This website shows a map of GitHub. Each dot is a project. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently gave stars to both projects

Also: large job cuts at Microsoft, high performers get more bonus at Google while low performers get less, notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code, and more

Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming…

We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.

Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.

A Rust no-std no-alloc LED control library for spatial layouts. 🟥🟩🟦

This repo contains a new way to use bloom filters to do lossless video compression - ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo

We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is...

Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.

We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.

Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4 files with lightning-fast semantic search. No database needed. - Olow304/memvid

My personal Substack. Click to read Artificial Indifference, by Conor, a Substack publication. Launched 21 hours ago.

Run C# files instantly with dotnet run app.cs, no project file needed! Coming to .NET 10, try it out today in Preview 4.

Over the next eight years, it raised over $445 million, counted Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority as investors, and crossed the $1.3 billion valuation mark. By May 2025, it has gone bankrupt.

Qtap: An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections and their originating processes. - qpoint-io/qtap

DevNull127 writes: Stack Overflow will test paying experts to answer questions. That's one of many radical experiments they're now trying to stave off an AI-induced death spiral. Questions and answers to the site have plummeted more than 90% since April of…

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke
Today I’d like to talk about LLMs. But first, I’d like to talk about an impressive invention from the late 1700s.
The Mechanical Turk The Mechanical Turk - or “The Turk”…

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