Writing code is the #1 usage of LLMs right now. In the future that will likely change to automation (powering agents’ thinking as they work on tasks), but for today, the explosion of vibe coding has had a real effect … Read more
For the past few years, Simon Willison has tested every major LLM release with the same prompt: “Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle”. What began as a tongue-in-cheek benchmark has become one of the most famous informal … Read more
Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md SQLite is an amazing database engine. I use it as a database for plenty of embedded projects, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call it the industry standard for local data storage. Some server … Read more
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not … Read more
One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.) One way to think about FDEs This role has even been dubbed “the hottest … Read more
cr.yp.to: 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8 Older (Access-J): 2026.07.04: Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ. #pqcrypto #bugs #vulnerabilities #hybrids Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8: Fairness. #pqcrypto … Read more
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it “The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.”—Bill Thurston Handwritten diagram by Alexander Grothendieck My best theorem is one I never wrote down. It crystallized one bright … Read more
Every single time a post about atproto hits Hacker News, somebody asks in the comments: “But where are all the Bluesky instances?”. The problem is, there are no instances in atproto! The question is a category error. Instances are a … Read more
If you serve AI models as a part of your product stack, you’ve likely wondered what kind of scale your GPU cluster tops out at. With some rudimentary knowledge about your hardware and model architecture, we can work out the … Read more
Anatomy of a 55,000-bot attack on an anti-bot startup | useHUMA useHUMALive demo → Post-mortem · June 11, 2026 · 7 min read We sell bot detection. Last night I opened our database and found 555 pages of fake signups. … Read more