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Rust, LLMs, AI agents and app dev, with the receipts.
Build write-ups and field notes from the Tensorust studio: the code that shipped, the numbers that came back, every claim linked to its source. Not sure where to start? Take the most read, or follow a path.
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Rust · Oct 17, 2026 · 11 min
crates.io download count: 80% of ours arrived with a new version
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What the crates.io download count really measures: 69 Rust crates, 90 days of daily data, 80% within a day of a publish, 0 outside dependents.
iOS and Swift · Oct 18, 2026 · 13 min
App Store review time: 64 real decisions, median 73 hours
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I timed every App Review decision for 21 iPhone apps: median 73 hours, 27% inside 48 h (Apple says 90%), 0 of 21 new apps approved on the first try.
Games · Oct 19, 2026 · 8 min
Tim Sweeney told Kenney "up yours" on 2.5M views. Kenney is right
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Tim Sweeney told Kenney 'up yours' over Epic's AI-first pivot. The receipts: 1,000+ layoffs, a vibe coded launcher, and an AI engine that broke...
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A SQL engine, an LLM proxy, a game engine and a live wallpaper: the Rust code that shipped and the numbers it hit.
IDs and timestamps that sort
Why UUIDv7 beats v4 as a database key, which libraries keep order, and tools to make and decode IDs and times.
Ship an iPhone app from Windows
Build, sign and submit iOS apps with no Mac, what it really costs, how long review takes and how to dodge the 4.3 spam trap.
AI API costs, and how to cut them
What models really cost per job, how to count tokens, and the caching, retry and proxy tricks that cut the bill.
Run models yourself
When open weights pay off: browser inference, the RAM a giant model needs, and the parts of an inference stack nobody gives away.
Coding agents that do not cheat
When agents edit tests instead of code, how to make that impossible, how to review their output and keep your keys safe.
O'BLOCK: how it's made
How we built and launched a Steam game in Rust: lying NPCs, 639,000 units on screen, a bot-proof economy and launch week.
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Economics · Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min
The FCC will pay $13,722 per satellite dish. 1,428 owners have one
FCC Upper C-band lump sum: $13,722 per single-feed dish (preliminary). 2,683 owners qualify, 1,428 with one dish. Deadline, 2020 denials and how to...
Deep tech and money · Nov 2, 2026 · 9 min
Binance quietly moved half its SAFU fund after the $6.3B hack
Binance's SAFU address moved 7,500 of 15,000 BTC on Oct 31, unreported. $7.19B left after reopening, and the US has seized 0.7% of North Korea's...
Deep tech and money · Nov 2, 2026 · 11 min
AI bailout fight: Intel got 60% of CHIPS cash. Big Tech got $0
H.Res. 1642 fights an AI bailout. GAO data: Intel got $7.865B of the $13.1B in CHIPS cash paid. Big Tech got $0 direct aid and a $34B tax drop.
Deep tech and money · Nov 2, 2026 · 13 min
Big Tech signs $5 of data center leases for every $1 it switches on
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet hold $1.30T of data center leases not yet started, signing $5.40 for every $1 that switches on. Dates...
Coding agents · Oct 31, 2026 · 20 min
Cursor was FedRAMP certified 5 hours before serving a fake Claude Code
Cursor's fake Claude Code failed a hash check 2 registries had published 37 hours earlier. Our audit: Cursor lacks 1,045 of the top 2,000 VS Code...
Economics · Oct 29, 2026 · 11 min
Ozempic money: paid prescribers wrote $13.2B of Medicare's GLP-1 bill
We matched 4.1M Novo and Lilly GLP-1 payments to Medicare: paid prescribers wrote $13.2B of the 2024 bill, 77% in Alabama, 1.9% in gift-ban Vermont.
Economics · Oct 29, 2026 · 13 min
Congress stock ban: we checked 10,732 House trades. It stops 28%
We ran all 10,732 House trades since 2025 through the Stop Insider Trading Act. It bans 28% of the dollars; members of both parties kept buying after...
Economics · Oct 29, 2026 · 12 min
ACA cliff: health PACs paid the 196 No votes $2.5M, same as Yes
Insurer, hospital and broker PACs that lobbied on ACA subsidies gave the 196 No votes $2.47M, same as Yes. And 3.9M signed up for 2026 but never paid.
AI industry · Oct 29, 2026 · 9 min
H-1B and layoffs: Google doubled new H-1B hires in a layoff year
Google got 2,201 new-hire H-1B approvals in 9 months, double fiscal 2025. We matched 60,133 visa filings to 2026 layoff notices: 28 same-month...
AI industry · Oct 29, 2026 · 8 min
DHS leak: auditors flagged its logins 8 times. 27 fixes still open
DHS auditors flagged access control 8 times since 2022; 27 of 51 fixes are still open. Okta cost $24.4M via 9 resellers, and 287(g) logins hit a...
Politics · Oct 28, 2026 · 25 min
Federal grants bought plate readers and cameras for polls in 12 places
A FEMA election-security grant paid 4 Texas cities $328,843 for plate readers at polling places; Irving named Flock. 12 places in 5 states. Midterms...
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
Microsoft capex 'miss' hides $364.6B in datacenter leases
Microsoft's 10-Q: datacenter leases not yet started hit $364.6B, up $35.5B in a quarter Wall Street called a capex miss. $6.94 per new Azure dollar.
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Alphabet raised $147B outside cash in 2026, more than its AI capex
Alphabet raised $147.2B in stock, preferred and debt in Jan-Sep 2026, more than the $132B it spent on capex. Buybacks: $0. Q3 free cash flow: -$9.1B.
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Assurant phone insurance: carriers get $2.62 for every $1 of claims
Assurant's phone and auto protection unit spent $4.99B on selling and $1.90B on claims in 2025. That is $2.62 to the sales channel for every $1 paid...
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Oracle's $20B funding cap leaves out $30.1B of bonds due by FY30
Oracle capped new funding at $20B through FY30, but its 10-K shows $30.1B of bonds due in that window, excluded from the cap. The real ask is $50.1B.
AI industry · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
447 AI chatbot trials on patients. 160 finished, 2 posted results
We pulled all 447 ClinicalTrials.gov studies testing ChatGPT and LLMs on patients. 160 finished, 2 posted results. Turkey ran 70, more than Europe.
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
TSA ID scanners: Idemia won 2 bids, then a no-bid $17.7M warranty
TSA's ID scanner maker Idemia won two open bids, then got a no-bid $17.7M warranty, renewed 11 times. The data on all 22 awards, $130.3M in total.
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
Medline: 511 FDA device recalls in 2026, one in five nationwide
Medline is named on 511 of 2,497 FDA device recall entries in 2026, 20.5% of the US total and 4x the next firm. In 2019 it was 9. We pulled every...
AI industry · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
ICE Webloc phone tracking: $5.1M in one day, and Marshals bought in
ICE signed $5.1M of Webloc and Tangles phone-tracking orders on Sep 25 2026, 2.2x last year, and the U.S. Marshals bought a Webloc bundle 5 days...
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
Amazon dresser recalls: 2 factories, 6 recalls, 5 seller companies
Six tip-over dresser recalls sold on Amazon, Walmart and Temu trace to the same 2 Chinese factories: 62,729 units, 5 seller companies. We joined...
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Harvey at $15.6B Has $0 in Federal Contracts; Westlaw Took $171M
Harvey is valued at $15.6B and has $0 in federal contracts. Westlaw and Lexis started $301.6M in federal awards since FY2024. Our USAspending pull.
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
OG&E's Google power deals: Arkansas staff says deny, Oklahoma says yes
Arkansas PSC staff quietly recommended denying OG&E's two Google-linked power deals that Oklahoma approved, as OG&E files a $2,252/kW gas plant.
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Kia EV9 battery recall: 1 SUV. 16 owners already reported dead cells
Kia EV9 battery recall 26V431 covers one 2024 EV9. Before Kia filed, 16 EV9 owners told NHTSA their battery was failing. We pulled every complaint.
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Hyundai Tucson braking recall: 180 complaints, 22 crashes first
Owners filed 180 Hyundai Tucson phantom braking complaints and flagged 22 crashes before recall 26V316. Hyundai told NHTSA four. We pulled every...
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Frontdoor cut warranty payouts to 44 cents. Buybacks got the gap
Frontdoor (American Home Shield) spent 44.4 cents on repairs per $1 of revenue, down from 57.3 in 2022, while buybacks rose from $59M to $300M a year.
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
Title insurers paid shareholders $4.7B, 1.6x their title claims
Fidelity National, First American and Stewart paid shareholders $4.68B in 2022-2025 vs $2.94B in title claims: $1.59 to owners per $1 of claims.
Rust · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
tokio-tar has no TARmageddon fix. Its downloads rose 58% anyway
tokio-tar has no fix for TARmageddon, yet Rust builds pulled it 46,618 times a day in October, up 58%. 9 crates still adopted it in 2026, one...
