Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server
On my quest to own my software, one foundational piece kept itching… the X server. The underlying graphics engine, the thing that puts pixels on the screen. X11 is 4 million lines of code, a beast very few can claim they understand. So I did the reasonable thing. I wrote my own, in Assembly. It […]
Mozilla: The state of open source AI
× The opening letter Build with us. A letter from our CTO, Raffi Krikorian In New Zealand’s far north, a Māori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo — a language too small for any market — under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in […]
Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
”Mechanical egg timer” by Hustvedt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . Padded to a wider frame; this adaptation is likewise licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising “easter egg” to users of Claude Code: 2.1.198 includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being […]
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
16th July 2026 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 API, but an open weight release is promised “by July 27, 2026”. Moonshot are calling this the first “open 3T-class model” (I […]
AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s ZkVM
This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare’s CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post, we pointed zkao, our AI auditor, at OpenVM’s zkVM, and it found a critical soundness […]
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
The researchers, writing in the journal Science, are clear – they have not done that, at least not yet. But for a planet to support life it has to have water and for that it has to be the right distance from its star: not too close because it will be too hot and not […]
Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
This dashboard displays live telemetry from an SSH honeypot for security research, threat intelligence, and educational purposes. The source IP addresses, usernames, passwords, commands, client fingerprints, and related metadata shown here are observed from inbound connections to this honeypot. A source IP address may belong to a compromised host, proxy, VPN, scanner, cloud instance, or […]
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
When people learn I’m a consultant, conversation often proceeds to problems and problem-solving. It’s true that I only get hired well after there is a problem. Typically a problem that has gotten so lousy that nobody wants to deal with it and it has therefore become worth the trouble—of spending time, money, effort, and reputation—to […]
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
Most programming languages evolve as a single language. Python, Java, Javascript, C++, have new versions and standards, multiple implementations, but they still remain the same language. C and C++ can be compiled with GCC or Clang, Python can be compiled with CPython or PyPy, the same JavaScript runs in both Firefox and Chrome, and Java […]
More Bounce to the Ounce
A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build My purpose, and my belief, is that the bombs that killed and maimed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall one day open the skies to man. —Freeman Dyson, A Space Traveler’s Manifesto, 1958 The nuclear pulse rocket is what you’d get if you […]