Good Tools Are Invisible https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
www.gingerbill.org
Good Tools Are Invisible
TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want…
Late Bronze Age Collapse https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
Jeff Geerling
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming.
It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.
If the open source…
It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.
If the open source…
An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
LWN.net
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547
Gist
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
TechCrunch
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
Jeremy Theocharis
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
Microsoft News
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
Kaggle
Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
Bbc
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.
Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time https://honeypotlive.cc/
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/
Improve Something Today
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
Learning a few things about running SQLite https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
Julia Evans
Learning a few things about running SQLite
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for…