Articles by pavel_lishin
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Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys (wired.com)

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The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)

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An AI agent opened a store in San Francisco. Then it forgot the staff (fastcompany.com)

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FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles (404media.co)

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Can astrologers gain insights about people from astrological charts? (clearerthinking.org)

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Largest Group of Chimps Waging Deadly 'Civil War,' Scientists Discover (404media.co)

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Working with agents doesn't feel like flow (dehora.net)

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Revisited: The Cylob Cryptogram (scienceblogs.de)

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AI-Generated Interview with One Piece Actor Published by Esquire (kotaku.com)

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it (taggart-tech.com)

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"I'm trying to report an exposed cloud bucket to a GenAI system" (cyberplace.social)

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Random File Format (shkspr.mobi)

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Contextual Collapse (bldgblog.com)

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Richland Correctional Institution rehabilitates animals and people (ashlandsource.com)

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570k Lines of LLM Code Compiled Fine. It Was 20,171x Slower Than SQLite (tonylee.im)

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Digg: A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next (digg.com)

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Companies House vulnerability enabled company hijacking (taxpolicy.org.uk)

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United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don't wear headphones (theverge.com)

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Documentation Is a Message in a Bottle (plover.com)

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Malus – Clean Room as a Service – Liberation from Open Source Attribution (malus.sh)

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Why No AI Games? (franklantz.substack.com)

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Hackerbot-Claw: An AI-Powered Bot Actively Exploiting GitHub Actions (stepsecurity.io)

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Jack Dorsey's Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble (theverge.com)

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A tax nerd who bet his life savings against DOGE (wsj.com)

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Qntm's Leap Second Simulator (qntm.org)

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Huntarr – Your passwords and your ARR stack's API keys are exposed (reddit.com)

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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart' (ras.ac.uk)

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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)

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Ars Technica Pulls Article with AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article (404media.co)

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The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development in general (nadh.in)

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Demo Effect Explained: How to Make a 3D Tunnel on the C64 [video] (youtube.com)

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Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Notion (selfh.st)

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Breaking the QR Limit: The Discovery of a Serverless WebRTC Protocol – Magarcia (magarcia.io)

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Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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[flagged] Refusing to Use Twitter (korny.info)

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Will AI Pet My Dog for Me? (eieio.games)

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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)

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Am I too stupid to vibe code? (garbageday.email)

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All Gas Town, No Brakes Town (todayintabs.com)

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Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions (theverge.com)

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[flagged] X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (wired.com)

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How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? (anildash.com)

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Precision from Simple Parts – The clever trick [video] (youtube.com)

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Emmett Shear on X: ""Burnout" is a particularly modern affliction (twitter.com/eshear)

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Welcome to the Office. Now Take Off Your Shoes (nytimes.com)

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Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds (wired.com)

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Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows (lethain.com)

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When Was Newton Born? (johndcook.com)

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Go ahead, self-host Postgres (pierce.dev)

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Wrapped – Your 2025 Year in Review (311wrapped.com)

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"Mozilla's new CEO announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser." (mastodon.social)

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What was typography like in the Soviet Union? (A Bluesky thread.) (bsky.app)

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It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)

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Barnum's Law of CEOs (antipope.org)

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AI as a WordPress Fundamental (make.wordpress.org)

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A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test (wired.com)

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AI vs. Human Drivers – Schneier on Security (schneier.com)

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Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026 (adweek.com)

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What happened in Moq library: A Blog on Controversies (2003) (medium.com/atakankorez)

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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down (wired.com)

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Fusion energy startup claims to have cracked alchemy (ft.com)

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FDA proposes impossible standards for vaccines that could curtail access (umn.edu)

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Roundabouts in Keene Help Cut Emissions and Air Pollution (nytimes.com)

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US Departments of Labor, Education announce new education partnerships (dol.gov)

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Investigators Think They've Solved the Mystery of the Baltimore Bridge Crash (scientificamerican.com)

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Hot take: LLM "guardrails" are worthless and will always be ineffective (infosec.exchange)

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[flagged] Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk (kut.org)

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Contractor Recruiting People on LinkedIn to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE (404media.co)

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Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings (neuburger.substack.com)

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Judge orders police to release surveillance camera data (king5.com)

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Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication (scientificamerican.com)

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The Monks in the Casino (derekthompson.org)

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New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge (thecity.nyc)

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Mystery 90s Industrial/goth/rap Demo Tape found while thrifting in Portland (reddit.com)

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Elevator Saga – the elevator programming game (elevatorsaga.com)

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"I did not have Trump killing the Fortran 77 compiler industry on my bingo card" (infosec.exchange)

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Physical Keys and Encryption Keys (johndcook.com)

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A Reminder That Protected Bike Lanes Can Make Streets Safer for Everyone (streetsblog.org)

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Australia's remarkable success in reducing preterm births (theguardian.com)

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Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop (washingtonpost.com)

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I Used Smart Glasses to Trick a Bartender into Giving Me a Free Drink (lifehacker.com)

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ChatGPT ads are about to drop (reddit.com)

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Raised Shields (tive.org)

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What I Saw at This Weekend's Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell Out of Me (racketmn.com)

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'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat (politico.com)

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Differential (tive.org)

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Siren Songs, by Peter Watts (rifters.com)

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Measuring Up (tive.org)

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Senator Warns of Trump's Watchlist for Americans (kenklippenstein.com)

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US Measles Cases Pass 1500, Worst Outbreak Since It Was Eliminated 25 Years Ago (iflscience.com)

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A Primordial Black Hole? (telescoper.blog)

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Breaking "Provably Correct" Leftpad (lukeplant.me.uk)

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Linked Pay Attention (tive.org)

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Troy Hunt on X: "Data breach at ThriftBooks HTTPS://t.co/A3b2ZnkFa2" (twitter.com/troyhunt)

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"Ahhh this is not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring's battery started swelling." (twitter.com/zoneoftech)

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Claim File Helper (propublica.org)

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Conway's pinwheel tiling (johndcook.com)

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Taylor TX data center project paused after neighbors sue (kut.org)

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US cities pay too much for buses (bloomberg.com)