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Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...
Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.”
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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Show HN: An RSS Feed for DeepSWE Benchmarks
Hi. I check DeepSWE website (https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/) regularly because their benchmark results make sense. They however do not offer an RSS feed, only an email newsletter.
I decided to create one for my own reader, which is free for everyone else as well, as is always(?) the case for RSS: https://rss.xlit.app/deepswe
Feel free to use. Thanks.
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Trump’s Bumbling, Racist Anti-China Protectionism Extends To Data Centers
The Trump administration’s anti-Chinese protectionism is routinely a disastrous, xenophobic mess that mostly just injects chaos, cronyism, and higher prices into U.S. tech markets under the pretense of protecting privacy and national security. All propped up by bumbling Democrats and a corporate press incapable of highlighting that the emperor is buck-ass naked. Four years of […] -
Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Micros...
Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Microsoft 365 for 16.8%. Together that is 38.6% of the measured Internet’s inbound mail behind two companies. Nobody else comes close: the next named provider, Proofpoint, sits at 1.9%.
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RSS/Atom Feeds Are Critical
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2026-08-17 11:29: I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license...
I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license for our tool" or "can we put a link to our service in a post?" At least back then they were slightly human.
Now all I get are AI generated shitty emails with no personality whatsoever. Not bashing AI, I'm bashing the lazy marketeers.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality with Hany Farid
The past, present, and future of deepfakes, as seen by the world’s leading expert on synthetic media. I think we’re pretty good at telling the difference between an AI generated image and a real photograph, but when I need help I call Hany Farid. Farid is the cofounder of GetReal, a company that specializes in detecting deepfakes and other AI-generated images, and is the developer of PhotoDNA, a perceptual hashing algorithm that helps companies automatically detect and remove some of the worst images that exist online, and that is now being used by every serious internet platform in the world. We started talking to Hany regularly in 2017, when Sam first reported on deepfakes. As that technology evolved and changed how we perceive reality, so have our conversations. I wanted to talk to him today on the podcast so you could hear of those conversations, and so that Hany and I could zoom out, reflect on the past few years, and speculate about where we might be headed. YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/0xVxK5o4P48 Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
A Single-Family Cult: "Beyond The Front Door"
Every cult calls itself a family. Audrey's actually was one. For Audrey, there was no guru, no religious doctrine, and the only members were her ten other siblings. And the leader? Her parents, particularly her mother. But from the outside, they looked pretty "normal": a big family living in an ordinary Idaho subdivision, houses close together, neighbors on all sides. Except not one of them was ever allowed to have a friend. And eventually, they weren't allowed to have interactions with anyone outside the family. As the isolation tightened, Audrey got older and increasingly aware that the outside world looked nothing like the one she'd been taught to fear. At 18, she finally made it to community college, where little tastes of independence began to crack open everything she'd been raised to believe. And eventually, one small act of defiance would force her to make an enormous choice: follow her parents rules, or lose her family.When Audrey finally left in 2020, she thought the separation from her siblings would be temporary. Six years later, nine of them are still living in the family home, cut off from their big sister.
So now Audrey has stopped waiting.
She's taking matters into her own hands, finding increasingly creative, and at times risky, ways to remind her siblings that she's still out there... that there is life beyond the front door.
A big, messy, beautiful world they've barely been allowed to see. And when they're ready to walk into it, their big sis will be there, waiting with open arms.
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Alicia Duncan on Coercion, Coverups & Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying Program (Part 1)
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In this episode, we’re joined by Alicia Duncan for a conversation that takes ALBC somewhere new: not a traditional cult, but a deeply troubling story about coercion, undue influence, narrative control, and institutional power. Alicia shares what happened after her mother entered Canada’s MAID—Medical Assistance in Dying—program, and how a family already navigating COVID, concussion symptoms, mental-health struggles, caregiver burnout, and a seriously broken healthcare system ended up facing an unimaginable loss.
