In this blog post, I dive into five lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that I think everyone should know about. It’s a quick read that could boost your interaction with ChatGPT, offering new ways to explore its potential. Check it out if you’re looking to enhance your AI chatting experience—I promise it’ll be insightful!
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Daily Links: Saturday, May 17th, 2025
In this blog post, I dive into the fascinating world of Boltzmann Machines! I’ll introduce you to these intriguing models and even show you a Tiny Restricted Boltzmann Machine you can run right in your browser. It’s a great way to explore and understand this concept without any hassle. Check it out!
- Boltzmann Machines: Here we introduce Boltzmann machines and present a Tiny Restricted Boltzmann Machine that runs in the browser.
Daily Links: Friday, May 16th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I explore three fascinating topics. First, I daydream about a world devoid of humans, where machines rule. Then, I dive into the suspenseful story of a mysterious server from a tech tale 16 years ago. Finally, I introduce AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that pushes the boundaries of algorithm design. Curious to learn more? Check it out!
- Human: Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is…
- The Server That Wasn’t Meant to Exist: A story from 16 years ago – trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.
- AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms: New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
Daily Links: Thursday, May 15th, 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.
Daily Links: Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I share how I used “The One-Person Framework” and Rails to build my own seven-figure business. Curious about the journey and looking for tips to help your business grow? Check out my story!
- The One-Person Framework in practice: How I built a seven-figure business with Rails
Daily Links: Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I’ve delved into a variety of intriguing topics. I’ve highlighted Amanda Litman’s practical leadership guide for millennials and Gen Zers, explored the evolution of youth culture’s relationship with commerce, and shared insights into finding life’s meaning to combat anxiety. Plus, there’s a curiosity-sparking piece on whether 5G has rendered IMSI catchers obsolete. Join me on a journey through these fascinating reads!
- Your Best Digital Life: Available April 15th 2025 in all good bookstores
- When We’re in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership by Amanda Litman: A first-of-its-kind practical manual for millennials and Gen Zers taking on positions of power, f…
- The Age of the Double Sell-Out: In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of “creatives” who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce In the 1990s, there was a single ethical principle at the heart of
- How to make your life feel more meaningful: Existential psychology offers specific ways to find meaning, giving you a buffer against despair in these anxious times
- Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?: Understand the mechanics, risks, and the future of IMSI catching (a.k.a. stealing your cellular ID) in 2025. Read our primer on this niche form of hacking.
Daily Links: Monday, Apr 28th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I dive into the fascinating world of technology and human connection. We explore OpenAI’s o3 model, which can amazingly guess a photo’s location. There’s also a thought-provoking piece on the “Friendship Recession” and the fading art of connection. Plus, I touch on a new code release that lets LLMs see and hear without training and a slick open-source platform for developing LLM features.
- Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining: Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …
- The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting:
- MILS: Code release for “LLMs can see and hear without any training” – facebookresearch/
- The Open-Source LLM Development Platform: Latitude is an end-to-end platform for prompt engineering where domain experts can collaborate with engineers to ship and maintain production-grade LLM features.
Daily Links: Sunday, Apr 27th, 2025
Hey there! Recently, I explored how LLMs are venturing into new territories like creating CAD models for mechanical parts. I also covered a fascinating security research from HiddenLayer revealing vulnerabilities in major LLMs. Plus, I took a peek at the minimalistic approach of Slate Auto’s new electric pickup, all bare-bones for under $20,000! Dive into these tech tales with me!
- They made computers behave like annoying salesmen: | exotext
- Teaching LLMs how to solid model: It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.
- Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs: HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.
- Eurorack Knob Idea:
- When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering: An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences
- The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen: Slate Auto introduced its first electric vehicle, a sub-$20,000 two-seater pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen.
Daily Links: Friday, Apr 25th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I dive into the intriguing world of AI app design, drawing parallels to the early days of automobile development – hence the title, “Horseless Carriages.” Join me as I explore the pitfalls and limitations of poor AI design and what we could learn from past technological evolutions. Check it out!
- AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev: An essay about bad AI app design
Daily Links: Thursday, Apr 24th, 2025
In my latest blog post, I dive into various intriguing topics—from how ClickHouse is speeding up queries through lazy materialization to a personal journey of falling in love with biology. I also cover the media industry’s use of AI for better audience monetization and internal workflows, along with four AI trends shaping media businesses. Plus, check out a curious case about a missing marketplace!
- Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data:
- ClickHouse gets lazier (and faster): Introducing lazy materialization: ClickHouse learned to procrastinate strategically. Discover how lazy materialization skips unnecessary column reads to accelerate queries.
- I should have loved biology too: How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity
- Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting:
- The curious case of the missing marketplace: The latest publishing news, jobs, analysis, comment, interviews and in-depth features about UK newspaper, magazine and online publishers.
- AI helps publishers monetise audience, improve workflows: During the recent INMA Generative AI Master Class, media leaders from Dotdash Meredith, The New York Times, United Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and Ippen Digital shared how AI is enabling their companies to better connect advertisers to the right audiences and improve internal workflows.
- Four AI trends and why they matter to media businesses: Media companies experimenting with AI for processes, products and experiences should be aware of these emerging trends shaping the business