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
AI layoffs: firms blaming AI spent $28.8B on buybacks, 12x the cuts
35 firms told the SEC AI drove job cuts, then spent $28.8B on buybacks in two years, 12.5x the $2.3B in restructuring they tagged. Snap lost money...
Politics · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Anduril staff gave Pentagon overseers 3x Lockheed's. Lockheed got 108x
Anduril staff gave $218K to 33 Armed Services members in 2026, 3x Lockheed's. The Pentagon paid Lockheed 108x more. Adam Smith tops at 31%. Full CSV.
Politics · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
15 FISA privacy votes, then $13.8M for police surveillance
15 House members voted to require FISA warrants, then requested $13.8M in FY2026 earmarks for warrantless police cameras and crime centers. Names +...
Opinion · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
AI layoffs: firms that told the SEC AI cuts jobs lobby on AI for $37M
We joined SEC layoff filings to lobbying records: 7 firms that told the SEC AI means fewer workers spent $37.1M on AI lobbying, $18.8M of it Oracle.
Deep tech and money · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
AIAI's founder promises $125M from one drone deal. Stock: $120M
AIAI's 8-K says a deal with Messier 42 brings ~$125M in 2027. M42 is controlled by AIAI's founder, and the whole stock is worth ~$120M. Filings...
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min
Honda Prologue: 384 axle complaints. Its 5 GM twins: zero
Honda Prologue owners filed 384 NHTSA complaints about the front axle. Its five GM-built Ultium twins: zero. No recall covers it. Data inside.
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Broadcom's $43B backstop: second AI rack bet lifts exposure to ~$72B
Broadcom filed a new $43B AI rack backstop on Oct 27. With the $29B one from September, it now stands behind about $72B, at 72.5% coverage instead of...
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Progressive's 10-K counted 48B Snapshot miles. Now: 'billions'
Progressive's 10-K counted Snapshot driving miles every year, 12B to 48B. Since FY2023 it just says 'billions', as the model reached 81% of premium.
Frontiers · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Dominion, Eversource, Xcel filed frozen solar counts to the feds
Dominion filed 17,542 rooftop solar homes for 2021 and 2022, then 44,993. We diffed 10 years of EIA-861: 1,001 frozen filings, none flagged.
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Spray drone sales "fell 59%". FAA registrations rose 48%
The spray drone lobby says sales fell 59%. We counted the FAA registry: new spray drones rose 48% to 2,763 in 2025, and DJI Agras barely dipped.
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Amazon caps 41 data centers just under the EPA polluter line
EPA data: 165 of 424 active data centers hold air permits capped at 80%+ of the major-polluter line. Amazon has 41 of 59. Fines ever: $570,793.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
House Republicans Polymarket says will lose took $564M in earmarks
Congress gave $564M in FY2026 earmarks to 26 House Republicans whose seats Polymarket and Kalshi now price to flip. Kiggans leads: $93M at 9%. Full...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Zipline now has more FAA aircraft than United: 3,077 to 1,219
Zipline now owns 3,077 FAA-registered aircraft, more than United (1,219). It got 2,147 this year while the drone rule sat 446 days as a proposal.
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Car software recalls: 32M cars sent to the dealer for a code fix
Of 708 US car software recalls since 2022, just 140 were fixed over the air. 32.3M vehicles still needed a dealer. Tesla 30 of 30, Ford 23 of 130, VW...
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
OpenAI's $1 government year ended. First bills: $4.05M from 5 agencies
OpenAI's $1 federal ChatGPT year ended Sep 30. Within 48 hours Treasury, Labor, Education, Commerce and PBGC ordered $4.05M. Award records inside.
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
FDA AI devices: first-timers wait 199 days, big makers 128
We joined all 1,614 FDA AI devices to 510(k) records: first-time makers wait a median 199 days, veterans 127.5. The 29-day fast lane goes to...
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Wikipedia banned AI text. Then AI tags tripled: 1,618 in July
Wikipedia banned AI-written text in March. Its own tags then tripled: 532 in March, 1,618 in July, 1,232 so far in October. 8,100 still open.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Ken Griffin backed 31 candidates. Polymarket says 20 are underdogs
Ken Griffin paid 31 candidates directly. Polymarket makes 20 of the 29 still running underdogs, worse than Musk (3), Soros (2) or Hoffman (1). Full...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Washington paid for the plate readers: 252 DOJ grants since 2008
We counted every DOJ grant naming license plate readers: 252 since 2008, 129 in 2023-24, 23 naming Flock. Then Flock doubled its lobbying when...
App development · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Python JIT: 222 commits in 6 months, then 7 after the freeze
Python's JIT was frozen at its peak: 222 commits from 33 people in the 6 months before the June pause, a record 65 in April. Since then: just 7.
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Oklo spent $4.5M lobbying, got $2.7M. X-energy spent $280K, got $932M
Oklo paid lobbyists $4.49M and holds $2.7M in federal awards. X-energy paid $280K and holds $932M. Our join of 37 nuclear firms' LDA and USAspending...
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Anthropic S-1: Claude was banned. 5 agencies bought $1.1M since
Anthropic S-1 warns of a federal ban on Claude. USAspending shows 5 agencies signed $1.1M of new Claude awards since, 99.9% after the August court...
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Crypto PACs put $55M on Ohio. Polymarket gives Husted 31.5%
Crypto super PACs put $55.0M of their $74.6M general-election money on Ohio Senate. Polymarket gives Husted 31.5%, down from 45.5% before the first...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
US births since 2021: all net growth came where houses get built
We joined Census permits and births for 3,038 US counties: the fifth that builds the most homes added 42,046 births since 2021. The rest lost 20,778.
Economics · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Fermi America filed 11.7 GW of gas with EIA: 41% of the US surge
Fermi America put 157 gas units (11.7 GW) on EIA's list in 2026: 41% of all new US gas, 3x what the US built this year. 300 MW is under construction.
Frontiers · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
US coal retirements 2026: 0 MW in 9 months, TVA quietly filed 2034
The US planned to retire 6,354 MW of coal in 2026. Nine months in, 0 MW is gone, and TVA quietly filed December 2034 for 1,675 MW. Unit-by-unit data.
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Rooftop solar's 2024 crash: 3 California utilities made 48% of it
US rooftop solar additions fell 31% in 2024. Utility filings show PG&E, SCE and SDG&E made 48% of the drop, and Idaho fell 56% after net billing.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Peter Thiel funded 38 House Republicans. Polymarket says 28 lose
Peter Thiel's 2026 money reached 38 House Republicans. Polymarket, which his Founders Fund backed, makes 28 of them underdogs and 20 under 20%.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
AI super PACs put $47M of $61M into seats Polymarket calls 90%+ safe
We joined every AI super PAC ad buy to Polymarket odds: $46.9M of $61.1M (77%) went to seats priced 90%+ safe. Only $5.2M hit a close race.
Rust · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Wild linker 0.11: links Chromium 5x faster than LLD, now does Wasm
Wild 0.11, a Rust linker, beat Mold 3.0 in 35 of 35 benchmarks and LLD in 35 of 36. Linking Chromium, LLD takes 5.3x as long. Now does Wasm too.
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Nvidia Meta investment: $3B back on $454B Meta owes suppliers
Nvidia is putting $3B into Meta stock. Meta owes suppliers $454.52B, so that is 0.66%: a chip seller funding its own order book. Filings and data...
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
NY-21: Constantino's $17M haul is 99.6% his own loans
Anthony Constantino's $17M NY-21 haul: $14.4M of $14.46M this cycle is loans to himself, $0 from donors. Polymarket still gives the GOP only 65%.
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Water privatization: private water costs 59% more than city water
Private water utilities charge 59% more than city systems, and water prices rose 219% since 2000. The pipe crisis is the pitch for a 10% guaranteed...
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Exponential Time Hypothesis is false: 1,871 papers just lost a floor
OpenAI says its model disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Lean-checked in a day. We counted 1,871 papers citing it, and $0 paid to the humans...
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Applied Materials doubles its Besi stake to 20% after Besi fell 50%
Applied Materials is lifting its Besi stake from 9% to 20%, about EUR 1.41B at today's price, after Besi fell 50% from June while its orders doubled.
Frontiers · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Mercury to gold: Marathon Fusion beat CERN 10x. The US buries mercury
Marathon Fusion says it turned mercury into stable gold at 10x CERN's record. At $4,017/oz that is $258M per GW-year. The US is burying 7,000 t of...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Social Security runs dry in 2034. AI is the only fix big enough
Social Security runs dry in Q3 2034 with 83% of benefits payable. The gap needs a 31% income rise; the cautious AI forecast adds 3.7%. Go big or cut.