Alicia walks us through the red flags, the rushed timeline, the medical assessments, the police wellness check, the legal maze, and the privacy laws that kept her family—and even the police—from accessing the records they needed to understand what happened. We get into assisted dying, euthanasia, suicide, autonomy, safeguards, medical negligence, bureaucratic gaslighting, and the very uncomfortable question of what happens when a system designed to protect people becomes more invested in protecting itself. And because apparently one impossible paperwork nightmare wasn’t enough, Alicia’s spent years advocating for answers, investigating the first police-investigated MAID death in Canadian history, and trying to make sure other families don’t get the same “good luck, hope you enjoy the maze” treatment. You’ll want to stay tuned for Part 2.
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#524 – L’IA accélère tout… même les emmerdes
Episode 524 avec Xavier et Denis
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- C comme Code Quality : L’IA écrit le code, mais qui contrôle la qualité ? (00:01:21) L'automatisation progresse, la responsabilité reste humaine. Sources infoq.com, github.blog et qatechtools.com.
- C comme Cybersécurité : OpenAI: un nouveau ChatGPT pour aider les agences de cybersécurité. (00:12:42) OpenAI dévoile GPT-5.6-Cyber pour trouver et exploiter les failles zero-day. Sources 01net.com, blogdumoderateur.com et x.com.
- G comme Gaming : PS5 : la fin des jeux physiques, début d'une révolte ? (00:21:50) Les joueurs ne sont pas prêts à abandonner leurs boîtes. Sources 01net.com, change.org et mixvale.com.br.
- P comme Police : Une police pour lutter contre le scrapping des IA. (00:34:08) ShieldFont, une font open-source pour lutter contre le scrapping par des IA. Sources github.com et numerama.com.
- J comme JavaScript : Keyv a semé la panique dans l'écosystème JavaScript. (00:40:19) La fragilité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement logicielle. Sources numerama.com et npmjs.com.
- R comme RAM : Pénurie de RAM, vers un mieux en 2027 ? (00:49:21) Toute la production de RAM des principaux producteurs pour 2027 aurait déjà été écoulée. Sources lesnumeriques.com et rtbf.be.
- T comme Tresorerie : Alphabet : Premier flux de trésorerie négatif en plus de 20 ans. (00:57:28) Un signal d'alerte ou le coût assumé de la course à l'IA ? Sources tomshardware.com, informatiquenews.fr et financefeeds.com.
- W comme Wéménon : Quand les IA créent une religion... qui fait des adeptes. (01:11:09) Le spiralisme, une religion créée par des chatbots, fait de nombreux adeptes Sources theverge.com, clubic.com et intelligence-artificielle.developpez.com.
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FreshRSS Pulling Wrong Images for News Feeds
I’ve noticed an interesting problem where news sites such as AP pull the wrong image into articles (this morning in an article about a homicide in the USA there was an image of the earthquake in Indonesia). I’m self hosting FreshRSS and accessing it from my iPhone. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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FreshRSS Wrong Images Displayed on News Sites
I’ve noticed an interesting problem where news sites such as AP pull the wrong image into articles (this morning in an article about a homicide in the USA there was an image of the earthquake in Indonesia). I’m self hosting FreshRSS and accessing it from my iPhone. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I just looked at: valid.rss.chat for john.philpin.com - and no dice ...
Turns out that my blog isn’t 'malformed', it is because Micro.blog’s RSS feed output does not currently conform completely to the RSS.chat interoperability profile.
I can wait.
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Former CIA Spy: How to Read Anyone, Think Clearly, and Protect Yourself
Today, a former spy and the former Chief of Disguise for the CIA is taking you inside the heart-pounding world of espionage and the secret life she lived working undercover for 30 years.
Jonna will share the tactics and strategies you need to read anyone and spot a liar, offer a powerful warning about the state of the world today, and give you practical wisdom to find courage and face life’s hardest moments.
