The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

31 Jul, 2026 A few years I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off the support of his girlfriend, who was from a well-off family and … Devamını oku

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Although RSS feeds are alive and still heavily used today, their level of adoption has suffered because of how difficult a handful of popular technology companies have made it to use them. Google, especially, has relied on the open web RSS protocol to gain so much market share and influence, but continues to engage in … Devamını oku

Google News is just Forrest Gump’s shrimp boat now

Google News is just Forrest Gump’s shrimp boat now Posted on at • views You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? Yeah, that’s Google News … Devamını oku

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers , recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. The controversy started when, in the middle of a video posted on the educational channel Complexly , Green incongruously used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback,” leading viewers to speculate that … Devamını oku

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

A soundness bug in the Lean kernel (#14576) was reported and fixed during the week of July 27. It has had visibility on Zulip and social media (e.g., X, LinkedIn, and Mastodon). On July 25, Ramana Kumar published a repository containing a sorry-free “disproof” of the Collatz conjecture, produced with AI assistance. It is not … Devamını oku

NetBSD 11.0 Released

The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release! See the release announcement for details. If you want to test 11.0 please check the installation notes for your architecture and download the preferred install image from the CDN. If you are using an ARM based device, obtain a netbsd-11 image pre-configured with … Devamını oku

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

Created in July 29, 2026 2026   ·   generative_models,   generalization,   diffusion,   autoregression   ·   AI Website: https://explorative-modeling.github.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/alexiglad/XM TLDR: We introduce Explorative Modeling, a new paradigm for generative modeling that acts as a third pretraining axis when added to existing generative models, and also enables end-to-end generation. Increasing exploration … Devamını oku

I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS

Today, I launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add your own … Devamını oku