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2026-02-17

What your Bluetooth devices reveal: Report on privacy

(source: @Hacker News 500)
What your Bluetooth devices revealLink: https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

2026-02-17

Erfindet dein Handy heimlich Details dazu, die gar nicht da sind?

(source: @KI & Koffein)
Erfindet dein Handy heimlich Details dazu, die gar nicht da sind? Ich bin da kürzlich über ein spannendes Feature gestolpert! Was sagt ihr dazu?#ki #kuenstlicheintelligenz #fotografie

2026-02-16

What AI isn't great at is generating outcomes?

(source: @James Fee)
AI is incredible at generating output.What it’s not great at (yet) is generating outcomes.In spatial systems, the hard part isn’t the rendering. It’s the workflow — the metadata, the contracts, the integrations, the discipline that makes something buildable.AI isn’t the product. Workflow is.https://spatiallyadjusted.com/ai-isnt-the-product-the-workflow-is#AI #GIS #SpatialComputing #ProductStrategy

2026-02-16

I was looking into a vulnerability in InfoSec job security

(source: @Kevin Beaumont)
Today in InfoSec Job Security News:I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically. So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month. https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=descAs I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

2026-02-14

Best Practices for Claude Code - Claude Code Docs

(source: code.claude.com)
Tips and patterns for getting the most out of Claude Code, from configuring your environment to scaling across parallel sessions.

2026-02-14

Love revealing cut-away: London Transport Museum poster

(source: @Information Is Beautiful)
Love a revealing cut-away!(from a London Transport Museum poster by Gavin Dunn)

2026-02-12

Amy's fish

(source: strudel.org.uk)
Random fish generator

2026-02-12

What are some of the biggest news stories in the world?

(source: @Adfichter)
Der Krieg der autoritären Tech-Oligarchie gegen die Medien hat eine neue Stufe erreicht: Palantir klagt gegen uns. Uns, die Republik. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen, werbefrei, online gegangen im Jahr 2018. Mir ist kein anderes Medienhaus bekannt global, gegen das Palantir aktuell so schweres Geschütz auffährt. Worum geht es? Gemeinsam mit meinen grossartigen Kolleg:innen des WAV Recherchekollektiv Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer und Balz Oertli haben wir am 8. und 9. Dezember eine zweiteilige Serie über das Wirken von Palantir in der Schweiz veröffentlicht. Wir konnten anhand eines umfangreichen Dokumentenkorpus – das wir dank des …

2026-02-12

Today we had a fire alarm in the office

(source: @Tagir Valeev)
Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

2026-02-12

I once made random fish generator for a colleague

(source: @Stuart :progress_pride:)
A few years ago I made this random fish generator for a colleague: https://strudel.org.uk/fish/Amy had been making abstract graphical fish and we realised that we could create lots of different fish by moving 10 control points (two for the nose, two for the start of body, two for the end of body, two for the start of the tail and two for the end of tail) up and down and applying random patterns/colours.

2026-02-12

Once you outsource manufacturing, you no longer have workforce: I'll repeat

(source: @Matt Wilcox)
I'll re-iterate what I said yesterday:- Once you outsource your manufacturing to other countries, you no longer retain the skills and workforce to spin it back up.- Once you're reliant on outsourced work, the people you outsourced to have the power and get to dictate terms.AI is *exactly* the same thing.Once it's been relied on long enough that there are not enough juniors with the fundamental knowledge, few to no seniors left... that's the end of your ability to not rely on AI providers.

2026-02-11

- Good Morning Mr. Randall this is the school: We have questions

(source: @Cogito ergo mecagoendios)
- Good Evening Mr. Randall this is the school. We have some inquiries regarding the enrollment form. We would like to ask if you really named your daughter ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86? - Oh yes, absolutely. Little Anthy Numbers, we call her.https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/

2026-02-10

ESSD publishes 5-year global soil predictions for 2022+

(source: @Tomislav Hengl)
Our global soil predictions at 30 m for 5 year periods (2000-2022+) are now available for viewing from https://world.soils.app; paper has just been published at ESSD (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-989-2026). You can download GeoTIFFs with 5-year predictions of soil carbon content, soil carbon density (kg/m3), soil pH, soil texture fractions, bulk density and USDA subgroup soil types.We are working on a systematic update and on adding more soil variables. Webinar: https://youtu.be/443HBf1GIGI?si=x8fCvSvHksG3qgol

