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October 2026
So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands! (sorry Windows users, not my fault that ANSI escape codes are disabled-by-default in cmd.exe. And not my fault that in Powershell you have to use curl.exe ins
audio (clean read) | GPU (clean read) | WebGL (clean read) | renderer (clean read) | canvas (clean read) | time zone (clean read) | hardware (clean read) Try refreshing the page. Clear the cookies. Connect to a VPN. You’re still the Rowdy Hedgehog. Now open it on your phone or so
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
spakhm.comOct 6
I asked two agents to collaborate to defuse a bomb. Agent A could observe the bomb's display and cut wires; agent B could interpret the contents of the display to determine which wires needed to be cut. Cutting the wrong wire caused an explosion. Thus the two agents needed each o
We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay to better distinguish the two products.
September 2026
RESOLVED (kathleen.a.wilson) in CA Program - CA Certificate Root Program. Last updated 2026-04-24.
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority.
labs.watchtowr.comSep 29
God damn it, we're back in the room again. Yes, that sound in your ears is screaming. The footgun has gone off again, shockingly, and we are yet again dealing with a situation where the entire world apparently knew about Citrix NetScaler CVEs before Citrix had woken up or
We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator.
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and
August 2026
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...
Machines are now the majority of consumers of web content. AI agents will soon be the largest consumers of search. Agents need search because the information required to complete real tasks is often too fresh (”Who won the Dodgers game yesterday”) or too niche (”Can the same GM s
sixthtone.comAug 24
Thomas Sauvin’s archive of discarded family negatives captures an era when 36 photos could document years of birthdays, travel, and everyday life.
Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own. He wanted to replace BitKeeper, the distribut
arun-asthagiri.comAug 21
I had the privelege of attending two really different conferences over the last few weeks. One was the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC); the other was the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference (CCN). Here, I’ll share some reflections from these conferen
Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual s
A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output
I recently started thinking about VCRs, as you do. I'll spare you the train of thought that led me to this, but it started with a conversation about worsening eyesight and then it escalated from there. Anyway, VCRs. I still remember the first VCR my dad bought when I was a kid. A
Guillaume Técher — Personal website
Andrew Oram asked why programming languages rise and fall, and quoted the answer without noticing. Programming is a vocation, an art, and a job. Make any of those harder than they need to be, and your language survives exactly as long as it can't be replaced.
archive.phAug 8
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blog.cloudflare.comAug 7
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how
github.comAug 7
Blitz is currently in a pre-alpha state. It already has a very capable renderer, but there are also still many bugs and missing features. We are actively working on bringing it into a usable state but we would not yet recommend building apps with it. Check out the roadmap issue f
jzhao.xyzAug 7
One of my personal philosophies is that one’s personal site should feel like a digital home. As someone who stops to enjoy the light a lot, I felt it was very important that my digital home have nice lighting too.
November 2014 It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few. Meanness isn't rare. In fact, one of the things the internet has shown us is how mean people can be. A few decades ago, only famous people and prof
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—n
It was a hot mess, but the myth is useful today.
July 2026
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...
gwern.netJul 29
Research proposal for measuring how coding LLM perplexity scales with codebase context size, using Lean as a test case for whether formal languages have better predictability exponents and could lead to safer, more secure software worldwide.
Guide to the DeltaNet Family of linear attention mechanisms.
oklch.fyiJul 28
Build palettes with consistent lightness and predictable shades, convert between formats, and explore gamut — all in OKLCH.
The release candidate for the next Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification is now available: a stateless protocol core, the Extensions framework, Tasks, MCP Apps, authorization hardening, and a formal deprecation policy.
canicompress.comJul 26
Watch dictionary compression in action. JavaScript bundles compressed at the edge by Cloudflare using RFC 9842.
blog.cloudflare.comJul 26
Today, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek of our support for shared compression dictionaries, show you how it improves page load times, and reveal when you’ll be able to try the beta yourself.
halide.cxJul 20
Metrics don't just measure encoder performance; decoding matters too, and even after decoding, not all post-processing is created equal.