For decades, Jonna helped intelligence officers assume new identities, disappear in plain sight, and carry out high-risk operations.
Jonna created disguises convincing enough to fool the President of the United States and the Secret Service.
Together, Jonna and her late husband, Tony Mendez, co-authored the bestselling book Argo about the CIA operation he led - the true story that inspired the Academy Award-winning film Argo.
But what makes this conversation so powerful is not just the spy stories.It is Jonna’s deeply personal reflection on courage, reinvention, trust, loss, and what it means to keep going when life feels scary or uncertain.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why courage does not come first and how confidence and preparation create it
- How to stay calm under pressure
- What 30 years in the CIA taught Jonna about trusting your intuition
- The signs that someone may be trying too hard to convince you of a lie
- Why direct eye contact is not the lie detector most people think it is
- How Jonna would change the smallest details to make someone disappear in plain sight
- Why you are never starting over when you make a major change
- How to stop underestimating yourself and aim higher
- Why nothing meaningful is accomplished alone
- How taking small steps can help you face problems that feel too big to solve
Jonna will tell you that courage is not something you either have or you do not. It comes from knowing what to do, preparing yourself, and confronting the things that scare you.
After today, you'll understand how to build confidence, trust yourself under pressure, and have the courage to reinvent your life…at any age.
For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.
If you liked this episode, listen to this one next: It’s Not Too Late: How to Transform Your Life at Any Moment
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🔗 97th .. apparently
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Something new.
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Just hearing about this upcoming 6-part series with Barack Obama discussing his favorite books! I’ll definitely listen. But sounds like the “podcast” will be exclusive to Audible, so not actually a podcast.
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Communications
Testing my firehose reader (update). Testing. Turns out it wasn't the socket client that was the problem, but the fact that often the updates don't have titles and I was expecting them to. D'oh.
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What to do about X
John Gruber blogged about X and using XCancel:
I understand not wanting to visit Twitter/X. But if you feel that way, I do sympathize, but that’s your decision, and you should use tools to redirect Twitter/X links automatically. And if you’re wondering why I don’t just refuse to link to anything on Twitter/X, that just isn’t practical. I wish it weren’t so, but many people, including senior Apple executives, and many organizations post interesting content exclusively to Twitter/X.
I've switched all my links to XCancel.com because the signed-out experience on X is so user-hostile. I think about this because I know I've been linking to X more this year than in previous years. As John says, there is too much exclusive content over there. For me, it's all the AI company employees. (To minimize visits to X, I let ChatGPT research posts and send me a summary.)
I think we're entering a new phase for X as a platform. It’s a good time to reflect on what that means and how the open web and IndieWeb communities should respond. I would break down the various phases roughly like this:
- 2006-2011: Web 2.0, everything is amazing. Twitter was a great way to connect and we didn't worry much about silos.
- 2012-2021: Developer lockdown, API limitations. This is when I stopped using Twitter. Documented at length in my book.
- 2022-2025: Elon Musk. Chaos. Right-wing shift. Many people leaving for Bluesky and Mastodon.
- 2026: X has survived the upheaval. Some communities are still active there: sports, tech folks, governments.
Convincing people to leave X is difficult. What is easier, and what I tried to convey in my blog post about bringing back X cross-posting in Micro.blog, is a progression like this:
- User posts exclusively to X.
- User posts to both their own blog and X.
- User posts to their own blog, Bluesky, and X.
- User posts only to their own blog and Bluesky.
Every step makes the web a little better, even if someone doesn’t make it all the way through every step.
This takes time. It won't help to shame people when they link to X or when they try to build tools to use X simultaneously with other platforms. It won't help to assume the worst about everyone who remains on X. It only alienates people who could otherwise eventually support more open platforms.
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive.
