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1032 postsAuditing My AI's Slack Access Revealed a Safety Check I Never Used
An engineer audited an AI agent's Slack access logs and found a safety check meant for high-stakes messages had never actually fired.
How a Browser Video Renderer's Frame Time Was Cut by 80%
How four hidden bottlenecks in a browser video renderer were found and fixed, cutting frame time 80% and exposing a subtle opacity bug.
plx: Write PostgreSQL Stored Functions in Ruby, PHP, JS, or Python
plx transpiles Ruby, PHP, JS, and Python-like syntax into plpgsql, giving PostgreSQL developers familiar dialects with trusted, native performance.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comProof-Adjusted Autonomy: Why a '90% Autonomous' Agent Is Really 61.6%
Why AI agents claiming 90% autonomy actually deliver 61.6% verifiable work — introducing Proof-Adjusted Autonomy and the concept of Proof Debt.
6x faster batched binary search in Rust via branch prediction fixes
scikit-learn's binary search bucketization gets a 6x Rust speedup by eliminating CPU branch mispredictions via branchless code.
Measuring Linux Input Latency: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, DXVK
A custom click-to-photon device tests X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK low-latency on Linux, challenging widely repeated gaming latency myths.
NilaMind: A Fully On-Device 1.5B LLM for Mental Health Support
NilaMind runs Qwen2.5-1.5B via llama.cpp fully offline on Android, with crisis safety enforced by a deterministic, model-independent gate.
An IRT-shaped practice score is not a real IQ test
IntelligenceMax's IRT-shaped practice score resembles item response theory but lacks empirical calibration — here's what it can and can't measure.
Why Music Metadata Matching Is Harder Than It Looks
A missing Kesha remix exposes three real-world pitfalls in music metadata matching — and the fixes any multi-source pipeline needs.
Manticore Speaks MySQL, So Here's a Laravel Database Driver for It
A Laravel database driver turns Manticore Search's MySQL wire protocol into full Eloquent support, including migrations and native KNN vector search.