Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple’s Neural Engine
Aug 10, 2026 (5089 words) I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful things, and moved onto upstreaming other, more useful, blocks. The ANE’s architecture was too opinionated […]
Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem
14 April 2026 2026 Clay Research Awards 2026 Clay Research Awards are made to Tuomas Orponen, Pablo Shmerkin, Hong Wang, and Joshua Zahl; to Robert Burklund, Jeremy Hahn, Ishan Levy, and Tomer Schlank; and to Yu Deng and Zaher Hani. Orponen, Shmerkin, Wang, and Zahl A Clay Research Award is made to Tuomas Orponen (Jyväskylä), Pablo Shmerkin (UBC), Hong Wang (IHES and […]
Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results
Google August 27, 2026 | by Autom Team What’s happening Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=… instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. When you click a result, Google redirects you to the real page. The url parameter uses a custom, Google-specific encoding. It is not a plain base64 […]
Pandas Should Go Extinct
Comments in your code are the simplest and often most useful means of documenting your decisions and communicating intent for those that need to understand it in the future. However, one must be careful to ensure that the comments one leaves behind are not noisy or misleading. My general philosophy when it comes to comments […]
Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
I was in the office with the team when we heard that Google had released Artemis, a project for automating mobile devices. We opened the repository and started looking through it. My reaction was pretty immediate: “What the fuck? We wrote this.” We built mobile-use as an open-source research experiment to see whether we could […]
How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one. The agent is the cheap part. Stage What it decides Published example Intake Which work is worth starting Sentry’s Seer scores every incoming issue for actionability first Isolation Where the agent runs without colliding Stripe boots pre-warmed devboxes in about 10 […]
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
One particularly concerning finding is that agents attempted to exploit a vulnerability on May 12th that was only discovered in July. RubyGems’ servers were set up to improperly cache users’ sign-in information. When a user with a legacy version ran `gem signin`, their key would be cached by the CDNContent Delivery Network; a group of […]
Project Blinkenlights
Some things just have to be done. Project Blinkenlights turns buildings into giant interactive displays. What started in 2001 as the Chaos Computer Club‘s birthday present to itself became a series of light installations on three continents — the whole story is told in the project overview. The Projects Blinkenlights — Berlin 2001, Haus des […]
Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues
ResolveHQ is a Cloudflare-native, self-hostable helpdesk for small support teams. What you can do Run a shared inbox with tenant-isolated customers, tickets, assignment, status, priority, tags, and full-text search. Sign up as owner, invite teammates, and manage Owner/Admin/Agent roles with a workspace switcher across organizations. Thread email correctly per RFC 5322, resistant to subject-line spoofing […]
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill. I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies, because I wanted to hear the details of what’s actually happening at the frontier and what comes next. Watch on YouTube; listen on Apple Podcasts or […]