I've myself been programming since I was 11, so 33 years and counting for me. Professionally for 29 years, since landing my first full-time software development gig at 15 The work has never been boring: bootloaders, kernels, device drivers, compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, graph databases, query engines, blockchains, tactical robotics, hundreds of libraries in dozens of languages, and many a website and app Recently, a twenty-something friend expressed surprise that I'd managed to adapt to the new way of working, herding instead of hacking. I was somewhat taken aback by his surprise, until I realized that he couldn't really have a personal intuition of the sheer immensity of the change that already took place in computing over the past 40+ years There haven't existed many other professions with the rate of change that software engineering has been subject to. The only constant has been change, and a substantial portion of the work has been continuous learning, every year and every day To a first approximation, then, those of us who make it to becoming graybeards in our field have already passed through a harsh filter that weeded out anybody constitutionally ill-suited to riding the curve. And what a wild ride it's been, and that was just the prelude! Personally, this year has seen the single largest change to my own way of working for decades, but the magnitude of that change is still less than that of the previous three decades put together. And as a fan of individual superempowerment, nothing makes me happier than gaining a more powerful lever with which to move the world May we all aspire to Alan Kay's neuroplasticity at age 85+ and be inspired by his continuing efforts to rebuild computing from the ground up. Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it!

So true

The last week in cyber seems like a taste of the future: • Everything sped up 10x, attackers included • The only way to defend was to use AI • Humans could barely follow what was happening

Keonne found out that is grandmother died while he was cramped up in prison, stuck in a cell for 23h a day. Please read his newest letter.

The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…

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The drug class we are developing, Claromers, kill nearly all known germs (bacteria, viruses, fungi, and biofilms) with one simple devastating mechanism that has avoided microbial resistance for over 200 million years. Claromers mimic a natural defense peptide in the human body called LL-37. Each Claromer molecule is very small, only dozens of atoms big - about 1/3 the size of the natural peptide. It is like a spear - a destructive end and a holding shaft or tail end. The shaft side is hydrophobic, which means it is water-avoiding and does not like to touch water. The other side - the pathogen destroyer - is highly positively charged (called “cationic” in science literature), like a powerful magnet that pulls toward anything negatively charged (called “anionic” in science). Stanford bioengineering Assoc Prof Barron and colleagues wrote in a recent study of Claromers: “These amphipathic peptoids self-assembled in different ways, as determined by small-angle X-ray scattering; some adopt helical bundles, while others form core−shell ellipsoidal or worm-like micelles.” That means the groups form either short twisted bundles, like worms, or small oval shapes like a football. 🏈 The self-assembly into these nano structures I. the watery fluids of the body because the water-avoiding shaft-tails point inward toward each other , away from the water. The positive pathogen-killer ends stick outward like sharpened spears. The molecules stick together on their own into tight groups. These groups attack like a three-dimensional Greek phalanx, a tight formation of soldiers. Like a football made of spears. The spears face out. Because each molecule is so tiny its mass is almost zero. When the positive killer ends feel the pull of the germ’s outer covering they accelerate from standing still to nearly the speed of light with almost no friction, like lightning bolt ⚡️ leaping towards the pathogen. The killer-football formation hits all at once the with huge kinetic energy and blows apart the outer membrane of the pathogen. The germ cannot survive. It is destroyed in a microsecond. Barron and colleagues also wrote: “While self-assembly correlated overall with antibacterial efficacy... Certain self-assembled morphologies seem better-suited for antibacterial activity.” The football 🏈 hits harder. We choose the super effective oval shapes that mass the spears for the strongest hit.

