the hallucination problem with llms is very bad macwright.com/2025/11/07/h...

Whether you believe #AI is a #bubble or not, what is true is that no bubble in history has ever been discussed so intensely before it crashes. People have usually believed it's up forever. I wonder if that could influence the outcome.

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.

A cool detail in The Cursed Earth is that the origin of SATANUS the T Rex is “cloned to be in a theme park but escaped and ate everyone” and this multi decade franchise hook is thrown away in a panel so Mills can get to the *really* fun stuff

Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

I'm working on a new kind of computer. It's called the Radiant. I've been dissatisfied with the state of personal computing for many years now, so it's time I did something about it. If you think computers could be so much better than what they are, this is for you. radiant.computer

The whole pop-under/preload debacle aside X’s new Web browser UI is pretty slick. @samuel.fm any chance of getting something like it over here? While we’re at it can we get rid of the go.bsky.app redirect hop? It really adds a lot of friction to opening links.

I can see why digital preservation would be especially powerful for AI models but it’s a shame this isn’t the baseline for all tech companies; it would be so valuable for someone like Apple to maintain an archive of every artefact they’ve ever released.

A great talk from @jenson.org on why and how to move the desktop paradigm forward. I especially loved the prototypes/concepts; even if not perfectly refined it’s still nice to see someone put some stakes in the ground. (And FWIW I think they were all pretty solid!)

Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...

If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20 he has no heart. If he is not an idiosyncratic mix of borrowed principles mostly based on disagreeing with whoever has annoyed him recently by the time he is 35 he has no head.

A prison of my own making buff.ly/Qq8Nfyn 2025-06-30 - Killing the joy of homelabbing with my own expectation <- I don't do any of this stuff, but the pain comes through

Everybody's so excited about forcing HTTPS, and I'm just here thinking, sure would be cool if all my private servers didn't have their names unavoidably published in the public CT logs so everyone can see what I'm doing. Also if localhost could get a cert at all

We're excited to reveal Strata, a strategy game we developed for Board, a new game console that blends physical and digital play: board.fun In Strata, you use physical 3D blocks to claim territory and outmaneuver opponents. Tetris meets Chess.

I used to think Electron apps were a bit of a hack but I’ve completely flipped: the Web’s UI model is just so much richer than any native toolkit and keeps advancing rapidly. I do think there’s some low-hanging fruit to make them feel more native though.

Geoffrey Litt just proposed a new analogy for working with AI coding tools that I really like: you are the surgeon, staying in command and doing the most challenging work - the AI tools are your support team and surgical assistants simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/...

No way the UK's tax authority (HMRC) was running their operations off of a US data center ... but they were! AWS us-east-1 outage knocked them offline, and exposed relying on US infra to serve the British public Ironic from a government with ample home grown DCs + talent

"I was using local-first software in the 80's!" quips a greybeard on HN. No you were not. A common misconception about local-first software is that it's just software that doesn't use the network. Local-first is inherently multi-device and collaborative with other users.

The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it, and it’s secure. It’s logged into my email, Stripe account, stores my passwords and credit cards. A browser is useful if it does all these. These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…

Hey kids! Do you like the theme from 2001AD? Do you like the Pearl and Dean cinema adverts song? Then you’ll LOVE THIS!! youtu.be/iHn8wtuxdSM?... @rhapsodyangel.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social

'He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank. Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries.'

I put this on Leaflet too!

Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much. Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.

Me: maybe 2026 will be the year of the Linux desktop? *Tries some Linux desktops* Me: what the fuck?

I mean, this isn’t why Charles is King, is it? Pretty sure this isn’t why Charles is King

Google should get rid of the AI Overview and replace it with “Great question! Here’s what I found:”

honestly i think there was something about the google reader shutdown that in retrospect was a turning point both for google itself and for the broader internet

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

whenever I see a `bet on ${currentHype}` because "the web is in decline" I just smirk because it's a great way of demonstrating you have no idea what you're actually talking about. the web outlives every "the web is dead, use this thing i like" and will continue to do so. always bet on the web.

There’s an idea that is widespread among software engineers that goes: “Sure BLAKE3 is faster in software, but CPU makers put dedicated hardware for SHA256 into their CPUs so SHA256 is faster than, or at least as fast as, BLAKE3 practice.”. This argument is mostly mistaken. …

Nice replica of Bulma's Variable No.19 Motocycle by Ganesha Custom. ganeshacustom.com/en/products/...

Kind of a strange job, but maybe interesting for the right person: The Strong Museum of Play is hiring four temp workers (9-month job) to inventory the Hasbro corporate archives. On-site in Rhode Island.

This article is now public! Link in reply. I recreated Jef Raskin's 1987 'Canon Cat' user environment and observed myself as I lived in it for a week. Implementation details, surprises, and more in the essay. (Why touch grass when you can read 3.2k words on user environments?)

There's really only two file formats

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Trying Gemini again, first call…

🚨 Does your LLM really understand code -- or is it just really good at remembering it? We built **PLSemanticsBench** to find out. The results: a wild mix. ✅The Brilliant: Top reasoning models can execute complex, fuzzer-generated programs -- even with 5+ levels of nested loops! 🤯 ❌The Brittle: 🧵

Karpathy: nanochat A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch $100 will get you a somewhat functional model $1000 is more coherent & solves math detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan... repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...

weird, tests pass now

Huh! Another weird massive outage of some critical national infrastructure! I guess this must be completely unrelated to the previous incidents.

Alan Kay (invented personal computers) on AI. We love theater as system 1 (Kahneman) fires and fools, but we know it's not real due to system 2, logical reasoning. Exposed to LLMs sys 1 fires wildly but we have no sys 2 understanding of it to control our love of it. www.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

technology is not neutral, it’s good

A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time. But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the agents are also terrible at testing.

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...