Mario Meets Pareto(mayerowitz.io)
1114 points by theanonymousone | 164 comments
Blog post applying Pareto front multi-objective optimization to choosing Mario Kart character and kart combinations to beat friends.
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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)
902 points by itvision | 681 comments
The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health(theguardian.com)
764 points by boplicity | 407 comments
News report that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567m over harms to children's mental health from its social media platforms.
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't(crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
646 points by DarkContinent | 200 comments
A reading list page from the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't site recommending books for people who want to teach themselves botany.
Taste Is All That's Left(notashelf.dev)
640 points by tsak | 500 comments
A personal blog essay arguing that taste is the remaining differentiator in software development, with sections on friction, economics, and the flood of new software.
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability(githubstatus.com)
483 points by Footkerchief | 402 comments
GitHub status page incident report about degraded availability of GitHub Actions and Pages.
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index(artificialanalysis.ai)
458 points by apitman | 291 comments
Artificial Analysis homepage offering independent benchmarks and rankings of AI models and providers, here linked to its agentic intelligence index view.
Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak(blog.sydorets.com)
351 points by yusyd | 379 comments
Blog post using a steak-cooking analogy to argue AI speeds up software development but doesn't replace the judgment needed to build consistently good software.
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update(slayersclub.bethesda.net)
348 points by dsubburam | 170 comments
Bethesda Slayers Club news post from id Software announcing a 30th anniversary update for the classic shooter Quake.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)(aresluna.org)
324 points by dcminter | 51 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous engraving font seen throughout Manhattan.
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs(scalex.dev)
323 points by Wirbelwind | 226 comments
Blog post analyzing results from 40,000 plays of a browser game where humans approve or deny AI coding agent commands, finding players missed one in three threats.
What I love about Django(buttondown.com)
105 points by j4mie | 86 comments
What is a product?(roge.onwrite.app)
80 points by rogix | 54 comments
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LLMs won't break symmetric crypto(bfswa.blog)
59 points by rowbin | 66 comments
What Happened to Talenti?(nytimes.com)
31 points by tysone | 19 comments
Telephones Caught in Between(computer.rip)
30 points by speckx | 4 comments