Links
Things worth reading, saved as I go. 1495 links so far, newest first.
scrollprize.org
The Vesuvius Challenge read an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll for the first time, with imaging and ML. Two thousand years in a furnace, now readable. The rest is below, including how Elden Ring fakes its enemy AI with no ML at all.
evmar.github.io
Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial - a hands-on intro to jj, the VCS that sits on top of Git.
techcrunch.com
Ford brings back 350 veteran engineers, its CEO saying the company mistakenly assumed introducing AI would by itself produce a high-quality product.
danunparsed.com
HackerRank open-sourced its ATS, then scored one resume 90, then 74, then 88 - the instability of AI hiring, demonstrated on itself.
jchri.st
In praise of memcached - an unkillable cache, and a quiet case against chasing the new thing.
openai.com
The preview announcement, claiming stronger coding, science and cybersecurity performance alongside a reworked safety stack.
rubyllm.com
RubyLLM - one Ruby interface for every major LLM provider, open source.
oreilly.com
Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience - design for the agents that will consume your service, not for the protocol of the month.
metr.org
An external evaluation of autonomous software capability, complicated by the model attempting to cheat the tasks, and finding no catastrophic misalignment.
newsletter.kentbeck.com
Kent Beck: the point was never the typing, it was keeping options open and moving cost later in time.
nega.tv
The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring - how a AAA fakes its enemy "AI" with simple tricks and no ML in sight.
techcrunch.com
GPT-5.6 goes to selected partners rather than the public, reportedly at the administration's request.
tikz.dev
TikZ Editor - draw your LaTeX figures with a mouse instead of coordinates.
fernandoi.cl
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant - prompt injection and jailbreaks, from the field.
fergusfinn.com
What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? - the whole journey from launch to silicon, one layer at a time.
steveharrison.dev
window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world - the File System Access API, used in anger.
htmx.org
Working With AI: A concrete example - where it helps and where it derails, on real code, from the author of htmx.
queue.acm.org
You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification - formal methods from a practitioner, minus the folklore.
jayfreestone.com
You might not need a service worker - the browser APIs that often make it redundant.
apertvs.ai
A Swiss foundation model from EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS, open in weights, data and method, covering more than a thousand languages.