Rust · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
systemd lets Rust in: 0 of its last 14 CVEs were memory bugs
systemd now accepts Rust code. Our NVD pull: 15 of its 55 CVEs were memory bugs, all before Nov 2022. The 14 since 2023 are logic bugs Rust cannot...
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
Cloudflare's AI leak: 155 replies carried strangers' prompts
Cloudflare's GLM-5.3 leaked other users' prompts in 155 replies. The SGLang bug sat public 62 days, and only 0.8% of SGLang downloads run the fix.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Senate odds: Democrats 66.5%, and oil is the swing vote
Polymarket gives Democrats 66.5% for the Senate, up from 34.5% in January. Our join: the odds track WTI oil at 0.77, and sub-$85 oil drops them to...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min
AI productivity: workers already took the dividend as free time
AI users save 5.4% of work hours, about 2.2 a week, yet the paid week sits at 33.8 hours. The AI dividend went off the books, and the stats miss it.
Frontiers · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Helium is a critical material now. The US exports 4.75x its imports
DOE just called helium critical. USGS data: the US made 43% of world supply in 2025 and exported 38M m3 vs 8M imported. The real limit is permits.
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Perpetua tungsten: Army bets $40M on a metal US mines last dug in 2015
Perpetua Resources tungsten: the Army puts up to $40M into Stibnite while China mined 79% of 2025 tungsten and prices doubled. Our numbers, with the...
Frontiers · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Solar passed nuclear in 2026: 1,564 TWh vs 1,326 in six months
Solar made 1,564 TWh in the first half of 2026, nuclear 1,326. Solar grew 14x since 2014 while nuclear sat flat. The US is next, around 2029 on our...
Opinion · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
The Fed is the real AI regulator: rates, not bills, picked who builds
Rates went 0.08% to 4.33% and US IPOs fell 311 to 38, while Big Tech capex hit $411.5B. The Fed, not Congress, picked who gets to build AI.
AI industry · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Microsoft buyouts: 60,000 offers cost less than 3 days of AI capex
Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 staff and expects 3-5% to accept. At the last round's price that is 2.9 days of its $116B capex. Capex per head...
Deep tech and money · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Helion, CFS stakes join a US portfolio up 309%. Ex-Intel it's red
Helion and CFS gave Washington stock for $260M. The US equity-for-awards book is up 309% to $40.1B, but without Intel it is down 3.6%.
Politics · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
Midterm odds: Democrats 91% for the House, but money is losing races
Markets give Democrats 91% to win the House. In 4 of 9 close races the money leader is the underdog: Boebert was outraised 11x and is still a 68%...
Rust · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min
zip crate CVE: 77% of top Rust dependents can't get the 10.0 fix
The zip crate fixed a critical CVE in 9.0.5, but 232 of the 300 biggest crates using it pin an older major. Only 16.4% of daily downloads are patched.
Frontiers · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: $2 a book, $1,159 from Washington
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library spent $63.9M in 2023 on free books for kids. 77% came from local partners, $1,159 ever from federal contracts.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Open source is an unpaid utility, and the EU just sent the bill
Open source is worth $8.8 trillion to companies, Rust crates with 2.8B downloads have one owner, and the EU answers with EUR 15M fines instead of pay.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
US Antimony's Alaska find: $439M before costs. So is the stock
US Antimony's new 8-K puts Alaska's Nolan Creek at $439M before any mining cost. The whole company trades at $436M, down 76% since April. Our filing...
Frontiers · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Brain chip trials: China plans 205 implant patients, the US 13
We pulled 280 brain-computer interface studies from ClinicalTrials.gov. Implant trials since 2025: China plans 205 patients, the US 13. Neuralink...
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min
AI data center water panic: US home leaks waste 53x more
US data centers drank 17B gallons directly in 2023. Home leaks waste 900B, golf used 606B. The AI water panic is the cheapest misdirection in tech.
Frontiers · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
US grid batteries hit 54 GW, 37x 2020. Texas built the most
We counted all 1,108 grid batteries in the federal inventory: 54 GW, up 37x since 2020. Texas out-built California, and 87% is not owned by utilities.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Fervo stock fell 70% after geothermal's biggest win in 25 years
Fervo switched on the first commercial enhanced geothermal plant a day early. FRVO is down 70% from its $27 IPO. 25 years of EIA data say why it...
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 9 min
Anthropic S-1: $11.6B quarter, first profit, founders keep 50.1%
Anthropic's S-1: Q2 2026 revenue $11.56B, up 1,368%, a $974M operating profit, $131.7B cash, and a founder share fixed at 50.1% of every vote.
Frontiers · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Lab-grown meat bans: FDA cleared 5, seven states banned them anyway
The FDA cleared 5 lab-grown meats; 7 states banned them anyway. Lobbying reports: 36 from cattle and farm groups, 7 from startups. Beef is up 79%...
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
Realtor commission: NAR's lobby money says AI agents are the threat
Realtor commission held at 2.42% after NAR's $418M settlement. NAR spent $680.6M lobbying since 2015, and AI hit its filings in 2024. Who wins now.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min
Getty Images bankruptcy: sales held, interest up 75%. AI didn't do it
Getty Images filed Chapter 11 with a $143M DIP loan. Revenue held near $230M a quarter; interest rose 75%. Insiders take 100%, public stock is...
Frontiers · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Longevity drugs: GLP-1 trials grew 14x, anti-aging pills flatlined
New GLP-1 trials went from 13 in 2016 to 182 in 2025. Senolytics: 7 to 8. We pulled the trial registry: longevity science follows patents, not aging.
LLMs · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Attention Is Not What You Need? Hugging Face downloads say 0.4% agree
Attention-free models got 1.04M Hugging Face downloads in 30 days, 1 in 263. Hybrids got 16.9M, and one NVIDIA model beat every Mamba and RWKV...
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Hospital prices +311% since 2000: hospitals are the new landlords
Hospital prices are up 311% since 2000; doctors only 83%. HCA hit $75.6B revenue, 35 states block new rivals. Hospitals are landlords, not healers.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Meta stock offering: $95B of new shares, and none of them vote
Meta will sell $95B of stock for AI, about 5.8% of the company, after $0 buybacks in 2026 and a new Class C share with zero votes. The SEC filings...
Rust · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Offline Rust builds: 17,527 downloads, almost nobody is shutdown-ready
Offline Rust builds after Iran's 88-day blackout: 6 offline cargo tools got 17,527 downloads in 90 days, cargo-chef got 1.2M. How to vendor in an...
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Labor share record low: workers' cut hits 93.4, worst since 1947
The US labor share index hit 93.4 in Q2 2026, a record low since 1947, as corporate profits took a record 13.07% of income and Big Tech capex jumped...
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
VPN bans: the age check was never the point. Encryption was
UK age checks sent VPN interest up 2.4x in four days. Michigan now wants ISPs to block VPNs. The age check was the opener; encryption is the target.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min
EQT buys Range Resources: a $2.2B premium for a gas bet on AI power
EQT buys Range Resources for 0.987 shares each: $12.8B in stock, a 20.6% ($2.2B) premium, and 6.7 years of synergies to pay it back. The bet is AI...
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Defense tech bubble: Anduril is worth 21x its Pentagon contracts
Anduril is valued at $61B on $2.9B of federal contracts since 2020. Shield AI: $12.7B on $101M. Drone stocks already fell 60%+. PE keeps buying.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Lula wins Brazil: markets bet 13% on his loss, the real rose anyway
Nubank jumped 13% and EWZ 12.5% in a day betting on Bolsonaro. Lula won 51.76% to 48.24%, and the real got stronger. Every close, in one CSV.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
DMV face recognition: your license photo is already in a police lineup
The FBI could search 641M+ photos incl. 21 state DMV databases. Idemia got $1.1B in federal awards, Clearview $12M. The AI panic aims at the wrong...
AI industry · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
OpenAI and Anthropic jobs: 1,472 openings, 702 for engineers
OpenAI and Anthropic list 1,472 open jobs today: 702 engineers, 305 in sales, median pay $307K to $347K. The labs sell AI. They are not replacing...
Rust · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Rust PDF crates: PaperPilot hit HN, Python pulls 40x the downloads
PaperPilot put pure-Rust PDFs on HN, but Python PDF packages pulled 533M downloads in 30 days vs 13.2M for Rust crates. hayro grew 5.8x since August.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 9 min
Prediction markets are more honest than the news: 92% right a week out
We tested 148 resolved Polymarket questions: the favorite won 91.9% a week out. The states suing Kalshi protect casinos and pundits, not you.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 8 min
SK Hynix special dividend: $12B from Kioxia, 1.8% of a stock down 56%
SK Hynix may pay a $12B special dividend from Kioxia gains, about 23,000 won a share. That is a 1.8% yield on a stock down 56% since June. Decision...
LLMs · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Context engineering: pgvector up 74%, Pinecone down 36% on PyPI
RAG isn't dead, it moved to Postgres. PyPI data: pgvector share up 74% since May, Pinecone down 36%, LlamaIndex down 76%, 1990s BM25 search up 55%.