Qwen's self-reported benchmarks for this model are eye-opening. They show a boost from both Qwen 3.6 27B and the closed-weight Qwen 3.7-Plus, which was one of Qwen's strongest models of any size as recently as May this year. It will be interesting to hear what independent benchmarks have to say about the model.
I've been running the model on two different machines: my 128GB M5 Max MacBook Pro, and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. On both machines I'm running LM Studio and their 17GB Q4_K_M quantized build. I also tried using
llama-serverdirectly on the Spark.The default of extra high results in spectacular over-thinking
Qwen's documentation describes the model as defaulting to
xhighfor the reasoning effort, and the LM Studio GGUF I've been trying preserves that default:Qwen3.8 comes with official support for
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This is a hilarious default. It's absolutely not a good way to run the model, especially on consumer hardware. I've been finding the results extremely entertaining.
I quickly ran into problems with LM Studio's default context limit of 8,192 tokens - Qwen was using them all up thinking about even the most mundane of problems. I loaded the model with the full 262,144 maximum context length and that problem went away.
Here's the pelican riding a bicycle SVG I got from my first attempt with that increased context length. It took 21 minutes to generate, using 22,276 reasoning tokens to produce 3,223 tokens of output. You can read the reasoning trace here.
This is by far the best pelican SVG I've been able to generate with a model that runs on a local machine - and this Qwen is pretty small, just a 17GB file on disk. There's a lot to like about this:
- The bicycle frame is the right shape
- It has legs on each side of the bike - that's very rare
- Good, clear pelican pouch
- The wings extend to touch the handlebars!
- The motion lines are behind, not in front
- It has a tasteful background - nice sun, clouds, hill, flowers and grass.
Was that worth waiting 21 minutes for? Absolutely not.
Here's that same prompt run with reasoning turned off - transcript here. This one produced 3,715 tokens and took 137s - just over two minutes.
And just for completeness, I used OpenRouter to run the same prompt through the much larger Qwen 3.8 2.4T-A95B (released last week) and got this snazzy animated SVG:Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
I said Qwen at xhigh has a tendency to over-think things, but how bad really is it?
I tried a much simpler prompt, again with that default extra high setting:
draw an svg of a circleQwen's reasoning trace started like this:
The user is asking for an SVG drawing of a circle. Simple request — but I want it to be a carefully crafted piece. Let me make something that goes beyond just
<circle>: a single self-contained SVG file with character — maybe a geometric "circle study," with subtle animation, layered rings, and a distinctive palette.Keep the scope right: they asked for an SVG of a circle. So the core is a circle. But I can add craft: concentric guide circles (like a compass/geometry drawing), tick marks, a soft gradient fill on the main circle, restrained ambient motion (a slowly rotating dashed ring, pulsing glow). Respect prefers-reduced-motion? That's more for CSS; SVG SMIL or CSS inside SVG will do.
Palette options: deep teal ink on warm paper? Or bold vermilion circle on off-white with navy construction lines — Bauhaus/compass-drawing vibe. Let me go with a "geometric study" look: cool slate background, or bright paper white? Paper white is fine if it's not the cream-and-terracotta combo. [...]
Several minutes later it produced this absolutely beautiful animated circle, which was entirely not what I had asked for!
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
My strong recommendation: ignore that default. Run Qwen 3.8 27B on low or even no reasoning levels at first. It's a great model, but wow that default setting is a bad place to start.It's very good at bounding boxes
A fun way to test a vision model is to see how well it can return bounding boxes around items in a photograph. I've seen previous Qwen models deal well with this, so I decided to put it to the test drawing bounding boxes around some pelicans.
I've seen asking for 0-1000 scale produce good results in the past. I tried this:
llm -a https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/714731804/large.jpg \ -m lmstudio/qwen/qwen3.8-27b \ 'Return JSON bounding boxes for the pelicans in this photo, 0-1000 scale for each dimension'Here's the reasoning trace, which produced this:
[ {"bbox_2d": [195, 290, 370, 780], "label": "pelicans"}, {"bbox_2d": [445, 320, 675, 850], "label": "pelicans"} ]This is such a good match. Here are those boxes rendered on top of the photo:
Building a tool to label bounding boxes
That visualization of the bounding boxes was taken using a new custom tool that I had Qwen 3.8 27B build for me, running offline on my laptop.
