2026-09-17
Revisiting Shattered Union, PopTop Software’s Strange Final Game
An underwhelming turn-based strategy game set in a fictional Second American Civil War that still has its moments, if you can stomach the poor graphics.
How I Shipped 45 App Features With Claude Code
I shipped Sojourn, an iOS Bible study app, without typing a line of its code. 45 features, one prompt each. Here's the setup that made one-shot prompts work.
The SEO Bug Hiding Inside Perfectly Valid Hreflang Tags
Two hreflang failures years apart, a small agency site and Meta's own Creator pages, both missed because nobody checked what the tags actually resolved to.
How I Built a Zero-Cost Multi-Agent AI System on Aging Hardware
Learn how a multi-agent AI coding system can run on 16GB of RAM and a GTX 1050 using quantized models, lazy loading, and C++ daemons.
NavKey
Control Windows with only your keyboard Discussion | Link
Pitchfire for Startups
Reach investors that are aligned with you Discussion | Link
AI as orderly evacuation vs stampede
tl;dr: A good analogy for AI going well is an orderly evacuation rather than a stampede. Imagine a crowd of people leaving a building. If they all walk calmly, they’ll...
OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times
Startup says it’s learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn’t happen again … which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times
13 years later, Mads Mikkelsen's 39-Episode Thriller Masterpiece is Officially Free on Streaming
Bryan Fuller's most chilling love story streams for free on Pluto TV.
Sim Search
Turn your data into a knowledge graph Discussion | Link
Introducing the Periodic Table of US Electrical Receptacles
Although things may seem simple on the North American grid as an end-user if you limit yourself to just 120 VAC and NEMA 1-15 and 5-15 connectors, there is a...
'John Wick' Meets 'Office Space' in This Bonkers Action Movie That's Free on YouTube
Wanted, the gloriously ridiculous action movie starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie, is now available to stream free on YouTube.
We are too early for Astra
ChatGPT-6 Astra was released on Sept 3, 2026. It demonstrates remarkably high benchmark scores across maths, scientific research and other domains. While OpenAI claims "Astra is our most aligned model"...
How to derive understanding of human-preferences and value systems in AI?
When I say imagine being happy, everyone will have a flashback of a different moment in their life - some might imagine staying close to their loved ones; for some,...
Exploring multi-hop subliminal learning
TL;DR: I explored multi-hop subliminal learning by applying the subliminal learning pipeline iteratively across multiple distillation steps, with each student becoming the next teacher. For Qwen specifically, we see that...
Lesion Induced Functional Compensation
tl;drModels may adapt around the internal signals we use to understand and monitor them, making those signals less dependable after further training. I tested this by training a 4B model...
One message is all it takes: a failure of critical thinking in LLMs
summary: For a while I've suspected that modern LLMs are getting better at solving posed problems, while progress in critical thinking stagnates, or even regresses, losing the ability to judge...
For Love of the Lightcone, Don't Partisanize AI Safety
(I began writing this post several weeks ago, but political events are moving much faster than I expected, so I am publishing now out of fear that otherwise the message...
Don't trust Lean4 alone
Early this week, Open AI announced that they had resolved the Navier-Stokes problem[1] . A few hours later, at a workshop dinner, a frantic inquiring professor came up to my...
What is it like to be a neural net?
A condensed presentation of Gradland and Metabolic Fire. Code is here. This is intended as the first of two posts. Thomas Nagel argued we cannot know what it is like...
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