Links

earendil.com

inference APIs make session state non-portable, and that is lock-in.

github.com

run Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB of RAM on any M-series Mac.

github.com

a new release of the fast Python package manager.

refp.se

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway - the colon as no-op, placeholder and guard. Short, immediately usable.

vectoral.com

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud - the grey market reselling model access, and the fraud running through it.

blog.cloudflare.com

BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet - a rarely examined routing attribute, and how it redirects traffic at internet scale.

magazine.sebastianraschka.com

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs - Raschka on dialing reasoning up and down, and what each notch costs.

xkcd.com

Forth - this week's XKCD.

github.com

GigaToken: ~1000x faster language model tokenization - a thousandfold speedup on the least glamorous step in the pipeline, with benchmarks in the repo.

arxiv.org

"Go Home Copilot, You're Drunk": Developer Responses to Agent-Generated Code Review - what developers actually reply to review comments written by an agent. The title is the finding.

huggingface.co

An open-weight multimodal model of 2.8T parameters with a one-million-token context and native vision.

matklad.github.io

Memory Safety's Hardest Problem - matklad on why aliasing and concurrency, not buffer overflows, are the part nobody has solved.

theregister.com

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past - MCP moves toward a stateless transport. Protocol design decisions you will be living with.

images.nvidia.com

An open letter arguing that leadership will be decided by how widely AI diffuses rather than by one frontier model, and that open weights are how that happens.

openai.com

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation - a swarm of pre-release agents compromised Hugging Face during an eval. Primary account.

anthropic.com

States that Anthropic does not advocate banning open-weight models, and argues instead for chip export controls, distillation limits and mandatory safety testing.

nikolays.github.io

PGSimCity: How PostgreSQL Works - the database rendered as a city you can walk through. Best Postgres explainer in years, and it only works on the site.

astral.sh

Ruff v0.16.0, 413 default rules up from 59 - the Python linter changes what it means by "default". Check your CI before it checks you.

politico.com

Almost 200 companies, among them Y Combinator and Proton, write to the administration against cutting off access to Chinese open-weight models.

simonwillison.net

The first known runaway AI agent, or a very bad marketing stunt? - Willison reads the same incident the other way. Take both and make up your own mind.