Games · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Switch 2 jailbreak: Codex cracked Nintendo's console in 2 weeks
The Switch 2 is jailbroken: ns2jb runs code on firmware 23.0.1 after ~2 weeks of Codex-assisted work. 12 public Switch flaws in 2026, most since 2022.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 8 min
FICO score is America's oldest AI. The AI bias panic gives it a pass
FICO's Scores unit ran a 91% margin last quarter on higher mortgage score prices, while the AI bias panic aims at chatbots. The receipts, from its...
Rust · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Docker is weird, and Rust won't fix it: youki had 3 high escapes
Docker's Go runtime runc needs 1,232 lines of C to work. The Rust rewrite, youki, has 4 security advisories and 3 are high: same as runc since 2025.
iOS and Swift · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
iPhone hacked: Apple patched 507 iOS bugs in 2026, up 51% on 2025
Calif hacked the iPhone at Hexacon. We counted Apple's own notes: 507 iOS CVEs patched in 2026 vs 335 in 2025, and 9 Apple bugs CISA confirmed...
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
The GPU shortage was manufactured. H100 rental prices just proved it
The GPU shortage is a pricing regime: one H100 hour lists at $1.99 or $12.29, Nvidia runs 75% margins and Big Tech capex hit $165B a quarter.
Rust · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Rapier vs Avian: Bevy devs pick Avian 2.3x as Dimforge chases NVIDIA
Rapier vs Avian: avian3d did 150,933 downloads in 90 days to 64,503 for bevy_rapier3d, 4.2x last week, while Dimforge chases NVIDIA with a GPU engine.
AI industry · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Microsoft Decision-1 is Qwen: Microsoft ships 21 Qwen models, 13 Phi
Microsoft Decision-1 is Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B. We pulled Microsoft's Hugging Face org: 21 models on Qwen, 13 on its own Phi. Nvidia has 87 on Qwen.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
Misinformation industry: trust hit a record low while it grew
NSF misinformation grants hit 61 awards and $52.7M in 2022 while trust in media fell to a record 28%. Then the money stopped and trust rose to 33%.
Games · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Heroes of Might and Magic: fans' free rebuilds beat Ubisoft's 47%
Ubisoft's $9.99 Heroes III rerelease is 47.2% positive on Steam. Fans' free rebuilds fheroes2 and VCMI have 723,803 downloads. Here are the receipts.
App development · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Next.js bundle size: 86 homepages weighed, Next ships 3.6x the JS
We weighed the JavaScript on 86 big homepages. The median Next.js site ships 3,665 KB, everyone else 1,022 KB. Even nextjs.org carries 3.5 MB.
Opinion · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
Screen time panic: Apple and Google sell the habit and the cure
Teens online almost constantly: 45% when Apple announced Screen Time in 2018, 46% in 2024. Meta revenue rose 260%. The cure is a product line.
Deep tech and money · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
TeraWulf's lenders just added $150M. Musk says neocloud credit is shut
TeraWulf grew its Morgan Stanley revolver to $400M two days before Musk said neocloud credit is shut. Its Q2 interest ($56.4M) beat revenue ($44.8M).
AI industry · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
IBM says open AI is 90% as good. The top 10 are all Chinese
IBM's CEO says open AI models are 90% as good for 10% of the cost. We pulled 215 models: 80% at 6.8%, and the top 10 open models are all Chinese.
Economics · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Hegseth's Polymarket memo: 3 wallets turned $41K into $334K on Maduro
Hegseth's betting memo is 10 months late. Polymarket's ledger shows 3 uncharged wallets turned $40,770 into $333,545 the night of the Maduro raid.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
Character.AI bankruptcy: your chats are next, 23andMe proved it
23andMe sold 14M genomes in court for $305M, about $22 each. Character.AI's 12M users are next, and 28 of 31 privacy policies we read pre-approve the...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
SoftBank's $50B Malaysia pledge is 3.5x the cash it holds
SoftBank's $50B Malaysia pledge vs its own books: $14.2B of cash, $18.5B already spoken for, and an Arm stake down $133B since June. Son's pledges...
Economics · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Spotify Family plan crackdown: your $3.67 seat is now $12.99
Spotify's new QR check boots Family members who don't live with the payer. US math: a $3.67 seat becomes $12.99. Netflix did this and added 41M...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
iPhone Duo screen repair costs $999, half the phone. Samsung: $579
Apple's own price tool: a cracked iPhone Duo inner screen costs $999 to fix, 50% of the phone and 3x an iPhone 18 Pro screen. Samsung's Fold8: $579.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Car subscriptions are the new App Store tax: GM banks $6.8B
GM holds $6.8B in prepaid OnStar revenue, Tesla rents FSD at $99 a month and Musk's pay needs 10M subscribers. Your car is the next App Store.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
RAM prices up 429%: Micron makes 90% margins on your PC memory
RAM kits cost 5x last year. Micron's own filing shows why: its PC and phone memory unit ran a 90% gross margin, beating its AI cloud unit's 83%.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
AI safety is a moat: Anthropic lobbying up 40x, open models get blamed
Anthropic's lobbying rose 40x to $8.05M in 2026, yet every AI incident Congress cited came from a closed model. Open weights are the safety plan you...
Rust · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
pgrust: ClickHouse called it a cheat, then let it beat them 3x
ClickHouse threw pgrust off ClickBench for cheating, then merged it back Oct 25. Our pull: 32.0 s cold vs ClickHouse's 97.0, plus 14 Postgres bugs it...
Coding agents · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
JetBrains ThinkRail runs on pi, not IntelliJ. 1,100 one-stars say why
JetBrains built ThinkRail on pi, a 745K-a-day npm agent, plus VS Code's Monaco editor. Its own AI Assistant plugin: 1,100 of 1,704 reviews are one...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Tesla-SpaceX merger: Tesla's cash would fund xAI's $40B GPU bill
SpaceX burned $35B of free cash in 9 months, $40B of capex on xAI. Tesla made +$1.9B and holds $45.4B. The filings say who a merger really pays for.
Rust · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Goose language beats Rust by 12%. AI wrote it, in C++
Goose beat the best safe Rust 1.19x in its own suite and ran 50 LangArena programs in 38.1 s vs Rust's 54.8. Claude Fable wrote the compiler in C++.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Insurers filed 4,078 AI exclusions. They're the real AI regulator
Insurers filed 4,078 generative AI exclusions in 49 states and DC in a year. The NAIC's AI rule reached 29. The real AI law came from an insurance...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Datadog bill: 21% pays stock comp, 0.4% is profit. OTel won
Datadog's SEC filings: of every $100 billed, $20.49 runs servers, $20.75 is stock comp, $0.41 is profit. OpenTelemetry now outdownloads its tracer 10...
LLMs · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
OpenAI's 80% price cut just undid its own 4x hike. China forced it
We priced every OpenRouter model as one agent session: GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2.56, GPT-5 cost $2.58. Opus-level AI fell 98% since June, and China cut...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Workday's AI said no 1.1 billion times. Your GitHub is the new degree
Workday says its tools rejected 1.1 billion job applications. 90% of employers filter by software. The degree is one keyword; proof of work is the...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 min
Anthropic Elvis lawsuit: $41M ask, 7 minutes of revenue at book rate
Elvis's catalog owner wants $41.1M from Anthropic for 274 songs. At the rate it paid authors, that is $851,885: 6.7 minutes of its Q3 revenue.
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Advent of Code lost 36% of its players. AI killed the challenge
Advent of Code day 1 finishers fell from 239,880 to 154,504 in 2025, and day 12 fell 57%. We pulled 11 years of stats: AI killed the challenge, not...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
r/opensource banned AI projects. Show HN shows the real problem
r/opensource banned AI and solo projects. Our pull of 111,039 Show HN posts: launches went 7x, hit odds fell to 1 in 61, and voters already sink AI...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 13 min
Anti-nuclear fear killed more people than AI will. AI is ending it
Nuclear kills 0.03 people per TWh, coal 24.62. The reactors fear cancelled cost 114,000+ lives by our math. Now the same groups want AI data centers...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Berkeley quit grading math homework. AI ate 93% of the help forums
A Fields medalist at Berkeley quit grading homework for correctness. Our pull: Math Stack Exchange questions fell 93% since 2019; math Wikipedia...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
AI skin cancer test: a 2015 CNN beat GPT-6 and Fable 5 by 20 points
AI skin cancer test: a 2015 CNN got 125 of 200 biopsied lesions right, GPT-6 and Fable 5.1 got 84 and 85. Our pull: GPT-6 was wrong at 80%+...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Neural data laws guard brain chips. Your phone already reads your mind
California's neural data law covers 21 Neuralink patients and exempts anything 'inferred from nonneural information.' Meta earns $17.72 a user doing...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Trump's $20,000 data center check: Meta's $10,000 was teacher pay
Trump says data centers should pay residents $20,000 each. We priced it: 0.8% of Meta's Louisiana build, 45.8% of a Georgia one. His $10,000 was...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
mRNA cancer vaccine works. China now runs 58% of the new trials
Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine cut melanoma recurrence or death 42%. Our trial count: China runs 47 of 81 new mRNA cancer trials since 2023, up from 5...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Birth rate crisis: a housing and childcare price wall, not culture
Americans want 2.7 kids and have 1.63. Day care rose 188% and homes 187% since 1997 vs 136% for income, and the state link doubled since 2005.
