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I Think They Are Lying To You(opens in new tab)
Over the Hill might slap a chill sheen over SnowRunner’s rugged off-roading, but it’ll still drown your jeep in a second if you let it(opens in new tab)
I really should learn to take this stretch of trail a bit more carefully. The one that runs precariously alongside the edge of a lake, dipping and getting muddier right at the point when it’s easiest to gently stumble into ...
The AI bubble is bursting(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (12 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
An ode to what was, and what could have been
Mythos is here, it’s time to start tokenmaxxing(opens in new tab)
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Apple are big fans of “privacy-preserving” which is classic Big Tech doublespeak. It doesn’t mean “private” because otherwise they would just say “private” — or you know, not use any qualifier because it should be reasonable to assume software is ...
What Is Fable 5?(opens in new tab)
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive(opens in new tab)
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its ...
Found on HN: discussion
Codex for open source(opens in new tab)
Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’(opens in new tab)
Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film(opens in new tab)
Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026(opens in new tab)
If you've ever been to PyCon, you know one of the best parts of the expo hall is Startup Row, a stretch of booths where early-stage companies built on Python show off what they're creating. But only attendees get to ...
The Three Virtues of Great Programmers(opens in new tab)
Sam Altman was WRONG(opens in new tab)
When Perfection Is the Enemy of Quality Culture: Lessons from the Nuclear Security Enterprise(opens in new tab)
The culture in the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), particularly with regards to quality, was without a doubt the best I've experienced. One thing that really made it great was the common understanding that perfection is impossible. While that may sound ...
2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets(opens in new tab)
datasette 1.0a33(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette 1.0a33 This alpha is a significant step on the road to a stable 1.0, finally extending the ?_extra= pattern I introduced in Datasette 1.0a3 to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. That pattern is also now ...
Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The world has moved on: Notes from the enshittocene. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Jpod"; Barlow v Glickman; Cyclist v bike lanes; Judge v copyright trolls; "The Uncertain Places"; Thatcher v Palin; NY v ...
Polite Hackers(opens in new tab)
Drums, cash grants, and bubbling capybaras: How Latin America's game dev creatives are outgrowing outsourcing(opens in new tab)
Easily missed among last week’s Summer Game Fest advert marathon was the Latin American Games Showcase: an exhibition that, at over eighty games strong, dwarfed the Keighley-fronted main event, yet has received only a small fraction of the eyeballs. Less ...
Improve Vivaldi button states(opens in new tab)
I find the enabled vs disabled states of the Vivaldi browser's back and forward buttons to be nearly indistinguishable. I couldn't figure out the best way to fix this, so I asked ChatGPT and the answer worked. Here's how to ...
Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't—Wes McKinney(opens in new tab)
This series interviews real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time we have none other than ...
asyncinject 0.7(opens in new tab)
Release: asyncinject 0.7 I built this utility library to support an asyncio dependency injection pattern a few years ago. I was using it with Datasette and Claude Fable 5 spotted some bugs in the dependency which it then fixed for ...
Beyond the Semantic Layer: Building a Context Layer for the Agentic Era(opens in new tab)
Writing SQL was never the hard part. Making it accurate and trustworthy against your warehouse always was. Point an AI agent like Claude or Codex at your data stack and ask a real analytics question, and the answer is usually ...
Git commit prompt injection(opens in new tab)
It's now common knowledge that LLMs / AI agents are vulnerable to all kind of injections, so attackers are being more and more creative to find new entrypoints. One commonly
Fable is Mythos, and it is really good.(opens in new tab)
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude(opens in new tab)
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. “We ...
Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage(opens in new tab)
★ Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items(opens in new tab)
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s ...
datasette-agent 0.2a0(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice (options=[...]) or free-text (free_text=True) question. While ...
DiffusionGemma(opens in new tab)
DiffusionGemma Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I tried the preview at the time and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further announcements about it. That research ...
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Roman Name Attestations(opens in new tab)
The Hard Bet | This Week in Bitcoin 108(opens in new tab)
Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe(opens in new tab)
There have been so many Assassin's Creed games, and so many games inspired by Assassin's Creed, that it's easy to forget that Assassin's Creed used to be Weird. Or Weird for a game of its scale, anyway. I remember when ...
Add Clean Up Item Layout In Finder Window as a Mac TIL (opens in new tab)
Being “Good” at Things(opens in new tab)
Golf content on social media is my online junk food and the other day I came across a video interviewing professional golfers that asks: “What does an amateur golfer have to shoot to be considered good?” It’s a leading question ...
Anders Hejlsberg: How to Build a Programming Language(opens in new tab)
Unfortunately, I Was Right(opens in new tab)
Found on HN: discussion
Are we GUI yet?(opens in new tab)
Quoting Jeremy Howard(opens in new tab)
Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement: The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI But everyone else should have access to it. By definition, this means the ...
There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business(opens in new tab)
When I talk to other journalists and random bus stop strangers about the idea of divesting from Microsoft and Xbox - worth doing for many reasons besides the company's dealings with the Israeli military - there is often an air ...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 37(opens in new tab)
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit(opens in new tab)
There are many ways to create memorable experiences. Sometimes it's as simple as a form that completes smoothly. But here I'm interested in sharing techniques I reach for when I want a site to feel alive and be remembered. Creating ...
Funny Little Tax Mistakes(opens in new tab)
I'm Running a PCB Design Workshop!(opens in new tab)
Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn(opens in new tab)
If you've ever heard code is an expression of free speech you have Cindy Cohn to thank. Her decades of work in courtrooms and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been keeping Open Source, open and private communications, private. We ...
Just Be Normal About Things - Westenberg(opens in new tab)
JA Westenberg:To be normal about things is to preserve a private center that doesn’t get annexed by every passing demand. I can care about this without becoming it. I can improve this without worshiping it. I can be concerned without ...
A human in control(opens in new tab)
There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at ...
Announcing stdx, Rust's extended standard library: simplicity, performance and supply chain security for everyone(opens in new tab)
From embedded firmware (where it's badly needed) to big servers passing by cross-platform applications used by billions of people, the foundations of the computing stack are being rewritten in Rust.