First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) directory. We are happy to announce the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization now formally exists, and has taken the first administrative steps towards being able to independently operate the directory! […]
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM’s in the browser
Next action: Chat Benchmarks Compare & Certificate Custom eval Objective checks (regex / exact tokens), not writing quality. A 135M model is allowed to fail — that is the measurement. Pick models, then run. Estimate uses your last tok/s if we have one. Run suite on active model Run suite on every loaded model Run […]
GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
I’ve been using GrapheneOS for about a year now and overall, I am very happy with the security and privacy features. There is one app, however, that runs noticeably slower on my Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS than on other Android devices: OpenstreetMap for Android (Osmand). The good side of this is that it has made […]
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It’s a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment, Sonnet […]
Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)
11½ Definitely Not Windows The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. Yes, this is a parody.Definitely Not Windows / Windows 11½ is an independent, unofficial parody project created for humor, satire, and commentary. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by Microsoft Corporation. What this isA fake operating-system experience making […]
Who Wrote Elizabeth I’s Most Scathing Letters?
An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth’s advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of Scotland Clodagh Murphy, The Conversation September 28, 2026 7:45 a.m. Work on Elizabeth I’s letters has focused on identifying the English […]
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola
Photo Booth The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola Photographs by Joseph Szabo Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story The photographer Joseph Szabo’s pictures in the new book “American Teen” look timeless in certain ways—the crisp black-and-white of the images, the stately framing, the instantly recognizable, casual but charged, proximity of […]
Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
Introduction Word documents are everywhere. In domains such as legal, finance, and healthcare, the Word document is the deliverable. Contracts, regulatory submissions, and audit reports get drafted, redlined, and signed in .docx, and companies usually have libraries of Word templates they work with on a regular basis. That work is increasingly shifting to agents. Microsoft […]
13 Months Sober (2025)
A cocktail bar I love(d) in London. I forget the name. 📷 Sony A7R IV w/ FE 24mm F1.4 GM I don’t care about being sober anymore. It’s not that I’ve reverted to drinking (I still live an alcohol-free life) but I literally don’t care much anymore. I cared quite a bit seven months ago […]
The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore
Last updatedUpdated: Sep 28, 2026 by Simon Späti · CreatedCreated: Sep 26, 2026 · 4 min read recently updated Recent changes Sep 28today published · 882 words If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore […]