Links tagged “wtc-011”

labs.iximiuz.com

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels - local and remote port forwarding, finally with diagrams that make it stick.

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.