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31. MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib
MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems - datapartyjs/MeshTNC
32. Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake
33. A solver for Semantle
34. I'm #1 on Google thanks to AI bullshit [video]
my original video: https://youtu.be/II2QF9JwtLcandy's videos: GOOD WATCH:https://youtu.be/Vk8x0iRr2ekhttps://youtu.be/RJfWi5qRuAc
35. Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependen...
36. Declarative, Inquisitive, then Imperative (2017) [pdf]
37. Are compilers deterministic?
38. Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI
39. Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
40. Coccinelle: The Linux kernel's source-to-source transformation tool
Source code of the Coccinelle project (mirror of the main Coccinelle repository located at Inria) - coccinelle/coccinelle
41. Attention is all you need to bankrupt a university
Unbalancing the books
42. What Is OAuth?
Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"
43. Beagle CRDT SCM outer interface
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
44. macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
45. I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
What happens when you responsibly disclose a critical vulnerability exposing personal data - including that of minors - and the organization responds with legal threats instead of a thank you?
46. The bare minimum for syncing Git repos
I don't need GitHub or a cloud service to keep my Git repos in sync -- files and folders work just fine.
47. Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
Methods for writing and organizing your two-sentence journal.
48. Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you
Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger.
49. Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
50. Mathematics in the Library of Babel
Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mostly being stuck. It's about clinging to a giant edifice and feeling it out until you understand some tiny piece of it. It's about finding meaning in and intuition for the texture of an object which, at first, can only be apprehended by bashing your skull into it until it imprints on your forehead. Then trying to convey some of that insight to someone else, and watching as they find their own way to it. I started trying to get LLMs to do math in July 2020, through the game "AI Dungeon," one of the earliest applications powered by GPT-3. I first got GPT-3 to produce a correct proof (of Fermat's Little Theorem) in April 2022. At the time I did not think they would become useful for math research in the near term. This changed when the first reasoning models were released: on February 1, 2025, I wrote that the model o3-mini-high “clearly has passed the threshold of genuine usefulness” for research, while still making many, many mistakes. Since then, the models have improved, and ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (released in December 2025) can regularly provide reasonable proofs of lemmas that I would characterize as “involved but routine for experts,” though it still makes many errors. And I have been using Codex, OpenAI's coding/computer use agent, for scientific computing tasks I would not have considered attempting a few months ago. In public comments, I've tried to credit successes while pushing back against hype. I've talked a lot about "slop" papers on arXiv. I have worried that we are polluting the scientific commons with incorrect mathematics whose errors are enormously difficult to detect. I've tried to focus on the present. In this essay I'll talk about the future.
51. Index, Count, Offset, Size
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
52. Turn Dependabot Off
I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.
53. Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
54. Ace is a complete BASIC compiler for the Amiga computer platform
AmigaBasic ACE. Contribute to mdbergmann/ACEBasic development by creating an account on GitHub.
55. The Big List of Naughty Strings
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
56. Facebook is absolutely cooked
Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse
57. Trunk Based Development
A portal on this practice
58. Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
After most of his tariffs were outlawed on Friday, Trump announced new global tariffs of 10% - which he says he has now increased to 15%.
59. Large Language Model Reasoning Failures
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.06176: Large Language Model Reasoning Failures
60. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
Loon is a modern LISP with invisible types, algebraic effects, and ownership without annotations.