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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
Frog and Toad face the most modern of challenges
Pi 1.0
Today Earendil is shipping Pi 1.0, a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness, alongside Pi Durable, a new experimental substrate for long-running agentic applications.
FLUX 3 Image
Place every element on a canvas and edit a finished image one box at a time. Everything you didn’t touch stays exactly where…
Pi Durable
Pi Durable is a new experimental package for long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. A tour of what Earendil built…
RIP, vector database
turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, Turbopuffer has to fundamentally redesign Turbopuffer’s storage architecture so the vector index is…
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says memory and storage supply will likely be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than it was in 2026.…
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
This ticket is something like the master ticket to coordinate development on an iOS port of StreetComplete. It replaces #1892 which also included…
Gemini 4 Argon
Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defence, rolling out soon.
So you think you could be an electrician?
Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.
You said no MCP
Pi now supports MCP. Why Earendil changed Earendil’s minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and…
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf
DraftKings is using AI to behaviourally target chronic gamblers
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling…
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on…
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
Derekthompson is witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70…
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.