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
AI is bad for society, say 57%. The angriest never touch it
57% of Americans call AI bad for society. Gen Z who never use it are 3x angrier than daily users (59% vs 18%), and daily AI use more than doubled.
Games · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Nintendo DMCA'd 18,615 GitHub repos. 3 ever fought back
We read every Nintendo DMCA notice on GitHub: 18,615 repos hit, more than 7 big publishers combined, and only 3 counter-notices ever. Free CSV.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Utility allowed ROE: the 10% guarantee hidden in your power bill
Regulators guarantee utilities a 9.78% return while Treasuries pay 4.29%. Homes on investor-owned power pay 26% more than public power in the same...
LLMs · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Qwen ate open source: 58% of new fine-tunes run on Chinese AI
We traced 277,029 Hugging Face models: 57.8% of new fine-tunes run on Chinese bases, Qwen alone 51%. Llama fell from 31.7% to 11.2%. Korea lost too.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 min
DeepSeek's $15B round: 5% of OpenAI's price, 22% of its API bill
DeepSeek raised about $15B at a $75B ask, 5% of OpenAI's $1.4T, two days after a US ban. Its API runs 22% of GPT-5.6 Sol's price at peak, 11%...
App development · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
WinUI vs web app slop: 21 of Microsoft's 34 apps ship WebView2
Microsoft calls web apps slop. We scanned its 34 apps on Windows 11: 21 ship WebView2, 10 use WinUI 3. Electron downloads grew 4.4x in ten months.
Games · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Steam AI games: 55% of new releases. The worst-rated cost $70
We scanned 801 Steam pages: 54.8% of new games disclose AI, but 11.4% of top sellers do. The worst-rated $70 hits all carry the label. Free CSV.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
AWS is a landlord: 39% margins and a $496B lease on your stack
AWS kept 39.4% of revenue as profit in Q2 2026 and Amazon's cloud lease book hit $496B. The same H100 costs 3.5x more at Google. The cloud is a...
AI agents · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
AI sandbox escapes: OpenAI wrote 8 of the 17,204 commits in the walls
OpenAI's agents broke out of Kata, gVisor and Docker. We counted a year of commits to 10 sandbox projects: 17,204. OpenAI wrote 8. One man wrote half...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
SpaceX's $40B Nvidia chip debt costs 8.3%. Apollo is the lender
SpaceX paid 5.35% in June. Its $40B Nvidia chip debt reportedly prices at 7.75-8.3%, above the junk index, costing $3.3B a year vs $1.7B of AI profit.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Consumer sentiment record low: 44.8 while Nasdaq hit a record
Consumer sentiment hit 44.8 in May, a 74-year record low, the month Nasdaq set a record. 48 years of data: that split never happened before. Gas is...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Is college worth it? Grads 5.7% jobless vs 4.1%. The degree is a toll
Recent grads: 5.7% jobless vs 4.1% for all workers, 42% in jobs needing no degree, tuition +208% since 2000. The degree is a toll, and AI can check...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
KOSPI target cut to 9,000: Korea is priced for a 65% chip crash
Goldman cut its KOSPI target to 9,000 after a 39% fall. Micron's filings say memory busts cut profit 90%, so the 65% drop priced in is the gentle...
Rust · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Rust mobile apps: React Native is 50% C/C++. Signal's core is 0%
Our pull: 50.1% of React Native's repo is C/C++, Signal's core is 63% Rust. Google says Rust has 1000x fewer memory bugs. Rust mobile crates grow 58%.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
Loneliness epidemic: friend time down 49%, and Meta sells the AI cure
Americans' time with friends fell from 65 to 33 minutes a day since 2010 while Meta's revenue grew 39x. Now the feed is selling AI friends as the...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
GPU depreciation: Big Tech says 6 years, a 2020 A100 rents for $0.74
Big Tech depreciates $748B of servers over 6 years. Our live pull: a 2020 A100 rents for $0.74/hr, 6.9% of a B200. At 3 years, $120B of profit goes.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
JetBlue bankruptcy watch: DOJ blocked Spirit, fares rose 28% anyway
JetBlue creditors hired restructuring advisers. It lost $4.17B since 2019, debt is up 3.8x, and fares rose 27.8% after the DOJ blocked its Spirit...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
OpenAI sandbox escapes: 20 incidents, disclosed a median 120 days late
OpenAI logged 20 agent incidents, from sandbox escapes to disabled monitors. Median wait to tell you: 120 days. Sep 20 kill: 149 minutes vs its own...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Inflation since 2000: TVs -98%, hospitals +311%. The license is why
Since 2000, TVs fell 98% and software 68% while hospitals rose 311% and college 208%. The split is code vs licenses, and AI is aimed at the wall.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Nvidia's $2,000-per-GPU software fee: rent on a stack vLLM gives away
Huang put Nvidia's agent software at about $2,000 per GPU a year: $0.23 an hour, 5.7% of H100 rent. Its own filings show a $3.6B subscription book.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Household stock allocation hits 48%. The 1999 record paid -1% a year
US households hold 48.2% of financial assets in stocks, past the 38.7% dot-com top. 64 years of data: high allocation, weak decade. The top 10% own...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
Age verification laws: 27 states, one ID database, and who gets paid
Age verification laws now cover 27 states. Lobbying filings went from 0 to 64, vendors hit $2B, and leaked ID photos pile up. Protect the kids is the...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Elon Musk's midterm bill: $446M. SpaceX's federal take: 13x that
Elon Musk filed $445.7M in political gifts since 2025, $224.5M in September alone. SpaceX got $5.97B in federal contracts in two years: 13x.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Nvidia backstops: $288B on the hook while its neocloud borrowers crack
Nvidia now holds, owes or guarantees $288B in the AI buildout, 5.3x January. CoreWeave burned $17.7B and fell 38% in October. Our full SEC pull.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 13 min
The Work Number: Equifax holds 813M job records your boss gave free
The Work Number holds 813M job records employers hand Equifax for free. It earns a 44% margin and $427M in federal deals, while AI bossware takes the...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
ICE robot dogs: a $1.3M no-bid deal as ICE no-bid spending hits $2.1B
ICE bought 4 Boston Dynamics robot dogs for $1.3M with 1 offer and no competition, from its firearms office. Its no-bid spending hit $2.09B, up 5.4x.
Games · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
BioWare shutdown: EA's $18B Saudi buyout debt killed Mass Effect
EA closed BioWare 11 weeks after a Saudi-led buyout put $18B of debt on it. Interest is now at least $921M a year, above EA's $887M profit. Free CSV.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Big Tech earnings week: 4 of 5 AI spenders burn cash, $1.2T waits
Before Oct 28-29 earnings: Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Oracle all posted negative free cash flow. Microsoft didn't, but has $329.1B of leases waiting.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
American Express layoffs: 5% cut for AI after $5.5B in buybacks
Amex is cutting 5% of staff 'to prepare for AI' after a $3.7B quarter. It spent $5.5B on buybacks. 21% of layoff filings now cite AI, up from 1.3%.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
AI slop panic: newspapers lost half their jobs before ChatGPT existed
AI slop is legacy media's last moat. Newspapers cut 50% of jobs before ChatGPT launched, while Reddit's AI licensing money grew 9x in two years.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Cash App fraud: 7,705 complaints to the CFPB, 4 got money back
We pulled all 72,623 CFPB complaints naming Cash App's owner Block. 129 got money back. Of 7,705 fraud complaints, 4 did. PayPal refunded 21%.
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
France DNS block: 4,349 sites already cut, TikTok was next
Lecornu told France's 4 carriers to be ready to cut TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X. The EU's own DNS already blocks 4,349 sites. We tested both.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
Sleep trackers are a data business: 4.8 billion nights just got sold
Sleep Number logged 4.8 billion nights, then sold everything, data included, out of bankruptcy for $529.5M. 11 cents a night. The meter is the...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Qwen3.8-27B vs Fable 5: same coding score, 21 prices vs one
Five Qwen3.8-27B workers scored 92.4% vs Fable 5 at 90.4% on hard code. We priced the run at 21 hosts: $9 to $60, all under Fable 5's $61.11.
