Elevators(john.fun)
1556 points by Jrh0203 | 383 comments
An interactive article on john.fun explaining how elevators work and the algorithms that decide which car answers a call.
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The session you cannot take with you(earendil.com)
708 points by apitman | 203 comments
An Earendil engineering post arguing that inference API sessions are becoming non-portable, so users can no longer own or move their conversation transcripts between models.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update(api-docs.deepseek.com)
657 points by dnhkng | 313 comments
DeepSeek API docs changelog entry announcing the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API public beta with improved agent benchmark results.
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work(github.com)
644 points by tosh | 151 comments
GitHub repository for qm by Y Combinator software, an open-source MIT-licensed multiplayer agent harness for work.
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion(tailscale.com)
556 points by bluehatbrit | 206 comments
Tailscale blog post discussing a security intrusion at Hugging Face and explaining that Tailscale did not prevent it.
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI(blog.google)
536 points by Garbage | 548 comments
Google Security blog post from the Chrome Security Team on how Chrome uses AI to improve vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis(artificialanalysis.ai)
530 points by theanonymousone | 289 comments
An Artificial Analysis page meant to benchmark DeepSeek V4 Flash's intelligence, performance and price, which returned a 404 Page not found error.
The End of an Era(hughhowey.com)
366 points by harscoat | 399 comments
A blog post by author Hugh Howey titled "The End of an Era," featuring a banner for the Silo TV series adaptation of his books.
How to Exist(raptitude.com)
352 points by walterbell | 209 comments
A Raptitude blog post by David Cain titled "How to Exist," a personal essay on living and being present.
Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s(github.com)
318 points by marcobambini | 152 comments
GitHub repository for waste, a dependency-free embeddable C inference engine that runs the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model by streaming weights from NVMe.
Big Food vs. the People(lighthousereports.com)
253 points by jruohonen | 158 comments
Severance(lcamtuf.substack.com)
221 points by surprisetalk | 71 comments
Progressive Web Components(arielsalminen.com)
181 points by hosteur | 44 comments
Atomic Clocks(nist.gov)
115 points by teleforce | 66 comments
Let's make the worst Htmx(zserge.com)
112 points by RebelPotato | 39 comments
Massively Parallel Postgres Backups(planetscale.com)
102 points by ksec | 12 comments
Authorize, don't authenticate(blog.marcua.net)
87 points by marcua | 32 comments
Where .env Went Wrong(secretspec.dev)
79 points by domenkozar | 60 comments
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Clockwise/Spiral Rule (1994)(c-faq.com)
61 points by etrvic | 45 comments