How to keep your job in the AI age without knowing AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every industry, but staying relevant doesn’t require learning to code or becoming a data scientist. This guide draws on insights from career strategists and organizational psychologists to show how nontechnical professionals can...
The strange comfort of AI food slop
The cheeseburger on the La Quinta Inn room service handout immediately made my AI antennae tingle. The image—oddly symmetrical, bright, and busy—had something artificial about it. Maybe it was the cheese dripping over the patty in suspiciously triangular form, or the...
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them
Ofcom chiefs have acknowledged that most fines issued under the Online Safety Act (OSA) remain unpaid, highlighting limitations in the comms regulator's enforcement powers. The regulator's director of enforcement, Suzanne Cater, told the House of Lords Communications...
I Built an Observability Tool Because I Was Tired of Debugging LLM Apps By Hand
I built Obyflow, an open-source observability tool, because I kept running into the same problem: debugging an LLM application rarely looks like debugging a normal web app.A stack trace tells you where the code broke. It doesn’t tell you that the model call succeeded...
Why AI Localization Still Needs Human Strategy
How human-led strategic alignment prevents costly localization blunders when scaling international campaigns with generative AI. As Managing Director of an international marketing agency and author of "AI: The Marketing Evolution (Adapt or Vanish)", I see marketing...
Bosnia’s Internet Problem Is Bigger Than Slow Speeds: 3 Telecom Empires, Weak Competition, No 5G
I grew up in the United States, so when I moved to Bosnia and Herzegovina roughly twenty years ago, the internet situation was a genuine shock.I did not expect Bosnia to have the same infrastructure as the US. That would have been an unreasonable comparison,...
The Weekend $ACE’s Liquidations Topped Bitcoin’s. My Engine Wanted to Short the Aftermath. It Wasn’t Allowed.
I run an automated crypto trading system with a two-brain architecture: an engine that finds setups, and an AI advisor whose only job is to re-litigate every setup before real money touches it. I wrote last time about the advisor killing the same trade six times in an...
Nostr: Introducing Decentralized Social Communication
You’ve spent years building an identity online. You have a username people recognise, a feed full of things you’ve posted, people who follow you, people you follow back, and enough history on the platform that leaving it would feel like leaving a small part of...
Can You Use AI-Generated Music in a Film Commercially? What I Learned Scoring Lost Garden
A beginner’s guide to using Suno, Udio and other AI music tools in a commercial film without getting blindsided by a copyright gap nobody mentions on the pricing page. I almost sent Lost Garden into a festival submission with a fully AI-generated score, because it...
Four Ways to Seed a Postgres Database, and What Each Does When the Schema Moves
Add a mandatory column to a table that already holds rows, give it no default, and Postgres declines the migration outright.ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN role text NOT NULL; ERROR: column "role" of relation "users" contains null values Failing there is the good...
Inside Immutable Backup Architecture: How Air-Gapped and WORM Storage Actually Stop Ransomware
Most ransomware operators don't bother trying to break into a backup system. They go after whoever already has the keys.That's not a new problem. In the 1870s, bank robbers found the same shortcut. You didn't necessarily have to defeat a vault. You needed the person...
Why a Security Risk/Fraud Score of 800 Can Mean Two Completely Different Things
When the Score Stops Meaning What It Used ToEvery ML-based risk system produces a risk score for each event/transaction. Your team sets a threshold and blocks everything above it. Simple enough to explain in a meeting, consistent enough to defend to a regulator....
Agent-Ready Is Not a Binary: Compatibility, Execution, and Trust
Every week, more SaaS products announce that they are “agent-ready.” Usually, this means the product has a public API or now ships an MCP server. Both are meaningful progress. Neither, by itself, proves that an agent can complete real work reliably. APIs are usually...
I Built an AI to Bet on Tennis. Then It Started Making Money — and I Stopped Trusting It.
What 263 real-world signals, an 11.3% return, and one brutal drawdown taught me about the difference between building a machine and believing one.1. When the Machine Started Making MoneyFor years, I had assumed that the difficult part would be building a...
How Do You Secure Third-Party CI/CD Plugins?
Modern CI/CD platforms rarely operate in isolation. Engineering teams rely on third-party actions, plugins, extensions, integrations, runners, build tools, deployment modules, package managers, and automation components to accelerate software delivery. These...
How to Protect Private Domains With Cloudflare Access
If you have a private domain sitting on the public internet, chances are anyone can reach it. Search engines index it, curious people poke at it, and bots scan it all day long. The usual fixes are a VPN (complex and annoying to maintain), IP allowlists (break the...
Run Existing Web Apps on AWS Lambda With Almost No Refactoring
If you have an async app, an internal tool, side project or PoC, there's no reason to pay for a machine that's awake all day for a job that takes so little time. That's where AWS Lambda comes in, charging you only when your function gets executed, with a generous free...
Why Your AI Video Generation Gets Stuck (And What to Actually Do About It)
Twenty minutes into a batch of forty shots for Lost Garden, six tiles were still sitting there with a spinning wheel and no progress bar. I did what most people do the first time this happens: I hit cancel, resubmitted the same six prompts, and went to make coffee....
How I Shipped 45 App Features With Claude Code
This post was not written with or by AI. Sojourn: Topical Bible Study is an app I published without typing a single line of its code. That part isn’t interesting anymore. Plenty of people are writing code with AI. What I think is interesting is the process. Since...
Revisiting Shattered Union, PopTop Software’s Strange Final Game
A turn-based strategy that makes the Second American Civil War semi-fun again The last game developed by PopTop Software, before the game studio was merged with Firaxis, best known for their work on Railroad Tycoon and the Tropico series, and published by Take-Two...
The SEO Bug Hiding Inside Perfectly Valid Hreflang Tags
The Hebrew pages of a rare book dealer’s new site were live with dir="rtl" missing entirely. Prices and ISBNs ran backward. English author names embedded inside Hebrew titles landed on the wrong side of the sentence, and parentheses opened where they should have...
How I Built a Zero-Cost Multi-Agent AI System on Aging Hardware
As a software developer and music producer, my daily workflow is a chaotic symphony of IDEs, digital audio workstations (DAWs), and an endless stream of background processes. I’ve always been obsessed with automation, but recently, I wanted to push the boundaries. I...
Oversight Board says Meta’s rules for AI deepfakes are ‘consistently and fundamentally inadequate’
The Oversight Board is asking Meta to prioritize AI content when it's reported.
How Baden Bower Turned Publicity Into a Product Startups Can Actually Buy
Publicity used to be a relationship you rented. Productising it changed who can buy their way into the conversation, and the AI-search shift raised the stakes. Here is the math that kills most startup PR before it starts. A retainer with a US agency runs $3,500 to...
I fell down the health-maxxing rabbit hole—and crawled my way out
Piles of collection kits and instruction booklets surround my laptop in a manner that would make a lab technician weep. To my left, there’s a package containing a swab of my inner cheek, which will tell me my biological age, a reflection of cellular damage over time....
I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Government Digital Service move ‘grinds gears’ in UK’s e-government
The UK government’s decision to move the Government Digital Service (GDS) — responsible for creating digital services across the public sector — to its third departmental home in three years risks hemorrhaging talent and moving it further away from the center of...
AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult
Article URL: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737985 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737849 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs’ comms in secondhand licensing case
The legal spat between secondhand software reseller ValueLicensing and Microsoft took another turn this week: a consent order was published with demands for documents from past and present Microsoft head honchos, and a planned case management conference was canceled....