2026-02-08

TDD is like the brakes on your car: Codemanship

(source: @Jason Gorman)
TDD's like the brakes on your car. It enables you to get there *sooner* (presuming you wish to arrive in one piece).https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/tdd-slows-me-down-good

2026-02-08

Tired: The cloud is other people's computers

(source: @Justin Miller)
@colincornaby Tired: the cloud is other people’s computers Wired: Agent-generated code is other people’s work

2026-02-07

In der Schweiz gibt es ein hochkarätiges Netzwerk für digitale Unabhängigkeit

(source: @Adfichter)
In der Schweiz formiert sich ein hochkarätiges Netzwerk für die digitale Unabhängigkeit. Das ist den USA-Vertretern ein Dorn im Auge. Behörden haben jetzt die Chance, mit gutem Beispiel voranzugehen.https://gnulinux.ch/digitale-souveraenitaet-wird-zum-kampfbegriff#Medienecho


2026-02-06

What is 'cosmo', a command line tool that converts OSM data?

(source: @Martijn van Exel)
cleaning up some personal projects I worked on in the past months and won't have much time for when my new job starts (Monday): **cosmo** - a fast command line tool for converting #OSM data into GeoJSON(seq) or parquet.Another one of those you say? Sure, but this one takes the best of some of the existing tools and combines them into one:1. speed 2. scale (entire planet with ease on a 16GB laptop)3. really good data filtering and transformation using YAML.https://codeberg.org/mvexel/cosmo

2026-02-06

2/2 Powerful Imagery at the Intersection of Political Cartoons

(source: @ABlueView)
🧵2/2 Powerful Imagery at the Intersection of Political Cartoons & InfographicsSee more of the series at https://twp.ai/gEEWxO

2026-02-06

Powerful Imagery at the intersection of political cartoons

(source: @ABlueView)
Powerful Imagery at the Intersection of Political Cartoons & Infographics #ABlueView 1/2In the series 'Ratios', https://twp.ai/bXZHlK visually represents proportions & magnitudes from today's world as simply as possible. A series at the intersection of cartoons & infographics.

2026-02-06

Xikipedia now available as actual app (PWA)

(source: @Rebane)
Xikipedia, the Wikipedia doomscrolling "app", is now available as an actual app (PWA)!Also:- fully available offline- algorithm saving/persistence (optional)- multiple profiles- light theme (optional)- full english wikipedia links (optional)- statistics screenhave fun!!https://xikipedia.org/?2

2026-02-06

We tasked Opus 4.6 to build a C Compiler

(source: @Hacker News 500)
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C CompilerLink: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compilerDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616

2026-02-06

It's not vibe coding - Agentic engineering: New essay

(source: @Michael Kennedy)
New essay: It's not vibe coding - Agentic engineeringhttps://mkennedy.codes/posts/its-not-vibe-coding-agentic-engineering/

2026-02-05

16 agents tasked with writing Rust-based C compiler

(source: @Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺)
“To stress test it, I tasked 16 agents with writing a Rust-based C compiler, from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel. Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs, the agent team produced a 100,000-line compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V.” 🤯https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

2026-02-05

It's fine to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: huh I'm not sure if true

(source: @Julia Evans)
huh I'm not sure if this is true but this post argues that it's generally fine to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * (as long as you don't set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, and as long as the API is public and not on an intranet) https://advancedweb.hu/is-access-control-allow-origin-star-insecure/

2026-02-05

Don't tell Bezos he needs to fire one-third of Washington Post staff: Sanders

(source: @Adfichter)
Bernie Sanders:"If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy."https://bsky.app/profile/sanders.senate.gov/post/3me34egkev22b

2026-02-04

@overturemaps now offers STAC catalogue with all datasets

(source: @Dominik Weckmüller)
@overturemaps now offers a STAC catalogue with all their datasets and it's super convenient to use! The best part: every dataset is now also released as pmtiles file you can query on the spot in your browser!Browser: https://radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/#/external/stac.overturemaps.org/2026-01-21.0/catalog.json?.language=enPmtiles example: https://pmtiles.io/#url=https%3A%2F%2Ftiles.overturemaps.org%2F2026-01-21.0%2Fplaces.pmtiles&map=0.8/0/0

2026-02-04

Putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos

(source: @qdot)
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys mefor some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

2026-02-04

Update for our datasatz Points of Interest Open (#POI-Open)

(source: @BKG)
📢 Update für unseren Datensatz Points of Interest Open (#POI-Open)Neues Thema:🏛️ Welterbe-StättenAktualisierte Themen:🛫 Flughäfen🛂 Grenzübergänge🛣️ Kilometrierung BAB🏥 Trauma-Zentren🔗 Infos zum Produkt: https://www.bkg.bund.de/SharedDocs/Produktinformationen/BKG/DE/P-2026/260203_POI-Open.html#Geodaten #OpenData

2026-02-04

I miss thinking hard Link: Jernesto on thinking hard

(source: @Hacker News 500)
I miss thinking hardLink: https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hardDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264

2026-02-04

Wollt ihr nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel verkaufen lassen?

