LLM Inevitabilism https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
My place to put things
The sound of inevitability
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks.
You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets…
You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets…
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
Matthieulc
Shoggoth Mini
Matthieu Le Cauchois's website
Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension https://github.com/aws/pgactive
GitHub
GitHub - aws/pgactive
Contribute to aws/pgactive development by creating an account on GitHub.
Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/
New Scientist
We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?
Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer
TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
GitHub
GitHub - KrishKrosh/TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale
Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale. Contribute to KrishKrosh/TrackWeight development by creating an account on GitHub.
CARA – High precision robot dog using rope https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara
Aaed Musa
CARA — Aaed Musa
There is no memory safety without thread safety https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html
www.ralfj.de
There is no memory safety without thread safety
Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to language...
It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean) https://news.sparkfun.com/14298
Sparkfun
It's a DE9, Not a DB9. (But We Know What You Mean)
You have been misusing the D-sub connector terminology, and we're guilty of it, too.
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009) https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
Wisdom And Wonder
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 …
Never write your own date parsing library https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/
Zach Leatherman
Never write your own Date Parsing Library—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
Jono Alderson
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cctv-footage-captures-the-first-ever-video-of-an-earthquake-fault-in-motion-shining-a-rare-light-on-seismic-dynamics-180987034/
Smithsonian Magazine
CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion, Shining a Rare Light on Seismic Dynamics
A clip recorded in Myanmar in March reveals a curved path of the fault slip, which can help scientists better understand the physics of such events
Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/open-sauce-confoundingly-brilliant-bay-area-event