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2025-12-07

576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide

(source: rfd.shared.oxide.computer)


2025-12-07

Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck

(source: bcantrill.dtrace.org)


2025-12-07

Tree views in CSS

(source: iamkate.com)
How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS

2025-12-07

Shout out to @katemorley for guide on how to make HTML trees

(source: @Mark McBride)
Shout out to @katemorley for the excellent guide on how to make HTML lists display as expandable/collapsable trees using nothing but CSS. https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/

2025-12-06

PostHog – We make dev tools for product engineers

(source: posthog.com)
All your developer tools in one place. PostHog gives engineers everything to build, test, measure, and ship successful products faster. Get started free.

2025-12-05

I once sat in a class where Kofi, Winston gave speeches

(source: @Adfichter)
I once sat in the Aula of the University Zurich as a student in a political philosophy class (where Kofi Annan and Winston Churchill have given their speeches). At that time, I mainly studied the writings of the ancient Greeks like Platon or Hobbes. Yesterday, I learned in the same aula a valuable philosophical lesson about deliberative digital democracy. This time in a different role. Not as a student, but as a tech reporter for the magazin republik.chI had the great honor asking questions to one of the most inspiring personalities of our time:Audrey Tang received yesterday …

2025-12-05

Mac @qgis users rejoice: QGIS now fully notarised

(source: @OPENGIS.ch)
🚀 Mac @qgis users, rejoice! After years of suboptimal packages, QGIS for macOS is now fully notarised and automated — starting with 3.44 LTR and nightly builds! 🍏🎉We made this possible thanks to all the work we’ve done bringing @qfield to macOS and iOS, and we’re proud to give that expertise back upstream.Huge thanks to the QGIS PSC for trusting us with this delicate task.👉 Download and enjoy a smoother QGIS experience on Mac! 😎

2025-12-05

Michelle Obama once said 'they're not that smart'

(source: @Sylke Gruhnwald)
Michelle Obama once said that after sitting at the most powerful tables, she realised something surprising: «They're not that smart.» A sentiment many women recognise in male-dominated rooms.An interview with Palantir CEO Alexander Karp was recently published in Ringier's magazine «Interview». It's a conversation in which Alexander Karp speaks at length about intelligence, «micro-intelligence,» and shares a sentiment who he believes is smart and intelligent.The context matters: The Swiss publisher Ringier appears as one of Palantir's showcase clients on Palantir's own website; Axel Springer is listed above it. Alexander Karp served on Axel Springer's board at a time …

2025-12-05

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres Link: Discussion

(source: @Hacker News 500)
PGlite – Embeddable PostgresLink: https://pglite.dev/Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146133

2025-12-04

$1B Legal AI tool exposes 100k confidential files

(source: @Hacker News 500)
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential filesLink: https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100kDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514

2025-12-04

Everyone in Seattle hates AI Link: jonready.com

(source: @Hacker News 500)
Everyone in Seattle hates AILink: https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.htmlDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952

2025-12-03

Paged Out Link: https://pagedout.institute

(source: @Hacker News 500)
Paged OutLink: https://pagedout.instituteDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217

2025-12-02

I sat with my complicated feelings about 'vibe coding'

(source: @Anil Dash)
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/

2025-12-02

Link

(source: @Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀)


2025-12-02

Heutige Sprachmodelle verstehen nicht wirklich, was sie sagen

(source: @Marcel Waldvogel)
Heutige Sprachmodelle können auf Basis riesiger Datenmengen brillant formulieren und Muster wiedergeben, aber sie verstehen nicht wirklich, was sie sagen. Sie haben kein inneres Weltmodell, kein Konzept von Ursache/Wirkung. Der Weg zu AGI kann demzufolge nicht einfach darin bestehen, immer grössere/bessere Sprachmodelle zu bauen. Solange kein grundlegend anderer Ansatz gewählt wird, bleibt die #AGI-Ansage ein Hoax, weil keine wirklich denkenden Maschinen entstehen können.https://dnip.ch/2025/12/02/dnip-briefing-52-datencenter-im-weltall/#Der-AGI-Hoax

2025-12-01

Google blocked a message for violating policy: Workspace admin

(source: @Mark Stosberg)
I'm a Google Workspace admin, and a team member sent me a screenshot showing that a message they wanted to send was being blocked because it violated an organizational policy-- which was news to me-- I hadn't put in place to block messages based on their content.Turns out Google Workspace now warns by default when the message content mentions gender identity. #google #privacy #politics

2025-12-01

Link

(source: @Ricardo B�nffy)


2025-12-01

Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog

(source: www.humanlayer.dev)
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.

