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Retired guessworker.
Still searching for the missing context.
Love LLMs, programming and system administration.

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Many people are sleeping on, or even making fun of this plot in the GPT 5.1 release. This is a crucial plot for anyone serving a thinking model in real world use-cases. Latency to an answer is a huge cause of user churn and not thinking enough is a fast track to having your model's output be bad.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Record Versioning
The people, they want post editing!
bnewbold.leaflet.pub
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Today in 1974, Karen Silkwood’s white Honda Civic was apparently forced off a quiet highway in western Oklahoma where it crashed into a culvert, killing her instantly. Silkwood, 28, was employed as a technician at Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation’s plutonium fuel rod fabrication plant in Cimarron.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Today on the pod, Daniel Rosenwasser & Jake Bailey reveal what's coming in TypeScript 6 & 7! Learn about ES2024 defaults, the new Go compiler, and smarter DOM typings.

share.transistor.fm/s/ad05eae6

#typescript
What's Coming in TypeScript 6/7 | Daniel Rosenwasser | Jake Bailey | Ep 43B | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers | Episode 43
Daniel Rosenwasser and Jake Bailey join the two fools to talk about what's coming soon in TypeScript 6 and 7. What changes should developers expect? What might the new compiler API look like? How is the...
share.transistor.fm
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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From today’s Russian papers: “Nearly 7,000 transport companies in Russia on the verge of bankruptcy”, “A record one in four companies have overdue loans”, “decline in civilian sectors of industry.” #ReadingRussia
"Nearly 7,000 transport companies in Russia on verge of bankruptcy” - Russian paper.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Nerding out about the question of whether the client or the server should be the one who speaks to the PDS
The politics of purely client-side apps
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
[Announcement] External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support · Issue #15012 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
This is a follow-up to #14404, which announced that yt-dlp will soon require an external JavaScript runtime (e.g. Deno) in order to fully support downloading from YouTube. With the release of yt-dl...
github.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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What would happen if Chicago were the target of a nuclear bomb?

Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social spoke to the Bulletin about what people should know about nuclear weapons—from basic terminology, to which nations have them, and what could occur when they're used.
What you should know about nuclear weapons
On October 29th, Donald Trump announced on his social media site, Truth Social, that he had instructed the Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons…
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, "warmer" and "more conversational", and GPT-5.1 Thinking, "easier to understand and faster", starting with paid ChatGPT users (OpenAI)

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November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This is really fun - here are my notes on how to try it out using Docker for Mac simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/12/...
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Opening the character training pipeline
Some new research from me!
www.interconnects.ai
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM