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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In this essay, we argue that there is enough evide...

Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results. To build that, we w...

People who think current AI use is unsustainable often rely on the claim that inference GPUs only last “three years at the most” under load1. The idea here is that once the AI bubble money drains away, current infrastructure will rapidly become obsolete, and there won’t be e...

How KV cache compression - from MQA and GQA to MLA and linear-attention hybrids - quietly unlocked the long context windows that make modern agentic LLMs possible.

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked. AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach – socket.dev Back in ...

Sword juggling is simple. I’ll prove it to you by explaining it. First, acquire three – or, if you feel ambitious, four swords. Divide the swords between your hands. Starting with one hand, the one holding two swords if juggling with three, toss a sword into the air. As this sword is about to reach your other hand, toss the sword in that hand and catch the falling sword by, and this is important, its handle, not the blade. Then repeat this process as the airborne sword reaches the hand you started with. Now keep doing this, ensuring that you do not cut your fingers off in the process.

”The only way out is through”

Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney number." Much like the misquote about Ringo not being the best drummer in The Beatles, I think this might be one of those semi-apocryphal lines which has taken on a life of its own. Here's what Paul…

Recently I came upon Pluggy, a Python library for developing plugin systems. It was originally developed as part of the pytest project - known for its rich plugin ecosystem - and later extracted into a standalone library. You're supposed to reach out for Pluggy if you want to add a plugin system …

Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a...

The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783) directly to PyPI a...

Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0

See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details.

Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide

Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export. In 1995, Adam Back protested this by creating a terse, obfuscated implementation of RSA in Perl code and used it as an email signature. The code was also printed on T-shirts. The shirt was classified as munitions […]

The post RSA munitions T-shirt first appeared on John D. Cook.

Today's links Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Msft v Linux geeks; James Joyce scholars v Joyce estate; iPod sweatshops; Pratchett initiates assisted suicide;...

Also , why states are taking things into their own hands, and what might be better

In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster. As well as arithmetic and square roots, the 8087 computed transcendental functions including tangent, exponentiation, and logarithms. But it all depended on...

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Homes being built on top of libraries, Patriot missile manufacturing, an effort to construct new US coal plants, a tunnel between the US and Russia, and more.

After two years of underregulating AI, the US government suddenly takes the nuclear option

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, wheth...