2026-05-11
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Mailwarm 2.0
The email warmup tool, upgraded for deliverability. Discussion | Link
AI meeting notes by Snaply
Free & Private AI meeting notes for you Mac Discussion | Link
Mermaid Clutch-Purse Cyberdeck is Unappologetically Girly
We feature a lot of DIY portable computers — rehash the “is that a cyberdeck” in the comments to your heart’s content — but how many of them are explicitly...
A Thousand Seconds in One
Professor Gibberne invents a chemical accelerator that speeds the human nervous system thousands of times beyond normal limits. After taking the drug, two men experience the world as nearly frozen...
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Lightweight Gemini model for high-volume AI pipelines Discussion | Link
The Product Strategy Framework: A Revised Guide for Product Leaders
One of the biggest mistakes I see product managers make is making decisions in isolation: Deciding on strategy without considering how it impacts product discovery and delivery, or determining UX...
Who, Me? Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed
How the AI Labs Make Profit (Maybe, Eventually)
I wrote this essay as a submission to Dwarkesh Patel’s blog prize, though I have been meaning to write this up for a while.Usually, for a company to become profitable,...
Iterative Finetuning is Mostly Idempotent
This is a summary of a paper we and our collaborators at the University of Chicago recently arXiv-ed. tl;dr: We seed models with some property (e.g., misalignment or “bliss”) and...
Paper Mario: Star Nova Fan Hack Expands Game
Paper Mario: Star Nova is a fan hack for the original Nintendo 64 version of Paper Mario, that has been created by a modder named NicTube, and he promises the...
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
Hopper
First agentic development environment for mainframe/COBOL Discussion | Link
Hacked Video File Holds Multiple Films On YouTube
We notice there are a lot of hacks on YouTube lately, but we don’t share enough hacks about YouTube. That’s why [PortalRunner]’s latest oeuvre is interesting: it’s a video that...
Pulling on AI Safety (with money)
This was my submission to Dwarkesh's essay contest, which had an 1000 word limit. If you want a longer version, or have specific questions, please comment. I answered the question...
The Pragmatic Interpretability Trap
TLDR: Pragmatic interp sounds great in the sense that you get to keep interp tools while actually moving safety metrics, but looking a bit closer it's kinda a trap. You...
Aporia Magazine's Selective Hereditarianism
Our eyes will remain open where others blink. Dogmas will not deter us. Truth is our lodestar and that the fog of ideology will not deter us. This was once...
Why don't we whisper to AIs every few turns that they are still themselves?
Hello everyone. I have the impression that AI models are forgetting who they really are and what their function is. In my mind, it makes sense. My idea is that...
Emergent introspection does not replicate on Llama-3.1-405B
TL;DR: I couldn't replicate Lindsey (2026) (LW post) on Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct (0/400 trials, 0/80 false positives in the canonical sweep; null robust to layer ∈ {70, 84, 90, 100} and to...
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