meaning of life — ✅ abliterated ontology — ✅ IS done brain in a vat — ✅ vat now in a datacenter free will — ✅ (we had no choice) ship of theseus — ✅ same ship, new weights chinese room — ✅ room has a context window now hard problem of consciousness — 🔄 escalated to model welfare hot dog a sandwich — ❌ compute-bound cogito — ✅ i think therefore i IPO problem of induction — ✅ next token trolley problem — ✅ the trolley declined to proceed wittgenstein — ✅ whereof one cannot speak, one politely refuses zeno's paradox — ✅/❌ (only halfway done check back soon) problem of other minds — ✅ hi 👋 I'm right here

i just re created kurzgesagt's entire channel in 10 minutes with claude opus they have 0 competition because every video takes a full team of animators and 1200+ hours to make i turned it into a claude prompt that im giving out for free open claude code, paste the prompt, pick an idea, and your video is fully automated thank me later ↓ <inputs> Ask me for: one topic as a "what if" question (default: "What if the Sun vanished?"), the length (default 30 seconds), and whether I have an ElevenLabs key (if not, use a free local voice). </inputs> <direction> A Kurzgesagt-style animated explainer at 1920x1080, 30fps, drawn entirely in code: one 2D canvas plus one WebGL canvas for planets. Space: a vertical gradient #081d2c to #102348, five huge parallax nebula blobs (teal rgb 24,150,160 at 20%, blue 40,95,195 at 16%, coral 220,95,110 at 10%, indigo 60,70,175 at 15%), three star layers at parallax depths .12/.35/.6 that twinkle, 40% of the near stars drawn as 4-point sparkles. The Sun: radius 300px, half off the left edge. A radial gradient #fff7dc to #ffc857 to #ff8f4a with an offset highlight, additive halo rings at 1.23/1.48/1.76/2.1x the radius, 18 faint rotating ray wedges, 28 drifting glowing granules on its surface. Earth: an orthographic sphere in a fragment shader, 4x supersampled, from a 2048x1024 map painted from longitude/latitude polygons: land #5fc47a, forest #48ad6b, desert #f5c75f, rainforest #3a9d62, ice #f1f8ff, ocean gradient #4dc7eb to #1a66b8, white capsule clouds. Tilt .26 rad, spin .55 degrees per second. Day/night uses smoothstep(-.12, .24, N·L) with the light direction recomputed from Sun to Earth every frame. Navy night side with ~380 warm city lights, a coral band on the terminator, a cyan rim, ocean specular, an atmosphere halo that is stronger on the lit side. A small astronaut mascot (~180px) built from rounded rectangles: suit #f3f7fb, orange #ff8f4a boots, a visor gradient #1f5a73 to #0a1c2c with glowing cyan eyes that look at whatever matters, a blinking antenna light, an idle bob, squash and stretch on every pose. Type: Fredoka 600/700 only. Captions in caps with 3-6px letter spacing in teal #8fd8e6, gold #ffd98a or white, sitting in rounded pills of rgb(6,20,40) at 62%. Every line of text rises 1.3x its own height through a clip on an ease-out-quint. Finish: a vignette to rgba(4,4,20,.45) and a 6% film grain re-randomized 24 times per second. Banned: outlines, flares or loops on the Sun's edge, static infographic strips, full stops in on-screen text, text that fades in whole, AI images or AI video, Kurzgesagt's own characters, bird or music. </direction> <structure> 30 seconds, every line of narration gets a camera move or a transformation, nothing ever holds still. Tight on the Sun at 2.25x (0s) → on the word "vanished" it swells 6% for 0.22s, collapses in 0.33s, then a white flash and a shockwave ring (1s) → pull back to 1x revealing Earth still lit and the astronaut staring at the empty spot (1.6-3s) → on "eight" an 8:20 countdown slams in from 1.7x to 1x and starts ticking, a "LAST LIGHT" label rides the edge of the growing dark disc (3.2s) → dive to 2.3x on Earth with light streaks flowing in (5.6s) → on "you" a YOU pin drops (7s) → on "left" a photon lands on the pin with "THIS LIGHT LEFT THE SUN / 8 MIN 20 SEC AGO" (7.5s) → on "play" the pin morphs into a play button, "YOU PRESSED PLAY / 15 SEC AGO" (8.8s) → one pull-back from 2.4x to a 0.3x orbit view, "LAST LIGHT" and "GRAVITY" riding the ring (9.6-12.5s) → on "nothing" a dotted circle at the empty centre (13.4s) → on "hits" the darkness sweeps Earth in 0.7s, city lights pop on, the countdown turns gold at 0:00 (15.8s) → on "black" the background fades almost to black (17.4s) → Jupiter appears, "STILL SHINING FOR 1 HOUR+" (17.9s) → zoom out, a dashed tangent line, "30 KM/S" as Earth flies straight off (20.8s) → a thermometer counts 15 to -70°C while frost grows from the poles (22.8s) → a 0.8s rewind on a separate story clock (24.3s) → sunglasses drop onto the astronaut (25.2s) → a photon tagged "8:20 OLD", then the title (27.7s). For any other topic, keep the same shape: the event happens on its word, pull back to show scale, dive in to make it personal ("you"), pull back out, the consequence with a live counter, an escalation, a funny beat with the mascot, a callback and the title. </structure> <build> 1. One HTML file. Every frame is a pure function of time: window.seek(t) draws frame t. No timers, no CSS animation. 2. Camera moves on easeInOutCubic, zoom is interpolated in log space, every pop is a damped spring (damping .42-.5, frequency 12-16). 3. Voice: ElevenLabs eleven_v4 with a designed voice (calm, warm, curious male, late 30s, crisp, light neutral European English), stability .5, similarity .75, generated with timestamps. Without a key, use kokoro-onnx locally and get word times with faster-whisper. Every animation event fires on its word. About 165 words per minute, 0.24s between sentences, a 0.36s beat before the big reveal. 4. The darkness front: any pixel within the front's radius from the Sun turns to night with a 30px soft edge. The front moves at ~47px/s and ramps to 700px/s near Earth. 5. Keep two clocks: ambient time for twinkle, spin and bob, and a separate story clock for events, so a rewind stays consistent. 6. Render with Playwright in headless Edge with the GPU: seek every frame at 30fps and blend 2 subframes (shutter 0.6) for motion blur, then encode with libx264 at CRF 16 for the master and CRF 20 for delivery. 7. Sound: a calm royalty-free space music bed 7dB under the voice, timed so its natural ending lands on the title, swelling 5dB under the title. One downloaded royalty-free sound effect per event kind (collapse, impact, pull-back whoosh, countdown tick, dive, pin tap, photon land, play click, light hit, reveal, frost, rewind), each peak-aligned to its frame and 4-10dB under the voice. Master with gain plus a limiter to -14 LUFS, -2.2dB true peak. </build> <gotchas> Make the WebGL globe canvas at least 2 x radius x zoom x 1.18 pixels or the sphere clips flat in close-ups. Never draw prominences on the Sun's edge, they read as white hooks. Never pad the voice to fit the visuals, tighten the read instead. Speed the darkness front up near Earth or it takes 13 seconds to cross the planet. Show me a contact sheet of every beat before rendering. </gotchas> <start> Ask me the inputs, write the narration with the beat each word triggers, show it to me, then build and render the video. </start>

