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An iconic Philly skate locale, Love Park, was demolished in 2016 — but has been reconstructed in Malmö, Sweden (including street lights and trash cans).

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Follow-up: Languages in Scotland ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler) Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz) Marco’s iPhone case survey: Ryan London bare bottom (via Oliver Thomas) /u/LaughingMan11 is Benson Leung (via Deta & Daniel Luz) ZFS and th...

I just reread this 2023 post about a neighborhood Tokyo izakaya (and my related thoughts), spurred by a conversation w/ my friend Andrew about what makes for good work, a good life, and a good society. It dovetails with this podcast conversation between Rich Roll and Craig M...

Good and thoughtful graphic essay by Matthew Inman, expressing why he dislikes AI-generated art. It’s been widely linked to, largely approvingly. I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Near the start, Inman writes: When I consume AI art, it also evokes a feeling. Goo...

The 39 coolest neighbourhoods in the world in 2025, including Jimbōchō, Tokyo; Ménilmontant, Paris; Vallila, Helsinki; Linden, Johannesburg; and Portales, Mexico City.

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POP Phone: a USB-C handset that you plug into your phone for when you’re missing the warm analog embrace of Ma Bell. The hours I spent as a youth wrapping and unwrapping that coiled phone cord around my fingers!

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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only available on Kickstarter — hopefully it’ll be republished? (via sidebar) Tags: design · logos · space 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

NVIDIA DGX Spark + Apple Mac Studio = 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0 EXO Labs wired a 256GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio up to an NVIDIA DGX Spark and got a 2.8x performance boost serving Llama-3.1 8B (FP16) with an 8,192 token prompt. Their detailed explanation taught me a lot...

Pro se litigants [people representing themselves in court without a lawyer] account for the majority of the cases in the United States where a party submitted a court filing containing AI hallucinations. In a country where legal representation is unaffordable for most people, it is no wonder that pro se litigants are depending on free or low-cost AI tools. But it is a scandal that so many have been betrayed by them, to the detriment of the cases they are litigating all on their own.

— Riana Pfefferkorn, analyzing the AI Hallucination Cases database for CIS at Stanford Law

Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, law, hallucinations, ai, llms

Last year the most useful exercise for getting a feel for how good LLMs were at writing code was vibe coding (before that name had even been coined) - seeing if you could create a useful small application through prompting alone.

Today I think there's a new, more ambitious and significantly more intimidating exercise: spend a day working on real production code through prompting alone, making no manual edits yourself.

This doesn't mean you can't control exactly what goes into each file - you can even tell the model "update line 15 to use this instead" if you have to - but it's a great way to get more of a feel for how well the latest coding agents can wield their edit tools.

Tags: coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms

Colin Dickey is no stranger to dubious ghost tales. But when he went to Nevada to report at a brothel called the Mustang Ranch, he experienced something that to this day he can’t explain.

Every Thursday this month, writer Colin Dickey joins us to talk about the cultural history behind some of our favorite spooky legends and creatures.

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“‘Take on Me’ is an ideal song for Song Exploder, because it’s so well known and beloved that it feels like a song predestined to be a massive hit, but the truth couldn’t be further from the case.”

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65 Essential Children’s Books, from The Story of Ferdinand and Caps for Sale to The Snowy Day and Where the Sidewalk Ends. Oh and KDO superfave, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.

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In 1983, the BBC aired a six-part series called Fun to Imagine with a simple premise: put physicist Richard Feynman in front of a camera and have him explain everyday things. In this clip from one of the episodes, Feynman explains in very simple terms what fire is:

So good. Watch the whole thing…it seems like you get the gist about 2 minutes in, but that’s only half the story. See also Feynman explaining rubber bands, how trains go around curves, and how magnets work.

[This is a vintage post originally from Mar 2015.]

Tags: physics · Richard Feynman · science · timeless posts · video

Where’s the AI design renaissance? “My hunch: vibe coding is a lot like stock-picking — everyone’s always blabbing about their big wins. Ask what their annual rate of return is above the S&P, and it’s a quieter conversation.”

Apple Newsroom, today: Apple today announced M5, delivering the next big leap in AI performance and advances to nearly every aspect of the chip. Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Ac...

While Sonnet 4.5 remains the default [in Claude Code], Haiku 4.5 now powers the Explore subagent which can rapidly gather context on your codebase to build apps even faster.

You can select Haiku 4.5 to be your default model in /model. When selected, you’ll automatically use Sonnet 4.5 in Plan mode and Haiku 4.5 for execution for smarter plans and faster results.

— Catherine Wu, Claude Code PM, Anthropic

Tags: coding-agents, anthropic, claude-code, generative-ai, ai, llms, sub-agents

Previous system cards have reported results on an expanded version of our earlier agentic misalignment evaluation suite: three families of exotic scenarios meant to elicit the model to commit blackmail, attempt a murder, and frame someone for financial crimes. We choose not to report full results here because, similarly to Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5 showed many clear examples of verbalized evaluation awareness on all three of the scenarios tested in this suite. Since the suite only consisted of many similar variants of three core scenarios, we expect that the model maintained high unverbalized awareness across the board, and we do not trust it to be representative of behavior in the real extreme situations the suite is meant to emulate.

— Claude Haiku 4.5 System Card

Tags: ai-ethics, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 today, the cheapest member of the Claude 4.5 family that started with Sonnet 4.5 a couple of weeks ago. It's priced at $1/million input tokens and $5/million output tokens, slightly more expensive than Haiku 3....