nine serverless GPU providers for inference, from DigitalOcean and RunPod to Modal, Koyeb, Together, Replicate, Baseten, Fal, and Cloudflare Workers AI.
Gist: The useful value here is not the a…
2026-07-16
Logged at IST: 2026-07-16 20:03 IST
What it is: Superlinked’s long-form argument for when self-hosting model inference becomes cheaper or strategically better than renting APIs.
Gist: The article’s practical answer is hybrid: rent frontier APIs for low-volume,…
2026-07-15
Logged at IST: 2026-07-15 16:58 IST
What it is: Bilawal Sidhu video titled “Fable 5 Is Insane. I Vibe Coded Terminator Vision.”
Gist: From the visible YouTube description and page metadata, this is a build/demo video about creating a browser-based range-analys…
2026-07-15
Logged at IST: 2026-07-15 10:45 IST
What it is: Piyush Goel sharing Razorpay Engineering’s writeup on refreshing warehouse facts 10x faster with graphs and indexes
Gist: Razorpay moved from expensive full-refresh fact generation toward incremental fact mainten…
2026-07-14
Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 20:54 IST
What it is: Martin Fowler sharing Unmesh Joshi’s article on DSLs and LLM reliability
Gist: The article’s core claim is that LLMs become much more reliable when they are constrained by domain abstractions and DSLs instead of …
2026-07-14
Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 19:29 IST
What it is: IEEE Spectrum feature on AI-driven RFIC design
Gist: The piece argues that radio-frequency chip design has remained a hard-to-formalize "dark art" because it requires coupled reasoning across circuits, electromag…
2026-07-14
Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 11:05 IST
What it is: iximiuz warning that VMs and microVMs exposing /dev/kvm to untrusted guests were hit by the Januscape guest-to-host breakout class
Gist: The key update is that KVM-based isolation is not a free safety upgrade ove…
2026-07-14
Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 09:44 IST
What it is: Dave Winer introducing rss.chat and arguing for RSS as a social-network substrate
Gist: Winer presents rss.chat as a small-community social system built from old web primitives: RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL, WebS…
2026-07-14
Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 08:12 IST
What it is: Simon Willison linking to his TIL on running uvx in GitHub Actions without re-downloading the package every run
Gist: The useful trick is to pin UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER to a date, use that same date in the GitHub Action…
2026-07-13
Logged at IST: 2026-07-13 12:19 IST
What it is: X post by Mario Zechner adding nuance to antirez’s AI-code ownership point
Gist: Zechner’s point is narrower and more practical than a general plea for control: if you control the types and interfaces, the rest o…
2026-07-13
Logged at IST: 2026-07-13 12:19 IST
What it is: Spider Robinson’s short story "Melancholy Elephants" (part 3 on the site, with story context introduced on the page)
Gist: The story imagines a world where creative expression is constrained not just by law or ec…
2026-07-13
Logged at IST: 2026-07-13 07:37 IST
What it is: X post by Mario Zechner recommending Terry Tao’s post "Old and new apps, via modern coding agents"
Gist: Tao describes using modern coding agents to port his old Java applets to JavaScript and revive them quickly…
2026-07-12
Logged at IST: 2026-07-12 13:18 IST
What it is: X post by dogfiles linking the blog post "Vim of Coding Agents"
Gist: Frames Pi as the Neovim of coding agents: a minimal, hackable foundation that adapts to your workflow instead of forcing you into an opinionat…
2026-07-09
Logged at IST: 2026-07-09 23:10 IST
What it is: Cloudflare blog post introducing Meerkat, a new global consensus service built on the QuePaxa algorithm
Gist: Cloudflare is building Meerkat for strongly consistent control-plane state across 330+ data centers, a…
2026-07-06
What it is: X post by tobi lutke linking to a new Evolution paper by Steven A. Frank
Gist: paper argues evolvability is best understood as generalization; imports modern ML intuition that larger / more parameterized systems can generalize better, then maps tha…
2026-07-06
What it is: Miguel Ángel Pastor linking Zalando’s engineering post on client-side load balancing at a million requests per second
Gist: argues high-fanout internal traffic benefited from moving load balancing into the client process to preserve cache locality,…
2026-07-02
Gist: Zalando moved internal fan-out traffic off shared ingress and into an in-process client-side load balancer to preserve consistent-hash cache locality, cut latency spikes, improve debuggability, and reduce shared infra cost. The interesting details are th…
2026-06-30
Gist: all five profiles emit the same pprof structure; the core difference is collection model, CPU samples asynchronously via signal + ring buffer, heap/block/mutex aggregate in per-stack tables in place, goroutine snapshots stacks on demand.