2025-12-01

Needy programs @ tonsky.me

(source: tonsky.me)
We used to use software; now software started to use us

2025-11-30

Tim Berners-Lee erfand das Web – und kämpft heute darum

(source: @Sylke Gruhnwald)
Tim Berners-Lee erfand das Web – und kämpft heute darum, es zurückzuerobern. Meine Buchkritik zu «This Is for Everyone» in der NZZ am Sonntag: https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/er-erfand-das-web-und-verlor-es-ld.1914136Und dazu das Portrait über Tim Berners-Lee im New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it

2025-11-30

Been super happy with Emacs plus for quite some time: @tgeusch

(source: @Álvaro R.)
@tgeusch Been super happy with Emacs plus for quite some time https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plusbrew install emacs-plus@30 --with-no-frame-refocus --with-native-comp --with-savchenkovaleriy-big-sur-curvy-3d-icon#emacs #macos

2025-11-29

Every Sora AI vid. burns 1 kW hour, emits 466 grams of carbon

(source: @mr.w0bb1t)
Every Sora AI vid. burns 1 kW hour & emits 466 grams of carbon. The Sora 2 platform alone emits nearly a quarter of the carbon of all Meta/Facebook.👉🏻 https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora-ai-video-burns-1-kilowatt

2025-11-28

i hope this email finds you well

(source: @Viss)
i hope this email finds you well

2025-11-28

United States of Palantir

(source: monde-diplomatique.de)
In den USA vollzieht sich ein grundlegender Umbau des Staates. Die Hauptrolle spielen dabei Tech-Unternehmen wie Palantir und Anduril, an deren Software wichtige hoheitliche Aufgaben delegiert werden. Dieser Trend zur „Privatisierung der Souveränität“ setzt sich immer mehr auch in Europa durch.

2025-11-28

What is the 'Palantir-Software' that is being used in politics?

(source: @Adfichter)
Dieser Text ist eine Pflichtlektüre für alle Parlamentarier:innen Europas. Um diese geräuschlose Einnistung von #Palantir-Software in den Verwaltungsinfrastrukturen zu verstehen, die gerade passiert... Und um diese zu stoppen. "Dabei geraten die Europäer mit jedem Vertrag noch mehr in die Bredouille. Wenn Palantir für die Erfüllung von Regierungsaufgaben unentbehrlich geworden ist, wenn die Drohnen von Anduril zum Nato-Standard werden, wenn die KI-Systeme Atomstrom brauchen, um das alles am Laufen zu halten, dann wird der Prozess unumkehrbar.Das Endresultat ist nicht die früher übliche Einflussnahme auf die Politik – etwa durch Lobbyisten –, sondern die grundlegende Transformation der Souveränität. Die wird fortan …

2025-11-27

We need your help to get through difficult period than 2020

(source: @Andy Bell)
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/

2025-11-27

What to read, to listen to, not to look away from: Radiolab

(source: @Sylke Gruhnwald)
Goings On What to read, to listen to, to eat, worth investigating, and not to look away from.Read: Natasha Brown's «Universality» dissects who gets to tell stories and what those stories obscure—a slim novel doing the work of something three times its length.https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571389018-universality/Listen: Radiolab's episode «Quantum Refuge» follows Qasem Waleed from Gaza who found quantum mechanics' reality-breaking logic became the only language adequate to surviving bombardment. https://radiolab.org/podcast/quantum-refugeEat: Laksa! https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026616-chicken-curry-laksaWorth Investigating: Anthropic documents what it calls the …

2025-11-26

Fix Flickering

(source: mohessaid.medium.com)


2025-11-25

NULLI

(source: nulli.ch)
NULLI, das Würfelspiel für alle, alt und jung, Spielmuffel und Spielenerds.

2025-11-25

Derek Sivers

(source: sive.rs)


2025-11-25

wyrd – Die People Plattform für Unternehmen mit Haltung

(source: www.wyrd.io)
Erlebe mit wyrd eine neue Art der Mitarbeitergespräche und Teamentwicklung. Unsere digitalen Lösungen fördern echte Dialoge, stärken Zusammenarbeit und unterstützen nachhaltige Entwicklung im Unternehmen.

