Month: May 2025

Hey friends! This blog post is packed with intriguing reads, exploring a diverse range of topics. Dive into the world of AI psychopathy, geospatial software, and clever cybersecurity observations. You’ll also find insights on how to make motorcycle riding safer, reimagine Google search, and optimize living an intellectually rich life. Plus, there’s some light-hearted fun about Daft Punk’s vocal effects and people-watching observations. Enjoy!

• Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up On macOS? (CVE-2025-31250): A security research blog.
• How Broken OTPs and Open Endpoints Turned a Dating App Into a Stalker’s Playground: Startups Need to Take Security Seriously
• Embeddings are underrated:
• University of Texas-led Team Solves a Big Problem for Fusion Energy: News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
• Is AI a Psychopath? Why Its Lies Are More Disturbing Than You Think: Summary: AI doesn’t just make mistakes, it lies. That’s uniquely disturbing. Today I explore why AI deception feels more unsettling than human dishonesty, likening it to psychopathy, and urge users to treat AI like a biased news source: with skepticism and caution. Artificial intelligence has come a long way from its early days of clunky…
• Scraperr: Self-hosted webscraper. Contribute to jaypyles/Scraperr development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Void: Void is an open source Cursor alternative. Full privacy. Fully-featured.
• How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast: Merkle Trees in the real world
• How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search: Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.
• immichFrame/ImmichFrame: Contribute to immichFrame/ImmichFrame development by creating an account on GitHub.
• GitHub – icereed/paperless-gpt: Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx – Document Digitalization powered by AI: Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx – Document Digitalization powered by AI – icereed/paperless-gpt
• 21 observations from people watching: Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.
• A Critical Look at MCP – Raz Blog:
• From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit:
• Reservoir Sampling: Choosing fairly when you don’t know how many you’re choosing from.
• Prompt Engineering 101: How to Talk to an LLM (So It Actually Gets You):
• rybbit: 🐸 Rybbit – open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive. – rybbit-io/rybbit
• Every 10th paywall stop is evaded by readers: U.S. research shows how effective news paywalls are and what happens when a reader hits one.
• 6 core motivations for subscribing to news: Readers subscribe to news publishers for six main reasons, including supporting journalism and paywall triggers.
• Introducing web search on the Anthropic API: Today, we’re introducing web search on the Anthropic API—a new tool that gives Claude access to current information from across the web.
• My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer: It began with a spark—a dormant passion reignited after many years away from motorcycling. Life had steered me in different directions, away from the saddle, but something deep inside pulled me back to the thrill and freedom that only riding offers. Returning to motorcycling after such an extended hiatus was daunting yet exhilarating. I vividly recall my first CBT session: the nerves, the good-natured laughter at my clumsy mistakes, and the sheer joy when everything finally clicked into place.
• ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. – astral-sh/ty
• Getting things “done” in large tech companies: —
• system_prompts_leaks:
• Your Brain on Altruism by Nicole Karlis: In an era when “self-care” often revolves around consumption and profit, a health and science jou…
• Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective: What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
• Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds: When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as
• The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog:
• As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don’t Use Generative LLMs Often: But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
• The vocal effects of Daft Punk: Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
• The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole: So, check this little idea that I have – I want to browse the internet without all sorts of unscrupulous actors collecting every little bit of metadata on me and my family they can possibly get their hands on.
• Evolving OpenAI’s structure: An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact and long-term alignment with the public good.
• RealtimeVoiceChat: Have a natural, spoken conversation with AI! Contribute to KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat development by creating an account on GitHub.
• On The Death of Daydreaming: What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
• Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster: QWEN CHAT GitHub Hugging Face ModelScope Kaggle DEMO DISCORD Introduction Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models such as DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro. Additionally, the small MoE model, Qwen3-30B-A3B, outcompetes QwQ-32B with 10 times of activated parameters, and even a tiny model like Qwen3-4B can rival the performance of Qwen2.
• Looking for AI strategies: It’s easy to say what tech companies want from AI, but much harder to talk about the product strategy – they’re all pretty much the same. “Just build a better model!” Where does that go? Can they differentiate? What would it mean to differentiate a product that can do ‘everything’ – what would different everythings be?
• How publishers are using apps to deepen engagement and improve retention: Ahead of The Publisher App Summit on June 11th, we’re spotlighting how leading news publishers are using apps in smart ways to connect with readers and drive long-term value.
• How to live an intellectually rich life: .. and how living one is easier than you think
• Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests: Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
• DuckDB is Probably the Most Important Geospatial Software of the Last Decade: What happens when you embed geospatial capabilities in generalist data tools? More people engaging with geo data.
• Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts: I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly. It works stupidly well. – PhialsBasement/
• There’s one question that stumps North Korean fake workers: RSAC: FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder
• Dummy’s Guide to Modern Samplers: An idiot’s comprehensive guide to modern sampling
• AI code is legacy code from day one: – Text Incubation
• Linkwarden:
• What to Eat When You’re Sick: The best things to eat when you have the stomach bug—and more.