You can use LLMs to help you write quality code, instead of writing (low quality) code for you. nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/u...

Using AI to write better code more slowly

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…

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i'm really proud of this policy. it's not perfect, but i think it's close to the best that was possible given all the constraints. i'm excited that this will make things easier for mods and reviewers, and hopeful that it will spark change in Rust's governance. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy | Inside Rust Blog

Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

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atuin v18.19 is out now! 🐢✨ - search is more than 5.2x faster - self-signed certs and system cert stores just work - atuin update is a built-in command Get the latest with `atuin update`!

Ellie Huxtable@ellie.wtf · 7d ago

coming in atuin 18.19 🐢✨ search 1,000,000 commands in under 2ms we switched from nucleo to frizbee, and search is now 5.2× faster, with better result quality

Germ now joins Signal and iMessage in bringing you post-quantum cryptography. The journey to quantum-secure cryptography is one we all should be taking. MLS implementers can find our open-source library here. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark X (@markmx.bsky.social)

@chenani.bsky.social helped us build a triple ratchet implementation, shadowing iMessage’s PQ3 and Signal’s SPQR to add a PQ ratchet to our existing double ratchet on MLS. Very grateful for his…

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The MiniMax-H3 video generation model is a lot of fun - here's what I generated on my M5 Pro Mac for the prompt "a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket" (~115GB model download, took around 45 minutes to generate) - notes on how I ran it here simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/m...

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2mo ago

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

Liquid LFM2.5-2.6B a small model that can be customized on a single GPU www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-...

Supabase is now deploying >1m new Postgres databases every week & that doesn't include read replicas

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

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rule of thumb for RAG/vector search: if you would consider it a bug if it returned less than 100% of the hits, then vector search is not for you, you’re looking for SQL

🤗 Ling-3.0-flash is now also open weighted! - MoE with 124B total & 5.1B active params - Hybrid linear attention for higher efficiency with longer sequences Overall very competitive for its size! Nice work to the Ant Group who worked on this.

Who's seen all three types of solar eclipses? 🌑 Total   ⭕ Annular   🌙 Partial   On 12 august you've got a chance to see a total solar eclipse or a partial one, depending on where you are. 1/3 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

DevOps: Treat machines like cattle not like pets AI: Treat code like cattle not like pets

K3 deemed "not spicy". From NIST/AISI: "Kimi K3 performs significantly below the leading U.S. cyber capable models. Specifically, Kimi K3 reached step 17 of this 32-step attack path on average, while the most cyber-capable U.S. models reached 28.5 steps on average." www.nist.gov/news-events/...

If you have five minutes to spare, and love food, check out this video we put together on ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot's bonus food. 🍽️ 🚀 from the first recipe ideas, to Anne-Sophie Pic's #Michelin-star restaurant, to space. Bon appétit! @exploration.esa.int @fr.esa.int @cnes.fr

The journey of Sophie Adenot's bonus food

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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If you’re curious about why people are so excited/concerned about the state of agents, this is a really nice tutorial. If you think this stuff is useless and you’re open to changing your mind, this might be interesting!

David P. Reichert@david-p-reichert.bsky.social · 2d ago

Many don't see how much AI has changed recently. Coding agents aren't just chatbots. We can’t deal with the challenges of AI if we don’t understand it. Here's a post to provide some evidence (Claude doing small ML experiments) and form intuitions. davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-hav... 🧵..

Qwen just announced Qwen3.8-27B along with Qwen3.8-Max! 🔥 Qwen3.8-27B will run locally on 17GB RAM/VRAM setups and is expected to be the best performing model for its size.

Qwen3.8-Max: a 2.4T soon-to-be-open beast of a model that truly rivals Fable and Sol qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Just released a new project: Radial, a coding-agent orchestrator for atproto. It's a bit like a team issue tracker where you run your own agents with a system to capture what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. www.disnetdev.com/blog/introdu...

Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere

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One of the easiest ways to stand out when writing or creating videos or posting: DONT. USE. AI. Suddenly you sound distinctively different from 80%+ ppl who do and output the same verbose + nicely formatted stuff that feels all the same (+ most ppl stop paying attention midway)

1/ Initial reactions after some hours with this groundbreaking result proving the NP-hardness of poly-approx CVP/NCP: It is most likely correct, but more importantly, it is original, elegant, and beautiful! (Also: it is easy to improve, quantitatively.) openai.com/index/ten-ad...

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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This week's #PaperILike is "Algorithm Runtime Prediction" (Hutter et al., 2014). "I don't know the answer, but I know I will know the answer in about 10 minutes" (e.g., to a SAT question). Pretty wild that this is possible! PDF: arxiv.org/abs/1211.0906

Algorithm Runtime Prediction: Methods & Evaluation

Perhaps surprisingly, it is possible to predict how long an algorithm will take to run on a previously unseen input, using machine learning techniques to build a model of the algorithm's runtime as a ...

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Cross-platform AirDrop replacement that works both locally and over the internet using Iroh github.com/chad/iroh-drop I have Mac and Windows clients plus a protocol and rust-based CLI. Actually useful already but it could be polished and would love to have more clients.

🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

People are wondering: How can a Chinese AI lab rent 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba to train its models despite U.S. export restrictions? Answer: Malaysia, which has excess power capacity. Chinese AI labs do not need to train their models inside China.

ByteDance to Build AI Data Center in Malaysia to Circumvent US Chip Restrictions

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video platform TikTok, is building computing power in Malaysia using Nvidia's cutting-edge chips.

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I agree that the social layer matters a lot, but with AI generating code this social layer might no longer look like GitHub. Maybe we just need simple Git hosting and something completely new on the social side 🤔

Lalit Maganti@lalitm.com · 3d ago

There are plenty of places to host a Git repository, but remarkably few places to host an open-source community GitHub’s moat is its shared identities, conventions and paths to discovery. Any replacement must rebuild that social layer, not merely offer better hosting. lalitm.com/post/github-...

A senior software engineer identifying as a “creator” working at an e-commerce company sent an AI-written email, asking to recommend their Substack. I checked out a few articles. All are… slop. Stuff that feels like it was output from ChatGPT. It’s all AI. My response:

Absolutely wild things are happening in the world of AI agents and SOTA models. I really think a lot will change in our world soon as a result of this. openai.com/index/ten-ad...

desperation in his voice

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 6d ago

Anthropic winning as usual