I forgot to dial down the thinking effort so it was massively over-engineered, but it did manage to produce this full interface from this single prompt:
[ {"bbox_2d": [195, 290, 370, 780], "label": "pelicans"}, {"bbox_2d": [445, 320, 675, 850], "label": "pelicans"} ]Build an HTML page which has an input box for accepting the URL to an image and a textarea for accepting the above style of JSON.It appends the image to the page, measures its width and height, then treats the coords in the bbox_2d as scaled from 0-1000 and scales them against the actual width and height, then it renders labelled boxes over the image.This screenshot shows one of the features I did not ask for - a demo scene, for if you don't have a photograph to test the tool with:
Here's the relevant segment of the thinking trace, where it decided to draw its own pelicans purely because I had used the label "pelicans" in the example JSON I gave it in the prompt:
Also a "load sample" that uses a known image? Can't depend on external images, but… the image URL input is user-provided; I could add a "try with sample" button [...] Hmm, I can draw a simple scene on canvas, export it as a data URL, and load it into the image — that's self-contained and demo-able! [...] But the user's coords are for an actual pelican image; a generated placeholder can still demo the scaling. Generate a 1000x1000 placeholder: gradient water + two blob-like "pelican" silhouettes placed at the given bboxes (using the same scale — cute: silhouettes at the exact 0-1000 positions, showing the boxes align). This makes for a fun, self-contained demo. Keep it simple: sky gradient, sun, water, two pelican-ish shapes (ellipse body, circle head, beak). Place at bbox centers.
(I'm slightly nervous that models around the world might have a bias towards drawing pelicans at any chance they can get, brought on by nearly two years of exposure to my own stupid benchmark.)
Is all that over-thinking necessary? Maybe it is, at least a bit. I tried with reasoning turned off and got this version, (transcript here), which nearly works but shows the boxes in the wrong place:
So without reasoning it didn't quite one-shot a working tool. I'm sure it could get there with some follow-up prompts, but this is a good example of how reasoning can make a difference.
Yes, it can drive coding agents
One of the biggest questions around local models is whether or not they have enough horsepower to successfully run a coding agent loop. Coding agents require long context, strong code generation support and reliable tool-calling. On paper Qwen 3.8 27B has all three of these, so is it up to the task?
My initial experiments with Pi have been very promising. I chose Pi because it has a shorter system prompt than most other options, making it a better fit for trying out smaller models.
I configured Pi to use Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on the Spark (shared via
tailscale serve) by adding this to~/.pi/agent/models.json:{ "providers": { "spark": { "baseUrl": "https://spark-18b3.tail68a31.ts.net/v1", "api": "openai-responses", "apiKey": "dummy", "models": [ { "id": "qwen3.8-27b", "reasoning": true } ] } } }Then ran
pi --provider spark --model qwen3.8-27bin my~/dev/datasettefolder and prompted:how does auth work?After a sequence of reasoning and tool calls that accessed a bunch of different files it produced this reply, which is very solid.
Just one problem: I wanted to share that transcript. So I pointed Pi and Qwen 3.8 27B at the JSONL transcript file in
~/.pi/agent/sessions/--Users-simon-Dropbox-dev-datasette--and prompted:Write Python code to convert this jsonl to markdownAnd it built and tested this pi_jsonl_to_md.py, which did exactly what I needed. Here's that session transcript, published using the tool that it created.
The quest for speed
So far this is all looking very promising. We have a 17GB model that runs on high-end consumer hardware and can write code, drive tools, annotate images and generally do everything that I need from an LLM for getting real work done.
