2026-03-09
The Story of a Brain: AI Anxiety and the Illusion of the Mind
A man's biological brain is kept alive in a vat, but scientists gradually separate it into billions of isolated, individually programmed neurons distributed across the galaxy. The story forces the...
Beyond Grep: Giving the Unix Pipe a Brain With Qsh
qsh is a local-first, privacy-focused CLI that gives your terminal "semantic brains" using a 0.8B Qwen model. It lets you pipe images into a vision-language query, filter text by intent...
Your ORM Is Lying to You (And You're Paying for It)
For most of my career, I thought that writing raw SQL is a sign of failure. Senior engineers used ORMs. Junior engineers wrote SQL. I was wrong.
Wideframe
AI Coworker for Video Editors Discussion | Link
How to Run Your Own Local LLM — 2026 Edition — Version 1
In 2026, four Nvidia DGX Spark units (~$19K) give you 512 GB of unified AI memory and ~4 petaflops — enough to run any open-weight frontier LLM on your desk....
AI Is Not Being Adopted. It Is Being Installed.
The Canon Saw the Structure First, writes Andrew Keen. Keen: Science fiction understood the structure of this transition long before Silicon Valley did. The safest place to be is in...
Payorian cooperation is easy with Kripke frames
The context is MIRI's twist on Axelrod's Prisoner's Dilemma tournament. Axelrod's competitors were programs, facing each other in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. MIRI's tournament is a one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma, but...
Sorry, J-20 and J-35A: Why U.S. Air Force F-22 and F-35 Fighters Dominate the Skies
Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and defense expert, evaluates the widening "experience gap" between the PLAAF and the U.S. Air Force as Operation Epic Fury...
Reverse-Engineering Zomato Food Rescue: MQTT, Server-Driven UI, and a Headless Monitor
How I intercepted Zomato's Android traffic, found MQTT credentials in plain JSON, and built a real-time monitor to win Food Rescue before anyone else.
Russia’s T-14 Armata Tank Is ‘Frozen in Time’
Summary and Key Points: The T-14 Armata, developed by Uralvagonzavod, represents a radical departure from Soviet tank doctrine with its unmanned turret and armored crew capsule. -Despite advanced features like...
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
Hundreds of Tomahawks Gone: The Navy Can’t Retire the Ohio-Class SSGN Submarines Now
The U.S. Navy is navigating a critical "trough" in undersea firepower. The retirement of just four Ohio-class SSGNs removes more than 600 Tomahawk launch tubes from the fleet, a capacity...
FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools
PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more Infosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which...
The Air Force’s B-52 Bomber Just Entered the Iran War
Despite being a septuagenarian "Stratosaurus" with neither stealth nor supersonic speed, the B-52 remains a cornerstone of Operation Epic Fury, striking including ballistic missile sites and command centers. The post...
Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026
As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon...
2026-03-08
Leopard 2 Failure: Why the World’s Best Tank Is Flopping Hard in Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense researcher and national security analyst, evaluates the “mixed results” of the Leopard 2 main battle tank on the 2026 Ukrainian...
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
"In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is...
Dassault Mirage 2000 Fighter Doesn’t Care About Your F-22 or F-35 Fighters
France committed to sending Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Ukraine as part of France’s military air support to help Ukraine’s defenders counter Russia's invasions. And, so far, the results have been...
Brutal Reader
Strips any webpage down to just the article Discussion | Link
Canada Might Have No Choice: Why the F-35 Fighter Debate Might Already Be Over
Christian D. Orr, a senior defense editor and former Air Force Security Forces officer, evaluates the "undying" debate surrounding the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) choice between the Lockheed Martin...
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