By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan de Cock, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
en.wikipedia.orgJul 17
Quattron is the brand name of an LCD color display technology produced by Sharp Electronics. In addition to the standard RGB (red, green, and blue) color subpixels, the technology utilizes a yellow fourth color subpixel (RGBY) which Sharp claims increases the range of displayable
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
Once you learn what the "uni-context" is, you won't stop seeing it everywhere
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher pr
The most practical way to measure quality is to test with many different people, and have many experts take a look. If thorough testing and 100 experts can’t find a problem, the thing is probably perfect. Perfection is impossible. The agreed-upon best-designed software in the ind
Essay I of Upstream of Everything
I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the
Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.
Interactive article explaining how an internal combustion engine works.
In the world of Apple II disks, there are two major types of disk controller cards: the original Disk II controller (and clones), and everything else. Both have their place. The “everything else” category includes the Apple 3.5 disk controller card, Liron card, SCSI cards, IDE ca
VoidZero is excited to announce that we are joining Cloudflare. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will remain open-source and MIT-licensed. Evan and the rest of the VoidZero team will continue to lead these projects, with Cloudflare fully committed to supporting our mission.
cloudflare.comJul 1
Minification, also known as minimization, is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from JavaScript source code without altering its functionality. This includes the removal of whitespace, comments, and semicolons, along with the use of shorter variable names and func
How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.
daringfireball.netJul 1
Link to: https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/
newyorker.comJul 1
Norway’s hulking striker brought his country back to the World Cup for the first time in almost thirty years. How far can they go?
Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi’s great rival, who is forty-one and diminished, showed the danger of staying too long. “He reminds me more and more of Joe Biden,” Kristjánsson said.
newyorker.comJul 1
For a parent, finding a children’s activity that hasn’t been digitized, optimized, or turned into gambling feels like a balm.
ciechanow.skiJul 1
Interactive articles about science and engineering.
June 2026
Illustrating the Engineering Around Us
Over the two days we had Fable 5, it made me a music visualizer. This is the realization of something I have daydreamed about for as long as I can remember. You can see it here: Waveloop The idea is that a music visualizer should viscerally reveal the harmonic and melodic structu
A look at the decline of the labor share of income that occurred post-COVID, comparing its dynamics to declines in earlier periods.
Compare 30 global public DNS resolvers by privacy, filtering, DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, DoQ, IPv6, and jurisdiction, and benchmark DoH speed from your browser.
hackernewstrends.comJun 25
Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
A few weeks ago, I began working on a branch implementing an improvement to the LLVM backend which had been planned for a long time. This ended up snowballing into a bigger change which implemented a few language proposals you might be interested to hear about. Zig has always low
Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Subscribe to The Economist Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters T en years ago, as the ai revolution was gatherin
Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the team eventually rotated o
graymirror.substack.comJun 22
"I decided to save it in this cheap, reliable, secret way."
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in this movie we’re all watching together on X, where model intelligence has become dangerous. Dario predicted years ago that it would happen this year. With Fable being (briefly) shut off by the USG, it’s the first highly visible sign that we’ve
One way of thinking about what this formula does is that it is a change of units. Similar to writing 2 km=2000 m/ 1 km 1000 m or 5 bytes=40 bits/ 1 byte 8 bits . It says: how many copies of b are in x? It’s the number of copies of a in x, divided by the number of copies of a
<p>I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie...
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs.
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that compressing an image is the same as compressing other pieces of data. After all, images are just data, right? Well, yes and no. We can borrow some of the same techniques, but the rules of what constitutes valuable information are based on human
The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit
Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post i
May 2026
When you visit a secure website, it offers you a TLS certificate that asserts its identity. Every certificate has an expiration date, and when it’s passed due, it is no longer valid.
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there i...
e-flux.comMay 19
Part 1 of Trevor Paglen’s series on the history of psyops.
mollykinder2.substack.comMay 19
Why the years between today and post-AGI abundance will be the hardest political and economic problem of our generation, and why we can’t skip past them
A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis.
I’ve done a few different reverse-engineering projects with LLMs, and figured it’s time to push the clankers to their limits. A RAR compressor for every version of RAR ought to have taken about 5 years, which is why nobody has ever bothered. Today, it takes 5 weeks of evenings an
Lead optimisation is the step in drug design where you take a molecule that sort of works and try to make it actually work, and it’s arguably the step where most real-world design campaigns succeed or die. Due to the influence of a couple of my pals, I have recently become intere
A blog about software craft and quality
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.”
Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the
A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.
problemsilike.comMay 12
To submit a solution or partial result, please navigate to the problem and post a comment, making sure to follow the forum rules. If you'd like to submit a problem, you should feel free to post in the forum with your submission. In this case please follow the format outlined abov
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early, primitive forms. The idea is quite simple, that a well-enough-sealed boat ought to be able to submerge and resurface. It's the practicalities that make the whole thing difficult. It is generally considered
epw.inMay 12
Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India by M Madhava Prasad (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan), 2013; pp 224, Rs 625 (hardback). The challenges in “Indian” film theory or film theorising in the Indian context are multifold. On the one side, are the vibrant his
thewire.inMay 12
By holding himself above the common political fray, making few statements, and allowing his fans and detractors to battle it out among themselves without his help, Vijay becomes difficult to define, let alone taint.
aloofness has also allowed Vijay to comfortably absorb multiple contradictions into his own political persona. He can simultaneously be a rationalist whose manifesto speaks against pseudo-scientific practices and field a celebrity astrologer candidate
permacomputing.netMay 7
Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative living. Similarly, permacomputing is built upon 10 principles t
en.wikipedia.orgMay 7
In neuroscience, the default mode network (DMN), also known as the default network, default state network, or anatomically the medial frontoparietal network (M-FPN), is a large-scale brain network primarily composed of the medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, pre
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, backed by a non-profit.
A couple months ago, I was the Wizard of Loneliness. I had graduated from college almost two years prior and, while I had luckily found a job, I was unsuccessful in finding friends. Each night, I would look up “how to make friends after college” and find the same advice given eve
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
April 2026
When we turn up the strength of the “Golden Gate Bridge” feature, Claude’s responses begin to focus on the Golden Gate Bridge. For a short time, we’re making this model available for everyone to interact with.
Starting with GPT‑5.1, our models began developing a strange habit: they increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors. Unlike model bugs that show up through a tanking eval or a spiking training metric and point back to a specific change, this
Welcome to Cursor Camp! Enjoy your stay
hyphen.artApr 29
How micro-design is becoming the defining aesthetic of 2026
From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.
Microsoft has restructured its Windows team to better position Windows 11 as a strong platform that people should want to use. Here's how it's going about that.
OpenAI's ad platform has two halves. On the ChatGPT side, the backend injects structured single_advertiser_ad_unit objects into the conversation SSE stream while the model is responding. On the merchant side, a tracking SDK called OAIQ runs in the visitor's browser and reports pr
Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
With npm-style ecosystems, the package graph can grow faster than anybody’s ability to reason about it. The problem that this type of thinking created also meant that solutions had to be found along the way. GitHub helped compensate for the accountability problem and it helped with licensing.
github.comApr 29
Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
ai.google.devApr 29
Unified, high-performance framework for deploying ML and GenAI on billions of edge devices.
bostonglobe.comApr 28
For decades, Massachusetts has effectively banned the construction of new nuclear reactors. Now, Governor Maura Healey says it's time to build them again.
home.ubalt.eduApr 21
It had been like dying, that sliding down the mountain pass. It had been like the death of someone, irrational, that sliding down the mountain pass and into the region of dread. It was like slipping into fever, or falling down that hole in sleep from which you wake yourself whimp
nytimes.comApr 20
Why the Belgian's hard-fought victory in one of cycling's hardest and most prestigious races is a hugely popular moment
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.
commonware.xyzApr 17
A threshold encryption scheme is a cryptographic primitive that allows users to encrypt messages to a committee of n parties such that any t out of n members can non-interactively decrypt the message.
Is security spending more tokens than your attacker?
This is a long article, so I'm breaking it up into a series of posts which will be released over the next few days. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB; these files will be updated as each section is released. This is a weird time to be alive. I grew up on Asimov and
colossus.comApr 13
How Jeffrey Yan built Hyperliquid, a blockchain and crypto trading exchange, into the most profitable startup per employee on earth.
When I asked Yan for the hardest moment of 2025, he did not mention Jelly Jelly or the competitors or the bodyguard. He told me about API servers.
mymiddaymusings.substack.comApr 12
Shanghai Grand Prix and China's soft power play
damnlines.comApr 11
Track live line activity for NYC restaurants and venues with real-time queue snapshots and wait-time signals. No one likes waiting in a damn line.
soiboi soft explores the potential of pneumatic logic by designing an air-powered seven-segment clock. By adapting principles from microfluidic circuits and multiplexing techniques, the project demonstrates how vacuum-controlled transistors and silicone membranes can function as