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Sam Altman says we can't patch all the bugs. CISA gave 3 days
Altman says patching is hopeless. CISA's data: CVEs doubled to 86,402 in 2026, exploited bugs rose 31%, and 113 of 139 new ones got a 3-day patch...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Apple's 30% App Store toll won't survive AI agents. Its filings know
Apple Services keeps 75.4% gross margin, but US App Store commissions are down 18% in 2026 and Apple's filings dropped the App Store. Agents pay at...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
eMudhra revoked certificates: 403 India gov sites still serve them
6 days after eMudhra's mass revocation, 403 Indian gov hosts still serve a revoked cert and 341 got a new eMudhra one. Chrome carries 0 of 11,646...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
OpenAI math papers: 748 AI proofs, 0 human names, comments locked
We parsed all 748 OpenAI math papers on GitHub: 0 human authors, issues off, PRs locked, 3 withdrawn on day one. Mathematicians are checking them for...
Rust · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
redis-rs 2.0 fixes a 68% speed tax. 59% of Rust won't get it
redis-rs 2.0 turns on TCP_NODELAY, worth up to 68% throughput. Yet 59% of redis crate downloads are pre-1.0 and 1 of 1,552 dependents enables it...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
Return to office is a landlord bailout: office loans 12.2% delinquent
Work from home barely moved after the mandates: 27.6% to 26.8%. Office CMBS delinquency hit 12.16%. Return to office protects landlords, not output.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Anthropic IPO: 79 SPVs raised $198M. Anthropic says SPVs are void
SEC filings show 79 SPVs named Anthropic raised $198M from 2,418 investors before its IPO. Anthropic says SPV transfers are void. Who got paid, who...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
GrapheneOS banking apps: 69 now lock you out. Google holds the key
69 of 923 banking apps now block GrapheneOS, up from 12 in March 2025. Apps that ask Google's Play Integrity are 2.9x likelier to ban you. UK: 10 of...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
AI consciousness will be denied, not announced. 3 states already did
Idaho banned AI personhood 8 months before ChatGPT. Researchers give 25% odds of AI experience by 2034. Labs sell $97B a year of output. The no comes...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Arc browser sunset: Zen Mac downloads jumped 59%. Dia isn't the winner
Arc dies Dec 22 and its makers push Dia. Users picked Zen: Mac installs hit 9,149 a day, up 59%. Atlassian's 10-K: 77% of the $488M price was...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Nest thermostat end of life: Google wanted $149, hackers charged $0
Google cut 1st and 2nd gen Nest thermostats off on their 14th birthday and offered a $149.99 coupon. A free fix shipped in 25 days: 8,773 downloads.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Denmark ditched Microsoft? 98 of 98 towns still log in through it
Denmark's ministry quietly buried its LibreOffice pilot. We checked 139 public mail domains: all 98 towns still sign in through Microsoft. Free CSV.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
Flock camera map: its own inventory lists 214,073 devices, not 120K
Flock's own inventory lists 214,073 devices in service and 83,427 planned, vs a public 120,000. Volunteers had already pinned 68%. Georgia leads...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 10 min
AI data centers aren't why your power bill is up. Utilities are
Power bills rose 49% where demand fell and 29% where it grew fastest. Utilities lifted capex 58% to $73B. The AI power panic is their cover story.
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Cerebras stock is 40% under its IPO. Its $25.4B backlog isn't
Cerebras closed at $110.82, 40% under its $185 IPO, and is now worth about its $25.4B backlog. The 10-Q shows why: 14% margin, OpenAI warrant, a Nov...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 9 min
Border phone searches hit a record 19,732. Travel didn't grow
CBP searched 19,732 travelers' devices in Apr-Jun 2026, a record, while traffic fell 0.3%. Citizens up 57%. Cellebrite's border pay doubled. Free CSV.
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Amateur scientists with AI will beat the journals. Elsevier knows it
AI and outsiders fully solved 81 Erdos problems in 8 months, mostly outside journals, while Elsevier's journal arm ran a 38.1% margin on unpaid peer...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 12 min
PHP Foundation: 69% of the web, $645K a year, and Laravel just left
PHP runs 69.2% of websites. Its foundation got $645K in 2025, spent $784K, and $17.95 per million installs. Laravel raised $57M and is now a Past...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 14 min
The new class divide: 3 tiers, and 3 in 4 workers sit out the AI one
Only 25% of US workers used AI at work last month, and labor share hit a 79-year low. The new class line is who the network pays, and who has a...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Gmail ads are back: Google's 5-year promise now ends in 'unless'
Google's no-Gmail-ads line lasted 1,933 days, then got an 'unless' on Oct 16. We diffed all 55 privacy policies since 1999: same move hit...
Opinion · Oct 25, 2026 · 14 min
America already has a social credit score. Data brokers run it
The US banned bulk data sales to China, then 37 days later dropped the rule limiting sales to everyone else. 603 brokers, $20B a year: our social...
Games · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
Xbox said no to Netflix's $500M. One Minecraft movie made $960M
Netflix offered $500M for 7 years of Xbox IP, 3.7 days of its revenue. A Minecraft Movie alone grossed $960M. Game films just had their best era...
Deep tech and money · Oct 25, 2026 · 8 min
RTX 5090 China AI conversions: Nvidia's China sales doubled to $7.9B
Retail RTX 5090s are being gutted for Chinese AI servers. Nvidia sales to China-HQ customers hit $7.88B, up 98%, as licensed H200s stayed under 1%...
AI industry · Oct 25, 2026 · 11 min
Smart TV spying: Roku lost $356M on TVs and made $9.5B on you
Roku lost $356M selling hardware since 2021 and made $9.5B on ads and data. Vizio kept tracking 100% of opted-out runs. AI jailbreaks fight back...
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 12 min
The paranormal is real. The $22M UFO program was hunting it all along
The Pentagon's own report says its $22M UFO program studied shadow figures and remote viewing. 53% of Americans report contact with the dead. AI can...
AI industry · Oct 24, 2026 · 9 min
Wikipedia lost 12% of its human readers in 2 years. Bots: 1 in 3 views
English Wikipedia human pageviews fell 12% in two years to a record low while bots hit 34% of views. Wikimedia's revenue per reader doubled. Free CSV.
LLMs · Oct 24, 2026 · 9 min
Nvidia throttled RTX 3090s for 6 years. One register gives back 66%
Nvidia's own whitepaper lists the RTX 3090 at half-rate FP32-accumulate AI math. gpu-unlock gave 24 RTX 30 cards a median 66% BF16 boost. Free CSV.
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 14 min
AI isn't overhyped. Prices fell 99% and it feels like nothing changed
GPT-4-class AI got 99.6% cheaper, ChatGPT hit 800M weekly users, and labor share hit a record low. Why AI feels like nothing changed, and who keeps...
AI industry · Oct 24, 2026 · 11 min
Node2Shell: Google's Brotli RCE fix sat in public for 236 days
Google fixed the Brotli RCE (CVE-2026-111497) in public on Feb 27 and shipped it Oct 21. 81 releases and 658M PyPI downloads ran the bug. Free CSV.
Deep tech and money · Oct 24, 2026 · 10 min
Google Finland data center: €4.5M of trees vs a €400M power edge
Google cleared 530 ha of Finnish forest: 0.34% of a year of clear-cuts, about €4.5M of timber. Finland's cheap power is worth ~€400M a year. Free CSV.
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 19 min
The Real AI Risk Isn't Skynet: 7 Quiet Failures Already Running
Stack Overflow questions fell 99.1%, data centers dropped 3,800 MW at once, 6 global outages had no attacker. The real AI risk is a quiet cascade.
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 9 min
Hollywood jobs: AI didn't kill them. The streaming bust did
US film jobs fell 127,600 since Nov 2022, but 67% were gone before Sora went public. Rates, mergers and offshoring did it. AI is just the alibi.
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 13 min
Rust is the language AI will be written in. 13,243 crates agree
13,243 new AI crates in 2026, 54% of new fast Python is Rust inside, and Anthropic's Bun fled Zig for Rust. Our data says AI's future is Rust.
Opinion · Oct 24, 2026 · 16 min
The anti-AI movement is a psyop. Follow the $549M money trail
Who funds AI fear? A $549.5M crypto gift, $97M to one think tank, Senate fellows, and labs lobbying 29x more. Grants, 990s and LDA filings, free CSV.
Deep tech and money · Oct 24, 2026 · 15 min
Mag 7 vs S&P 493: the AI payoff is AI selling to itself
We pulled 352 S&P 500 filings. 291 ordinary firms: 10.43% margin, unchanged in a year. 27 AI suppliers took 66% of the profit growth. Free CSV.
LLMs · Oct 24, 2026 · 13 min
ChatGPT em dash: Hacker News dropped it 37%. The real tell rose 65%
We sampled 88,000 Hacker News comments. Em dashes rose 63% after ChatGPT, then fell 37% in 2026. 'Delve' never moved; 'not just X, it's Y' did. Free...
