porting Next.js for $1100 has... implications for any open source library with good tests meant to bait people to use a paid product
conputer dipshit
Gemini 3 Pro is still in first place on this task, but Qwen3.5 is now *almost* as good at ~1/5th the price.
10/10 recommend this book! My 5yo wrote down the page numbers for the recipes she wants to immediately make/eat!
The cookbook just confirms my long held view: Sohla and Ham are the best thing happening with food these days.
This works:
There’s a lot of Anthropic’s policy views I don’t agree with, but if they’re going to start drawing hard lines, domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons systems is a solid place to put them.
TIL about the UK’s “proper binmen” but wow if this doesn’t capture the coal powered steamships vibe over here too…
“We turn to the past when the future seems unattainable or utopian.”
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.
blog.cloudflare.com
Buy-side agentic commerce:
If this happens I can imagine more than a few staff members standing up and giving the speech Amodei gave as he walked out the door at OpenAI, but this time the destination is France or Switzerland, or any place that doesn’t let jackasses like Hegseth run their military.
The future prospects for AI research were already grim given the draconian state of US immigration policy, but the threat of nationalization of AI models has got to impact foreign investment as well as top researchers willingness to relocate here, or even work for US companies.
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The long read: Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a certain generation of Facebook users look back fondly on tougher times