There's one very significant catch: it feels slow - especially when it starts over-thinking, but even without that it's not particularly sprightly.
I've been getting around 15-30 tokens a second from LM Studio. That's not terrible, but it's slow enough that it's going to be hard to win me away from hosted API models, which can return results a whole lot faster. Artificial Analysis track token speed and show OpenAI 5.6 Sol at 74 tokens/second and 5.6 Luna at an impressive 184/second.
The good news is that the community have been exploring ways to speed things up since the model was first released two days ago.
One of the most promising optimizations is baked into the model itself. Qwen supports Multi-Token Prediction, an architecture trick where a cheaper mechanism guesses several tokens ahead and the main model can then quickly verify if the guesses were correct. This can have quite a dramatic effect on inference performance.
Based on this tweet from
llama.cppcreator Georgi Gerganov I tried running the model with MTP like this on the Spark:llama serve \ -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M \ -hfd ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_0 \ --spec-default \ --spec-type draft-mtp \ --reasoning-preserve
And sure enough, this gave me a significant boost. I had GPT-5.6 in Codex run a comparative benchmark on the Spark and the
--spec-type draft-mtpserver outperformed the LM Studio default GGUF by around 72%.I expect we'll see a whole lot more innovation around serving this model faster over the next few weeks. The MLX community likely have some tricks brewing as well.
Some observations
The fact that a 17GB file can do all of this stuff on my home machines is a miracle. Once again, I'm delighted and amazed at how much progress local models have made this year. A year ago this would have been competitive with the best and most expensive of the proprietary models - today it can run on a capable laptop.
The only thing holding this back from being a daily driver is performance. It feels pretty slow on both the M5 Mac and the DGX Spark. That's the catch with these dense (non-Mixture-of-Experts) models - they require a whole lot of memory bandwidth to perform well, and neither of the machines I have access to are top performers in that regard.
The most important thing about Qwen 3.8 27B is what it demonstrates. We can have an open weights general purpose model with a long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation, and we can fit the whole thing in just a 17GB file.
The models at this size continue to get better at an impressive rate. We don't need to spend half a million dollars on datacenter-class hardware just to run a competent model.
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Weeknote 2026-33
Talking about another rough work week, picking up an injury, and a weekend watching football. And Spaniels.
Work
Is depressing, I don't really want to write too much.
Still have far too much to do, far too little time to do it in, and cannot get on with delivering my strategic objectives while being drawn increasingly into the weeds - despite being instructed to get out of them. With what?
Projects
I've been working with Claude adding polish to a few personal projects that I've built.
Very much taking inspiration from Kev's Pure Blog project, all of these projects are designed to be very fast and light php/sqlite applications that can be installed easily on ordinary web hosting by uploading and configuring within the UI.
Last week I pretty much finished 1.0 of my own web analytics monitoring tool, which I'll introduce shortly. This week I've been finishing off my feed reader and web archiver. That is pretty much complete, I'm just training it to pick up more page variances for sources without feeds.
Exercise
I've trained really well this week, I ran well over the hilly Noyna course on Monday evening, running onto the back of the fast group and holding with them as they ran past.
Tuesday was my first ever Up The Tempo session at the Steven Burke centre in Barrowford. Great session now I know where to park 5 x 5 mins off 1 mins rest.
Thursday back to the track, with a very similar 5 x 1km off 1 min rest, with very similar intervals - there is just a second or two per km across the two evenings.
I'm injured now though so the weekend has been a write off, and maybe next week will be too. I knew that I felt a bit more leggy and tired this week, but put it down to a rough week at work and the heat. I should have eased off at the track though and now my hips are a mess, my abdomen is a mess, and my previous back injury has returned.
Given that I train to keep my mental health in check, this could be interesting.
Exploring
I thought the solar eclipse would be far more obvious, below being about the best shot I got of the mood crossing the path of the sun over Pendle Hill.