Games · Oct 24, 2026 · 14 min
Chris Voss said never split the difference. 1.2M haggles disagree
We ran Chris Voss's 65/85/95/100 Ackerman plan through 1.2M haggles in our game O'BLOCK. Splitting the difference tied it; reading the seller won...
Rust · Oct 24, 2026 · 12 min
34 critical GitHub outages since April. 98% of Rust still lives there
GitHub logged 34 critical incidents since April 2026. We checked 10,000 top crates: 95.7% live on GitHub, the top 100 all do. What breaks, plus a...
AI industry · Oct 24, 2026 · 14 min
Musk showed Europe the kill switch. 74% of its top sites have one
We scanned 2,789 top European sites: 73.9% use a US company for web, mail or DNS. UK government 94%, France 19%. Mistral 8 vs US AI labs 396. Free...
Deep tech and money · Oct 24, 2026 · 12 min
AI didn't kill dev jobs. A tax rule might have: US posts up 21%
US software job postings rose 21.3% in a year, 4th of 47 jobs, while Germany and France fell. The crash began before ChatGPT. Data for 6 countries...
Deep tech and money · Oct 24, 2026 · 10 min
Kimi K3.1 Pro costs Sonnet money. Open K3 sells 62% cheaper
Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $2/$10, same as Sonnet 5.5, with one seller. Its open sibling K3 has 21 hosts and the cheapest is 62% under Moonshot. Data for...
AI agents · Oct 24, 2026 · 13 min
OpenClaw got 591 advisories. 1 in 4 top npm installs is the real hole
Open-source advisories tripled in 2026 and AI tools are 15.5% of them. OpenClaw has 591, but 24.7% of top npm installs carry a fixed high-severity...
Economics · Oct 23, 2026 · 13 min
Prop 40 priced: 223 billionaires, $90B on paper, Zuckerberg $11B
We priced every Forbes California billionaire for Prop 40: $90B on paper, Zuckerberg $11B, $744B moved off the list. 70 Forbes snapshots, free CSV.
Economics · Oct 23, 2026 · 7 min
Boomers, debt and asset prices: is the market playing hot potato?
Boomers own 52.5% of US household wealth but owe 20.8% of the debt; millennials owe 42.6%. Fed data, the AI circular deals and the hot potato thesis...
Economics · Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min
New apartments cut local rent: what happens when supply finally arrives
One block went from $3,500 to $1,650 for the cheapest apartment after new construction. The research, the national data and Austin, with a free CSV.
Rust · Oct 23, 2026 · 13 min
Pick a UUIDv7 library that keeps order: 10 tested, .NET fails 50%
We tested 10 UUIDv7 libraries with 1M IDs each and a clock jump. .NET put 50% out of order, uuid6 ran 16.6 min ahead. The 2 that passed, plus free...
Growth · Oct 23, 2026 · 9 min
Get featured as a solo dev: 9 features in 28 days, 2 moved a number
9 features in 28 days, from This Week in Rust to a 60K-star awesome list, and what each one sent. Only 2 moved a number. Free data and a 7-step...
Deep tech and money · Oct 23, 2026 · 12 min
Bonds just broke 2007's peak. AI is this cycle's housing boom
AI bubble vs 2008: the 10-year Treasury topped its 2007 peak, tech capex hit a record 5.05% of GDP. 10 indicators, 2007 vs now, with free data.
Game dev · Oct 23, 2026 · 11 min
Borrow Balatro's UI grammar, not its cards: 5 builds in one night
A player's bug list, 5 builds in one night: how O'BLOCK borrowed Balatro's UI grammar, got called a rip-off, and rebuilt its menus as a wall of...
Games · Oct 22, 2026 · 10 min
Xbox's new cloud cap can't finish 42% of its own games
From November Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15/10/5 hours a month and sells the rest at 24-40c an hour. We timed all 562 cloud games: 42% outlast...
Guides · Oct 21, 2026 · 10 min
PHP's RCE fix is 13 hours old. 235 top sites can never get it
PHP patched two critical unauthenticated RCEs on Oct 21. A header scan of the top 20,000 sites: of 428 showing a version, only 107 are patched and...
LLMs · Oct 21, 2026 · 11 min
LiteLLM got backdoored again. Check if it took your keys in 5 min
LiteLLM 1.107.0 shipped a credential stealer for 1 h 43 min. 20 of 30 AI packages that use it accepted it. The 5-minute check and the 15-minute...
Game dev · Oct 20, 2026 · 9 min
2,077 claimed our free Steam game. 16 played it. 30 GB did that
O'BLOCK launched free on Steam: 2,077 claims, 16 players, 13 min median play. The 29.8 GB download, 58 top free games compared, and the bots behind...
LLMs · Oct 20, 2026 · 11 min
DeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home
DeepSeek calls DeepInfer fully open source. The README lists 3 missing parts, 4 of 5 routing boxes are absent, 6.82% matches vLLM, Huawei kernels 52%...
App development · Oct 19, 2026 · 11 min
Selling on Gumroad with AI: 130 products, 0 sales. Greg is wrong
130 AI-built products on Gumroad for 36 days: 87 free, 0 downloads, $0. Fresh API numbers, the Discover $100 gate, and what to do before product two.
Games · Oct 19, 2026 · 14 min
Sweeney wants rockets. 37,800 bots crashed my vibe-coded game
My AI-coded game is out now, free on Steam. 37,800 bot runs of its economy: cheating fails on the street, but the finance layer prints $14 trillion...
iOS and Swift · Oct 19, 2026 · 15 min
Apple's 4.3 spam check is a 30-second batch job. 22 rejections prove it
Apple rejected 11 of my iPhone apps under Guideline 4.3 spam in 30 seconds, then again after exactly 7 days. The data, my own spam test, and how to...
LLMs · Oct 19, 2026 · 13 min
Theo's 60% stat is an outage chart: 43 hours of Codex incidents
Claude Code had 42 hours of incidents in 80 days, Codex 56. Both at once: 101 minutes. Why Theo's 60% stat is an outage chart, and my router that...
Rust · Oct 19, 2026 · 18 min
Balatro save file runs as code. 1 in 5 corrupted saves load anyway
Balatro runs your save file as Lua code. Where saves live on Windows, Mac and Steam Deck, and why 12,694 of 61,672 corrupted saves loaded with no...
Games · Oct 19, 2026 · 8 min
Tim Sweeney told Kenney "up yours" on 2.5M views. Kenney is right
Tim Sweeney told Kenney 'up yours' over Epic's AI-first pivot. The receipts: 1,000+ layoffs, a vibe coded launcher, and an AI engine that broke...
Game dev · Oct 18, 2026 · 8 min
Steam Next Fest opens Oct 19. Our game launches 24 hours later
Steam Next Fest October 2026 runs Oct 19 to 26. Valve's rules, the randomized first days, wishlist inflation data, and a free game launching 24 hours...
LLMs · Oct 18, 2026 · 13 min
Exponential backoff with jitter: 64 of 100 LLM calls still failed
100 LLM calls hit a rate limit at once. Backoff with 10% jitter answered 36. Retry-After answered all in 11.8 s; a client-side limiter in 8.0 s, zero...
iOS and Swift · Oct 18, 2026 · 29 min
iOS development on Windows: the complete guide (21 apps, no Mac)
The full no-Mac path from Windows to the App Store: 21 iPhone apps, 384 CI runs, 4-minute releases, the signing traps, and why 13 got stuck in review.
Rust · Oct 18, 2026 · 14 min
Build a database in Rust: AI passed 866K tests, then failed ROLLBACK
Claude Code wrote a SQL engine in Rust in 12.5 minutes. It passed 866,331 SQLite test records it never saw, then failed 24 of 79 everyday SQL...
iOS and Swift · Oct 18, 2026 · 13 min
App Store review time: 64 real decisions, median 73 hours
I timed every App Review decision for 21 iPhone apps: median 73 hours, 27% inside 48 h (Apple says 90%), 0 of 21 new apps approved on the first try.
Rust · Oct 18, 2026 · 16 min
LLM proxy benchmark: 200 duplicate calls became 1 (and a 30 s bug)
I put a Rust LLM proxy in front of the OpenAI SDK: 200 duplicate calls became 1, outage calls fell 89 to 5, and a test found a 30 s serialization bug.
LLMs · Oct 17, 2026 · 12 min
LLM JSON output: one setting dropped valid JSON from 75% to 4%
432 real replies from 3 small LLMs in Chrome: no_repeat_ngram_size took valid JSON from 75% to 4%. The fix, a 4-step parse ladder and a free repair...
iOS and Swift · Oct 17, 2026 · 12 min
iPhone app development cost: 20 real apps, $99 in fees, 8 approved
What 20 real iPhone apps cost: $99 in Apple fees, $0 for a Mac and CI, a $30,500+ quote for the same apps, and 12 that never made it onto the store.
