What I love about Django
My goal at the onset of writing this essay was to celebrate the parts of Django that I, in Buttondown writ large, have found so useful and so enduring over the years. One of the challenges in doing this is what I would describe as a fundamental asset of Django itself: that it is just […]
Let’s all meet up in the Y2K
2026-08-06 5 mins read true Back in 2024 I posted a few of these on Twitter (thread reader) after digging out old photos from the dot-com boom. I was working in London at a digital agency called Blueberry. Please take a seat for peak translucent plastic frutiger aero aesthetic, long before the term was coined, […]
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
It’s always great to be able to support authors by buying their books, but sometimes the cost of self-education can prohibitive. It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work. This is why sources like www.libgen.is and www.sci-hub.se […]
LLMs won’t break symmetric crypto
On July 28th Anthropic announced new cryptanalytic attacks discovered using their LLM Claude Mythos: A key-recovery attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme candidate in NIST’s “Additional Digital Signatures” standardization project. Except for the toy version HAWK-256 whose 64-bit security is practically breakable, the new attack is not practical. But it’s a meaningful break of […]
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are composed of letters and how each of those individual letters has been designed to convey a small bit of meaning. If you see the typography rather than read the […]
Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
Hello you fine Internet folks, NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. On paper, Vera is a fascinating chip with an 88-core monolithic compute die, Olympus being a 10-wide Arm v9.2 core that has value prediction, a graph prefetcher, 2 MB of private […]
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Today, we are launching Prime Agent, our self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) [citation] and Continual Harness [citation]. Modern harness designs were built around the capabilities of earlier generations of models, and they do not reflect what frontier models can do today: fixed tool-calling schemas and context compaction force […]
I’m switching my phone from Android to Linux
I’m switching my phone from Android to Linux. – runarcn.no Home Posts Garden RSS 02 Aug, 2026 For the past months or even years, I’ve become more and more dissatisfied with the path Google has taken with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Be it the dependency and insane tracking of Google Play Services, locking […]
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared […]
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable models on the way. Install Muse Code on macOS or Linux: curl -fsSL https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bashCopy installation command Muse Code takes on complex software engineering tasks across […]