Monthly Highlights
902.
LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
(danfabulich.medium.com)
903.
The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
(languagehat.com)
904.
Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms
(techcrunch.com)
905.
Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
906.
907.
OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face
(twitter.com)
908.
Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
(nothing-to-watch.port80.ch)
909.
Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer
(enda.sh)
910.
ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights
(jacobin.com)
911.
WebR – R in the Browser
(docs.r-wasm.org)
912.
Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo
(thenumb.at)
913.
914.
Partially Matching Zig Enums
(matklad.github.io)
915.
BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM
(retrogamecoders.com)
916.
C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML
(reachablecode.com)
917.
Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability
(blocksandfiles.com)
918.
919.
150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
(newstatesman.com)
920.
Native Sparse Attention
(aclanthology.org)
921.
Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad
(vim.gabornyeki.com)
922.
923.
924.
Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
(brennancenter.org)
925.
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure
(techcrunch.com)
926.
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California
(journalism.berkeley.edu)
927.
OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
(resobscura.substack.com)
928.
929.
DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)
(theatlantic.com)
930.
A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)
(neilzone.co.uk)