🗓️ The May 2026 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

I respect the authors and believe them sincere, but ppl who are sincerely concerned about RSI need to start considering ways of diffusing risk by diffusing power and access — not by “internationally coordinated slowdown,” which as Shubhendu says is not happening.

Sunbeam xkcd.com/3253/

internet: "self-publishing is now possible!" humanity: /wp-content/uploads/2026/06/main.pdf

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"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The tragedy of our time is that we let our attention and intensity go from 0 to 100 on short-term concerns ("arXiv is banning users for a new reason"), ...but can only go from 0 to 5 on long-term concerns ("keep all arXiv articles healthy and freely available in 2226")

Bangaranga, I guess.

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🗓️ The April 2026 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

I have 9% claude weekly quota left for 2 workdays. Time to read those "token budget" blog posts that kept flying by. Send me your best advice.

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Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

I think we do not yet appreciate how completely overpowered people picking up agentic coding in their thirties today will be in their sixties and seventies. Juniors have always had the boost of youth in performance. But that is now moot really. Productive aging is possible.

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🗓️ The March 2026 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv. In March, arXiv passed 👉3 million total articles 👉30K monthly submissions Roughly 2️⃣ million of them have error-free HTML in the ar5iv Lab.

— and, even worse, it turns out there’s an uncanny valley for “worth spending time on”

Sorry for the screenshot from the other place, but this is the best thing I’ve learned from the Claude Code leak so far

Another first in this project. I've written MathML for my blog post to explain some of the math that is involved with projecting walls in 3D space.

Me reassuring myself in an act of self-care: You worry too much about what people think of you. I'm sure that no one noticed that your outfit didn't match the other day. Me reading the author list of a paper on the arxiv this morning: Oh that's the guy who wore those weird pants that one time.

If there are many layers between the people using the software and people working on it, that iteration can't happen. If users don't have any choice in the matter, then that iteration won't be forced to happen. Relatively trivial things, like our experience, stay broken forever.

The software industry knows how to make software good. Pay close attention to your users to see if they're succeeding at their tasks and happy with it, through some combination of interviewing them directly and monitoring how they use it, then fix broken things.

Elsevier spends $2B/year on tech. Springer Nature has spent hundreds of millions. Sobering numbers for non-profit tech initiatives trying to compete newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

Why are people adopting AI to write? The last few weeks I have witnessed a number of interesting discussions breaking out on social media. A couple of weeks ago a US-based academic admitted using AI in some of his writing, which prompted an angry response from a prominent AI researcher. I'm not…

Every tech person I know that’s gone deep in AI comes away realizing that Claude can already do a surprising chunk of their job and this is the worst the tech will ever be. How far behind tech is the rest of the world? Optimistically 3-5 years, but big tech's pace since November has surprised me.

In the penultimate talk of the meetup, Kyano rings the alarm bell: HTML with packages is the wild west! What standards could the ecosystem converge upon? Let's kickstart a discussion before it's too late. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETM...

Our core systems handle 2 billion API requests a month — and some of that code dates back to 2005. We're redesigning it piece by piece to serve a community that's grown from 318 to 24,000+ members. More about the redesign: https://doi.org/10.64000/8mckt-w8m69

Further details on arXiv going independent: like us the aim is improved sustainability, tech, governance, and global engagement tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/

Go read @natolambert.bsky.social's latest post. (www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-p...) Very smart and sobering about the challenges/opportunities ahead. Open intellectual commons is not going to happen automatically.

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

All those AI companies destroying our scholarly infrastructures will definitely be queuing up to support arXiv now it's becoming an independent organisation and seeking financial sustainability, yeah?

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

This might be the biggest job in (open) science. Cornell is creating a new non-profit organization to house @arxiv.bsky.social -- and hiring a new person to lead it. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Did you know that arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and Typst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZl...

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Cosign. The developers I know have also mostly been game. I think a lot about that old Theophite post (paraphrasing: my TL is mostly devs who are actually threatened by AI defending it against artists and writers, who mostly aren’t).

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/

Rust is a good language for LLMs not because it codes in it the best (that goes to typescript or python) but because it eliminates certian classes of errors and forces more correctness at compile time. "Rewrite it in rust" becomes a weekend project not an unclimbable mountain

RustWeek really makes it sound very salacious

MIT graduate student council "calls for adoption of preprints...to accelerate communication of scientific discoveries, and restore healthy incentives" drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...

I expect to see "Claude walker" hiring ads soon.

You get used to it, but it was a shock to the system at first. “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four half-written features, two ‘quick fixes’ that spawned rabbit holes, and a growing sense that I’m losing the plot entirely.”

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