Daily Read · 2026-03-04
27 articles · 5.0/10 avg · 0 highlights (≥7.5)
1. Quoting Donald Knuth · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I'd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's hyb
2. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family. At $0.25/million tokens of input and $1.5/million out
3. GIF optimization tool using WebAssembly and Gifsicle · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Agentic Engineering Patterns > I like to include animated GIF demos in my online writing, often recorded using LICEcap . There's an example in the Int
4. February sponsors-only newsletter · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
I just sent the February edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it h
5. I built a pint-sized Macintosh · 5.0/10 · jeffgeerling
To kick off MARCHintosh , I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run
6. Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering · 5.0/10 · seangoedecke
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7. Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new family of displays engineered to pair beautifully with Mac and meet the needs of everyone, from everyday u
8. New MacBook Air With M5 · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: MacBook Air now comes standard with double the starting storage at 512GB with faster SSD technology, and is configurable up to 4TB, so
9. Apple Might Have Prematurely Leaked the Name ‘MacBook Neo’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further
10. Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance an
11. Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max, and Renames Its M-Series CPU Cores · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro. The chips are
12. [Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
npx workos launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly
13. ★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes
14. Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung (which is just an incredibly good and fun weblog): Half of my education in URLs as user interface came from Flickr i
15. ChangeTheHeaders · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
During the most recent episode of The Talk Show , Jason Snell brought up a weird issue that I started running into last year. On my Mac, sometimes I’d
16. Welcome (Back) to Macintosh · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Jesper, writing at Take: My hope is that Macintosh is not just one of these empires that was at the height of its power and then disintegrated because
17. Mo Samuels wrote this post · 5.0/10 · idiallo
Last year, I pushed myself to write and publish every other day for the whole year. I had accumulated a large number of subjects over the years, and I
18. Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026) · 5.0/10 · pluralistic
Today's links Supreme Court saves artists from AI: Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side. Hey look at this: Delights
19. Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) · 5.0/10 · pluralistic
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object
20. Game Review: Unravel Two ★★★⯪☆ · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi
My new year's resolution is to play more video games. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory a
21. Adding "Log In With Mastodon" to Auth0 · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi
I use Auth0 to provide social logins for the OpenBenches website. I don't want to deal with creating user accounts, managing passwords, or anything li
22. Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media · 5.0/10 · oldnewthing
Just some useless trivia. The post Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media appeared first on The Old New Thing
23. What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL? · 5.0/10 · oldnewthing
You get notifications that might not make sense. The post What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDC
24. Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt” · 5.0/10 · garymarcus
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
25. How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity · 5.0/10 · garymarcus
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
26. An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum · 5.0/10 · johndcook
I recently talked with a contact who repeated what he’d heard regarding agentic AI systems—namely, that they can greatly increase productivity in prof
27. Differential equation with a small delay · 5.0/10 · johndcook
In grad school I specialized in differential equations, but never worked with delay-differential equations, equations specifying that a solution depen
2026-03-04 03:25 UTC · Kimi K2 · 94 sources