(source: @Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf)
Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das Richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein!https://youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?si=DWqOEeMyucpylh1P

2026-02-03

The color of AI is beige, not beige: TLDR

(source: @tante)
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/116008791654771014The color of "AI" is beige.It's good that a paper did the legwork but nobody can be surprised by this who knows how an LLM works.

2026-02-03

Different llm models come up with same shitty stories: Study

(source: @Aram Bartholl)
Research shows that different llm models come up with the same shitty stories, although very open prompts like “story about a dragon”

2026-02-03

Introducing Async-GeoTIFF, a library for reading GeoTIFFs

(source: @Kyle Barron)
Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new high-level library for reading GeoTIFFs and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs. https://developmentseed.org/async-geotiff/latest/blog/2026/02/03/introducing-async-geotiff/- High-level & easy-to-use- Load from full-resolution or reduced-resolution overviews- Fast, with a Rust core- Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding- Integration with NumPy, PyProj, Affine, & Morecantile- Remote data support with Obstore- Lightweight with no GDAL dependency- Full type hinting- Broad decompression supportA @developmentseed project.

2026-02-03

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a membrane keyboard

(source: @JA Westenberg)
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.

2026-02-03

Good tech acts as a tool to help you think outside of the box

(source: @Poe LeRoy)
Good tech acts as a tool to help you think outside of the box, not something that traps you inside of a box.Source: @kagihq https://kagi.com/changelog#9683#meme #comic #tech #foss #fediverse

2026-02-02

OpenLandMap does the Right Thing - COGs you can open in terra

(source: @Barry Rowlingson)
OpenLandMap does the Right Thing - COGs that you can open in terra (use /vsicurl prefix on the URL) and then crop/mask to a small extent. Also works in python with rasterio. https://stac.openlandmap.org/lc_glc.fcs30d/lc_glc.fcs30d_19950101_19951231/lc_glc.fcs30d_19950101_19951231.json

2026-02-02

Robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet: Cartoon for Dutch newspaper

(source: @Tjeerd Royaards)
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.More of my work for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

2026-02-01

Code ist nicht dein Freund, wenn Du YAML hasst, deswegen PyInfra

(source: @Kris)
Wenn Du YAML hasst, und Du deswegen PyInfra für eine Lösung hältst,https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.htmlCode ist nicht dein Freund. Solange Du Operations mit Development verwechselst wird Dein Leben nicht besser.https://blog.koehntopp.info/2016/09/01/be-simple-be-boring-be-obvious.html

2026-01-30

Today is a good time to revisit the concept of 'Vegan + bacon'

(source: @Danielle Foré)
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I feel like today is a good time to revisit the concept of “Vegan + bacon”.People often avoid making small positive changes because they get caught up in trying to go all the way. For example, “I could never go vegan. I love bacon too much”.So then go vegan plus bacon. Or vegetarian plus bacon. Or just switch to oat milk and eat more vegetables. Whatever small change you can make is good

2026-01-30

Woof. #linkedin #social #socialmedia

(source: @steve mookie kong)
Woof.#linkedin #social #socialmedia

2026-01-30

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

(source: maggieappleton.com)
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code


2026-01-27

Welcome to cuML’s documentation! — cuml 25.12.00 documentation

(source: docs.rapids.ai)
cuML is a suite of GPU-accelerated machine learning algorithms designed for data science. Its API is similar to scikit-learn, allowing users to leverage the familiar fit-predict-transform paradigm without needing to write GPU-specific code. cuML offers significant performance improvements, being 10-50x faster than CPU-based alternatives for many workloads. It supports over 50 algorithms across various machine learning categories, including clustering, regression, and classification. For scaling, cuML provides multi-GPU and multi-node support through Dask, enabling it to operate on large clusters. Users who experience long processing times with scikit-learn, umap-learn, or hdbscan are likely to benefit from cuML, as its equivalent estimators …

2026-01-24

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

(source: simonwillison.net)
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

2026-01-23

Your Dorky Spatial Database is My Magic Answer Machine

(source: www.youtube.com)
Points, lines, and polygons in a database aren't cool. Rasters in a database may be even less cool. You know what's cool? Transforming PostGIS into a Magic Answer Machine. In this talk we'll show not only how to access and use Data That Lives Somewhere Else but also analyze and understand that data by dynamically accessing some of the AI models you both love and fear. We'll be doing all of this while living inside the PostGIS database and using just SQL to access an ever-expanding universe of outside tools and data.

