2026-09-21
Your Health Checks Are Verifying the Wrong Thing
Four production faults passed every health check. An engineer explains how shallow validation hid incorrect metrics, stale data, and exposed credentials.
2,400 Years Back, Alexander the Great’s ‘Lions and Sheep’ War Quote Hits Harder Than Ever
Philip II was assassinated in 336 BC, and within roughly two years his son faced three separate revolts. At Mount Ossa, Alexander built staircases up the mountainside and encircled the...
We’re not ready for the e/Acc × Longevity preference cascade
Anti-aging sentiment might go rapidly mainstream, in the same way AI Safety just did.Recently, the AI safety community has been enjoying a massive preference cascade that has rapidly moved AI...
A class of statement between conjecture and theorem
Parts of the math community, such as Henry Cohn and Grant Sanderson, are arguing that proofs have been a proxy for understanding, and now that proxy is broken. This is...
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment
National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted
Zach Cregger Reveals How He Changed Resident Evil's Ending for the Better
In a new interview with Collider, Resident Evil director Zach Cregger and star Austin Abrams reveal the how film's original ending was different.
MELT
MELT was an ambitious Iron Maiden game developed by London's Virtual Studios during the mid-1990s, with Eddie taking on the role of the game's villain. Announced alongside Iron Maiden's Best...
San Francisco Is Booming Again — Unless You’re a Laid-Off Tech Worker
The AI boom promised jobs, but many San Francisco engineers are still waiting for work. Meanwhile, one job title has gained popularity.
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Has Officially Cracked the Code to Making Great Video Game Movies
Zach Cregger pulls of the impossible, but he's not the only one doing it right now
101 Real-World Examples of How to Use Jev
101 real, linked projects built on Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model — routers, guardrails, browser agents, SQL extensions — and what each one replaced.
Gratitude and the End of the World
I often try to understand the forces pushing the world towards AGI development despite the risks. It is clear that there are a bunch of different motives. There are market...
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: SIG Sauer Introduced the P229 in 1992, and the Cartridge It Is Famous For Did Not Exist Until 1994. The Secret Service Carried It in .357 SIG for Decades and Switched to 9mm in 2019.
The P228 had a stamped steel slide. The P229 got a CNC-milled stainless one, because .357 SIG and .40 S&W drive a slide harder than the older design was built...
WoW: Forever has rendered me a min-maxing hypocrite, and here's how you can join me
Making use of that juicy 40-quest limit.
Genshin Impact version 7.1 release time in your time zone
Here's what time Genshin Impact goes down for maintenance and comes back with version 7.1, in a plethora of time zones.
I Analyzed 16,625 Publishers. The Best Ones Don’t Sell SEO.
New data from 16,625 publishers across 53 languages: the median sponsored article costs $570, and the most expensive sites refuse to sell the one thing link buyers think they're paying...
‘Measuring Nothing (With Great Accuracy)’
Seth Godin back in 2014: You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure...
Mars Climate Orbiter ran on pound-force seconds while NASA’s software expected newtons and over nine months that 4.45-to-one error put it 35 miles above Mars instead of 85 so on 23 September 1999 the $125 million spacecraft vanished and never called home
Lockheed sent pound-force. JPL expected newtons. Mars Climate Orbiter flew 35 miles above Mars instead of 85 and vanished on 23 September 1999.
Weight smuggling likely defeats attempts to cap FLOPs per training run
Epistemic status: >90% confidence in the principle, >70% confidence that mitigating these would be hard in practice, no full implementation yet.tldr: it seems difficult for verification mechanisms to prevent chaining...
Why 2-Bit LLM Quantization Fails at the Hardware Boundary
The jump to 2-bit LLM quantization isn't just about smaller integers. Explore the hardware-software boundary and why extreme compression requires co-design
“Starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, and Willem...
“Starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, and Willem Dafoe, Tenzing follows the true story of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s historic first summit of Mount Everest. History remembers the summit, but...
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