2025-07-17

Vibe coding and the silent AI war inside tech companies

I recently wrote an article for LeadDev about how software engineers are dealing with the AI hype in practice. Here’s my position, in short: I think AI is pretty great....

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How to actually use Model Context Protocol

Everyone’s very excited about Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short. In a sentence, MCP is a universal protocol for exposing sets of tools to AI agents - instead of...

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All GTA Online Smoke on the Water product locations and rewards

Where to find all 30 hidden Smoke on the Water products in the GTA Online Money Fronts update.

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Vancouver Rationalists/Transhumanists/Futurists Beach Meetup

Published on July 16, 2025 7:09 PM GMTMy friend and I are organizing a meetup in Vancouver for the discussion of rationalist, transhumanist, and futurist ideas. We will meet at...

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From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in...

From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in part as an effort to combat schoolchildren’s summer reading slumps. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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I did not ride my bike in ~2.5 years. For 1.5 years I did not even know where my stuff is like wahoo

I did not ride my bike in ~2.5 years. For 1.5 years I did not even know where my stuff is like wahoo, lights etc. Just found them. Wahoo still...

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Trying the Obvious Thing

Published on July 16, 2025 10:24 PM GMTI am quite harsh in impersonal settings, such as on the Internet or at work. Attention is a scarce resource, and I am...

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Millions Of Americans Are Being Advised Not To Go Outside

With wildfires raging in Canada's Manitoba province, `

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How Researchers Are Preprocessing Gigabyte-Sized WSIs for Deep Learning

Whole Slide Images are too large for direct model training. This pipeline processes them efficiently: extracting metadata, filtering patches, and generating compact embeddings using KimiaNet. It reduces storage size drastically...

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2025-07-16

A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping...

A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping their bikes, sometimes over other kids. In that first pic, there is no way the two kids at...

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One Identity Everywhere: Why Digital Identity Is the Missing Infrastructure Layer in Tech

Digital identity online is broken—fragmented, invasive, and inefficient. Tracer Labs' Trust ID offers a privacy-first, portable solution to replace today’s surveillance-based systems. As laws tighten and users demand better, shared...

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Emergence vs Entropy—a universal paradox

Published on July 16, 2025 9:31 PM GMTThis story is reposted from nonzerosum.games where it appears in it’s intended form, full colour with functioning interactive elements, jump over to the...

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The Reason Tesla Is Failing Is That Elon Musk Is an Extremely Unlikeable Person

Tesla has been losing money hand over fist — and the culprit, Elon Musk, needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror. In the wake of his latest...

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1 month ago

Zero sum expectations as an explanation of omnicide-indifference

Published on July 16, 2025 7:25 PM GMTFor quite a while, I've been quite confused why (sweet nonexistent God, whyyyyy) so many[1] people intuitively believe that any risk of a...

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Voxtral

Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a...

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How We Trained AI Models to Detect Tumors and Gene Mutations

Researchers trained AI models on TCGA datasets (BRCA & LUSC) for tumor and TP53 mutation detection. Results show varying accuracy across slide types and magnification levels. FFPE slides improved mutation...

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Top Execs Fleeing Tesla as Dark Clouds Grow

Another top executive has fled Tesla as the automaker continues to eat veritable mounds of feces. The Wall Street Journal reports that Troy Jones, Tesla's vice president of sales, service...

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