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Post #232103 2.15K Sep 13, 2026, 06:25 UTC

P(doom)
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Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings P(doom) Are we all going to die?

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Post #232102 2.28K Sep 13, 2026, 05:14 UTC

Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer
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purplesyringa's blog Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer So I’ve been meaning to write about something, but got sucked into this rabbit hole, and now I’m kinda scared if I’ve been a subject of propaganda that worked on me. A common theme in software development AI discourse is that there are “serious” engineers…

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Post #232101 2.24K Sep 13, 2026, 04:01 UTC

The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart
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History Today The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.

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Post #232100 2.2K Sep 13, 2026, 02:56 UTC

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack
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X (formerly Twitter) John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) on X I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessitie…

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Post #232099 2.17K Sep 13, 2026, 02:45 UTC

The Interim Computer Museum
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Post #232098 2.19K Sep 13, 2026, 02:40 UTC

AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research
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AgentsDock AgentsDock — An IDE designed for agentic AI research An IDE designed for agentic AI research. Run Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor on your own machine in one desktop and mobile workspace — from any device.

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Post #232097 2.15K Sep 13, 2026, 02:16 UTC

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
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yoshuabengio.org Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting…

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Post #232096 2.07K Sep 13, 2026, 01:43 UTC

No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record
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AccuWeather Atlantic goes without a hurricane through Sept. 21, breaking 112-year record It's unusual to not have a hurricane form by September 10, the peak historical average date. With nothing on the horizon this weekend, the records are piling up.

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Post #232095 2.41K Sep 13, 2026, 01:42 UTC

Recurrent Looped Transformer
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yifanzhang-pro.github.io Recurrent Looped Transformer Recurrent computation across prompt and response, with three-seed experiments on depth allocation and feedback frequency.

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Post #232094 2.09K Sep 13, 2026, 01:34 UTC

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
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xeiaso.net Everyone should slow down AI development except for me Xe Iaso's personal website.

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Post #232093 2.05K Sep 13, 2026, 01:30 UTC

Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else
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Bits of DNA Align AI and Mathematics—to Something Else Twenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go…

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Post #232092 2.84K Sep 13, 2026, 01:23 UTC

Apple wants to train AI on your private personal data
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Apple Machine Learning Research Introducing the Third Generation of Apple’s Foundation Models Our next generation of Apple Intelligence is centered around our users, integrated deeply into our operating systems, and powered by a bold…

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Post #232091 2.14K Sep 13, 2026, 01:08 UTC

My last six months at Evernote
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alexkras.com My last six months at Evernote, after Bending Spoons took over I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote. I managed the team that built and operated Evernote’s notifications system, handling 110M messages in 2022. After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote…

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Post #232090 2.1K Sep 13, 2026, 00:57 UTC

Financial Times' 404 Page not Found
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Post #232089 2.29K Sep 12, 2026, 23:51 UTC

Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?
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NPR Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? Calling someone a "Luddite" is usually an insult – shorthand for someone who is behind the times. But the real Luddites weren't just afraid of change; they were a labor movement fighting to save their jobs from being replaced by machines. Today, with the…

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Post #232088 2.3K Sep 12, 2026, 23:20 UTC

OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
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TechCrunch OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026 | TechCrunch While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

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Post #232087 2.39K Sep 12, 2026, 22:18 UTC

LG Says We're Fake News [video]
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YouTube LG Says We're Fake News SUPPORT US in our DATA DRAGNET series: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnet LG has responded to our deep-dive investigation revealing the depths of LG Smart TV ACR data harvesting functionality, LG's claims to "owning the glass," and LG Smart TV security…

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Post #232086 2.57K Sep 12, 2026, 21:33 UTC

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
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Hachyderm.io Simon Tatham (@simontatham@hachyderm.io) I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting…

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Post #232085 2.48K Sep 12, 2026, 21:14 UTC

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
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Withspecific Real-SWE Benchmark — Specific Labs Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eight model and harness configurations, ten tasks, 640 scored rollouts.

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Post #232084 2.56K Sep 12, 2026, 20:31 UTC

Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
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ModelRift — OpenSCAD code editor & AI 3D model builder CadQuery vs OpenSCAD for AI-generated functional parts | ModelRift Blog We gave six AI agents the same three printable parts to model, three in CadQuery and three in OpenSCAD, then verified every mesh independently. All six came out printable, after 16 failures along the way that the tools reported very differently.

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