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Volunteer index resurrects FiveThirtyEight's archive after ABC shutdown
A community-built site catalogs FiveThirtyEight's back catalog as preserved on the Internet Archive, offering navigation by publication year and by author bylin
What N tokens/second actually feels like: an interactive demo
Local-LLM benchmarks throw around throughput numbers — 47 tok/s on an M3, 500 tok/s on Groq — but raw figures don't convey what streaming output at those rates
2b2t archivists release 24TB world download covering 1M-block Minecraft area
A team led by 'crayne' and funded largely by collaborator 'Fuch' has published roughly 24TB of world data scraped from 2b2t, the long-running anarchy Minecraft
Anthropic Acquires Stainless to Bolster SDK and MCP Tooling for Agents
Anthropic is buying Stainless, the developer-tools company that has generated every official Anthropic SDK since the company's earliest API days. Founded in 202
Archestra blocks AI slop on GitHub by abusing Git's --author flag
Archestra's open source repo was overrun by AI-generated noise: a $900 bounty issue ballooned to 253 comments of hallucinated implementation plans, a single fea
Atacama Mine Yields Ultra-Pure Crystals With Potential Quantum Applications
An explorer reports recovering exceptionally pure crystalline specimens from an abandoned mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, a region whose extreme aridity and min
Benedict Evans' Spring 2026 deck: AI is past hype, now grinding through deployment
Benedict Evans returns with his annual macro slide deck, this time framing AI as having cleared the novelty phase and entered the messier work of integration. T
Bitwarden's Quiet Pivot: New PE-Style CEO, Vanishing 'Always Free' Promise
Bitwarden has undergone a series of unannounced changes that suggest a strategic shift toward an acquisition exit. Longtime CEO Michael Crandell quietly moved t
Click (2016): a browser experiment that narrates your every move
Click is a 2016 interactive web project at clickclickclick.click that turns ordinary browser telemetry into an unsettling running commentary. As a visitor click
Cloudflare puts Anthropic's Mythos Preview to work hunting bugs in its own code
Cloudflare tested Anthropic's security-focused Mythos Preview model against more than fifty of its own repositories under Project Glasswing, and reports a meani
Computer security pioneer Peter Neumann dies at SRI
Peter Neumann, the longtime SRI International researcher whose work shaped the field of computer security and trustworthy systems, has died. According to a mess
Cursor's Composer 2.5 leans on targeted RL feedback and synthetic tasks
Cursor has shipped Composer 2.5, an upgrade to its in-editor coding agent built on Moonshot's open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint. The release focuses less on raw