- 01
Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
Wide range of voices weighing in. Disagreement stays substantive. - 02
Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
Practitioners comparing tools and approaches from direct experience. Disagreement stays substantive. - 03
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Practitioners comparing performance, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Disagreement stays substantive.With Pi as a harness I've been using OpenAI models as a worker with an Opus 5 (in Claude Code) planner.mixedCase
- 04
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
People running performance, testing, and security. Disagreement stays substantive.+1 the vpn is called dev-test-prod and some containers are stored in a dev subscription, but still used in production.estetlinus
- 05
Grok 4.6
Practitioners comparing Anthropic, OpenAI, and security. Disagreement stays substantive.My organization has outright banned Grok That's too bad, as it's currently the only model that won't consistently flag honest good-actor security questions, in my experience.pmarreck
- 06
License plate reader searches should require a warrant
Practitioners comparing security. Reply chains going 16 levels deep.
- 07
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Practitioners comparing Anthropic, OpenAI, and performance. Disagreement stays substantive.In my experience in heavy coding sessions most pricing is just cache read and cache write like 80% of my token bill.pzo
- 08
Delta
Practitioners comparing testing and Rust. Good questions getting detailed answers.Unrelatedly, I have been looking at Zed to centralize my agentic work at $job, where we use different API keys per project to better attribute spend and control model availability based on per-project data protection controls.Cu3PO42
- 09
What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
Practitioners comparing Python, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Reply chains going 11 levels deep. - 10
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
Builders working with Cloudflare, security, and nginx. Reply chains going 10 levels deep.Using a $2k a year database from a smaller provider that isn't maxmind, claude and I built a pretty slick ASN based categorization system.cullenking
- 11
uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Practitioners comparing security. Good questions getting detailed answers.I worked on an ad platform with a large audience that these kinds of brands wanted to get their name in front of, but the audience was exceedingly unlikely to click on big-brand ads on our platform.rented_mule
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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Practitioners comparing tools and approaches from direct experience. Disagreement stays substantive.It sounds too good to be true but I've been using it for years and it often really is that easy.x0x0
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