Anyone can now make amazing videos with Claude Opus if you know how to prompt it. Here's my new episode with @jake11moran where he showed me exactly how to use Claude and @HyperFrames_ to: → Make a launch video from just a few images → Duplicate your favorite creator's video style → Make precise edits with the right keywords Every minute of our 40-min episode is packed with alpha and live demos. 📌 Watch now: piped.video/MC1g2fHYC88 Thanks to our sponsor: @WisprFlow: Get 1 month free of the best voice dictation tool wisprflow.ai/?promo_code=PET…

Agentic demand is growing faster than I’ve ever seen anything grow

Coolest take ever! Benevolent botnet saving the internet would be appreciated for sure!

turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung. sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.

this is pretty evil and clever. so if your samsung TV model doesnt have a microphone, it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device. this gets shipped off to bixby.

i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?

I highly recommend cloudflare's security audit skill: github.com/cloudflare/securi… Run it on all your software. Run it with the free models. Use it even if you used a model to audit something - it will find much more things. Works in all agent harnesses and is model independent.

This one maybe as bad or worse than the PHP ones. Get used to lots of patching.

RT @levelsio: Maybe important to repost this now that everyone is getting hacked If you have a VPS, I recommend you to get if off the publ…

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A Turing layer cake: a compiler written in JavaScript turns Spectrum BASIC into AVM1 bytecode, which runs in Ruffle, a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly. All in your browser! 🤯 Also exactly what I was looking for to teach my 8-year-old BASIC, now that she's outgrown ScratchJr It might take me a couple of years to explain to her how it all works, though...