2026-04-09
One Week in the Rat Farm
Hello, LessWrong. This is a personal introduction diary-ish post and it does not have a thesis. I apologise if this isn't a good fit for the website; I just needed...
Destroying Iran’s Military Was the Easy Part. Stopping China, Russia, and North Korea From Rebuilding It Is the Hard Part
The U.S. Destroyed Iran’s Military. China, Russia, and North Korea Will Build a Better One: The United States and Israel have significantly degraded Iran’s military in a matter of weeks...
Cyris
Turns every AI decision into audit-ready evidence Discussion | Link
Convert or Not
Simulate first-time users. See why they drop off Discussion | Link
Trump Declared Victory. Iran Kept Everything. Neville Chamberlain Did the Same Thing in 1938.
Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Moment on Iran? President Donald Trump has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Declaring the United States had already achieved its military objectives, Trump announced, “subject...
Micro app 14: Podcast Transcript Fixer
Today I'm sharing a pretty simple micro-app: a Claude skill that you can use in the desktop app or in Claude Code. It lets you pass in a podcast transcript...
Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently "a private API...
Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them! Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta...
Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing 'heavily obfuscated code' that was 'creating malicious files'
Players should take "appropriate security measures to ensure their system is safe. Simply uninstalling the mods is not sufficient."
Variable-Pitch Propellers for More Efficient Quadcopter
Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers...
Forget the Ceasefire: The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Back On
Why Iran Just Closed the Strait of Hormuz – And What It Means – Less than 24 hours after a U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement formed that included provisions to reopen the...
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy...
Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix
South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster Western Union has commenced a migration from VMware to Nutanix after deciding it didn’t want to do...
Refaire
AI Technicians for the Physical World Discussion | Link
Zero-Shot Alignment: Harm Detection via Incongruent Attention Mechanisms
Intro: I made a small adapter (~4.7M parameters) that sits on top of a frozen Phi-2 model and forces it through two mathematically opposing attention mechanisms. The result initially was...
Upstream Speeds, Needs Up Again
Just a quick update to my earlier piece on upload speeds, fiber, and why municipal broadband was beating cable in the game of speeds and feeds. New data from OpenVault...
The Real Military Lesson of Operation Epic Fury
With Operation Epic Fury (hopefully) on pause for two weeks in Iran, we need to step back and evaluate what we have witnessed from the U.S. over the past week....
Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era
Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their...
2026-04-08
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification. It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse....
v1.120 is live! On web, you can now search without your mouse! Press "/" to focus on the search fie
v1.120 is live! On web, you can now search without your mouse! Press "/" to focus on the search field, and use your up/down keys to move through the results....
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