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Let cheap LLMs hallucinate labels, then map them back with embeddings
Constraining an LLM to a fixed taxonomy—say, sorting an e-commerce query like "wood coffee table" into one of several hundred Wayfair categories—usually means s
Playing Super Mario Bros. 3 Through Nix Attribute Paths
Nix's lazy evaluation means an attribute path isn't just a lookup into a catalogue — it's a program the evaluator walks, generating each node only when somethin
Racket 9.3 ships Markdown docs, faster DrRacket checks, and finer package controls
The Racket team has released version 9.3 of the language-oriented programming language, a maintenance-and-tooling update that sharpens the developer workflow ra
RISC-V's ISA Sins: Slow Interrupts and Broken Compressed Encoding
A longtime RISC-V critic lays out a technical case that the architecture's much-praised ISA is mediocre where it matters most. The central argument is that no s
Study: Semaglutide tied to 26% lower predicted 5-year dementia risk
A study published in an Alzheimer's & Dementia diagnostic journal reports an association between semaglutide (the GLP-1 receptor agonist sold as Ozempic and Weg
The Real Math Edge for AI Isn't Smarter Reasoning — It's a Bigger Notebook
When an AI cracks a hard math problem, the reflex is to credit better reasoning, more training data, or emerging intuition. This piece argues for a plainer expl
The Same Code Fix Can Cost Wildly Different Token Bills — Here's Why
Agentic coding tools flip a long-standing assumption: your editor used to cost the same whether you fixed one test or fifty, but with Claude Code each task carr
USGS: Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
This is a raw USGS earthquake event alert, not an article. The only information provided is the headline: a magnitude 7.7 quake located 68 km north-northwest of
UV Bird Photography Reveals Colors Hidden From Human Eyes
This is not a cybersecurity or technology-industry story — it's a photography project by Nathan Chronister that images birds in ultraviolet alongside visible li
77% of a URL shortener's 2009–2014 links are already dead
The team behind 0.mk, Macedonia's first URL shortener, recovered a database backup of 657,607 links created between 2009 and 2014 and re-crawled every destinati
A Developer Breaks a 14-Year Silence to Argue for Actual Silence
After more than a decade away from his blog, the author returns not with a technical post but with a reflection on a habit he barely noticed forming: filling ev
Benchmark-Chasing May Be Making Coding Agents Worse at Asking Questions
A developer argues that Opus 5, despite topping its predecessors on benchmarks, is more frustrating to use as a coding assistant than Opus 4.7, 4.8, or Fable. T