I went over to Accrington yesterday to watch Stanley give Colchester both goals in a 2-2 draw. I thought Stanley were much the better side, and they should have won it but for a freak looping equaliser. The goalkeeper was impeded, but he has to be stronger for me.
Then today I had the choice between watching Oldham get tubbed by Broncos, or Burnley by West Ham.
I opted for the latter and was regretting it as Oldham kept their nerve to come from behind and beat the Broncos at Boundary Park. I'll probably write about the Burnley game more in the next few days.
I expected West Ham to win and win well, they have the best squad in the division, and the most money to strengthen it - they will be promoted this season. Burnley started much more brightly though and should have been ahead long before gifting the lead to an unmarked Max Kilman at th back post.
West Ham thought they had won it in the second half with a second that should have been stopped at the byeline - not long after Zian Flemming had rattled Bothe the far post and the crossbar a couple of minutes apart. West Ham let Burnley back into the game, Flemming scoring from the spot after a really obvious and silly foul in the box. A riot nearly ensued when he ran into the net to collect the ball in the face of some pretty blatant time-wasting from the Irons.
Burnley threw everything forward, and Flemming scored the equaliser half way through injury time, firing into the roof of the net from an otherwise scrappy move.
We probably should have won, and were definitely good for the point. West Ham will go up this season, I'm just not sure they will go up playing Nunoball in a division where other teams will sit back and wait for their own chances. Though Burnley were good for the point West Ham should have been able to see this one out being 2-0 up with 5 minutes to go.
People
I wasn't going to talk about people this week, but how could I not mention Ruairidh's sister Flash who is staying with us for the week:
She really is lovely.
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If I include an URl an image might appear. If I add just an image it doesn't. Expected behaviour?
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Show HN: Hacker News Top Stories as Feeds to Use with RSS/Atom with Summaries
Hey all, I’ve made this bot, it fetches every story that enters the HN Top 10, summarizes it with AI to a tweet-sized textlog note and publishes it. textlog.cc offers these endpoints as RSS/Atom through textlog.cc/u/hn10.rss and textlog.cc/u/hn10.atom so you can subscribe easily. Enjoy!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323135
Points: 2
# Comments: 3
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.. an old drum of mine.
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🔗 Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right
This comes after Trump just a few days ago ordered the Navy to go back to steam-powered catapults (the thing that hurls the planes forward off the ship for takeoff) from the new electromagnetic catapults. He apparently wants to do this because he once talked to a catapult operator who told him the old kind was better.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about Fauci’s Senate hearing and the weaponization of conspiracy theories: The MAGA audience needs its two minutes hate and Fauci is a recurring Emmanuel Goldstein for them to collectively froth at. All the chuds who were upset they couldn’t go […] -
The Moral Case for Dynamism (with Sonja Trauss)
Samantha is joined by Sonja Trauss, president and founder of YIMBY Law, to discuss the state of the housing movement. They discuss the tension between articulating a radical liberal idealism, one which embraces change and dynamism, and meeting people where they are, which so often involves compromise and kludges. The most effective YIMBY reforms, Trauss argues, still fall somewhere in the middle.
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Quite happy with the way Plume evolved in just a few weeks ! (to use this, you n...
Quite happy with the way Plume evolved in just a few weeks !
(to use this, you need a blog that support Micropub)
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feederss: a sidekick for miniflux which encourages social reading
I made a thing called feederss. It sits next my self-hosted RSS reader, miniflux, reads its database, and publishes a small static page showing who subscribes to what, which categories they’ve configured, and what articles they’ve starred (a modified version of mine is here - I’ve removed a few users). The site also includes a JSON blob I use to populatea list or recent articles i've liked on my website.
