Monthly Highlights
8191.
A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
8192.
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. To Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say (nytimes.com)
8193.
I Made ByteDance Voice Assistant Open Source Alternative (github.com)
8194.
Playtiles – stick-on electronic-free gamepad for phones (get.playtil.es)
8195.
Markets are getting more concerned about Oracle's AI data center debt (sherwood.news)
8196.
When Fact-Checking Meant Something (yalereview.org)
8197.
Olmo 3 and the Open LLM Renaissance (cameronrwolfe.substack.com)
8198.
Boomtown: Futuristic DE Weapons Research Could Power Albuquerque NM (undark.org)
8199.
IBM to Acquire Confluent (newsroom.ibm.com)
8200.
The Sights and Sounds of Bhutan (waitbutwhy.com)
8201.
IBM Nears Roughly $11B Deal for Confluent (wsj.com)
8202.
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Appointed as CDC's Second in Command (nytimes.com)
8203.
(Norway) New Record: Almost 100% EV Registrations in November (electrive.com)
8204.
Theia and Earth Were Neighbors (mps.mpg.de)
8205.
'Living off the land' allowed Russia-linked group to breach Ukrainian entities (therecord.media)
8206.
State of decay in self-hosted commenting (code review) (bykozy.me)
8207.
Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple (2024) (matttproud.com)
8208.
HPC Is Not Just Riding the Coattails of AI (nextplatform.com)
8209.
Ruby devs earn more than average devs
8210.
Threatening AI models has no meaningful effect on performance (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
8211.
Predict Race and Ethnicity Based on the Sequence of Characters in a Name (github.com)
8212.
IRS crackdown on popular crypto 'tax cheat' begins with 2025 filing year (cnbc.com)
8213.
Attoboy: New beginner-friendly C++ library for making small Windows exes (coeurnix.github.io)
8214.
GitHub Actions CPU performance benchmarks (runs-on.com)
8215.
State of Neuroscience 2025 – Semantic Trend Map (stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org)
8216.
Self-Hosting Slides from Sli.dev (dev.shetty.me)
8217.
Can China-Japan Relations Be Saved? (thediplomat.com)
8218.
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic (theguardian.com)
8219.
Google-backed fusion group moves to commercialise neutral-beam technology (ft.com)
8220.
It's time to lock in and let your winter arc begin (bbc.com)