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Opus 5 tops SlopCodeBench at 24% — but every model failed to finish a challenge
SlopCodeBench, a long-horizon coding benchmark out of GOrlanski's lab at UW Madison, tries to fix what its author finds broken about most coding evals: they han
Own your domain: why Substack shouldn't be a writer's digital home
Independent writer Elizabeth Tai argues that Substack is a distribution channel, not a home. Treating a subdomain like xx.substack.com as your primary web prese
Paged Out! #9 Lands: Free One-Page Hacker Zine Hits 125K Downloads
Paged Out! has released its ninth issue, continuing the free, community-run technical magazine's signature format where every article fits on a single page. Fou
Python Standalone Builds: portable, self-contained interpreters that run anywhere
The python-build-standalone project ships fully-featured Python distributions that carry their own dependencies. Most standard-library extension modules are inc
Reusable small-molecule glue grips Teflon hard, then rinses off with ethanol
A team at the University of Tokyo led by Takuzo Aida has synthesized a crystalline small-molecule adhesive, a fluoro-crown ether phosphate called CyclicFP-fmoc,
RL-tuned 9B open model beats frontier LLMs on catalog review at a fraction of the cost
A vendor case study argues that the companies pulling real ROI out of AI aren't the ones renting the biggest frontier APIs — they're the ones training small ope
Running opencode on a self-owned open-model endpoint feels like freedom
A Modal engineer describes the unexpected satisfaction of wiring the opencode CLI to his own inference endpoint rather than upgrading a personal Claude or ChatG
SBCL 2.6.7 lands: interactive manual, AVX-512 support, and ARM64 SIMD gains
Steel Bank Common Lisp, the widely used open-source Common Lisp compiler and runtime, has shipped its 2.6.7 release as part of its regular monthly cadence. The
AI Didn't End Burnout — It Just Gave Us More Ways to Overcommit
The promise of AI was that automating grunt work would leave people underworked and stress-free. The author, a serial startup founder, found the opposite: becau
Colossus, the WWII codebreaker that birthed modern computing, named IEEE Milestone
In 1941, British listening stations picked up a high-speed binary teletype signal that turned out to be traffic from a new German cipher machine, built by the B
Data-Oriented Design: Lay Out Data for the Cache, Not the Object Model
This DICE slide deck by Daniel Collin argues that game engine programmers should design around how data is read and written rather than around object hierarchie
Decathlon Germany goes live with Wero, testing Europe's bank-backed payment push
On July 20, Decathlon switched on Wero at checkout on decathlon.de, making Germany the first country in the retailer's international network to support the Euro