2025-11-25

SSDs are unreliable for unpowered long term storage

(source: @nixCraft 🐧)
SSDs are faster, more convenient, and more power efficient than HDDs for primary use, but they are unreliable for unpowered long term (i.e. cold) storage. If left without power for extended periods, SSDs can suffer from data corruption or loss. For reliable archival storage, users often prefer HDDs, magnetic tape, cloud, or M-Disc.https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/

2025-11-25

I wince a little when I see graphs on news site's homepage

(source: @BrianKrebs)
I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/

2025-11-24

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for FB post

(source: @Jeff Jarvis)
He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.https://www.ms.now/opinion/tennessee-man-jail-charlie-kirk-meme-warning

2025-11-24

Feels like it's time to share this old gem again:

(source: @Tomas Ekeli)
Feels like it's time to share this old gem again:

2025-11-23

Why hängen Politiker, Abgeordnete auf Twitter herum?

(source: @🇺🇦 Lauteshirn 🏳️‍🌈)
>>SZ: Also sind Sie für eine harte Regulierung der sozialen Medien und Plattformen?Jan Böhmermann: Absolut. Bitte. Ja. Man muss diese Plattformen zwingend regulieren und als das behandeln, was sie sind: Medienkonzerne, Verlage, die gewerbsmäßig Inhalte verbreiten. Und bis es so weit ist, oder wenn man das nicht so schnell schafft, dann sollten wenigstens Politiker, Abgeordnete und Minister, Behörden, alle staatlich finanzierten Institutionen dort umgehend raus! Warum hängen Staatssekretäre und Bürgermeisterinnen auf Twitter herum? Warum sind Abgeordnete auf Tiktok?<<@janboehm hat Recht!https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/kultur/jan-boehmermann-interview-chefket-adf-antisemitismus-e331916/#lauteshirn #JanBöhmermann #SozialeMedien #Twitter #X #Fediverse

2025-11-21

Peter Mayer, um die 50, Dr. sc. nat. ETH, seit elf Monaten arbeitslos

(source: @Martin Steiger 🚀)
«Peter Mayer, um die 50, Dr. sc. nat. ETH, langjährige Erfahrung im Robotik- und KI-Bereich und seit elf Monaten arbeitslos.»https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/hochgebildet-kadermann-und-ploetzlich-arbeitslos-ein-gefallener-ki-manager-erzaehlt-ld.1910405

2025-11-21

'Reinigungskraft' shows political view on inheritance tax

(source: @olеg lаvrоvsky)
"Reinigungskraft" shows a political view on the absurdity of the inheritance tax (as part of a campaign for the upcoming referendum) in a playful and pragmatic way https://erbs-schaft.ch/

2025-11-20

Low key solution to cheating problem found at x.com

(source: @nixCraft 🐧)
A low key solution to a cheating problem ;) source https://x.com/frxiaobei/status/1991090307249930673 ( or https://xcancel.com/frxiaobei/status/1991090307249930673 )

2025-11-20

Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution - apenwarr

(source: apenwarr.ca)
Long ago in the 1990s when I was in high school, my chemistry+physics teacher pulled me aside. "Avery, you know how the Internet works, righ...

2025-11-20

What is the real scandal in Europe, says ICC judge?

(source: @ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl)
@kalisz79 https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations …

2025-11-20

Amazing what Icon designers make AI logos look like assholes

(source: @Kaspar (allegedly not haunted))
Amazing what icon designers come up with to make AI logos look even _more_ like assholes.

2025-11-18

Happy FUCK OFF to AI from Emma Thompson

(source: @Radgryd)
And a happy FUCK OFF to AI from Emma Thompson. 😌#FuckAI #EmmaThompson #StephenColbert

2025-11-18

End of civilization #ai #chatgpt #books #civilization

(source: @frank goossens 🇧🇪🇪🇺)
There you have it, the end of civilization 😞 #ai #chatgpt #books #civilization

2025-11-17

Prefect + Coiled — Coiled documentation

(source: docs.coiled.io)
Together Prefect and Coiled make it easy to define and run complex scheduled workflows in the cloud with a simple and zero-maintenance architecture. This document walks through how to set up the tw...

2025-11-15

AAX to M4B Converter | Audible Tools

(source: audible-tools.kamsker.at)
Free online AAX to M4B converter. Convert Audible audiobooks locally with chapter preservation, batch conversion support, and expert mode options. Safe and private conversion on your own device.

2025-11-14

Warum wir unseren Devs mehr vertrauen als Big Tech: Digitec

(source: @Baklava Monster)
omg ist das geil! 🔥Digitec: " Warum wir unseren Devs mehr vertrauen als Big Tech"#leadingByExamplehttps://www.digitec.ch/en/page/digitale-souveraenitaet-warum-wir-unseren-devs-mehr-vertrauen-als-big-tech-40316

2025-11-14

Trying to help Bill understand this isn't just about tropics: Report

(source: @Holger Klein)
“Yes, we’ve been trying to help Bill understand this isn’t just about the tropics” 😆https://www.theframelab.org/when-bill-gates-yelled-at-me-about-climate-change/

2025-11-14

This is my new favorite #design #fail.