2026-01-23

WebGPU Water

(source: jeantimex.github.io)
Cool WebGPU demo

2026-01-19

H2D accessories

(source: m.youtube.com)
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

2026-01-19

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

(source: lucumr.pocoo.org)
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

2026-01-19

Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog

(source: blog.mikeswanson.com)


2026-01-16

Why Taxwire standardized on marimo for data exploration and internal tools | marimo

(source: molab.marimo.io)
How marimo enables engineers and tax experts alike to work with data

2026-01-16

The Journey to Zero-Copy: How chDB Became the Fastest SQL Engine on Pandas DataFrame

(source: clickhouse.com)
From 30 seconds to 0.5 seconds — the story of how we made ClickHouse fly on in-memory data

2026-01-15

AI Technology Radar

(source: ai-radar.aoe.com)



2026-01-13

How to know if that job will crush your soul - Anil Dash

(source: www.anildash.com)
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.


2026-01-09

The Emperor Has No Clothes: How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code - Mihail Eric

(source: www.mihaileric.com)
The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.

2026-01-08

Collaborative LLM Agents for C4 Software Architecture Design Automation

(source: arxiv.org)
Title: [2510.22787] Collaborative LLM Agents for C4 Software Architecture Design Automation This research introduces a multi-agent system powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the design of C4 software architecture models. The system simulates a dialogue between role-specific expert agents who analyze requirements and generate Context, Container, and Component views of the C4 model. A hybrid evaluation framework, combining deterministic checks for structural integrity and C4 rule consistency with LLM-as-a-Judge for semantic and qualitative scoring, assesses the generated models. Tested on five system briefs, the workflow demonstrated rapid C4 model creation, maintained high compilation success rates, and achieved …

2026-01-07

Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

(source: kottke.org)
In 2023, Paul Scheer spent a few days talking to fathers who accompanied their daughters to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in LA

2026-01-06

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(source: pluralistic.net)
This is true. Code is a liability. Code's capabilities are an asset.

2026-01-06

Palantir Swiss Army Report

(source: cdn.repub.ch)
he Swiss Armys report on Palantir, which recommends to not use the product. It provides a glimpse on how they evaluate products and also how Palantir got into a lot of other positions. It is mostly OSINT and not very technical, more on an organisational level.

2026-01-04

The AI-Ready Software Developer

(source: codemanship.wordpress.com)
For over a billion years now, we've known that "code-and-fix" software development, where we write a whole bunch of code for a feature, or even for a whole release, and then check it for bugs, maintainability problems, security vulnerabilities and so on, is by far the most expensive and least effective approach to delivering production-ready…

2026-01-03

Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski

(source: ciechanow.ski)
Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.

2026-01-02

Bespoke software is the future | Farid Zakaria’s Blog

(source: fzakaria.com)
At Google, some of the engineers would joke, self-deprecatingly, that the software internally was not particularly exceptional but rather Google’s dominance was an example of the power of network effects: when software is custom tailored to work well with each other.

2026-01-01

Ivo's Capuns online bestellen

(source: www.ivoscapuns.ch)
Bestellen Sie sich die Bündner Spezialität "Capuns" mit der Sauce nach Hause.

2025-12-30

AI Agent, AI Spy - media.ccc.de

(source: media.ccc.de)
Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs

2025-12-25

The Shape of Artificial Intelligence - by Alberto Romero

(source: www.thealgorithmicbridge.com)
What AI really looks like

2025-12-22

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

(source: simonwillison.net)
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …

2025-12-22

Just in time software · Don't Panic

(source: commaok.xyz)
Words about Go and software

2025-12-22

Serienjahr 2025: Das sind die besten Serien des Jahres – und die schlechtesten | DIE ZEIT

(source: www.zeit.de)
Großer Spaß, großer Schmerz und ein schlimmer Verdacht: Das Serienjahr 2025 war voller Highlights. Wir empfehlen herausragende Produktionen, die man gesehen haben sollte.