A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
Gowers's Weblog
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
X (formerly Twitter)
Thariq (@trq212) on X
Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
CyberInsider
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
Internet Archive Switzerland https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
arXiv.org
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the...
I’ve banned query strings https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
chrismorgan.info
I’ve banned query strings — Chris Morgan
Idempotency is easy until the second request is different https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
blog.dochia.dev
Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different | Dochia CLI Blog
Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message…
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
Blogspot
I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left.
I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
GrapheneOS Mastodon
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy…
Local AI needs to be the norm https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
unix.foo
Local AI Needs to be the Norm · unix.foo
Local AI models should be the default.
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Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics https://ratty-term.org/
ratty-term.org
Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 🐀🧀
Ratty is a GPU-rendered terminal emulator with a spinning rat cursor, multiple 3D presentation modes and support for inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS and built with Rust and Ratatui.
Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082
Privacy Guides Community
Google account registration now requires sending an SMS via phone instead of receiving an SMS
I have tried it myself, the registration is no longer possible with the QR code. Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number. Supposedly, this is for security. A valid…
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/
Seangoedecke
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html
Cocoa with Love
Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix multiplication from Gflop/s to Tflop/s | Cocoa with Love
10 implementations of handwritten matrix multiplication: from plain C and Swift through to Metal
Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
Slate Magazine
The death of the last maverick tech company.
When America Online purged its tiny Nullsoft branch of all but three employees this week, it lost arguably the most prolific division of the...
CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html
Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/
Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale https://interfaze.ai/blog/interfaze-a-new-model-architecture-built-for-high-accuracy-at-scale
Interfaze
Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
A complete walkthrough of Interfaze: what it is, who we benchmark against (Gemini-3-Flash, Claude-Sonnet-4.6, GPT-5.4-Mini, Grok-4.3, plus task specialists like Reducto, SAM 3, Scribe v2), full results across 9 benchmarks, and code examples for OCR, object…