(source: @Nando161)
This is my new favorite #design #fail.

2025-11-12

An oral history of Bank Python

(source: calpaterson.com)
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

2025-10-24

From Legacy CSVs to Cloud-Native Geodata — Development Seed

(source: developmentseed.org)
Reimagining Canada’s Spatial Access Measures with GeoParquet and DuckDB-WASM

2025-10-23

🚜 Query.Farm

(source: query.farm)
We build with DuckDB. Extensions. Consulting. Tools.

2025-10-20

What is Evidence? | Evidence Docs

(source: docs.evidence.dev)
Evidence is an open source framework for building data products with SQL - things like reports, decision-support tools, and customer-facing/embedded reporting. It's a code-driven alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools.

2025-10-17

ClickHouse and Parquet: A foundation for fast Lakehouse analytics

(source: clickhouse.com)
ClickHouse is built to run fast on Parquet, the storage format behind open table formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake. This post takes you deep inside the query engine to reveal the tricks behind its speed, and what’s coming next.

2025-10-15

Automate ISO 27001 | For startups, scaleups on autopilot

(source: www.kertos.io)
Fast & automated to ISO 27001 ✔ 80% faster to audit ✔ 100% audit success rate ✔ 10+ industries serviced!

2025-10-15

Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter Steinberger

(source: steipete.me)
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.

2025-10-13

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

(source: blog.fsck.com)
I used to write more

2025-10-13

About — Demand Thinking

(source: demandthinking.com)


2025-10-12

Home | OpenLineage

(source: openlineage.io)
Data lineage is the foundation for a new generation of powerful, context-aware data tools and best practices. OpenLineage enables consistent collection of lineage metadata, creating a deeper understanding of how data is produced and used.

2025-10-12

Marquez Project | Marquez Project

(source: marquezproject.ai)
Marquez enables highly flexible data lineage queries across all datasets, while reliably and efficiently associating (upstream, downstream) dependencies between jobs and the datasets they produce and consume. OpenLineage and Marquez are complementary open-source projects that bring data lineage to life. • OpenLineage is the standard — an open metadata protocol for describing how data moves through pipelines. It defines a common language for recording “this job read dataset A and wrote dataset B,” along with metadata such as schema, run time, and owner. Think of it as the “OpenTelemetry” of the data world. • Marquez is the reference implementation — a server and UI …

2025-10-10

Uncertainties — uncertainties

(source: uncertainties.readthedocs.io)
The uncertainties Python package


2025-10-06

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

(source: vgel.me)
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.

2025-10-06

Optimal GeoParquet Partitioning Strategy

(source: medium.com)
The article discusses the quest for an optimal GeoParquet partitioning strategy that can serve both analytics and web visualizations efficiently. The author explores different partitioning schemes, including unpartitioned, attribute-based (by state), H3, and hybrid (state + H3), to find a balance between performance in DuckDB for analytics and browser-based visualization clients. The tests reveal that attribute partitioning is best for analytics, while smaller, spatially partitioned files are faster for browser-based visualizations. The conclusion suggests that a one-size-fits-all solution may not be feasible, and a pragmatic approach involves maintaining separate optimized datasets for analytics and visualizations. The author also highlights the effectiveness …

2025-10-04

Introduction - Zustand

(source: zustand.docs.pmnd.rs)
How to use Zustand

2025-10-04

Introducing Observable Canvases | Observable

(source: observablehq.com)
A new way to explore, visualize, and collaborate with data — all in one shared canvas.

2025-10-04

World Maps | American Printing House

(source: www.aph.org)
These thermoformed tactile maps are a comprehensive aid to geographic instruction and orientation. Note: This product has been discontinued. We apologize fo ...

2025-10-03

Hyperparam · GitHub

(source: github.com)
Hyperparam - The missing UI for Machine Learning. Hyperparam has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

2025-10-03

Tactile Maps – Terrain Models

(source: terrainmodels.ethz.ch)
Tactile Maps for the Blind Tactile map of South America, Sonnenberg, school for visually handicapped children and adolescents, Baar To guarantee the independence of visually handicapped people and to improve their ability to manage the challenges of everyday life, it is

2025-10-03

Tactile Map – Mappery

(source: mappery.org)
Matthew Edney said "3d cast braille/tactile map of the Garden of the Five Senses, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME, USA. Very cool place, even for an indoor-person like me!"