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Nanochat & MCP

Probably the most interesting thing on the internet today is Andrej Karpathy’s nanochat, “a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single, dependency-minimal codebase.” 8,000 lines of beautiful code, as Simon Willison notes. If you want to understand how LLMs work, study this. Andrej is a code poet. In … Continue reading Nanochat & MCP →

WIRED
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy

What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

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Dave Winer getting ready for his talk at WordCamp:

Twitter comes online, we try to work with it. Unless your ideas fit in 140 chars, don’t use links, or style, and you never make mistakes that need correction, it just doesn’t work.

The ideal is to write in our blog space, and publish everywhere.

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Quick update on today’s TV show rollout in Micro.blog, added a new button to make it easy to link to the entire season, not just one episode. Here’s a screenshot.

Screenshot of Micro.blog web interace showing Slow Horses season 4 and a couple episodes.

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[Sponsor] Mux: Video API for Developers

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Upload a video, get back a playback URL. No transcoding headaches. No CDN setup. Go further with the building blocks of your video: thumbnails, transcripts, and storyboards. Use them to create exactly what you want.

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Will peace in Gaza hold?

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On Monday, Israelis celebrated the return of all 20 living hostages still held by Hamas. Palestinians welcomed back hundreds of prisoners and detainees held in Israel. For the first time in months, humanitarian aid began to surge into war-torn Gaza. The swap was part of the ...

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Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing

Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms. The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter. Cyborgs Near-term, cyborgs means wearables. The original definition of cyborg by Clynes and K...

WIRED
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The Best PC Monitor for Most People Is $75 Off

Dell's excellent 4K monitor is a perfect second screen for working from home.

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Mitch Albom Is A 'Walking Example Of A Second Chance'

Albom's new novel, Twice, asks a question most of us have daydreamed about: what if you could go back and relive any moment of your life? In the book, a man is born with that exact power, but every second chance comes with a cost. Albom talks with Tonya Mosley about...

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John Gruber blogging about the end of Apple’s Clips:

Edits, Meta’s new-this-year video editing app for mobile, has a clear use case: it’s meant for editing videos destined for Meta’s popular social media networks. Clips had no clear target destination. It could have, but never did.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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What Comes Next for Israel and Gaza?

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (MIniver Press, 2024), offers analysis on what comes next for Israel and Gaza as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners were released, and the ceasefire deal takes effect.


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choosing friction via Jenny Zhang

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I know you’re sick of talking about AI. I am too. This is only a little bit about AI, I promise. Like all my writing about technology, it’s mostly about people.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Kubernetes: From a Federation of Bazaars to the AI Frontier

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Looking back, it’s hard to believe the Kubernetes project has been around for over a decade. It makes me think

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The Brian Lehrer Show
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Trump DOJ Indicts NY AG

Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, New York Magazine columnist, former state and federal prosecutor and author of several books, including When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump (Harper, 2025) offers legal analysis of the Trump DOJ case against New York Attorney General Tish James.


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Indigenous Peoples' Story

Julian Brave NoiseCat, writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history and the author of We Survived the Night (Knopf, 2025) talks about his new book, the story of North American indigenous people through his reporting and his own story, all in the style of a traditional "coyote story."


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Catch The Game Like Never Before

Catch The Game Like Never Before

Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we think you’ll like. If you do like it, we encourage you to check out their site and subscribe.

This story was originally published at Baseball Prospectus on Oct. 10.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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30 Issues in 30 Days: Education Culture Wars

Andrew Zwicker, New Jersey State Senator (D, District 16), and Dawn Fantasia, New Jersey Assembly Member (R, District 24), debate the hot-button issues in education and how they are playing out in the governor's race, including parents' rights, book bans and more.


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Oregon Rocketry

My co-worker Robert is into model rocketry. I made a few rockets in my day, but the hobby stopped at Estes. I didn’t really realize people take rocketry much further until knowing Robert. His partner Michelle produced a short video piece for OPB on the community around it here. I’d embed the video here, but […]

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Apple Renames ‘Apple TV+’ to ‘Apple TV’

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At the bottom of Apple’s press release announcing that F1 The Movie will be available for streaming on December 12: Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. Ahead of its global streaming debut on Apple TV, the film continues to be available for purc...