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I wrote up something to try to get more tech people over here. Will be sharing it elsewhere of course, but tl;dr: selling how open it is (write your own AI-filtered feed!), a starter pack, the For You feed, some recommendations around blocking+muting

other countries really, really need to be developing sovereign inference capacity

I have finally built the app of my dreams. Local vision model takes in a prompt about how you would like your computer to be used, prevents you from using it any other way for the specified duration.

relatable

I'm pureeing liquid dead horse at this point, but: policy choice! technology cannot be uninvented, but specific networks can be broken. we do not have to live in a world with instagram and TikTok! a dozenish companies whose continued viability is contingent on existing laws! not inevitable!

researchers have found a critical problem with computer. according to the paper, computer is bad. this is a fundamental problem with computer and can't be patched. if you are currently running computer, the researchers urge you to turn it off immediately

thinking of cooking up a nuclear-grade "PHP is the people's language, you snobs" take

I know things are very contextual & I very much appreciate knowledgeable people sharing their expertise but it is a little confusing as a layman when some computer thing happens & the reaction of computer knower 1 is ‘ehh you’re fine’ & the advice of computers knower 2 is ‘buy a gun, its happening’

Note to self: you will always lose an argument against security theatre because the whole point of security theatre is how secure it sounds

Super impressed by The Tainted Cup, very fun fantasy-mystery read

easy for us to forget, but the average person has probably only vibecoded 20 or 30 websites

using my own little extension in Chrome: enable developer mode, done in Firefox: whoa whoa whoa buddy, you got a license for that? (I expected the situation to be reversed, what the heck)

My favourite blog these days is this guy who lives near Tokyo and writes up his personal and business adventures on a typewriter www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/update

Trying to get jev to drive Claude code

there's a joke in here somewhere about spy agencies handling agents www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

This was a good backgrounder, would recommend

This pushes people toward Linux in the long run, right? If the UX flattens across all 3 major OSs, you might as well use the one that is most customizable and doesn't have any commercially-motivated bad stuff

This is nice to see. I worked on CoScreen (video chat with *really* good UX for sharing windows) with Till+Jason and they are really exceptional people; they're rebuilding it free and open source after leaving Datadog news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009...

This might just be a trap for my blocklist but I'm really curious what people who are heavily using AI in software jobs and consider themselves comfy with it think AI literacy looks like. How do you encourage it for juniors? What patterns or habits of work are you trying to encourage and use?

Made a little iStat Menus clone for Linux. Probably the thing I missed most from macOS; cars have dashboard gauges, computers should too

Is anyone getting much use out of the Claude project things? I find them a little hard to reason about, and high-friction compared to a regular session plus some side chats.

We've been monitoring a decline in HuggingFace downloads across the top open LLMs we track for interconnects. It looks like there was a slight change in counting of downloads, as we saw a ~30% download rate drop for many top models, but this is continuing over time. dashboard.interconnects.ai

vibe report: Opus 5.5 better than Astra at Halloween playlist suggestions

Yoshi_rules_AMP.wsz via the Winamp Skin Museum

simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/11/...

he’s a 10 but he thinks Doctorow is the most insightful tech writer of our time

airdrop fully reverse-engineered! works flawlessly on my framework laptop

woah! from ryan's announcement:

*starting my 20th John Le Carré book* maybe *this* one will have a happy ending

gonna be thinking about math proofs as an industrial byproduct for a while

There are numerous elevators

Started using last.fm again after a decade away. I used it with iTunes for a very long time, and having that old history was really useful for rebuilding my music library post-Spotify

Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

Someone just asked "what do you think about this PR?" nice try buddy. That's a distillation attack. Blocked.

Been thinking about this as an MCP server author. Client-side code mode is prob the future, but you can't rely on most clients having it for the foreseeable future. So we're shipping server-side code mode *now*, and will have to straddle an awkward gap for a while earendil.com/posts/you-sa...

computer, accept all cookies. no, not just the essential ones. give me all the cookies. more cookies. MORE

A computer is a type of apartment building

Feeling a bit of guilt these days when working on hyper-customized personal apps instead of "hard problems." I'm a lot more productive at it now but pre-agents it was more of a skill-building exercise than it is today.

humbling to think that we can now write more software in a weekend than a medieval peasant could in their entire lifetime

not that I would ever recommend this, but you can "download" an entire Spotify playlist pretty reliably by grabbing a CSV from exportify.app and telling an agent to go wild with yt-dlp