A developer swaps Claude Code for Pi
Caleb describes switching from Claude Code to Pi after frustrations with editor integration, frequent changes and expanding features, praising Pi’s stability and customization.
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Revisiting Person of Interest brings back the early internet
Wilson Tovar reflects on the technological relevance of Person of Interest and the nostalgia it evokes for early-2010s online communities.
A developer critiques Deno’s permission model
In a post first published in 2024, Max argues that terminal-based permission prompts and subprocess permissions make Deno’s security model misleading.
Agent memory needs a shared format, LoreKit argues
LoreKit’s author argues for a common agent-memory data model and operations, drawing on OpenTelemetry’s approach to interoperability.
Technology
An essay asks what follows promotion beyond competence
An essay argues that career pressure can push leaders promoted beyond their competence toward risky or unethical tasks to preserve their position.
A $10 OpenStick becomes a tiny home server
The author describes running Debian, DNS filtering, monitoring and other lightweight services on a $10 OpenStick with 512 MB of RAM.
Researcher finds Apple’s predictive-text exclusion list
The Guardian reports that researcher Derik Kauffman uncovered more than 100,000 words and phrases excluded from Apple’s predictive suggestions; Apple says users can still type them manually.
GitHub previews a clearer pull-request overview
GitHub’s opt-in Overview preview puts merge readiness and next actions at the top of pull requests, with conversation filters and newest-first comments.
AI
A developer explains why he is rejecting LLM-assisted coding
Kristian Polso argues against using LLMs in his professional coding, citing concerns about cognitive effort, code quality, maintainability and dependence on AI providers.
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
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Langford says Microsoft’s AI Frontiers group is over
John Langford says he left Microsoft after AI Frontiers moved into Microsoft AI, arguing that a scaling-focused strategy conflicted with his research priorities.
Apple CEO Presses Software Chief to Pursue More Ambitious AI Strategy
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Software
GitHub Down Again?
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ZapFast brings a native Rust interface to WhatsApp
ZapFast is an unofficial WhatsApp desktop client built with Rust and egui that links to a phone, stores chat history locally and runs without a browser engine.
StatCraft aims to offer an SPSS alternative in Rust
StatCraft presents a safe-Rust statistical package with a graphical interface, SPSS-style syntax and a local AI-assistant bridge.
Coldframe imitates supermarket refrigeration controllers to log attacks
Coldframe is a Python honeypot that mimics Danfoss and Dixell refrigeration controllers, recording connections, login attempts and control actions without operating real equipment.
Science
EyesRhythm offers webcam-based blink monitoring for desktop users
EyesRhythm’s page describes a free Mac and Windows app that scores blink frequency and regularity during screen work and indicates head-turn direction.
Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
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A portal-physics demo tracks a cube’s motion
The demo’s page description explains that it tracks a point at the bottom of a cube over time, with additional scenarios available through its navigation.
Culture
iSponsorBlockTV skips sponsored segments on TV YouTube apps
iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that uses SponsorBlock data to skip sponsored segments and intros on compatible YouTube TV apps, with ad muting and automatic Skip Ad support.
Five programming books that shaped James Hague’s thinking
In a 2008 essay, James Hague revisits five programming books, praising their approaches to optimization, practical experimentation, creativity and simple problem decomposition.
Business
Anthropic strikes $3.4B deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres
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The Gordon Gekko effect: The role of culture in the financial industry (2016) [pdf]
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America's economy is becoming zero-sum
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Mark Cuban Accuses Facebook of Carrying Deepfake Scam Ads
An October Moneywise report recounts Cuban's deepfake-ad allegations and earlier Reuters reporting on Meta's disputed estimates of scam-linked revenue.
Games
Retro Song Bird plays soundtracks from Game Boy cartridges
Retro Song Bird says it supports more than 1,900 games, playing music and sound effects through register-level sound emulation with stereo line output.
Size It Up tests players’ sense of real-world scale
The game’s page description presents Size It Up as a daily challenge from Magnitudle: players estimate real-world scale across five visual comparisons, with a possible score of 500 points.
EA brings 25 classic games back to digital stores
A discovery of archived production materials helped bring restored editions and ports of 25 EA classics to digital stores.
Word Spies mixes human and AI teams in a word game
Word Spies combines human and AI players in a team word-association game with live clue evaluations.
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