Newsletter angle…
2026-06-30
Gist: each workflow runs in its own microVM; guest agent talks back over vsock; NixOS-based workflow config can declaratively enable services like Postgres and Docker; cache/proxy design keeps guests isolated from direct network/cache credentials while still r…
2026-06-28
Gist: good engineering is mostly about shaping systems so small, distractible minds can change them safely, via naming, boundaries, tests, reversibility, and interfaces that assume attention is scarce rather than ideal operators.
Newsletter angle: “Build for b…
2026-06-26
What it is: Tim McNamara sharing an IOCCC-winning “cursed code” project where Pong advances by rewriting its own source each frame
Gist: the linked repo, uellenberg/Insert, is a small language for self-modifying code; programs can access their own source as st…
2026-06-26
What it is: levelsio linking Scroll Prize’s announcement that a full Herculaneum scroll was read without physically opening it
Gist: PHerc. 1667 was virtually unwrapped end-to-end using high-res X-ray scans, geometry reconstruction, and ML ink detection; ~1.4m…
2026-06-19
What it is: X post by @filiphracek linking filiph.net/text/pokerd.html
Gist: writeup on building pokerd, a terminal-first Texas Hold’em trainer you can play instantly over SSH (ssh [email protected]); interesting bits are the non-immersive-game framing, sc…
2026-06-19
What it is: X post by @leyten linking github.com/leyten/shard
Gist: Shard is a WAN-distributed pipeline-parallel LLM inference engine that splits a frontier-size model across GPUs on separate machines; claim is ~30 tok/s for GLM-5.2 744B across 6 RTX PRO 6000s…
2026-06-10
What it is: Armin Ronacher sharing his post “Gaslighting Openness” on the EU/Apple fight and concerns related to Mythos and Fable.
Gist: the post appears to be a broader argument about openness, control, and safety narratives, with specific worries tied to new…
2026-06-10
What it is: Simon Willison linking to his guide on agentic engineering patterns.
Gist: this is essentially a pointer to a living guide rather than a standalone tweet idea; likely high-signal if you want a practical synthesis of recurring agent design patterns …
2026-06-10
What it is: skepticism: strong opinion piece, not data-heavy; the claim that generics haven’t improved productivity is asserted more than demonstrated.
Gist: his case is that Go’s value is simplicity/readability/maintainability, and newer features like generic…
2026-05-19
Gist: argues current cloud abstractions are the wrong shape, VM sizing tied to resources, remote block storage optimized for HDD-era assumptions, egress pricing distortions, and Kubernetes as lipstick over broken primitives.
Newsletter angle: "what an ex-Tails…
2026-05-07
Imported from historical reading log.
Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback; the attached image includes the concrete compression results.
Sam Rose compares the same payload as JSON (34kb) and protobuf (15kb) and finds that after compression, JSO…
2026-05-07
Imported from historical reading log.
Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback and checked the linked repo pranaykotas/parliamentwatch.
ParliamentWatch aggregates 2900+ Indian parliamentary standing committee reports across all 24 DRSCs, with title/…
2026-05-06
Imported from historical reading log.
Readable page copy was sparse, but enough to identify the core program: ChatGPT Futures is an OpenAI initiative highlighting 26 young people/teams from the Class of 2026 using AI to build, research, create, and expand wha…
2026-05-06
Imported from historical reading log.
Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback; inspected attached screenshot separately.
Thomas Ptacek argues the .de incident is decisive evidence against DNSSEC as core Internet security functionality.
Attached scr…
2026-05-06
Imported from historical reading log.
Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback and read linked Phoronix coverage.
News: Dell and Lenovo became premier sponsors of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service), the fwupd-backed firmware update infrastructure …
2026-05-06
Imported from historical reading log.
Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback.
Thomas Ptacek (tqbf) resurfaces his 2015 essay Against DNSSEC: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Core gist of the linked essay:
Why it matters now: …
2026-05-05
Imported from historical reading log.
HN thread title: .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Most useful technical claim in the thread: this looked like a DNSSEC validation failure rather than a nameserver outage, with malformed/bad RRSIGs causing validating resolve…