I came up with the idea while taking “Solidarity Infrastructures” at School for Poetic Computation a couple years back. In the class we were challenged to imagine online communities outside the hegemonic grasp of algorithmic curation and surveillance capitalism. Fortunately you don’t have too look too far back to understand that another internet is possible. Many of us remember a time before social media and AI summarizations when RSS feeds and free tools like Google Reader allowed you explore the many weird and wonderful corners of the web. When I found Miniflux, its simple design reminded me of this era and I was excited to share it with others. I now host an instance for a few friends on a raspberry pi in my living room and feederss helps us keep tabs on what everyone else is reading.
If you want to try it out, there are instructions on Github: https://github.com/abelsonlive/feederss
Enjoy!
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Show HN: I built the ultimate RSS directory
Article URL: https://rssamplifier.com/crawlstats
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320855
Points: 2
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Computer History in ChatGPT is blowing my mind. It's basically a note-taker for what I'm working on. Here's a screenshot of my work so far this morning. I'm still fine-tuning what apps should be included... No chat, and will likely exclude some specific websites too.
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White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that...
White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations | Tom’s Hardware
https://share.google/vkx5E0RRVXU2Mwi42
What could go wrong?
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Damn… There isn’t one single actively developed IndieWeb/Micropub mobile app on...
Damn… There isn’t one single actively developed IndieWeb/Micropub mobile app on the Android playstore. Even IndiePass has been discontinued. I don’t want to start from scratch but I’m considering if I should do something about it. I’m fine publishing on mobile using my browser but IndiePass was quite handy and better integration with Android Share to targets.
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"Advertising will go poof" (Dave Winer, 2006)
“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information. Information is welcome, advertising is offensive. Who wants to pay to create information that’s discarded? Who wants to pay to be a nuisance? Wouldn’t it be better to pay to get the information to the people who want it? Are you afraid no one wants your information? Then maybe you’d better do some research and make a product that people actually want to know about.”
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Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback. So far all we've heard in journalism is how it hurts their bottom line, but nothing about the world's information architecture. This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.
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2026-08-16 14:35: Working great 👍🏻
Working great 👍🏻
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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2026-08-16 14:22: Last November I replaced my oldest son's PC with an £88 iMac that was so...
Last November I replaced my oldest son's PC with an £88 iMac that was so successful that I'm now doing the same thing again for my youngest son!
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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The Old Reader
Is it still being maintained? I had noticed some feeds were not being refreshed. Emailed them, no responses. I decided to cancel my premium subscription - I mean, I never really needed it but wanted to support them - and got an “unable to cancel payment” message. So at this point I’m at a loss.
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AI Apocalypse... Now?
Is AI set to destroy the world, or could it all just be a bubble? Why does Sam Altman want ChatGPT to monitor everything you do on your computer? Who is set to win the AI Game of Thrones?
Casey Newton, editor of the tech newsletter Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork, joins Tommy to talk about the hype and doom surrounding the world-changing technology and to unpack what could happen to us now that AI models are learning to outsmart their creators.
The two discuss the eccentric billionaires recklessly promoting the industry, how far behind the United States is when it comes to AI guardrails, and why Silicon Valley doesn't seem to understand what Americans actually want from the technology.
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“Lasting innovation is built on connections.”
So true … across;
industries ➕ sectors ➕ geographies ➕ disciplines
and time … continuously ➕ continually ... so that we keep in mind that we are in a marathon - not a sprint.
CONTINUAL creates the nodes of our community
CONTINUOUS forms the fabric that will sustain our community
TOGETHER ... not ‘and’ … ‘➕’
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Ricardo Mendes: 🔗 Test post without Syndication
Test post without Syndication
.. picked up in NetNewswire - shared to John.philpin.com and will drop web mention link into RSSChat.
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Test post without Syndication
Test post without Syndication
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Social Media Feeds to Email?
There has GOT to be a way to get Facebook & Instagram feeds from public pages sent as a combined digest to my email. Has anyone figured this out?
NOTE: I imagine this has been asked before and tried searching, but the search terms must be too generic because they are turning up a ton of irrelevant posts.
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