Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

Former eBay executives carried out "unprecedented" harassment over a critical newsletter.

We tested the latest frontier models in the Dyad agent on five modeling and simulation problems, comparing accuracy, cost, time, and work style.

Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job. Countries that protect workers can afford open financial borders.…

TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank.
My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No…

A buried iPhone setting is turning heads and saving stomachs. But does relief just mean more time staring at your screen?

Kimi Code Documentation

Is clapping politely disruptive enough to get you arrested?

Plug-in solar for renters and homeowners. Mount on any balcony, fence, or wall and plug into a 120 V outlet. From $285 with free shipping.

Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. - VladUZH/qwen-scribe

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors across all models.

Crowdsourced map of meals under $10 across the US. Real people, real prices, no sponsored placements. Vote, comment, share finds.

Circular AI deals aren't just bubble behavior: they mirror how commodity industries finance capital-intensive infrastructure. When circular deals are healthy — and when they hide risk.

One day there will hopefully be a house on this land


Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools.
After years…

I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money.

Jul 29, 2026 An automated discovery system built at FirstPrinciples by Randy Davila has proven a 1989 prediction by Paul Erdős and William Staton linking prime numbers to the Riemann zeta function, and uncovered a second mathematical term that had gone unnoticed…

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

GitHub isn't just falling short on performance and reliability. The whole collaboration paradigm is the wrong shape for how we build software now.