Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
ClickHouse
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-hollywood-stopped-making-movies
Statsignificant
How Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood
The economics behind where movies are filmed, why Hollywood left Los Angeles, and whether audiences can tell the difference.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
OpenAI
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
The Cloudflare Blog
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper, and safely.
The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real
McGill
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
I want the Dunning-Kruger effect to be real. First described in a seminal 1999 paper by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, this effect has been the darling of journalists who want to explain why dumb
LLMs reward expertise https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
Seangoedecke
LLMs reward expertise
Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents https://hoplite.sh
Hoplite
Effortless cloud coding agents that feel good to use.
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/
Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery https://ei3lh.eu/2025/11/20/replacing-the-kobo-libra-h2o-battery/
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawling-ancient-civilization
Science
Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization
Newly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire area
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD
GitHub
GitHub - SwagSoftware/KisakCOD: COD4 Open Source Reimplementation
COD4 Open Source Reimplementation. Contribute to SwagSoftware/KisakCOD development by creating an account on GitHub.
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
GitHub
GitHub - leonickson1/Swiftlet
Contribute to leonickson1/Swiftlet development by creating an account on GitHub.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/
Adolfo Ochagavía
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft?
Microsoft, of all places, might…
Microsoft, of all places, might…
Harness engineering for self-improvement https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
lilianweng.github.io
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008)…