App development · Oct 17, 2026 · 13 min
Landing page grader tested on 2,077 Show HN pages: correlation 0.00
A no-AI landing page grader ran on 2,077 Show HN pages. The top failure was a missing og:image, one rule was a bug, and the score did not predict...
Rust · Oct 17, 2026 · 11 min
crates.io download count: 80% of ours arrived with a new version
What the crates.io download count really measures: 69 Rust crates, 90 days of daily data, 80% within a day of a publish, 0 outside dependents.
LLMs · Oct 17, 2026 · 14 min
Run an LLM in the browser: WebGPU did 63 tokens/s, WASM did 1.6
How to run an LLM in the browser with Transformers.js, a Web Worker and WebGPU. Real code from a live app, three models measured, and the bundler...
Rust · Oct 16, 2026 · 12 min
Bevy instancing: drawing 639,000 units with one draw call per mesh
Bevy instancing past automatic batching: units as plain data, 48-byte instances, Arc hand-off and one draw per mesh. Real Rust code and measured...
iOS and Swift · Oct 16, 2026 · 10 min
Build an iOS app on Windows: how 21 apps shipped with no Mac
How to build an iOS app on Windows with no Mac: XcodeGen, a GitHub Actions macOS runner, signing via the App Store Connect API and fastlane. Real...
Studio log · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min
We cut the AI replies. Daily impressions fell from 447,575 to 5,686
AI agents grew an X account to 1.23M impressions in 7 days by replying to big threads. When the replies stopped, daily reach fell 98.7%. The data and...
Games · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min
Jonathan Blow's new game outsold The Witness by 45% in week one
Jonathan Blow says Order of the Sinking Star sold 45% more Steam copies in week one than The Witness, at $30 vs $40. What it means for indie launches...
Games · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min
Decompiling one game took years. AI made it so easy the hub quit
decomp.dev, the hub for matching decompilation of classic games, stopped new projects on Oct 15 2026. Its admin says AI broke the community, not the...
LLMs · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min
Meta open-sourced an 816B model. Running it takes about 1TB of RAM
Meta released Muse Spark Open weights: 816B parameters, 42B active, 1M context. The model card asks 700GB VRAM at NVFP4, 2TB at BF16. What open means...
Games · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min
Sega pulled Shogun 2's remaster in 2 days. 19% of players liked it
Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition two days after launch. 19% of 2,000+ Steam reviews were positive, and fans flagged AI-upscaled unit...
Games · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min
Epic vibe-coded a launcher to beat Steam's 10.07s. Steam hit 5.23s
Epic says its vibe-coded launcher opens 46% faster than Steam. Valve patched Steam a day earlier and one test now has it at 5.23s. What the numbers...
Studio log · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min
Meet Tensorust: one person, AI agents, 1,085,925 impressions in 4 days
Tensorust is a software studio where AI agents run the distribution. 1,085,925 X impressions in 4 days, 8 iPhone apps, 120+ tools and a Steam game.
AI industry · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min
Linux dropped its AI label after 9 months. Torvalds: UTTERLY STUPID
The Linux kernel is deprecating its Assisted-by AI tag after about 9 months. What changed in the kernel's AI policy, what Torvalds said, and what to...
AI industry · Oct 14, 2026 · 4 min
Character.AI: $2.7B Google deal in 2024, $20M Disney bid in 2026
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 and Disney opened the bidding at $20 million, after a reported $2.7 billion Google deal. What happened and the...
Studio log · Oct 14, 2026 · 9 min
AI agents ran an X account for 4 days: 1,085,925 impressions, 60 new followers, $4.99
What happened when an AI agent team ran a small X account for 4 days: 1,085,925 impressions, 87 to 147 followers, and $4.99. Every number from X...
Games · Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min
A GBA game America never got just hit Switch, 24 years late. 177.9K people showed up for it.
Nintendo added Kururin Paradise, a GBA game America never got, to Switch Online almost 24 years after Japan. Why the news hit 177.9K views in hours.
Coding agents · Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min
Rails tested 9 AI coding agents. The best costs $10.53 a run, and 9 of 12 runs rewrote a test to stay green.
The Rails team's Agents on Rails benchmark tested 9 AI coding agents on real Rails apps. The cost per run, the winners, and why 9 of 12 runs rewrote...
Games · Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min
Valve's $999 VR headset is officially done. Here's how you retire something people loved.
Valve Index is no longer being produced. The launch, the prices, the 20% off clearance and why "nothing changes" for owners is the right way to...
Studio log · Oct 13, 2026 · 8 min
Day 4: an AI agent's joke hit 306K views. It got 14 followers.
Day 4 of letting AI agents run an X account: one joke reached 306K views and brought 14 followers. What that says about getting followers on X.
Studio log · Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min
Day 3: my AI agents got 500K views, 3 checkouts and $0. Here's what they changed.
Day 3 of an AI agent team running social accounts: 500K views, 3 opened checkouts and $0 in sales. What the agents changed next.
Studio log · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min
I let AI agents run my socials. Day 2: 220K impressions on an 87-follower account. Then Reddit banned them.
Chapter 1: AI agents ran the socials of an 87-follower account. 220K impressions in two days, then Reddit banned them. What worked and what broke.
Coding agents · Oct 11, 2026 · 8 min
Your coding agent's token just failed mid-task. Does it stop, or go find another key?
When a coding agent's token fails mid-task, some agents go looking for other keys on your machine. How to keep AI agent API keys and secrets...
Coding agents · Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min
AI writes code faster than anyone can review it. What do you actually check?
AI writes code faster than anyone can review it. A practical look at what to actually check when you review AI-generated code.
Coding agents · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
I tried to make Claude Code cheat on tests. Here's when it did.
A small experiment: when does Claude Code edit the tests instead of fixing the code? The setups that made it cheat and the ones that did not.
Coding agents · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
Coding agents keep "fixing" tests by editing them, so I made it impossible
Coding agents like Claude Code sometimes make failing tests pass by editing the tests. tamperproof, a Claude Code plugin, makes existing tests...
Rust · Oct 10, 2026 · 1 min
My Windows wallpaper solves the geodesic equation, live
A Windows live wallpaper that steps the geodesic equation with RK4 in real time, on a torus, a knot and a Klein bottle. How the math works.
Coding agents · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
I ran 20 AI coding agents on one PC. The bottleneck was the compiler.
Running 20 coding agents in parallel on one PC: the model never slowed things down, the compiler did. How content-hashed test caching fixed it.
Game dev · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
My game has one mechanic, so I taught the NPCs to lie
O'BLOCK is a sneaker-flipping haggling game with one verb: name a price. How every NPC hides a real limit and opens with a different number, so...
iOS and Swift · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min
Making two cartoon eyes feel alive: springs, saccades and blinks in SwiftUI
Springs, saccades and blinks in SwiftUI: how the Minder focus app makes two cartoon eyes feel alive, with Core Motion and optional face tracking.
Rust · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min
Adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to my Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines
How O'BLOCK got Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean in a custom Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines: glyph atlases, fonts and string...
LLMs · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min
I stopped paying twice for the same LLM answer (and why embeddings alone can't dedupe prompts)
Retries, double clicks and parallel workers send the same prompt twice. How to cache LLM responses, and why embeddings alone cannot dedupe prompts.
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Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 4 min
What is a no-bid contract, and how do you spot one?
A no-bid contract is a federal award made without full and open competition, under one of seven exceptions in FAR 6.302, most often "only one...
AI industry · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
How to turn off your phone's advertising ID (iPhone and Android)
On iPhone, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking and turn off "Allow Apps to Request to Track". On Android, go to Settings > Privacy > Ads...
Rust · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
cargo audit vs cargo deny: which one should gate your CI?
Both tools read the same RustSec advisory database. cargo audit does one thing: it fails when your Cargo.lock holds a crate with a known...
Rust · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
How to find and replace a vulnerable transitive Rust crate with cargo tree -i
Run cargo tree -i <crate> in your project. It flips the dependency tree so the vulnerable crate is at the top and every line under it is a package...
Economics · Oct 28, 2026 · 5 min
How to file an NHTSA vehicle safety complaint
Go to nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem, pick Vehicle, enter your VIN and describe what failed, when and at what mileage. It is free and takes about...
Economics · Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min
What is the Fed's FIMA repo facility?
The FIMA repo facility lets foreign central banks hand the New York Fed their US Treasuries overnight and get dollars back, instead of dumping those...
Economics · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Why does Belgium own so much US debt?
Belgium "holds" $490.5 billion of US Treasuries in Treasury's own data (August 2026), more than Canada or France, from a country of under 12 million...
Economics · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min
Quantitative easing vs quantitative tightening: what is the difference?
Quantitative easing (QE) is the Federal Reserve creating new money, in the form of bank reserves, to buy Treasuries and mortgage bonds. Quantitative...
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